Recently I downloaded a class randomizer for FE8. After some edits to it to make it more correct (allowing the Recruit, Journeyman, and Pupil classes to be selected, and randomly picking one of the two possible promotions for already promoted units rather than defaulting to just one of them all the time) I found it's still kinda boring to play with all the units using the default palettes, so I decided to figure out how to make units retain their palettes across classes.
Before anyone says anything, I already know FE8's palette system is much different (and more annoying) than FE7. From what I understand, the palette system works something like this (I'm probably not using the best terms for explanation):
Check if the unit has an associated palette, which is assigned to it from a list of palettes, which starts at 0x00EF9000 with Neimi (Archer), then Amelia (Knight), then Gilliam (Knight), etc.
If the unit's class matches the class of the unit's associated palette, use it (i.e. if I have Eirika as an Archer and her associated palette is Neimi's Archer palette, she'll appear with that palette)
Otherwise, use the default palette for this class (I'm not quite sure how it finds this, Nightmare tells me the default palette is at 0x000032E0 but this seems to be just one of many default palettes. This is probably the starting address of a list of palettes, similar to the associated ones from earlier, but I can't find specific class palettes here). So if I have Eirika as a Lord with the Neimi (Archer) palette, Eirika will use the default one, since her class doesn't match her palette's.
I can edit the associated palette list easily and assign them to each unit, but the annoying part is the class specificity - I don't know how to edit that. So I've got a couple of questions:
How do I edit a palette's assigned class? (For example, making the Neimi (Archer) palette usable by a Lord, or a Pegasus Knight).
How do I find the default palette for each class? I might be really dumb and they all come from the same one at 0x000032E0, but that doesn't appear to be the palette Eirika as a Lord uses.
I've been searching around trying to find if anyone's figured this out, but it seems most people give up at about this point.
