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Hey everyone, I wanted to load up a GBA emulator on my work Mac, so I can play some FE during my lunch breaks. (I have a DS at home, but I don't want to bring that into the office day in and day out). Was looking around but couldn't figure out what a good GBA emulator for Mac is. I downloaded a version of VisualBoy, but it was defunct. (It may have been an older version, but I couldn't find anything more recent in a quick search). Anybody have any suggestions, links? Thanks!

*Spoilers, obviously* So just started Part 2, Black Eagles, supporting Edelgard. Didn't recruit anyone except Sylvain and teachers. I just ran into combat against some Golden Deer and took them out and got the classic FE death sound and slow-mo scene. I immediately felt bad... So, is there a way to recruit former students as enemies, or will I just have blood on my hands from here on out?

Don't know if someone has done this already, but I dove back a couple pages and didn't see it: Since feathers are a major limiting factor in upgrades and the jump from 4* to 5* takes a ton, I went through the drop list to iron out which 4* you should upgrade vs. which ones you shouldn't because they have a natural 5* drop. I'd recommend not spending the feathers to upgrade these folks from 4* to 5*: Red: Ogma, Cain, Corrin (male), Chrom, Caeda, Marth, Roy, Tiki, Tharja, Lilina Blue: Abel, Effie, Catria, Peri, Nowi Green: Camilla, Sheena, Hawkeye, Raven, Fae, Merric Grey: Jeorge, Kagero, Jakob, Sakura, Maria Any other 4* that drops doesn't have a higher version (such as Eliwood or Azama, for example), so I would make those a priority to take up to 5* if you have the feathers. All of those "other" 4* do also have a 3* version so don't bother updating a 3* to a 4* unless you love them and want them boosted ASAP. If you can wait for drops, wait for drops.

There's actually a science to this. Because some characters come in multiple star levels, you'd be (potentially) wasting a ton of feathers since the upgrade from 4* to 5* is huge. Here's the list of 4* that have their own natural 5* Red: Ogma, Cain, Corrin (male), Chrom, Caeda, Marth, Roy, Tiki, Tharja, Lilina Blue: Abel, Effie, Catria, Peri, Nowi Green: Camilla, Sheena, Hawkeye, Raven, Fae, Merric Grey: Jeorge, Kagero, Jakob, Sakura, Maria Anyone that comes out as a 3* also has a 4* version. So you can either upgrade from 3* to 4* then 4* to 5*, or just wait for 4* then go direct. Based on your list, I'd take either Setsuna or Matthew up to 20 then upgrade them to 5*, since neither of those has a natural 5* you may full in the future.

Are all of them Level 40? If not, I'd suggest taking them all to 40 (pain, I know), because one may come out with better stats than the others. Then I'd merge them. The feather gain for a 5* is way too low. Or maybe save one of them, in case there is some period in the future where having two Tikis might be beneficial for a mission.

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Don't use Sothe. His stats transfer directly from PoR to RD. In most cases, you'll get a Sothe that is actually weaker than if you don't transfer his Lvl 20 stats. Here's my list of characters I think you'll get a lot of our by transferring: Jill (she can use the Str and Def early in Dawn Brigade if you can cap them) Marcia (the +2 Spd will help her double more enemies in 2-E) Oscar and Mia (if you can cap their strength they'll be more useful throughout Chapter 3) Zihark (He needs the Str desperately and the Spd can't hurt either) Nephenee doesn't really need the transfers to be awesome, but they can't hurt. And while Makalov has crappy availability like all of the other Crimean Knights, if you can cap his speed he can double up some enemies in Chapter 2 and be decent instead of generally worthless. Ilyana has great availability in RD but she's not likely to cap what she really needs (Speed) and she's going to the Greil Mercenaries who have better units to use instead of her. Mages generally don't hold up so well in Endgame either. Here's a list of people I wouldn't bother with in PoR because of stats or availability: Titania (good enough without), Shinon (unlikely to cap, good enough), Haar (unlikely to cap, freakin powerhouse without) Kieran, Astrid, Geoffrey, Volke, Lucia, Bastian, Calill, Tormod, Stefan (bad availability)

I did an all girls Endgame in my most recent play and I'm doing Dawn Brigade only endgame this time through. What I've run into with Fiona and Meg is this: 1) As stated, they just take so much extra babying because the Daeins get the shaft on XP. 2) Meg's growths are very un-knight like, but sometimes she turns out OK at best. Her speed may get up there and she has good resistance for an armor unit, but never gets the strength or defense you want. 3) Fiona on the other hand can become very tanky. She easily maxed her Def and Res for me and had OK speed. But her strength and skill are horrible so she misses alot and hits for crap unless you forge for her. She was good for blocking up narrow passages but other than they not much. With Imbue, she's tough to kill if you can build her, but she's typically not worth it.

For me its every Knight/General. I just can't hold myself up waiting for their lumbering, non-DAing butts to get across the map. The only one I could tolerate using was Horace in Shadow Dragon when I was doing a pre-promote only run because frankly I needed the characters. But I'm pretty sure after a couple levels I abandoned his lance skill and turned him into a Hero anyway.

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I voted yes, since I used it my first time around only for a Elysian Whip for Caeda, since I couldn't see making her anything other than a Falcoknight. This time around I scored a couple extra Master Seals early, since I'm playing an all-female (and Marth) cast, so I wanted to get them promoted early (Chap 14) so I'm not carrying around a bunch of people at lvl. 20 just waiting for a seal. Lena was waiting for one, Maria is fast approaching 20 and I figure I'll top out both Palla and Catria soon enough and need seals for both. I don't want to be waiting around all game for them to promote. But I've never used it for weapons or other items - just for promotion items.