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[Hellequin]

Hey everyone...so I just have a question regarding weapon ranks in Fire Emblem (specifically FE8). I've just started hacking using Nightmare and other various tools from feshrine so I'm admittedly pretty new at this. I'm making a hack mostly for myself, just tweaking the parts of FE8 I didn't like within my ability. I dug around various forums and google with no luck, so here we are.

Anyway, one of the things that always bothered me about these games is that unless you're like Athos or Lyon (or a cheater) you can't have more than one weapon rank at S. Presumably, though you may favour a particular weapon, there really isn't any reason why you shouldn't be able to practice until you're at the pinnacle of abilities with that weapon, right? Not that I'm trying to equate fire emblem to real life or debate fictional philosophy or anything, I just never followed the logic on that one. But really, why is it that Athos can train forever and get there but we can't? It's not fair lol! It especially bothers me with staff users when promoted, or accidentally hitting S with someone when I don't want to, but extends to all classes.

SO my hacking question is...is there some way around this or is it something deeply embedded in the core programming or something that we can't get at without REALLY messing with it or scripting or something, which I'm absolutely inept at. In nightmare it looks like the way it was done was just to give those character classes (because they both have their own) base weapon ranks at S so they would automatically get up there. I'd prefer to be able to train it there but I can't seem to find out whether or not this is even possible.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Also, I'm wondering exactly how you insert new characters into the game...I'm given to understand that you can add stuff to the empty space with repointing/hex editing etc. I admittedly don't know THAT much about it but I'm sure I can figure it out...I messed with the hex editor to locate palettes for the lords in FE8 but as for actual editing I haven't done anything like that without a tool. It seems pretty easy to just replace characters but I'm not really interested in doing that if I can help it. I don't want to use any custom classes or animations or any of that, just make a new character with existing stuff. And there are enough spriting and portrait tutorials out there for me to feel pretty confident with that so no worries there either. Thanks!

[Hellequin]

I solved my character insertion problem, the details of which can be found here

http://serenesforest...showtopic=46296

As for the weapon ranks, I didn't think it would be a simple fix, and it seems that it likely needs ASM hacking. I'm not touching that nonsense, so I'm going to have to live with it.