TwoFigs

In a previous thread I mentioned that since I am one game away from owning every mainline game of the Fire Emblem series (with special editions for the games that have them), I would start the daunting task of documenting the packaging and instruction booklets of every mainline Fire Emblem game (maybe the new FE1 remaster will count?? I dunno but either way I'm gonna make scans of it when I get it on December 4th, because dang that special edition looks stacked), and here is the website where I will be hosting all of my scans: https://archive.org/details/@fireemblemchronicle. I will be using my account on archive.org to upload all of my high-quality scans, aptly named Fire Emblem Chronicle. As of now the only game I have documented is the Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 Deluxe Pack, but I have FE 6, 7, 3, 2, and 1 all scanned right now as well, so images for those games will pop up soon as well. I'm very excited! And of course, all images and documents for any game archived in my account will be available for anyone to download. So if you want to own a little part of Fire Emblem history for yourself, you can! These are very high quality images though, so the downloads might take a while. I decided to go for quality over convenience. But anyways I'm still new to the website so I'm not 100% sure of how neat everything is supposed to look yet, but hopefully things will be clearer to me as I continue to update the chronicle. I'm not expecting too many views right now, but I at least hope this will be a cool resource for FE fans in the future.

I'm not so sure about all those specifics, but I might be able to find the date for the Deluxe Pack for you. I know there's a date on the letter from Intelligent Systems inside the Deluxe Pack, which I own. I'll get back to you on that soon.

Thanks for the tips and encouragement everybody! I'll keep creating posts and comments updating my progress over the course of the project, so maybe follow me if you're interested....... Who know's? maybe my scans will be spread everywhere and will be used by lots of different Fire Emblem Wikis to derive official artwork from in the future. I guess all I can do is give it my best shot. I'm gonna make sure the scans are the highest quality possible without sacrificing a compact file size. @𝙵ᴇɴʀᴇɪʀ I also think it's a good way to get my money's worth, because while yeah it has been expensive, now I have a huge enough collection that I can actually make a difference to the Fire Emblem community, which definitely makes all the collecting worth it. Obviously the collection alone is worth it for me because I love instruction booklets and such, but this makes things even better! Binding Blade and Sacred Stones were given to me as gifts, but other than those two games, yeah it was pretty tough collecting them all!

Hey everybody, so in my first topic I said I bought the Thracia 776 Deluxe Pack, (thanks to everyone who helped me out with the issue I was having with it by the way, the game works like a charm now!) and this past weekend, I spent some time scanning everything in the Deluxe Pack, because aside from a few videos, the Thracia 776 Deluxe Pack is not documented very well. Heck, hardly at all. It got me thinking: What other Fire Emblem games could use scans or photographs? I did some research, and honestly, there's not a lot of good scans of boxes, instruction booklets, etc. of hardly any Fire Emblem game. There's some good scans of the of Genealogy of the Holy War instruction booklet, along with some other games, but for the most part, they are very poor quality. Sooo... I was thinking I might take up the daunting task of scanning and documenting every Fire Emblem game. In high-quality. The only Fire Emblem game I don't have in my collection is the Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition, but after that I will have a complete collection of all Fire Emblem games (with special editions for the ones that have one), so once I have Fates, I'll be able to complete all of the documentation, but since there's so much to do, I figured I might as well at least get started, right? And when everything is completed, maybe I could start translating the ones that are only in Japanese. I wouldn't be able to do it alone though, I took four years of Japanese in high school but has been over 4 years since then and... yeah I'm not that fluent anymore. I think it would be a great way to give back to the Fire Emblem community. Heck, I think it would be great if the pages for each of the games here on Serenes Forest had pdfs of all of this stuff in each game under the Media section, if the mods of the site will allow it. The instruction booklets and other media in these games (especially special/limited editions) have so much interesting art and details from these games that are so hard to find anywhere else. Fire Emblem is my favorite video game series, and I want everyone to be able to share and live that passion. I mean, that's why we're all in this forum, right? So, I'll probably continue to scan these games every weekend or so (I'm an art teacher for a living, so it doesn't leave me too much time, especially since I still have video games I want to play), so in the meantime, I wanted to ask, does anyone know the best way to post or publish all of the media I obtain from scanning and taking photos of each game? I'm gonna worry about formatting once I actually have everything photographed and written down, but I kinda just wanted to see the road ahead, and just talk to anyone who is interested in me pursuing this project, or maybe even is willing to help! Well, I already have Thracia 776 done, so that's 15 down, 16 more to go!

@lightcosmo That's what I was thinking, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me.... I mean the only difference between the Nintendo Power flash cartridge and any other Super Famicom cartridge should be the selection menu at the beginning, but that doesn't seem like it would be so difficult for an adapter to recognize... I'm sure it's programmed just like any other multi-game cartridge like Super Mario All-Stars... but I could be wrong. I wish I could just find someone who has a Super Famicom and test it out on their system. I'd buy one myself because honestly that's cheaper than just buying a new Thracia 776 cartridge, but if the playing it on a newly bought Super Famicom doesn't work, that's money I'll have sunk in for nothing. I'd almost feel more comfortable buying a new Thracia cartridge... I guess I'll just have to stick to emulation. I wasn't really expecting anyone to have a perfect answer for this issue because like I said it's a really niche thing but thanks anyways for replying!! EDIT: 9/5 5:05 PM Good news!! Turns out it was the adapter. It for some reason doesn't recognize those Nintendo Power cartridges. Basically how I figured it out was I did some research, and you can mod a SNES!! to play Super Famicom games!! Without an adapter! Basically SNES systems, in actuality, aren't region locked at all. The only thing that prevents you from playing Super Famicom games on a SNES are two little pieces of plastic that block the cartridge from being inserted. So I yanked them out and sure enough, when inserted directly into the SNES, it works like a charm. It must have been because the adapter is a third party thing or something.... at any rate I'm so happy I have a working copy now! (I mean technically it already worked, I just needed to figure out how to get it to work with what I had.)

Hello, You all can call me Two Figs, I am mostly active on Tumblr and on GamePress, and I wanted to get a Serenes Forest account for a really long time, but I kept putting it off. But now that I have an actual issue/thing to talk about, I figured now is a good time as any to get started, soooo.... Here's my first post. I don't really know if I'm posting in the right place, or if I'll even get a reply. I'm copying and pasting this in as many places as possible so I can get a reply, because I know this issue is really niche and there's probably not many people who have ever been in this situation or would even know what to do. So I just got a game in the mail today. It was the Fire Emblem Thracia 776 Deluxe Pack, it was very expensive. Super excited. For anyone who doesn't know, Fire Emblem Thracia 776 was a game released in Japan only, initially on those Nintendo Power flash memory cartridges that could download multiple games onto that one cartridge. That version of the game is what comes with said Deluxe Pack, and is therefore the one I own now. Now, normally I believe when you booted up the cartridge, you'd have a menu that would allow you to select which game to play. I don't know if Thracia 776 is an exception though, because the game is so huge that it takes up all of the memory slots on the cartridge. I don't really know if the menu would still come up. The other reason why I don't know if the menu will come up: the cartridge doesn't seem to work. Whenever I boot it up, I get a black screen. Which is great, the system knows there's something there, but there's no game. I tried cleaning it, same result. I use contact cleanser with a q-tip and canned air to dry it and blow out dust. So I'm thinking there might be something wrong with my rig. I have other Super Famicom games that I play using my official top-loader model American Super Nintendo. I use an adapter from My Arcade in order to do this, since obviously you can't play Japanese Super Famicom games on an American Super Nintendo. If anyone doesn't know what adapter I'm talking about, here's a link: https://www.myarcadegaming.com/products/super-cartridge-converter Basically, I'm just kind of really confused as to why the game doesn't work. Does the My Arcade Super Famicom adapter not work with these kinds of memory cartridges? My other Super Famicom games work perfectly well with this adapter. I also noticed that this cartridge has the extra 8 or so pin connectors. I think the only other game I own that has these extra pins is my SNES copy of Yoshi's Island. I dunno if that might have anything to do with the fact that the game doesn't work. Yoshi's Island works fine with the adaptor on though. (The adaptor is designed to work with both Super Famicom and SNES games.) So honestly if anyone can give me any sort of lead, I'd be greatly appreciative. But who knows, maybe I just got a bad cartridge. Not that I really mind that it doesn't work. I usually just play it on an emulator so I can play the game in English, and I really just bought the Deluxe Pack for all the cool stuff that came with it. But anyways... Thanks for reading, and if you replied, double thank you!!