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I randomly decided to attempt doing GBA sprites again. My first attempts were 15 years ago and were low-effort, low quality rush jobs (1 head + 1 body + random recolour + maybe a cape or headband). These aren't that much more complicated, but I've at least tried to put new hairstyles on the heads and keep a more consistent colour scheme within the sprites. I'm looking for suggestions and error checking. I cannot draw or paint to save my life, so I'm mostly looking at problems with shading, proportions, angles, and anything custom-drawn, though pointing out any errors with colour consistency and seams is also appreciated. I'll also list the components I used for each sprite for reference. 001 - Lloyd's hair, epilogue FE7 Eliwood's face, Orson's body, and FE7 Karel's colouring. 002 - FE6 NPC's hair, Zealot's face, Marquess Araphen's body, and Pent's colouring 003 - FE7 Marcus' hair, FE7 Merlinus' face, Oswin's body, and Isadora's colouring 004 - Fir's hair, Cath's face, Lance's body (shrunk a bit to match Cath's neck) and Vaida's colouring 005 - Zealot's hair, Wolt's head, Alan's body, and Lowen's colouring 006 - Wendy's hair, FE7 Merlinus' ponytail for the back of the hair, Karla's face, Klein's body, Sain's colouring.

I'm trying to apply this FE6 translation patch to a ROM using NUPS. However, every time I try I immediately get an error saying "Error opening file <location of ROM>". I thought it might be a permissions thing, but I've done some digging around and haven't been able to find any settings I need to change. Other information that may help: - I believe I'm using a clean Japanese ROM. It has the label "Eurasia" on it - I also tried applying the patch to the backup file of my old FE6 ROM with no success. I do not remember the source of this ROM - Both the ROM files and the UPS file are in the same regular folder that I can access from my Desktop and not in a compressed folder

I was actually just about to ask a similar question on this forum. For personal reason I prefer having cartridges of the games rather than digital versions, and I was wondering if DLC I purchased on a Conquest cartridge would be available on a Birthright Cartridge. Now if I read this right: Then the DLC is tied to the system, so it doesn't matter if the version of the game is digital or physical, so long as it's played on that 3DS. Have I understood this all correctly?

Yep. I mean, it's not like IS has never gender swapped names before (Dorcas), but I'm guessing they don't want to make such a big habit of it.

Easy mode does one other thing: it allows you to freely swap items between Alm and Celica's parties without having to use the merchant/trader/runner/whatever guy. Anyhow, general tips: - Villagers work like trainees in later games. You don't have to accept the first class you are offered when promoting them; you can refuse and talk to the statue again to get a different option - Sisters, Pegasus Knights, Swordfighters, and Archers are the good classes. Cavaliers and Soldiers are okay. Mages are bad. - Magic costs HP. Watch out. - Bows have a minimum range of 1 and can have a maximum range of 5. Watch out. Again. - Fights tend to be much more like slugfests than other games. It can often take the concentrated efforts of several units to bring down some enemies, especially bosses or lategame Gold Knights/Barons. This is mostly due to accuracy rates being quite low all around. You'll get good use out of your fast-forward key.

I just started Chapter 2 and was reminded of something else that bugs me: Eve is a feminine name (and so is Eva, for that matter). Realizing that IE has used gender-swapped names before, and that these are pretty inconsequential characters, does anyone else feel like these could be changed? 'Eve' at least seems like a pretty simple fix: change it to 'Yves', which has the exact same pronunciation but is a masculine name. As for Eva... I dunno, maybe 'Ebba' or something? All this is assuming that I'm not completely missing some sort of subtext where the Kamikaze Brothers (including Alva) are supposed to have feminine names for a reason.

Well, since we're on the topic of mostly inconsequential script changes... This should probably read, "I'm going to back up Sigurd."

If Dew got the Wind sword, there's no need to do this and you can give the Thunder Sword to Fee or Nanna (or Azel!Delmud, but that isn't part of this conversation).

I finished the Prologue. Minor nitpicks: Two things here: 1) 'Chalphys' bugs the hell out of me. I think it should be 'Chalphies', like how you pluralize other English nouns that end in '-y' (puppy -> puppies, variety -> varieties, etc.) 2) Maybe I missed the discussion, but shouldn't 'Baldo' be 'Baldur'? This one has 'Chalphys' as well.

I finally broke down and started a file with your patch. But before I get too far, here are my thoughts on your discussion points: Draco/Wyvern or is this all set I honestly don't care which one you use. I've never been a stickler for this. As I've said in the past, I'm more interested in the dichotomy between these guys and the Pegasus Knights than what you actually call them. bastard/dastard? The words aren't interchangeable, so there really shouldn't be a discussion. If the translation is a pejorative insult or in reference to a child born out of wedlock, use bastard. If the translation refers to a backstabbing villain, use dastard, Julius death QuOtE!1 I'd say either all caps or normal. The alternating letters are weird. What to do about Tailto, other unliked names? I'd use the mythological reference for her in particular, though I don't really feel that strongly about it. I'll keep a list of names I think are fishy as I play, though I've already spotted one: Vylon. Is 'Byron' a legitimate translation? EDIT: Andorey -> Andrei is something I can get behind. The bros have a text wrapping error. (Joha*)->Verify my fix Might be a while until I get to this one. Loptyr Sect -> Loptyrian? I prefer the former for purely subjective reasons. HiPriest -> Bishop I'm fine with that change, but I'd consider changing the NPC Bishop into something else Langobalt -> Langbart->Had to revert, too many letters I prefer Langbart anyhow. Blade/sword/brand I'm guessing this refers to the magic swords? I like Fire Brand/Thunder Sword/Wind Blade myself, but that's purely subjective and might be taking too many liberties. Plus, as I understand it, you don't have enough room to add the extra word anyhow. Ch 5 convo reptor "what are" Yet to see this Missing translations - welcomeback, ending, intro Graphics replacement?->holy blood, title, et cetera riot gharnef pls

Gonna jump on this one again. Saying 'dastard' instead of 'bastard' is not the same thing as saying 'darn' instead of 'damn'. 'Dastard' is a distinct English word with a specific meaning different from 'bastard'. I'd actually wager that 'dastard' was used because that's the actual translation, and not because of some misguided need for censorship. When Sigurd calls Arvis a 'dastard', he's doing so because Arvis acted in a villainous, treacherous, cowardly way, not just because Arvis is a jerk. So before you finalize these changes, you'll want to check with someone who knows Japanese to find out what the actual translation is

I have seen it both ways, but according to the CIA Factbook it's just 'Singapore'.

"Clipping someone's wings" is an English idiom. I'm all for keeping the name of the sword as Wing Clipper.

RE: Adjectival/demonym of Grannvale It's a really awkward name to work with. As far as I can tell, there is no real-world country that has a really similar name, which makes this even more annoying. Anyhow, there are a bunch of different ways of creating an adjectival: add a syllable/sound (Croatia becomes Croatian), replace the last syllable (Sweden becomes Swedish), remove the last syllable or sound (Slovakia becomes Slovak), alter the word in several places (France becomes French), or leave it the same (Singapore remains Singapore). Demonyms are most of the time just the plural form of the adjectival (people from Cambodia are Cambodians), but some use different methodology (people from the previously mentioned Singapore are Singaporeans). Now as I said, Grannvale is kind of hard to work with, and most of the standard methods don't appear to work, as people have already said that 'Grannvalian' sounds pretty bad (and I would have to agree). You could try just 'Grann' and 'Granns' as your adjectival and demonym, though I still think that sounds a bit awkward. Someone suggest 'Grannvali' to match Jugdrali, and that could work too. You could also cut out the -ale syllable entirely and try again - instead of 'Grannvalian' use 'Grannvian', for example. You could also just fudge it and make something up. 'Grannvaen', maybe? Just some thoughts.

I'mma jump right in here for a sec. I'm more than a little sleep deprived right now, so forgive me if this all comes out in a jumble: Don't forget to change any references to Holy Blood - Baldo is now Baldur, Holsety is now Forseti, and Lopotusousosusouosuo is now Loptyr. You may also want to think about changing 'Fala' to something that more closely matches 'Valflame' (like perhaps 'Vala'), though given all the pissing and moaning that occurred when Twilkitiri made other such small changes you may want to get more opinions about it. Also don't forget other little tidbits like the names of the Deadlords, the adjective form of Jugdral being 'Jugdrali', Eldigan being the 'Lionheart' instead of the 'Lion King', and Seliph being the 'Scion of Light' instead of the 'Earl of Light'. If you were using Twilkitiri's patch as the base, there was still a lingering use of 'Ira' (instead of Aira, which you are changing to Ayra) that I noticed in one of her Brave Sword-get conversations.

I'm not sure if it was actually confirmed, but I got a general vibe from the community that this was due to stuff in FE5 (which I haven't finished). Maybe I should have stuck it in the 'for discussion' section? Um. I think you're missing what I'm going for. I understand what you're saying, that any pairing is valid within the context of the game, but I'm looking more for pairings that were confirmed by other means (e.g. Lewyn x Fury is made officially canon by the fact that Ced has Forseti in FE5) or don't have any other options outside of killing one of the characters (e.g. Marth never marries anyone but Caeda). I'm actually trying to avoid speculation, even if it's speculating on something heavily implied like Roy x Lilina. The fact that I found someone speculating and making assumptions is what caused me to make this topic to begin with, out of curiousity about how many times throughout the series that IS explicitly said that two characters are together, despite other options.

To be clear: you CAN get support points between Chrom and Avatar/Sully/Sumia/Maribelle and still marry Olivia (or Maiden, if you care). I know for a fact that a single relationship point won't do it - I tried that with a single dance from Olivia once. It takes more than just a few as well - I had Maribelle heal Chrom several times in my latest support log grind, and he still married Maiden no problem. If I were a betting man, I'd say that the automatic marriage doesn't kick in until you get enough points for a C level support.

RE: Tellius I've played PoR; it's actually one of my favourite GCN games. I've just never played RD because I never owned a Wii. RE: Sevr x Jenny Busted (in case anyone cared). Killing either of them doesn't change the other's ending. Oh well, it was a nice theory.

RE: Tellius stuff I haven`t actually played RD, so I just kind of went with what I saw. It seems to be a touchy subject that I'm a bit wary of wading into. I really just took the paired endings from the site and threw them up there. RE: Gaiden stuff I always understood that Mycen was Alm and Celica`s adopted grandfather - at the very least we can say that Mycen is not biologically related to Alm. Later today I'm going to test the Sevr x Jenny thing (I think I have a savestate at the final battle). The epilogue says that Jenny married one of her companions, and Sevr is the only character who gets an unspecified wife, so I took that as a hint that they might be another pairing. It'll probably turn out to be a bust, but I just want to make 100% certain. Also, do people consider Boey x Mae a romantic relationship, or just platonic 'bicker buddies'? Yeah, it's probably the same guy. He posted, "Hextor x Farina is canon," on the FE7 board but was driven off. He then posted his entire bleeding list on the Awakening board, which included almost anything and everything you could think of (it even had a 'Karel x Wo Dao' entry). And while Hector x Farina was probably the most controversial pairing on his list, it wasn't the only thing that seemed suspect (Lyn x Rath, Legault x Isadora, Percival x Cecilia, perhaps a lack of Zeiss x Ellen). As I said, I attempted to argue with him. Not about the pairings themselves, as I don't have an issue with people's headcanons, but more about his abuse of the word 'canon' and his overall conduct ("read it and weep, Hector x Florina fans"). It came to a head when I put up a 6-post, 18000 character argument. Of the dozen or so talking points in that argument, he ignored all but one, and that one he did address he simply handwaved as irrelevant ("you can't compare the stories and fanbases of Fire Emblem to Golden Sun/Knights of the Old Republic because they're different games made by different companies"). I gave up shortly afterwards. He was either trolling or completely deluded, and both of those positions made him completely untouchable by any argument, sane or otherwise.

Quick backstory: a while ago some guy on the cesspool that is the GameFAQs Awakening board posted his personal shiplist (for the Elibe games, no less) and called it canon. He was obviously wrong, but he couldn't be moved - trust me, I tried. But now I'm thinking, how many pairings throughout the series have we gotten 100% confirmation for between playable characters? Here's what I came up with based on my memory and a bit of research: EDIT: Adjusted the lists based on stuff that popped up during the topic Marth x Caeda Abel x Est Astram x Midia Merric x Elice Julian x Lena Hardin x Nyna Samson x Sheema Alm x Celica Grey x Clair Clive x Matilda Zeke x Teeta Sigurd x Dierdre Quan x Ethlyn Lewyn x Fury Leaf x Nanna Orsin x Tanya Brighton x Machua Fred x Olwen Bartre x Karla Pent x Louise Largo x Calil And here's some that I wasn't sure about/could use some discussion on: Boey x Mae Beowulf x Raquesis x Finn Glade x Selphina Harken x Isadora Ike x Soren or Ranulf Boyd x Mist Makalov x Astrid Sothe x Micaiah Jill x Haar Geoffrey x Elincia Naesala x Leanne Bastian x Lucia

Yeah, and a juvenile part of me is now also realizing I should have named a Log 'Merde'...

Hm. Out of curiousity, I went and renamed some of my weapons to some French cuss words. My knowledge of the language is a bit lacking, but it let me use all the ones I knew. Someone with a better vocabulary might be able to do a more exhaustive test. Of course, now I have an Arcfire named 'Sacrement', but whatever.

You know, I have a half-formed argument in my head that's basically Kellam > Gaius, but ultimately that Kellam could stand to bump up. A large part of the argument is simply that Kellam is a better Thief than Gaius is. Kellam is 55/65/60 Str/Skl/Spd as a Thief while Gaius is 60/70/70, but Kellam is 60(!!!)/35 Def/Res compared to the 30/20 of Gaius, not to mention Kellam retains the +2 Defence ability to (slightly) mitigate the initial shock of the reclass. For reference, Lon'qu, has 55/75/75/30/25 Str/Skil/Spd/Def/Res (though also 55 Luck compared to 35 of Kellam/Gaius). Going Thief also solves Kellam's movement issues that are inherent to being an Armour Knight in this series. The argument basically boils down to Kellam becoming much more effective offensively if he's reclassed while still retaining some of his defensive attributes. The real question becomes whether those changes make his offensive abilities effective enough, and whether it's worth the defensive sacrifice. I can definitely see the glaring problems with this theory, though. Kellam is obviously not getting the first Second Seal, and he's getting bumped back to an E-Rank weapon after he finally does get his hands on one. The class change between Knight and Thief also has a really nasty -5 Str/-9 Def, which may be completely untenable (by my estimation that'll put him back down to 8 Str and 5/6 +2 Def if the change is done at 10). Finally, Thief utility itself seems pretty insignificant, as I can't remember too many times where there were chests that were absolutely vital, and the game hands you Anna for when there is something worth going out of your way for. So yeah, I'm not necessarily making the argument, just throwing the idea out there, maybe for analysis by someone who's better at this stuff than I am. On the subject of Bronze weapons, though, I would also postulate that this might make Arms Scrolls worth somewhat more than previously. Maybe its just my personal experience talking, but in other FE games I almost always saw Arms Scrolls as an afterthought (with rare exceptions, such as FE9 Mist) because a D Rank in a weapon was good enough to use Steel, and now you need D to even use Iron. Again, this is just something I'm putting out there. I generally enjoy reading tier list topics, but I don't have the patience to form nitty-gritty arguments of my own. And now that I'm on a roll, I have another question: which characters besides Panne are serious contenders for early Second Seals?

I don't know if this was mentioned yet, but the adjective form of 'Jugdral' is 'Jugdrali', as stated by Chrom: "That was Arvis... the villain in every Jugdrali saga I've ever heard."

It's probably been more than a dozen years since I played FF6, but if I remember correctly... But then, in doing a bit of research, it appears that we got 'Terra' only because the early English playtesters hated the name 'Tina', and that all that other stuff about 'links to the planet' was coincidental (or just a bunch of people reading way too deep into an arrangement of pixels on a screen). So, I guess you were right after all. C'est la vie.