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I've played up to chapter 9, and see no difference whatsoever so far, (exept that aria kept attacking my bait instead of heading back to genoa after it got captured, but i asked around and apparently this happens on normal difficulty as well.)

Try runing it them on coppiers and inacurate emulaters, as these kinds of routeiens often check system specs that are the same on every real console. Also try moding and corrupting the game to try to get it to fail any internal checksums, like happened to the op (modding/skiping the oppening developer splash screens was something pirates did a lot, so try that).

I wonder if fe4 has any other antipiracy, like earthbound does.

To use a .srm, rename it to the rom name (exept for the extension, which stays .srm) and put it in snes9x's "saves" folder (which is in snex9x's main folder). Then boot the game normaly. I have one that i have been using for the same purpose if you need it. (at the beginning of chapter 9 and have noticed no difference whatsoever) However, note that doing this will overwrite all saved games. (not savestates but those will not have hard ai unlocked.) THe only way to unlock hard ai on an existing savefile is to complete another save on the same cartradge (although i havn't tried that for sure), or using a cheatcode, which you could find using a process caled a cheat search.

From what i understand. this is less of an update and more of laying the groundwork for a more complete patch when the text injection tool is complete. From what i understand, Shaya's patch has some very hard to fix errors (like the hero freezing), which is why it is not used. All of the confusing names have been fixed, so that is not an issue.

This being america, you can sue him for "emotional distress" and get a truly hilarious amount of money. (assuming you can find him).

To be precise, nana, delmud. sety, altena, celice, ishtar, blume and all unused characters except for femina use their fe4 portrates, and eriyos uses the battle screenshot described above.

You could always use maps from a map pack (prime has one for instance)

Yeah, these aren't the DS dragon quest games. I would only consider palindromes, alliteration, ect, to be intentional if there were more than one of them.

That's true, but he meant one that fixes things like awkward phrasing, mistranslations, characters with odd names but no official ones, and the ending freeze, none of which the gharnef patch fixes.

Also, Are eithe of those playthroughs AAAA? I want to see the special ending scene, but am not that good.

Not i, said the man whose romhack time has been consumed trying to play as much of skyrim as possible before the summer ends.

I should note that the latest version will be really hard to find preapplied, because you will usualy find the old translation. Just use nups. It will automaticaly check to make sure that you are using the right rom. All you need to do is select the patche and an unmodified fe6 rom. Simple.

fEditor's autopatch (which moves lots of data around) probably got confused by your edits. try using hxd's (or another hex editer's) file compare against a vanila rom to find all free space used by the autopatch, and make sure that you have not used any of this space yourself. If that falis, try opening various versions of the patch in fEditor to see which of them does this.

Brigid/ dew, for example, can only grow 350 in one chapeter, and you they start with 50 (you need 500 to fall in love). Just build love points in chapter 5. Kill all the enemeies but do not sieze the first castle. This should give you a good 40 or so turns.

I use hxd. It has lots of usefull features like the ability to have two files open side by side, and search for all differences. It can also calculate checksums, (which is extremely useful for checking if you have the right rom), and show the data as text in the format of your choice(the interfce in general is highly customisable. Note that it is intended for general hex editing, not just romhacking, so some tools might not be specific enough for your taste(no corruption or header adding here, although seperate tools exist for those), and some, like file shredding, aren't relevant. It is free though, so no disadvantage in trying it..

What about "Fixed", as in "BindShldfixed!"?

Dragon quest 5 is actualy really good. I know the story of every dragon quest game except for 8, and 5's is best hands down. the ds version is much better imo, and the translation alone is excellent and worth the price of admission(the snss and ps2 fan translations are okay). Also, you've probably played crono trigger, but do so if you havn't already. The ds version is probably slightly better.

I figured that it wasn't 100 percent accurate, but was under the impression that the effect was off. Now i got it.

Honestly, very few official nes games have good translations (the only one that comes to mind is river city ransom, although i like the ff2 prototype because so bad it's good is tecnecaly a kind of good, especialy with lines like "the rebellions stood up"), so an iffy translation fits right in. The silvia scene is not a mistranslation? shows what i know about a language i can't actualy speak.

And you say this in the post immediately below one by the guy who translated fe1? Nice. As for mistranslations, lex calling azel a "player" might add character, but what he actually says means more like "cute" in japanese. See also, the scene where silvia is implied to flash sigurd, and levin stating that "my shrink has been busy lattley". Also, doing really obscure stuff like talking to the guard in the valley directly north of evins in chaper 2 before he becomes hostile results in garbage text.

Why would that doom the world. Even if you assume one of theirkids would have magor lopt (which i dont), julia knows how the lopt tome works (she says so at the begining of chapter 10), so she would dispose of it rather then let her kid ever touch it.

From what i read, The rings have the correct effect, but the animation does not play properly.

Fair warning: from what i understand, in battle fransformation is broken in fe7, and really hard to fix, so you might have to have dragons start battles as their transformed forms instead of transforming on screen. (zephiel's sprite is apparently also broken, but an easy fix exists here: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=47197 ). Also, what about going the fe1/3/12 path and giving fa inferior dragonstones for usage saving purposes?

Honestly, the only important notes that are missing in that thread are The fact that scrolls give you crit immunity as welll as a growth boost, THe fact that anyone left on an escape map after lief leaves will be captured and only rerecrutable in chapter 21x(although you have to do it once if you want to get that chapter), and the fact that attempting to muscle through this game with only one or two characters is a hillariously bad idea. Also, to quote this site's secrets page, which is linked in the other thread, and you should really visit: