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I'd go Lord -> Great Lord if anything.

Twilkitri's MIA Bwahahaa I think I fixed the text overrun issue. Gonna do more playtesting. So I guess what I'd really like to do is make the stuff in FE4 consistent with the current etymology and mythology. Off the top of my head, here's what I know I'd change (aside from Serlis): Holsety -> Forseti Eltshan -> Eldigan Scathach -> Ulster Alvis -> Arvis Aless -> Ares Lakche -> Larcei Sety -> Ced Swanchika -> Helswath THammer -> Mjolnir (though I love reading THammer...) Falaflame -> Valflame Hmm, Narga vs. Naga? Thoughts on what the community at large would like for an update? I don't have the official list of stuff that's changed or been updated in the etymology, this is what I've gathered from FE Awakening. Any playtesters interested in trying a new patch?

I'm close here ... with some hackery I compiled a patch where the only change I made was Serlis -> Seliph. Some of the text doesn't line up correctly now though, and while I haven't done anything more than rudimentary testing that's the only issue I see. TBH I just did a batch replacement of Serlis to Seliph so likely that is what caused text alignment issues. Text overrun: Serlis no more!

Well... in case anyone cares, I hacked at the 65816 cross compiler and with some other edits and the font compression in Windows thing, built a patch that is mostly correct.

I realize that post was a mess :) SF, Let's start over. One thing I don't understand about compiling the project is newfont.bin and the compression. The package includes newfont.bin, which if I understand correctly, is just a new uncompressed font created for inclusion in the patch which overwrites the old Japanese tiles in the ROM. In Linux, fe4enc segfaults during while compressing this file. I can compress it in Windows using fe4enc.exe from a post by twilkitri's then copy the compressed one back into Linux to make it build, but that seems to screw things up bigtime when I make an IPS. Has anyone gotten fe4enc to work on Linux?

I blew up the "Improving the Genealogy Path" thread with this and it was suggested I come over to the Hackers sub ... before we get started, I'm very comfortable with building software from source in a *NIX environment and hopefully you are too. OK, now to the nitty gritty - I haven't even made script changes to the patch, I'm just trying to build it vanilla in a SLES11 SP2 Linux environment. First issue - fe4p/fe4p.c, the #define macro for row and col vars doesn't like to compile. I manually moved it inline and I can compile this OK.The next big issue is in making the fonts. s11sp2:~/FE4/fe4transsrc # make menufont ... ./fe4enc newfont.bin zfont.bin gmake[1]: *** [zfont.bin] Segmentation fault If I run this command through GDB I see the issue is here: Compressing... 3.3% Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x08048d6f in FindMatch (bestmatch=0xbffff514, readahead=0x8061239 "\347\271\ב\177\221o") at lz77.c:80 80 if(*match != *readahead || So I tried to fake this by using the Windows fe4enc.exe I've seen floating around by manually generating a zfont.bin from the newfont.bin included in the source package. I had to do this for another font file as well. I eventually got an .ips (yay!) but when I loaded it, everything was messed up in the game (boo!). OK, starting over. "make spotless" then just did a "make". All goes well until gmake[1]: Entering directory `/root/FE4/fe4transsrc/dcenc' ../bin/65816 -c -hi dcenc.asm ... [entering second pass] assembling code at $91FAB0...finished at $91FBD3. *** glibc detected *** ../bin/65816: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08063b20 *** ... Soo... Has anyone successfully compiled this from source in Linux to make a working .ips ? Anyone know why you'd make script, or make dump?

Any idea where that might be? I've combed this site, grandbell and the web in general - didn't find it. This is my first foray into FE hacking so it's possible I missed common resources. Thanks.

Sorry, I didn't phrase it well. I'm not trying to edit the binary patch directly, that definitely won't work :) I just want to edit the scripts and rebuild the patch from source. I'm close. There are some errors in fe4p/fe4p.c relating to the row/col preprocessor macros that I fixed myself. This enables compilation at least. But then during cross comp of the .ips it blows up: ../bin/65816 -c -hi dcenc.asm ... [entering second pass] assembling code at $91FAB0...finished at $91FBD3. *** glibc detected *** ../bin/65816: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08063b20 *** And it pukes out the BT too. I don't mind making requested edits and sharing this if it works, but it's gotta work first - I was hoping to not be the only soul brave enough to try this at home. Still smh @ Serlis :)

Not that I want to take ownership of the patch but "Serlis" bugs me so much that I wanted to edit and rebuild it. Has anyone successfully rebuilt the patch from source? I'm very familiar with *nix and building software from source (I'd better be, I do it for a living) and I'm getting a pretty specific and repeatable error I can share if anyone with technical aptitude and familiarity with the patch wants to see it. Seriously, Serlis ... ? :/