Hipsterbanana Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 I have been playing Blazing sword I am currently on Chapter 26 when I noticed that my Heath (who I never used) is now a Nomadic Trooper! He still can only use lances but his map sprite is now a Nomadic Trooper and he doesn't have a battle animation now. I don't use hacks or anything with it and it has never happened to me before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darros Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Is it on cartridge or emulator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipsterbanana Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Cartridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just call me AL Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Makes me wonder if the data in any cartridge can go corrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipsterbanana Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 I got it when the game first came out so I wouldn't surprise me especially the amount of play I have given it though the years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 (edited) Most likely, it's a single bit of corruption. Since I no longer have access to Nightmare, perhaps someone could look up the class code for Nomadic Trooper and Wyvern Rider, it wouldn't surprise me if there's only a bit between them. I have heard of similar things happening before. Someone found in their game putting certain items (read as: Half of the available items) into a certain place (might have been someone's inventory, might have been in the convoy) would mutate it, as a single bit changing. A little analysis revealed he could change something cheap into something valuable, if he so desired :P. Edited September 11, 2011 by Tableskitty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconVegeta1986 Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 (edited) Most likely, it's a single bit of corruption. Since I no longer have access to Nightmare, perhaps someone could look up the class code for Nomadic Trooper and Wyvern Rider, it wouldn't surprise me if there's only a bit between them. In the class editor, Nomadic Trooper Male is 0x30, and Wyvern Rider Male is 0x34, so all Nomad and Wyvern classes are pretty close. As for needing more detailed info than that, I wouldn't know. Sorry. EDIT: You should always have a copy of nightmare handy, even if you aren't a hacker. Edited September 11, 2011 by Kakarot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) Yeah, 30 and 34 are a bit apart, the 3rd least significant bit to be precise. Considering that, and the fact it would mean the bit is permanently off (as opposed to permanently on, which is unlikely) I'm reasonably confident to say that's the issue. If you don't mind a few more potentially 'interesting' happenings to your game, try seeing if the same thing happens to other characters if you put them into that slot (you probably don't know what the slot is - basically it's where Heath was in the character selection menu, so just select characters one by one from the end of the list). It's just this computer I don't have Nightmare :(. It's on my memory stick which strangely disappeared a few weeks ago. Edited September 12, 2011 by Tableskitty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipsterbanana Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Yeah, 30 and 34 are a bit apart, the 3rd least significant bit to be precise. Considering that, and the fact it would mean the bit is permanently off (as opposed to permanently on, which is unlikely) I'm reasonably confident to say that's the issue. If you don't mind a few more potentially 'interesting' happenings to your game, try seeing if the same thing happens to other characters if you put them into that slot (you probably don't know what the slot is - basically it's where Heath was in the character selection menu, so just select characters one by one from the end of the list). It's just this computer I don't have Nightmare :(. It's on my memory stick which strangely disappeared a few weeks ago. Ok, I might try that. What exactly is a "Nightmare"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Horace Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) Nightmare, in short is a hacking program designed for Fire Emblem that allows one to at the very least change growth rates and base stats, along with a ton of other stuff. Post below did a better job of explaining. It can be used to look up stuff like Karkarot did above. Woah new badge. Haven't seen this one anywhere before. Maybe they got shuffled. Edited September 12, 2011 by General_Horace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) Nightmare is a program used to edit ROMs of games - mostly NES, SNES, GBA and the like (I don't know exactly how restricted it is). It uses 'modules' which (in lay mans terms) let you edit the specific part of the game they're designed for. In Fire Emblem terms (which naturally is what people here are used to using it with), it's a program used to make most 'simple' edits you might think of, such as character growths, stats, weapon abilities etc. More technically, they're an interface which reads the hex of the code and shows it to you in the way the module is designed, e.g. interpreting 0x30 as 'Nomadic Trooper M' which as you edit, is fed back into the game code. Actually, that's still not very technical. But whatever Edited September 12, 2011 by Tableskitty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hipsterbanana Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Sounds neat I might have to look into that. Also, I going to try to class change heath and see what happens. He's level 7 right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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