Hey Blademaster - love the hack so far. I've encountered some kind of error on Chapter 17 - hard mode if that matters. At the end of turn 2 when the green units finish up, the game resets. I tried playing with selective animations, all animations on, and all animations off. Nothing would stop the reset.
Edit: just discovered it works fine in VBA 1.8 but not the 1.7.2 I was using. Problem solved