SaXor the Nobody
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Finally got off my lazy arse and gave Mars a halfblink frame and a proper mini, he's done.
Made significant progress on Cain.Finally, something different:
Clash! from Path of Radiance
I've been doing music insertion for a while now and I think it's about time I start sharing some of it. I made this one from scratch, it's free to use for the rom hackers out there. Just make sure that your using the 16 tracks/12 sounds patch. I'll be posting stuff like this in my new thread for non sprite related stuff: -
Title says it all, I'll be posting stuff like drawings and music here. This thread is meant to be more of a companion to my spriting thread which can be found here:
https://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?/topic/75490-saxors-vault/&tab=comments#comment-5214521------Drawings------ (Click for full size, aspect ratio may be off as I'm trying to keep the thumbnails uniform)
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Clash from Path of Radiance (Insertable, Free to Use, Requires 16 tracks/12 notes patch)
Youtube Video
Download .s file
March from Radiant Dawn (Insertable, Free to Use, Requires 16 tracks/12 notes patch)
Youtube Video
Download .s fileMy Youtube channel is pretty much dedicated to music (for now at least), link for those who may be interested:
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I'm almost done with formatting Mar. All that's left is the half-blink frame, still trying to figure that out.
I've also started work on Cain. I started working on Abel way before that but I stopped working on him a while ago, I'll get back to it someday.
That's all I've got for now.
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Marth's basically done.
And here's a Roy edit that I made 'cause I was bored one night. I don't know where I was going with it. -
Average at best
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Hola everyone, it's been a while. I never finished that Marth's portrait but I made this.
I did made a bit of progress on Marth's portrait though. The back of his head has been giving me trouble for a while but I finally managed to get somewhere with it. I don't know if it's good though.
Aside from his hair, all that's really left to do is his ear, redo his crown, and a whole lot of clean-up.
The idea was to "GBA-ify" The Shadow Dragon cast and remake Shadow Dragon in FE8 however my own laziness and strange inability to work with FEBuilder's eventing ui among other factors have left that idea as it is, just an idea. Plus it's already being done with way cooler features by way rom hackers that are much more skilled. I already made some stuff for it like music tracks and maps but I'm not really motivated to jump into such a project right now so I'll probably just stick to the portraits. Maybe I'll try it in the future, I dunno.
I also made some non FE related things, they're actually all Dragon Quest enemies. I started spriting more around the time I got into that franchise.
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"Agh...damn...Welp, It was bound to happen someday... it's been a good...run...:
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For me, Shadow Dragon's easily takes top spot, followed by both Resolves and FE12's.
By the way, FE1's prep theme is the Enemy Phase theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_dEkItn_zI -
Finished the body.
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Progress:
I've been working on the head and the body separately. I kinda just threw this combined image together so that's why it looks the way it does. -
Othin/Orsin/Osian/Whatever name IS decides to go with
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Harken
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Current WIP:
The end goal is to make a SD Marth portrait using New Mystery's Marth as a base.
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I really enjoyed this. The concept alone is what got me interested, it's a genuinely neat idea and the hack itself was good fun. I can't wait to see more, keep up the good work!
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Part 1-2: The Wall
Spoiler
Y'know, I never understood that chapter name...oh well.
Right off the bat, we have new blood.
Starting off with the thief we have Nils and he's a really good thief. Having a capped speed thief will be incredibly useful later on when enemies start carrying stealable items.
In combat he's...actually somewhat alright, defensively anyway. He can take a hit decently well and 56 avoid base is no joke. It's just a shame that he'll never be able to do good damage as he's plagued with his 5% strength and skill growths and an E rank in swords, but he is a thief so it's not really a big deal in the end.
Next up we have Dorcas and...I don't know how to feel about him. I mean, he could be alright offensively if I trained him, 60% strength is good and he'd have a lot of HP but everything else is just meh imo, bases included. 8 base defense is nice but with a 25% growth, he could easily get screwed. Same for his speed, 20% isn't very reliable, especially with only 5 base. Overall, benched. At least he has some use being a flier.
But wait there's more!...a lot more.
Our Marcus replacement is Heath and he's just not good. He's okay for the moment because not many enemies can really take a Luna let alone a Luna crit but those bases just don't cut it. To be fair, he might've been more useful if he had a tome with might as 12 attack isn't very good but that's unfortunately not the case. On the bright side he's a decent staff bot and he came with some good items.
Our Lowen is Priscilla and she's a bard, moving on...
Oh, a free Steel Lance? A Javelin too? Thanks game, you're too kind.
...Fine, Sain is a soldier and he's garbage. Benched.
Next up, we have Florina and Fiora. Tbh, they're pretty interchangable, though I think Florina's better because of her higher con.
Finally, our Eliwood is Hawkeye and he is ridiculous. 40 base HP at level 1 is i n s a n e. His stupidly high HP is supported by a solid 12 defense and he can deal decent damage as well with his equally good 12 strength, not to mention that his 16 con means that he can wield every lance in the game without penalty. All of this comes at a price though, he has no speed, like at all, but does it really matter? He barely takes any physical damage anyway. Aside from his low res, he's the perfect tank.
He is the wall.
But wait! There's still more!
Zagan, unlike Wire, actually isn't complete garbage?
This chapter wasn't too eventful so this one will be kind of short.(Also this the second time I'm typing this part so }
To start, I sent Door-cass down to get the village, sent Hawkeye down to kill an archer, gave the free Steel Lance and Javelin to Hawkeye, and sent Nils to get a brigand kill. Harken got a decent level on that enemy phase.
On the next turn, I gave Hawkeye Nils's Slim Sword (Which would normally be dumb but Harken has the strength to make it viable for at least a little bit), used the mages to feed Hawkeye a kill, and then gave Door-cass the red gem from Ch.11. On the turn after that, I took care of the rest of the Peg Knights and on the turn after that, I fed Hawkeye another kill, which got him his first level.
From there, I sold the Red Gem, bought a bunch of weapons and prepped for Zagan.
Zagan (who has a nice palette by the way) wasn't too much of a challenge.
First, I had Harken take off a chunk of his health by breaking the Javelin on him. Afterwards, I attempted to get a good hit in with Hawkeye and his Horseslayer but he missed. I had Nino heal him and sent Nils to the fort to act as a decoy and do what he does best, dodge-tanking, which he did. After that, I brought Zagan down to low health with Harken's Slim Sword and killed him with Hawkeye, netting him another level and ending the chapter.
See you all next time!
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Part 1-1: The Harken Show
Spoiler>Says "I'll try to release the first part ASAP."
>Releases it five days later
Gee, I sure am great at this stuff...
Anyway, let's get this started.
Chapter 11H was...more or less the same, there isn't a lot to change in the first place.
Usually, I'd go down immediately and theoretically I could, but I went left, down to get the chest, and then around the right side all the way to Wire.
Our Hector replacement is Harken and he's ridiculous.
I mean, what can I say? He's really, really good. 16 base strength and 9 defense is crazy for the beginning of the game. His speed is lacking but given that he can one round most enemies at this point, that won't be an issue, for now at least. The Light Brand is really strong for this point in the game, I'll try to conserve it. Luckily, the game gave me a Javelin as well so that won't be a problem.
Our Matthew is Nino and she's a...troubadour.
Normally, getting Nino in Chapter 11 would've been best case scenario but Nino would've been good if she was anything but a healer. Oh well, at least she'll be useful for the time being...
Wire got randomized into a Lyn Lord with a Slim Sword. 12 speed would normally be scary but his damage output is pretty garbage as we'll be seeing soon.
So...this is the part where I talk about what happened throughout the chapter, huh...
Well, a lot of this:
Harken killed everything and took minimal damage. Seriously, not much else.Nice Palette btw
Some time after this, Harken got a level and that point of defense essentially makes him invincible for the rest of the chapter. Later on this happened:
I wouldn't have highlighted this if it weren't for the fact that in true hit, this was a 92%.
Good. Harken got another level from this.
It's rather meh but the speed is nice. Near the end of the chapter, he leveled up again.
17...
After that, I went on to challenge Wire and...I'll just let you all see for yourselves.
Yeah...he's not winning.
And he's dead. This'll get Harken another level.
Now that's more like it! What a way to end it off.
And that's it for Chapter 11. In the video, I did Chapter 12 as well but I'm going to split this into two posts. I'll probably do that tomorrow. As usual, feedback is appreciated. -
Part 0: Introduction
The day was October 22nd, 2017. Around 1:30 in the morning to be precise. A bored, tired SaXor sat there on his bed in front of his laptop thinking...
"Man it sure is booooring around h-" Wait...this isn't the script. Where the hell..............Ah! Here we go. Ahem...
"Hmmmmm, what to do...I could play something. Maybe some Fire Emblem...Got it!"
At that moment SaXor remembered an idea that he had before.
"I'll do a let's play of a randomizer on SF...yeah, that sounds like it'll be fun. Hmmm...maybe I'll do FE7, it's the most randomizer friendly, but how will I go about it...I know...I could make it a video series and put it on my Youtube channel!"
Two hours later, SaXor found himself watching the two parts that he recorded with commentary.
"Wow...my commentary is garbage. It sounds like I'm constantly mumbling, I can hear background noise, and my mic quality makes Mekkah's audio sound like it was recorded in a studio."D-D-Deep Cut
"Yeah, I'm gonna scrap this and go to sleep"
Despite this SaXor wasn't ready to give up. He ultimately decided to scrap the commentary idea altogether but he was still determined to make this happen. And so it beganWelcome to the beginning of my first Let's Play: SaXor's Playthrough of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade Randomized!
Was that intro funny? I hope so...Hey there, SaXor here! Before I start, here's how this run's gonna work:
These are the rules I'm playing by, I'll be playing on Hector Normal because I don't hate myself. I'm not going for everything, no Lyn mode, 19xx, 23xx, or 32x. I'll try my best to keep save state use to a minimum but I can't guarantee anything, FE7 can get crazy when you start bumping the growths up. I'll probably be doing this on and off, I have school after all so don't expect consistent updates. As for the gameplay itself, I'm not super used to playing while recording, especially since there's no commentary so if there are any random pauses, I'm probably thinking. That's all, bye! I'll try to release the first part ASAP.Feedback on my writing and anything really is appreciated. If you suggest something and I don't acknowledge it for a bit, I apologize as these will be recorded in bulk, most likely 2-3 episodes for each play session.
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It's been a little while but I'm back.
I made the mini around a week ago, made it from scratch in about a day. As for the eye frames, I did those yesterday.
Also, I upped the saturation of this portrait a little, did this a loooong time ago. -
I haven't really been able to work on this a ton lately due to school and homework, but I've been messing with it bit by bit. This is what I have so far.
It'll probably be a little while before I begin work on the mini and eye frames. Just like the body, I have little experience with custom eye frames so that's gonna be fun...
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On 9/25/2017 at 2:03 AM, Melldere said:
I finished editing one of the sprites. I mostly just cleaned it up a bit, but I also made a couple tweaks to the eyes and mouth.
I would have more done, but I'm working on my own sprites as well as some other stuff.
Oh, that's fine. And as for the portrait, the revisions are definitely an improvement, Thanks.
While I'm here, I might as well show off a wip.
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Sorry for the late response, I'm kind of on and off with these things.
I took some time to mess with the hair shading and and colors a bit. The changes are subtle but hopefully they'll make a difference.
On 9/15/2017 at 8:28 AM, Melldere said:Also, it seems like you removed one of the lining colors from the top right sprite. I feel that extra color would really help blend things together, especially around the jawline.
I'll offer to make revisions to your sprites. Though, if you're not okay with that, I understand.I removed the third lining color in order to have the portrait fit within the 16 color limit, I thought it would be the least consequential color to get rid of.
Also, I don't mind if you make revisions at all. If you still want to, go ahead. -
I thought about updating my old thread but there'd be no point since I'd be completely overhauling it anyway so I made this one instead. Feedback is appreciated
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FE1: I've only played the FE3 Book 1 version but Port Warren, Camus the Sable, and the final chapter.
FE2 & Echoes: Desert maps and most of Act 3 (The latter only in Gaiden)
FE6: Ch 14, 16x, 20x Sacae and 21
FE7: I find Ch. 9 boring, Ch. 20H because of Legault spawning on turn 1, Ch. 28
FE8: Ch. 7 is boring, Ch. 14 and 15 on Ephraim's side
FE9: Ch. 8, 23, and 26
FE13: Flames on the Blue and Naga's Voice
Conquest: Ch. 10, Ch.12, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 26, and Endgame
Revelation: (Only played up to Ch. 12) Ch. 8-12 -
1 hour ago, Weeping__Dalek said:
Please explain to me how Lugh is the absolute best unit in the game, he can't take physical hits, he can't Nosferatu tank, and is fairly easily able to get Magic screwed
I'm not saying Lugh is a bad unit, but better than Lance, Allen, Deke, Rutger and Miledy? I think not
Cecilia is pretty bad, but to be honest, she isn't as bad as some other prepromotes imo (Juno, for instance)
Personally, I've never had a magic screwed Lugh and with a growth of 40%, while not as high as one would want it to be, is still usable. Plus magic is very strong in FE6 between just about everyone who's not a mage having relatively low res, the enemies mostly consisting of wyverns, and Aircalibur being as strong as Elfire, effective against fliers, and readily available. He's also the fastest of the three mages. Defensively, he's the middle ground mage. Lilina is more consistent offensively, but she's as durable as wet tissue paper and Hugh is definitely tankier, but not by much. He also joins much too late, so late that Lugh if one were to use him, would most likely already be promoted. He's also in the middle res wise with a growth of 30%, only 5% less than Lilina, but 15% more than Hugh. Nosferatu is particularly strong in FE6, but Druids aren't very common enemies in FE6 and only a few people can tank it better. To top it all off, he's good at dodging. Maybe I shouldn't have said that he's the best unit in the game but he's up there...but in the end, it's up to RNG.
About Cecilia, I'd have to disagree. FE6 is good at giving you prepromotes that are useful for at least their initial chapter. Klein is decent from the chapter you get him to pretty much the end as a flier killer, Igrene fills the same role, Echidna is decent, Bartre is good, Niime is at the very least a great physic bot, same for Yoder, Marcus is useful in the beginning, Percival is...Percival and Karel is Karel. I'd say she's more useful than Juno and maybe Dayan and Douglas but that's about it. She's not even useful in the chapter you get her in.
Sorry for the text wall btw.
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