Solving Softlock

[Ethan Brooks]

Me and my friend are working on a fan game that's patched to FE8 on FEBuilder, but after the second map, (Chapter 1) The game softlocks before you go to the world map, any advice?

[TheArbiterK]

Sounds to me like you accidentally overwrote part of Chapter 2's events. Now I haven't used FEBuilder myself, so I'm assuming it handles events similarly to Event Assembler and Nightmare. (Ergo, everything I say here could end up not applying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) Anyway, that happens if you try to insert chapter events larger than that of the original chapter to the same offset. To fix it, you'd have to reinsert the original Chapter 2 events (disassemble them from a clean FE8 Rom), then find a blank offset (usually at the end of the Rom) to insert your custom Chapter 1's events to, then change the pointer to Chapter 1's events to that offset.

Hope that helps! but don't be too surprised if it doesn't.

[Ethan Brooks]

Anything 

44 minutes ago, TheArbiterK said:

Sounds to me like you accidentally overwrote part of Chapter 2's events. Now I haven't used FEBuilder myself, so I'm assuming it handles events similarly to Event Assembler and Nightmare. (Ergo, everything I say here could end up not applying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) Anyway, that happens if you try to insert chapter events larger than that of the original chapter to the same offset. To fix it, you'd have to reinsert the original Chapter 2 events (disassemble them from a clean FE8 Rom), then find a blank offset (usually at the end of the Rom) to insert your custom Chapter 1's events to, then change the pointer to Chapter 1's events to that offset.

Hope that helps! but don't be too surprised if it doesn't.

Anything is appreciated, thanks a lot. :)

Edited April 29, 2018 by Ethan Brooks