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[Kiddo]

I think their fates were purposely left vague, much like what Dice and Malice in week 3 (Where were they when Lena was caught? Heck if I know!)

Anyway, pictures time!


Rena and Rickard.


Rickard explains his plans to the others.


Uh oh! Look who's running this castle!


Rena pleas to Camus.


Week 3 ends with the designated protagonists hightailing it outta there.


The score tally in this game looks similar to the ones used in Panel De Pon Event 98, now that I think about it. And they're both made by Intsys... I think I'm seeing a pattern!


I think that guy you only see the back of is meant to be Medeus himself.


This is too corny beyond what words can describe.


Hardin hasn't even seen Nyna yet, but it looks like he's already ready to penetrate!... ok, that joke was totally horrible.


Hardin asking someone to get some water. But outside the context, this picture looks unintentionally funny somehow.


Camus surrenders. The last picture, and this one stays on the screen a while to take in all the emo-value it's worth.

[Kiddo]

I'll probably look into seeing what I can revise in the transcripts from here later on, but first, I'd like to bring up something;

Since we now have the material I believe is needed as the basis (I'm referring to the CG art and the transcripts), is anyone perhaps interested in hacking the BS Fire Emblem ROMs? Understandably one might argue that IntSys's own remake would give this a degree of redundancy, but I thought it would be nice to have a project like this done in a similar vein as the BS Zelda ROM hacking projects.

My idea would be to figure out how to hack the ROMS:
1) For standard hardware compatibility rather than Satellaview hardware compatibility, so that they'd work on real hardware as well as most mainstream emulators.
2) Include the plotline from the transcripts to the best degree feasible, likely via adding text in various places.
3) Include the CG artwork at the beginning and ending of each part, as well as the score tally.
4) See if there's a way to put music in the game. (The BS Zeldas had music taken from disabled in-game code.)
5) Translate the text in the ROMs themselves.

Unfortunate for me I'm not an experienced hacker myself - I mostly just did debugging work for the BS Zelda project. The BS Zelda hackers are kinda busy on their own things, themselves.

I propose this idea mostly to get some more discussion in this thread - I'm not actually certain what result it will bring. Hopefully it'll be a nice one though.

[Emperor Hardin]

Ricardo looks straight in the first picture, Medeus loves that throne, and the soldier with Camus in the third picture looks like Belf. The picture of mounted Hardin with his lance is really badass, I hope someday they'll reflect things like that in the battle animations! I'm guessing Hardin's first meeting with Nyna was in the tenth picture, he looks like a magician with the way he's moving his hand.

I hope the artwork for the DS remake will be as good as this.

Edited by Emperor Hardin, 29 June 2010 - 12:43 PM.

[Kiddo]

I would assume for the DS game they'll have the artwork redrawn to resemble the current art-style.

I'd guess opinions on this would vary. ^^;

[Emperor Hardin]

Have you thought about uploading the screen captures to the Fire Emblem wiki?

[Kiddo]

Silly as it sounds, this is the first I've heard of the FE Wiki.

What info do they have on BS FE already? I'd consider posting the screencaps I ripped, but I heard something about that FE Anniversary book...

[Emperor Hardin]

Silly as it sounds, this is the first I've heard of the FE Wiki.

What info do they have on BS FE already? I'd consider posting the screencaps I ripped, but I heard something about that FE Anniversary book...

I put some info on some of the character pages and created articles for a few of the bosses and exclusive characters.

[Kiddo]

A bit of something that I nearly missed out on, based on the date of this upload:

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm10878490

A particular fan has attempted recreating three of the BS Fire Emblem songs - namely the "God's Young Sage" and "Theme of Live" remixes and the "Planning"/"Victory" Medley.

I was able to extract a single mp3, much like with IntSys's upload of the songm "WIND" from before:

Trying for an Mp3 DL link here.

The songs sound very nicely done, although even with the low-quality encodes we have, I can tell the guy didn't quite have all the sound samples the original used. In particular, the organ in the medley lacks the "church-like" organ sound, sand generally sounds more analog-synthed than sound-sampled.

Edited by Kiddo, 12 July 2010 - 09:43 PM.

[Charpig]

What does the "BS" in BS Fire Emblem stand for?

[Kiddo]

A large amount of Satellaview products has "BS" prefixed or suffixed to them. In Japan, "BS" is a sort of network slang for "Broadcasting Satellite", and could refer to nearly anything sent from a Satellite signal - in this case, BS Fire Emblem (among the other Satellaview material) was broadcast from St.GIGA's Satellite Network at the time.

Edited by Kiddo, 12 July 2010 - 11:39 PM.

[Celice]

I don't know if this has ever been seen, but eh.

http://www.nicovideo...atch/sm11173250

One of the maps with Belf and co, I think. There's voices, and music. Though I'm not sure if the music is actually what was streamed... but it does sound nice, and I haven't heard it anywhere else. Looks like some recorded gameplay.

[Kiddo]

I believe I linked/ripped/re-upped all the relevant NicoNicoDouga ups prior. Perhaps I should try having them all be in one post?

[Kiddo]

Small update - I wanted to try that sound rip/remaster thing again, but so far..



"Under the Flag", assuming I'm going by old Monshou titles. Or "The Time to Act". Blasted inconsistent track naming.
I've been stumped on how to get further in getting this song done right. During the one video we have of Dai-3-wa, the song doesn't as long as expected, and it gets particularly noisy during the pieces missing from this "test"...

Two of the other tracks that play during battle I've identified as slow-paced, melancholy arranges of "Showdown at Doluna Keep" and "Hardain's Way", respectively. Also, one of the tenser pieces sounds pretty much like the SNES "Defense" music with a bit of distortion/Echo and an ambient noise added. Hrm...

[Kiddo]

Minor update - this is for those who might have had problems watching the BS Fire Emblem videos previously.

Thanks to Youtube removing my 15-minute restriction, I've decided to mirror them there - except now each week's set of videos have been combined into one for easier viewing.



- Starting from there.

These videos have had a small amount of viewers already even before I advertised it. One minor detail, though - the encoding is slightly different from the original videos, so visual quality may not be as good.

I've uploaded BS Zelda no Densetsu previously. I will likely up BS Marvelous, Satella-Q, BS Shin Onigashima and BS Fuurai no Shiren later on.

[joesteve1914]

So is there a possibility for a restoration project for this (like the BS Zelda's)? Like it was mentioned above, the DS remake doesn't really capture the original experience on the BS-X.

[eefara]

I'll probably sound ridiculous for asking, but what DS remake are we talking about here? I haven't heard anything about anyone re-making BS FE.

[VincentASM]

Don't worry about it ^^

The BS FE chapters were remade in FE12, the second DS game.

[eefara]

Ah, okay. That makes sense, considering I haven't even started playing the game. ^^