Drift2blades Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I am pretty new to this series as I have only played awakening. I have heard that the GBA games are good as well as FE4. So how should I play the older games? Especially the ones that were only released in Japan. Do i need to use an emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radiant head Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 (edited) GBA games can be played on emulator. FE6 in particular was not localized, so you can find a patch that translates the game to English. Though I personally think FE7, which was localized, is more beginner friendly, and technically it's chronologically set before 6. So you can play that one first. Just FYI, talking about ROMs is forbidden on these forums, so you'll have to figure that out yourself. Edited September 20, 2015 by Radiant head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex95 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 If you are unable to find a Japanese system for the titles (kudos if you can), then yes, emulators are an option. I am not going to link them for obvious reasons, but there are translation patches on the corresponding pages on the main site. Finding the emulators and roms are up to you, but they are fairly easy to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantairu Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 For the most part, I do have to resort to emulators for my FE1-6 playthroughs, but to try something different, I actually do have a repro of FE5, so there's that route. This is where I got it from: http://www.ocdreproductions.com/ The only downside, of course, is that these are way too expensive most of the time and if a new patch that fixes tons of stuff comes out for a game, especially FE4 and 5, you're stuck with the worse version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drift2blades Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 Thanks guys! Do you think it's ok to use emulators for games that aren't for sale anymore/ were only released overseas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drift2blades Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 For the most part, I do have to resort to emulators for my FE1-6 playthroughs, but to try something different, I actually do have a repro of FE5, so there's that route. This is where I got it from: http://www.ocdreproductions.com/ The only downside, of course, is that these are way too expensive most of the time and if a new patch that fixes tons of stuff comes out for a game, especially FE4 and 5, you're stuck with the worse version. Yeah, I'm sure they would be pretty expensive to ship as well.. How did you get 7+? Did you have to buy the hardcopies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantoorfarina Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Blazing Sword and Sacred Stones are on the Wii U Eshop, if you have a Wii U. They're cheap, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Geek Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 If you have a Wii U, you can play FE7 and 8 as they're on the e-shop. Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are really hard to come by and the emulator for GameCube and Wii can have some problems. I've seen Shadow Dragon still circulating around in used game shops for ~45 USD For FE 1-6 and 12, unless you know Japanese and have the money to get the Japanese systems, you pretty much have to use emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naglfar94 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 pretty much what everyone else said emulators I use an emulator to play them all. But I also played FE4 and FE3 on the actual console I managed to find a Super Famicom from ebay and both FE games. So if you want you could import them. However a super famicom cost quite a bit.. Mmm and not so much the games.. But Thracia 776 argh why!? the prices they are so high is thracia really all that special? but yeah anything but Thracia are pretty easy to obtain physically. Someday thracia I will get my hands on you one of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiYogurt Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 For FE 1-6 I'm using emulators with a PS3 controller, since it's bluetooth and is the closest thing to a SNES controller without actually being one of those off brand controllers marketed towards emulation. I actually own FE3 complete in box since it was so cheap but I can't understand anything obviously when I put it in my SNES.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Geek Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I also managed to get my hands on a physical copy of FE1, but I don't have a system to play it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llee1000 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The only FE games I played on an actual console are FE:13 and FE:11. Emulation is probably the best way to play many of the FE games. 1-6 and 12 because Japan and 9-10 because they're hard to find. FE:7 and 8 are both on the wii u eshop for around $7-12. But I don't have a wii u, so why pay $300 for a console that I'll rarely use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Jam Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I feel a moral obligation to discourage the use of emulators in playing FE7, 8, or 13, since the first two are readily (and cheaply) available on the Virtual Console, and the third is available on the 3DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radiant head Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Is it even possible to play 13 on an emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimeanRoyalKnight Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I see many people emulate PoR and RD without problems around forums and such. As long as you have a powerful pc, you should be okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitchy Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I homebrewed my Wii and got a NES, SNES, GBA, and DS emulator on it so I could play 2, 4-6 and 12 so if you have a Wii and you know how to do that and you're okay with using ROMs and your computer is too slow, that's definitely an option. Plus you get to use a GameCube controller. That's pretty much what I did. A computer is fine too if it can run those things. FE7-11 came out here and 7 and 8 (and in Europe, 11) are on the eshop. But good luck on finding the others, especially 9 and 10. I wouldn't bother with 1 and 3, they have remakes (11 and 12), and you could try Gaiden too, but I didn't like it ver much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiYogurt Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 The only FE games I played on an actual console are FE:13 and FE:11. Emulation is probably the best way to play many of the FE games. 1-6 and 12 because Japan and 9-10 because they're hard to find. FE:7 and 8 are both on the wii u eshop for around $7-12. But I don't have a wii u, so why pay $300 for a console that I'll rarely use? You could actually buy the consoles and play the games out for it? I don't get why people are like "HURR DURR Imma NEVER play games on dis" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gringe Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 If you go to Japan, FE1-4 are extremely cheap and easy to find in retro game shops. I got FE4 in the box with the manual for about $10. Not that I'm saying you should go to Japan just to pick up some FE games... but just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llee1000 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 You could actually buy the consoles and play the games out for it? I don't get why people are like "HURR DURR Imma NEVER play games on dis" None of the Wii u games really interest me. I read about a lot of them and none of them seem like a console seller to me. I already have Smash on 3ds, so I have no purpose to buy the Wii u version I don't really enjoy platformers, so that eliminates most of the Wii u games. Spaltoon doesn't interest me either because I don't like shooters. Mario Maker isn't really the game for me because I most likely get bored of it after a while. For me, buying a Wii u would not be a great investment because most of the games out there don't interesting, or I have a variation of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jave Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 If you have an American SNES, you can buy FE3/4/5 on eBay and play them there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Geek Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 If you have an American SNES, you can buy FE3/4/5 on eBay and play them there. I thought that the cartridge slot for SNES and SFAC were different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jave Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I thought that the cartridge slot for SNES and SFAC were different. How to Play Super Famicom games on an American SNES Despite popular belief, the SNES is not region locked between America and Japan. (Euro SNES is a different thing because PAL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Jam Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 None of the Wii u games really interest me. I read about a lot of them and none of them seem like a console seller to me. For what it's worth, Earthbound was the console seller for me. Even if you use the Wii U for nothing except Virtual Console games, it might still be worth it if you think enough of those games are worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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