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Not really? They're pretty easy to emulate. It might be because the most recent translations all expand the game room, and some older emulators don't support it. (Some that do may require an extra manifest file). Maybe try a different emulator?

Thursday update: it looks as though BLET and SMART have accepted the PEB recommendations: https://www.railwayage.com/freight/aar-strike-averted/ This is a tentative acceptance though, member ratification still needs to happen. But it looks like the possibility of a strike tomorrow is much lower. Updated the title as the ratification vote will probably take a few days at least.

FE3 is my favorite game in the series so obviously I'd recommend trying it. However if you're mainly interested in just getting the story/background on characters, FE12 is probably the way to go. FE12 retconned a lot of things (which no everyone likes!), but it seems to be the canon version of the story as far as IS is concerned. Not to mention the translation is much more polished. than FE3's. But if you're interesting in trying different gameplay, then I would recommend both games as they have many mechanical differences which make them booth worth experiencing IMO. But then again, I'm kooky and think the same thing about FE1/2 vs FE11/15, so take my opinion as you will. 😛 Only the Starsphere does that. The other orbs and star shards do not.

Just what the title says. Unions representing workers at all major freight railroads in the U.S have been negotiating for a new contract for a few months now. Unfortunately it looks like the companies haven't offered a contract which the workers are happy with, so it's looking increasingly likely a strike will be declared this Friday. Why Friday? Railroad workers are governed by a law called the Railway Labor Act, which places limits on their ability to strike. Unions must go through a series of government overseen negotiation and mediation periods before they can declare a strike OR before companies can impose a lockout. Currently we are in a "cooling off" period after the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) put out a series of recommendations for the companies and unions to accept. The cooling off period ends Friday at midnight. So a strike can't begin until then. (I'm not exactly an expert, but i believe i got the gist of things right) There are 12 unions currently in negotiation/mediation with the major freight railroads. Of these: The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) have not agreed to the PEB recommendations. (These are the two largest unions) The Brotherhood of Railway Signalman (BRS) has rejected the agreement. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 19tentatively accepted the recommendations , but rejected it after a membership vote. The Transportation Communications Union/IAM (TCU/IAM) and Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC) have ratified the recommendations. All other unions have tentatively accepted the agreement, but have not held or finished membership votes yet. Some additional reading for background: Railway Age The Guardian In addition to the impact on freight deliveries, Amtrak has cancelled all of its long distance trains starting Thursday. This is because Amtrak runs on track owned by the Freight railroads in most of the U.S. outside of the Northeast Corridor. Several regional/commuter railroads are likely to be impacted for the same reason. This is still a developing situation so things could change. This has not been widely reported on until very recently, but I will try to update this thread with more info/context as I find it. Evening update: two unions have ratified the PEB recommendations. There appears to also be some negotiation to extend the cooling off period to November to avoid any influence on/from the midterm elections.

TIL Serenes will give you notifications if someone links one of your threads. Huh.

There's no way other than to make an IPS patch yourself. Make a copy of your original file, patch the file with the UPS patch, then use a tool like LunarIPS or FLIPS to make a patch based off the difference from the old file to the new one. But are you sure you're patching the ROM correctly? Have you tried to open it with another emulator?

There's also a "Roberts" enemy in FE6. I think people may not remember him because, aside from being a random midboss, he's hard mode only.

Somehow I never realized until now that since my patch modifies text, it needs to have different versions for each language. :v I've updated the release page on Github with a set of patches for JP roms, and one for the latest version of my translation patch. If there's another patch you think I should support, let me know. Edit: I've also made a version which disables most text. This should be compatible with pretty much any translated or non-translated ROM. You can get this version here.

Pushing out an update to fix a very silly oversight. I never thought to test how my changes interacted with character deaths. The details: tl:dr - sometimes a character dying would cause some characters to not be recruitable when they should have been. Or vice versa. I've put out an update which should fix this, along with a few other death-related tweaks.

Not really feeling up to streaming today, so no stream for this week. My apologies.

Live now! Edit: apologies for the weirdness at the start of the stream. But those were an interesting set of maps. Se y'all next week!

Streaming again today at the usual time.

Live now! Sorry for the small delay. Edit: Thanks to everyone who tuned in!

Stream will begin today at the usual time. (1 PM CST, in about 3 hours).

Boooooooo The best part of cold steel was clowning on enemies with busted mechanics Next thing you know they'll stop Fie from having 100% evade and go back to not letting her counter at range like in CS1 😔

No that's Super Thracia fans AKA just me

Ah, so Silken Knight was one of those certified "what the fuck, kaga" moments. Wouldn't be a Saga game without one, sadly.

The scene in Der Langrisser of Vargas seeing his daughter born is pretty touching. But then the chapter ending drops this. What.

Seems justified as the Silken Knight bonuses didn't seem to make up for the lack of Dandelion and late joining.

Live now! Edit: That was fun! Would've been more fun if I wasn't sick, probably. Thanks to those who tuned in.

Streaming again today at the usual time.

According to the main site, yes. https://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/hints-and-secrets/ "Whenever a unit is forced to make a movement, hold A, B, start, select, and any direction on the D pad to break free from having to follow the move. To avoid resetting the game, I recommend holding three of the buttons and a D pad direction before pressing the fourth. A major use for this is to skip Wallace’s promotion in Lyn’s Story (Normal Mode). When you select Wallace, break free from the forced movement and make him (or another character) visit the nearby village. This will make his promotion event end without him promoting. A side effect is that you cannot press the B button before the promotion event ends."

Taking the leaks down would also tacitly confirm they were real.

Live now! Edit: that was a fun stream! Map 8 was tougher than I expected. And the secret map was pretty odd.

Reminder that the stream will be at 1 PM CST today. So in ~2 hours or so. Excited to finally see some different content from my light path playthrough.