FE Shadow Dragon Gaiden Requirements Removal Patch

[Robert Stewart]

IMPORTANT EDIT: Apparently, Ymir doesn't have any movement if recruited through this patch. Oops.

So, this has been a long time coming.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2316/

This is a patch that removes the unit limits for getting into Chapters 6x, 12x, 17x, and 20x of Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon.

This patch was made using a US FESD ROM, so apply it to that.

Enjoy.

Edit: It seems that some people are having some difficulty applying the patch to US ROMs. Disabling any checksum verifications should fix the issue.

Edited January 17, 2016 by shinpichu

[Topaz Light]

Thank you

now if only I could apply this to an actual cart of the game

[fengaridotdll]

Yay two Falchions

Headcanon confirmed!

[Celice]

Thanks for sharing this!

[Starman]

Shin, my fellow AMERICAN brother

thank you so much for this

You're doing gods work

now only if my laptop didn't suck for DS emulators ;w;

[Robert Stewart]

Thanks for sharing this!

No problem! My only regret is that I wish I could have made this into an AR code instead.

[RJWalker]

Thank you based god.

[Jedi]

Best patch ever.

[Jacoban]

Thank you SO much for this.

Does this mean those gaidens are automatic now, or..?

Edited January 16, 2015 by Jacoban

[Jedi]

Thank you SO much for this.

Does this mean those gaidens are automatic now, or..?

By the sounds of it, yes.

[Robert Stewart]

Thank you SO much for this.

Does this mean those gaidens are automatic now, or..?

All the gaidens except for 24x can now be gotten automatically, yes.

Best patch ever.

it couldn't possibly be better than Ostian Princess, could it?

Edited January 16, 2015 by shinpichu

[sirmola]

Could you also make the prolog accessible in hard mode?

[Robert Stewart]

no promises

[Crazy Li]

If only this was a thing when I played Shadow Dragon >.>

Still now I absolutely HAVE to replay the game with this patch... and play it like a regular FE rather than having to kill all my units off to get into Gaiden chapters >.<

[weso12]

Now if you could remove the sacrifice in the prolouge and make norne join with a blood sacrifice, I'd worship you as a god (though I realize that would probably be difficult because it screws with unit positioning on the maps before the preparation screen)

Edited January 30, 2015 by weso12

[Robert Stewart]

While I may look in to the Norne thing, I will never remove the sacrifice in the Prologue. I think it's too important from a narrative point of view. Sorry.

[fengaridotdll]

If I get around to playing Shadow Dragon, I'm so using this patch

I'll select Jagen as the sacrifice pretty much as a spite for him being an EXP sponge

[ThunderRoad5]

Anybody else having trouble patching with this? I've never used xdelta but I tried several UIs and read a handful of tutorials but nothing is working. A couple times I got an indication that the ROM may be incorrect but I'm using a working U.S. one from a usual source so I don't see why that would be the problem.

Any ideas?

(Thanks for the patch shinpichu, this should make my first SD play through more enjoyable by far.)

[Robert Stewart]

could you be more specific with what the issue is?

[ThunderRoad5]

Sure! I've seen this type of message a few times:

An error has occurred: xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT

That is from the "Delta Patcher" UI.

Actually I just tried unchecking the "checksum validation" box and I wonder if it worked. It says that the patch was applied successfully and the new file was created.

[Robert Stewart]

I don't know; try it and see if it works.

How big is the Shadow Dragon ROM you have?

[Peter The Cool]

Thank you so much.

[MCProductions]

Question: So long as credit is given, can I or any other potential hackers use this patch as part of their hacks.

(I doubt any hacking I do in SD will go anywhere TBH, but if I find I like hacking SD more it would be nice to know if this is open source)

[Robert Stewart]

Sure, I guess.

There's not much about it to make open source, lol. Just changed 4 bytes is all.

[MCProductions]

Sure, I guess.

There's not much about it to make open source, lol. Just changed 4 bytes is all.

Thanks. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to hacking so the less there is for me to screw up the better.

seriously, don't ask how my first attempt at hacking FE7 went, the image of what happened to the prolouge is SERIOUS creepypasta material