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#1 Fire Blazer

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 03:59 AM

The Last Promise... where to get started...

The Last Promise is an elaborate hack of Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword, casually referred to as just "Fire Emblem" in North America. The game hacks pretty much every concept that you could possibly think of--characters, classes, weapons, animations, graphics, maps, music, text, script, etc., you get the point. While this is no longer a big deal, about four years ago, when I started, it was quite a big deal, which I why I mention it the way I do.

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To start, I am Blazer, originally known as Fire Blazer, and also known as Keriku and Luffy (because I am a huge One Piece fan)... here's a quick biography about me--

- Webmaster/Administrator of the Fire Emblem Shrine
- Creator of many hacks and projects, such as Prince of Durand, The Last Promise (formerly known as Tactics Universe), Fire Emblem: Shining Armor, Fire Emblem: Prisoner of Darkness, Fire Emblem: Rebirth, Fire Emblem: Sacred Contention, Fire Emblem: One-Day Hack, Auto Emblem, and many others. I also started the Fire Emblem 12 Translation Project, which is now a team project done by the Heroes of Shadow.
- I was born in 1994 and thus am 18 years old at the time of the final release of this hack, the year 2012. I finished high school and am going to university. I enjoy playing sports such as basketball, frisbee, and track, as well as playing video games, hanging out with friends, and eating (although for the record, I am pretty skinny).

The Last Promise was, for the longest time, called "Tactics Universe" (as in, a world revolving around tactics and strategy), and before that was originally just called the "Fire Emblem Universe Game". It started off as a forum hack for the Fire Emblem Universe forums where members created profiles for characters and the forum attempted to work together to create the game.

Somehow I got involved in the mix and took on the leadership of the hacking. Soon enough just like every other forum hack, the forum hack was on the brink of death--most people considered it dead. At some point I took over and announced that I would be saving the hack, as little to no progress was being made and the people were uninvolved with the project, minus a few exceptions. Slowly but surely, with new authority and a mindset that I would complete the hack, I started making progress, and as I had already been involved in the Fire Emblem hacking business for a long time and I set high expectations for this hack, i.e. for it to not be a reskin (simply put, a hack that does not change the events), which was unheard of. Even now, I don't think a full-length game non-reskin hack has been completed.

I made a 4 chapter demo release a long time ago--well actually 5 chapters, from the Prologue of the game to Chapter 4. Eventually, I released the game up to Chapter 10, the final chapter of part 1 of the game, which focuses on Siegfried as the main character, albeit there are arguably 3 main characters in total. I made many fixes, updates, additions, etc.

I think that's enough background info for now. I've generally kept The Last Promise updated through the blog and youtube. I later posted it on the Fire Emblem Shrine, my own website, and as of the chapter 15 release I decided to post it on more forums.

Only late in the game's production did I decide to rename the game from "Tactics Universe" to "The Last Promise". I set up a public poll asking what was the best name for a new hack, after much debate on my end to limit the options. Only much later did I reveal that the new name was for this hack, and not for a new hack. It's called "The Last Promise" due to some--quite obviously--promises made by the characters, amongst other reasons, albeit that is only one of many plot aspects of the game. Play the game yourself and it should all make sense.

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Introduction:

A millennium ago, on the continent of Blaine, humans and dragons fought. Humans, unable to match the power of the dragons, gathered together and saved themselves from the brink of extinction by relocating to Solum.

On this new continent, the people were divided--and over time, each territory formed its own way of life, choosing how its people would live and what ideals they would carry.

However, this all changes when Magnus, an empire with the greatest military on the continent, begins to invade the other territories. Though their campaign is time-consuming, they are successful in every way imaginable, quickly dominating Alicia to the north and Atheya to the east.

But across the continent, there are people ready to fight back to their dying breath. One of them is Siegfried, a former Knight Commander who has been in hiding ever since an injury he received from ten years ago. With his pain serving as a reminder of the vow he made that fated day, he and his son, Shon, take up arms to gather allies and do whatever it takes to stop Magnus from dominating the continent.

...Because some promises, are just worth dying for.

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Everything you need to know about playing the hack will be inside the downloads. Feel free to subscribe to my youtube account or the blog for the latest videos and information!

I hope you guys play my hack and enjoy doing so! I (and many others) put lots of work into this--I myself put in thousands of hours over the span of about four years into this hack, so I hope it's good! And do tell if there are any bugs, glitches, etc., because I may very well not know about it!

Thanks!

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 04:48 AM

I've posted elsewhere so I'll just paste and drop.

Very nice Blazer a great job none the less I would play it now but I'm being really lazy ATM.
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 05:08 AM

My parents won't let me download this due to fear of viruses despite me saying "No one that's downloaded this has got viruses from it" But my parents are to stubborn. I would download it, sorry.
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 05:26 AM

Well, I started it. Shon can solo the prologue, as you intended, right? He had fair stat growths. Looking forward to the rest, maybe when I get back from work tomorrow.

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 06:02 AM

He CAN, but you have to be careful. Make use of trees, be defensive, and try and make it so that you use the trees/forest but the soldiers don't.

Rapier is SUPER EFFECTIVE against Byron the Lion. XP. Play it as you will, but post your final end-game stats if you can. I'm very curious for everyone and discussion would be great (I mean, A Sacred Dawn gets lots of discussion, but MK's hack doesn't have tons of custom maps or custom events or anything, just lots of cameo's and OC's with very good sprites XP).

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 06:51 AM

QUOTE (Blazer @ July 03, 2009 02:02 am)
He CAN, but you have to be careful. Make use of trees, be defensive, and try and make it so that you use the trees/forest but the soldiers don't.


Did it.

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Play it as you will, but post your final end-game stats if you can.

Will do.

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I'm very curious for everyone and discussion would be great (I mean, A Sacred Dawn gets lots of discussion, but MK's hack doesn't have tons of custom maps or custom events or anything, just lots of cameo's and OC's with very good sprites XP).

Gotcha.

PS: You only heal 1 HP on that home gate? LOL, I like the Fortress on that island.

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 09:02 AM

I'll download it later today and play it. I watched the trailer and it looks brilliant. All that effort finally came to fruition.

The best thing is that everything is custom, I can't be bothered playing hacks that don't change the maps around...
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 09:41 PM

Yeah, the thing about playing hacks without changed maps and events is that it's like I already know what's going to happen in a way, I can expect things, it's like I'm just replaying the game but I'm calling the characters different names and giving them new looks, and maybe changing the storyline a little (but you still would have to make sure it "fits" the original game).

So I can't wait until somebody besides me makes a "full custom" hack so I can play and enjoy it, Nintenlord's Saga was GREAT but NL doesn't work on it anymore. D:

EDIT: Update with Hard Mode, sorry I forgot last night. XP

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^^Use the above to play Lyn's/Siegfried's Hard Mode. Changes include things like harder enemies, less units allowed in battle preps, altered inventories, and even a few altered classes. Enjoy!

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 10:16 PM

I am definitely (sp?) gonna play it soon biggrin.gif

Seems really awesome. Great job Blazer!!
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 11:20 PM

You spelled it right, and thanks, and I can't wait to see how everyone's characters turned out.

Let's all be queers and make a tier list!

Oh wait this isn't brawl this is Fire Emblem tongue.gif

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 11:30 PM

QUOTE (Blazer @ July 04, 2009 12:20 am)
You spelled it right, and thanks, and I can't wait to see how everyone's characters turned out.

Let's all be queers and make a tier list!

Oh wait this isn't brawl this is Fire Emblem tongue.gif

Great, I never knew if I spelled it right tongue.gif

I am at chapter 4 right now, everything is going well. I haven't noticed any bugs either so great job till now!
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Posted 03 July 2009 - 11:48 PM

Awesome, but I have a bugfix because I had a couple of bugs reported and I needed to fix them.

The first post is being updated with v2.5.2 stuff. if you encounter a glitch in chapter 8 or the house in chapter 2 doesn't work, try this patch!!!

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 11:57 PM

QUOTE (Blazer @ July 04, 2009 12:48 am)
Awesome, but I have a bugfix because I had a couple of bugs reported and I needed to fix them.

The first post is being updated with v2.5.2 stuff. if you encounter a glitch in chapter 8 or the house in chapter 2 doesn't work, try this patch!!!

Alright then. If the bug isn't too bad then I will just continue playing instead of starting over tongue.gif
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 12:10 AM

The house one isn't huge, as for the other one you can't play over it if it happens to you (it doesn't happen to some people). What you do is, redo the patching to another ROM, and then transfer the save file to the new fixed one, and then you start playing at the same time.

You could also do Shift+F1 in your current ROM, redo the patching as I said above, and then transfer the savestate to the fixed ROM by renaming it to "GameName#.sgm", GameName = name of the ROM and # is the Savestate #. If you put '1' then you have to press "F1" on your keyboard to load the savestate, if it's '2' you press 'F2', etc., for example "TacticsHack4.sgm", and my ROM is "TacticsHack.gba", I click F4 once I load the ROM and I go to where I just was in the bad version.

K I hope I explained it well enough. Sorry if it's confusing.

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 01:06 AM

How come in chapter 2, the word 'KILL' is spelt out on the ground?
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 01:08 AM

Because the map maker (I think it might have been Hughes, in fact it probably was O_O) decided to do that and I approved and it's funny and I wanted people to point it out like you just did. happy.gif

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 01:23 AM

Lots of interesting stuff will be playing tonight after I uh.... have a few drinks with some people.
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Posted 04 July 2009 - 03:49 AM

^^Roger that, it was me. tongue.gif

OMG I THINK I MIGHT HAVE A CHARACTER IN THIS!!!!

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Well, I know how I'm spending my friday night now! I did some minor work in plot development, and I may have a character (I don't remember) So I'll play it and see how it goes.

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 03:52 AM

You just might; check the character profiles thread at FEU. If you do, I doubt it's in this early, unfortunately; more than half the characters don't come in until the 2nd half. ohmy.gif

Have fun and post your end-game stats and whatnot. tongue.gif

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Posted 04 July 2009 - 03:55 AM

Will do! Also,

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