PRDX4 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) Hello! Recently, I became interested in trying out some PoR hacking. As you probably know, in most Fire Emblem games, weapons that are effective against certain enemy types have their weapon might tripled, with a few strange exceptions: FE4, which has a strange method of guaranteeing a critical rather than simply multiplying the weapon's might. FE7, which just doubles the weapon might, but ONLY in the International version. In Japan, FE7 had the standard triple effectiveness, and some would argue that this change is actually pretty significant. FE9, which doubles the weapon might in all regions. This is a strange choice, and it seems IS decided against continuing the pattern because FE10 immediately returned to triple effectiveness. Since I felt that hacking FE7 to change the multiplier improved the experience, I became curious if modding FE9 would have a similar effect. But, apparently, no one had ever tried doing that before. Until now! Here is the Gecko code to change the multiplier: 3x Weapon Effectiveness Multiplier 041A9084 1C000003 After testing, I'm 99.9% sure that this only affects the weapon effectiveness calculation, but I'm not sure what the ramifications are as far as weapon balance is concerned. However, I did notice as early as Chapter 4 that certain benchmarks became easier to cross with the new multiplier. For example, Maijin, the boss, has 32 HP and 11 DEF. For a Level 7 Ike with average STR (8/9), Ike does 9/10 x 2 = 18/20 damage to him on a single round. Spoiler However, with the increased multiplier, Ike now does 15/16 x 2 = 30/32 damage in a single round, taking a rather meh 57—63% damage to a hefty 94% damage or a 2HKO! Spoiler So, I hope someone finds this and enjoys it! Edited March 25, 2023 by PRDX4 Forgot a link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRDX4 Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 After some more digging, I've also created codes for the PAL and NTSC-J versions. Please enjoy! Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (PAL) 041AB4CC 1C000003 Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki (Japan) 041A6E14 1C000003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREEPISTOLS Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Really nice work. I might actually use this whenever I do another maniac mode run. Hopefully it's more interesting with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyOrgan Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Has anyone played through the game with this? I tried it on an early maniac map and it turned knights into butter. Any info on how it effects the balance of the whole game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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