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[EPISODE 2 HERE]Fire Emblem HACKING TUTORIAL/WORKSHOP SERIES


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  1. 1. Which tutorial would you like to see next in the workshop?

    • Event Writing (including unit loading, opening and closing cutscenes and various codes)
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    • Spriting (including splicing properly, palette editing and portrait insertion)
      8


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Hey guys, so I made this for my eager Fire Emblem friends over on facebook. I started hosting these 'hacking workshops' where we'd dip our toes into the veeery basic-est stuff. Anyway, the workshops were actually pretty successful and garnered a lot of interest in the idea of hacking. And a handful of people wanted a video version since they couldn't make it to the live workshop. This video is for them, but I figured that I mayswell post it here too since there's always new homies that could be interested in a good place to start :D

this episode introduces some newbies the following programs : NUPS, Nightmare, FEditor!!!

Click here for Episode 1!!! Make sure you subscribe!

Important sidenotes! (thanks eclipse!)

Nightmare

- Final character stats are base stats + class stats
- Classes do NOT give any Luck, so adjust this in the character's base stats
- Press Enter before saving any changes
- ROMs must be reloaded in emulator to view changes
- Navigate through long drop-downs using Page Up/Page Down

FEditor

- Do NOT have this open at the same time as Nightmare!
- Don't change 0813 and 0814; this will freeze the ROM
- After saving text, the editor will jump back to 0001
- Restarts are not necessary to view text edits

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Episode two! Eventing, Event Assembler, HxD

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Like I said, this is for my friends on facebook. Many of them aren't on Serenes and have never seen a tutorial/ intimidated by the UT's size.

jeez, i was actually going to not post this here because of the concern that even a tutorial would be met at least some adversity.

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Because its nothing new, it's all stuff that's very well documented and have 10 different tutorials for. I get it if you want to make one that's a video and for people not on an FE forum but then why post it on an FE forum? And it also skips over the opportunity to do a tutorial that's general and not FE specific like navigating a hex editor, RAM etc.

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Good lord Igor, if he wants to make a hacking tutorial video for his friends, I think he can.

He's not doing anything wrong, nor providing false information, and the only other video tutorial that exists as far as I know is Arch's(which was done like 3 or 4 years ago); I think an update is allowed.

Like you're complaining about literally nothing and you're confusing me.

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Because its nothing new, it's all stuff that's very well documented and have 10 different tutorials for. I get it if you want to make one that's a video and for people not on an FE forum but then why post it on an FE forum? And it also skips over the opportunity to do a tutorial that's general and not FE specific like navigating a hex editor, RAM etc.

ask me if i give a fuck Brendor. There are still people in the concepts thread, on this forum that post things like "I don't know how to hack/sprite etc."

Unlike you

believe it or not

a lot of people have a hard time and are averse to starting off this stuff learning about hex editing, RAM etc right off the bat. I was one of them and I didn't know where to start/ it took me a while to figure out where to start.

like if you don't find value in this thread then fine but don't try to act like i'm making a mistake or wasting my time, because there's more people in the same boat than you think.

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BB I ENJOY YOUR AMAZN VOICE <3

also I think this is really good for both people who are starting FE hacking and people who know a bit about it but not so much. Like some things didn't make much sense to me before, but I got it now haha

And even if there is the UT, this can be another option <3 As long as you keep doing it, imo it can be a really nice tutorial ^^

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Good lord Igor, if he wants to make a hacking tutorial video for his friends, I think he can.

He's not doing anything wrong, nor providing false information, and the only other video tutorial that exists as far as I know is Arch's(which was done like 3 or 4 years ago); I think an update is allowed.

Like you're complaining about literally nothing and you're confusing me.

BB I ENJOY YOUR AMAZN VOICE <3

also I think this is really good for both people who are starting FE hacking and people who know a bit about it but not so much. Like some things didn't make much sense to me before, but I got it now haha

And even if there is the UT, this can be another option <3 As long as you keep doing it, imo it can be a really nice tutorial ^^

:3 <3

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I actually never said that. I said branching out to nonFE things might be good.

oh please. that wasn't implied whatsoever. You explicitly were trying to dismiss the whole idea.

Because its nothing new, it's all stuff that's very well documented and have 10 different tutorials for. I get it if you want to make one that's a video and for people not on an FE forum but then why post it on an FE forum? And it also skips over the opportunity to do a tutorial that's general and not FE specific like navigating a hex editor, RAM etc.

none of this is any implication of "might be good"

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Brendor you have a habit of implying your way is the only way when it most definitely is not.

I like this idea, Ghast. I think it's important to be newbie friendly and the ultimate tutorial is a very daunting read. Having more learning options is always a good thing.

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Awesome tutorial, Ghast! I'm one of those people who prefer video to reading (Not that I'm lazy, just understand the process better when I SEE how it's done). I agree that the ultimate tutorial can look intimidating for newbies with the huge amount of info thrown at you and having no idea where to start. It's good to break it down to baby steps.

Keep up the good work! I look forward to more tutorial videos.

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I support anything that demystifies ROMhacking for the general community, and it helps it develop. Nicely done.

but the ultimate tutorial is a thing

Shockingly Brendor, not everyone learns the exact same way. In fact, it is an empirical fact of educational psychology. It's pretty counterproductive to just attempt to denigrate someone actually doing something that may actually help people.

Brendor you have a habit of implying your way is the only way when it most definitely is not.

That's a byproduct of his wanting to be Hextator Jr.

I actually never said that. I said branching out to nonFE things might be good.

Exhibit A.

It's clearly aimed toward people who want to tinker with Fire Emblem. If people want to branch out their interests, let them do so organically.

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Watched about half of it. This is a great primer for people who've never touched Nightmare (I'll assume the same for FEditor, but I don't have the patience to change text). Would it be possible to put the important points in your opening post (like pressing Enter before saving in Nightmare), and put a link to this topic on the video?

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Watched about half of it. This is a great primer for people who've never touched Nightmare (I'll assume the same for FEditor, but I don't have the patience to change text). Would it be possible to put the important points in your opening post (like pressing Enter before saving in Nightmare), and put a link to this topic on the video?

i'm not quite sure what you mean, sorry I've been like up for 30+ hours writing this take home exam hahahaha, could you elaborate on that last part?

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Uh, I'll try~!

1. List all the super-important sound bytes relevant to hacking. I'd be willing to compile this!

2. Put it in either the YouTube video description OR the first post of this topic.

3. If you chose to put it in the first post of this topic, put a link in the YouTube video description to this topic!

(now get some sleep!)

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haha if you insist! You can list those sound bytes and i can put it in OP and in the video description as well!

Thank you very much!

Also I can't sleep yet! I need to... write 3 more pages :0

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After much trial and tribulation (read: sorta-listening to the video while doing something else), here's the useful stuff that I grabbed:

Nightmare

- Final character stats are base stats + class stats

- Classes do NOT give any Luck, so adjust this in the character's base stats

- Press Enter before saving any changes

- ROMs must be reloaded in emulator to view changes

- Navigate through long drop-downs using Page Up/Page Down

FEditor

- Do NOT have this open at the same time as Nightmare!

- Don't change 0813 and 0814; this will freeze the ROM

- After saving text, the editor will jump back to 0001

- Restarts are not necessary to view text edits

Feel free to add/edit/delete things~!

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