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[Mage Girl]

This is my main hacking project. I've been working on it for over a year now (I know for a fact because my first backup is from March of 2008) and it's coming along nicely.

Anywho, to get on with actual details... This game takes place in a new world, a continent called Velrosa. Velrosa has four large kingdoms, which are the backbone of the continent's political state. These kingdoms are Bayern, Grangenhoff, Adare, and Qwartz. The continent was in a peaceful state for 25 years, however that all changes when the castle of Bayern is attacked!

Princess Brenna, the elder of two princesses of Bayern, is told to flee and search for her younger sister, Bellona, who was out on a journey at the time of the attack. This is where the story starts off in game.

The demo will consist of the Prologue through to Chapter 8.

Changes made for this hack:
- Paladins have been given the full weapon triangle once again.
- A new class called Sword Knight, a cavalier with only swords, has been added and will be one of only few classes with a branching promotion.
- The Soldier class will be promotable, as I've included a playable soldier.
- I've removed the monsters because they don't belong in the story. I'm using some of the slots for new classes and places to insert new battle animations.
- Trainee classes have been removed due to the fact that I don't see myself utilizing them.
- Difficulty increased, although not going to be a death hack, just going to up the difficulty enough so the final chapter won't be a disappointment.
- Affinity has been replaced with "bloodline". Bloodlines not only affect support bonuses, but also give characters special skills.

Current Progress:
Updated as of August 29, 2009
Virtually complete up to Chapter 8.
First demo released!

Some screens for your viewing pleasure:





(Note: I've taken WAY more screens, but I don't want to spam the page with millions of screens. XD)

Current Demo: Gorilla Gadek SG Demo 0.1.0

[Kingultra]

SO EPIC

Im only making a newb hack

:DDDD

[Dath]

Very nice so far. However, the Bellona sprite doesn't look like a female sprite, very much.

[Seraphinox]

Is that new maps I see? Epic.

Looks great so far.

Sure the fighters and brigands are cruel but no need to call them Monster...

[Blazing_Soul]

I just noticed that funny.......

@Dath she's just a slightly edited Ross animation.

[Mage Girl]

Big news involving the project... The first demo is ready and I'm releasing it today! I'm editing the link into the first post, and you'll be able to download it through there.

A few notes:
The world map story text has not been touched, please skip those segments.
Generic enemy names/descriptions have not been touched, so when you see enemies being called "monster," that's why.
The only tested difficulty is Normal, so please play that.

After you play through the demo, please let me know which Lord you want the next demo to follow. The next demo will follow either Brenna or Bellona, the decision will be largely based off that the players of the demo think. (Attached a poll for convenience.)

So please download and play! And I hope you all enjoy! ^.^

Edit: Too excited about releasing the demo that I forgot to mention... The Ross edit which is Bellona's current battle animation is only temporary. I'm likely going to replace it before the final version. Same goes for Brenna's recolor of Eirika's sprite (no screen is up currently, but if you play the demo, you'll see that her battle sprite is a recolor of Eirika's.)

[Seraphinox]

Downloaded it and playing it now.

I literally LOL'd at the description of Ch.1 Boss.

I'll probably finish it tomorrow though, gtg soon

[Oblivion Knight]

A demo patch? Hurray! *downloads and starts playing*
I'll bug test for you. Just in case.

[Fire Blazer]

lol. My 2nd favorite FE8 hack. I'm pretty sure I have complimented this somewhere else so I'm not going to do it again. I can't wait to play the demo, the gradients you implemented look really good (not all gradients look good all the time, of course).

You should update the topic's description. Oh, and if you don't mind, I would like to add this hack to the Patch Directory and eventually the mainsite, but only with your permission. If there are any details you care for, just ask. It would be an honor to share your hack with others.

[Mage Girl]

You complimented it at FEU. I remember because that's the only other Fire Emblem forum I'm at.

As for the description... I was going to update it, but apparently I don't have the permissions to do so. XD

Anywho, feel free to add this to the patch directory and you can add it to the site too. All I ask is that people are aware that it's my work. But that shouldn't be too hard since I already have my screenname right on the title screen. XD

[Blazing_Soul]

I noticed chapter 3 wasn't too bad just having to go up and down the long way. Not bad so far. A Dragon Knight on chapter 4 thank goodness, you have a thing for mounted units though I'm the complete opposite.

[boney]

There's a patch? How'd I not notice?? *downloads*
I already said this, but I wanna say it again. AWSM job on the
menu screen.

[Kingultra]

Im on ch 5x now. Its a great Hack, though for some reason i hear a ticking noise in battle

best FE hack ive ever played(its the only one i ever played )
gj

[badkiara]

I downloaded it and played it through fast a bit (like 2 chapters) and I see you have changed the maps but still it is the same a bit. It is better of course

Gonna check out the text and gonna play through it slowly when I have time Stupid homework

I can play through it now a bit but I would try to speed up since I have less time

But really, it looks good

[Fire Blazer]

You can't edit the topic description? Surely not my doing, I'm not a fan of dumb/small safety precautions like that. *puts it on list of things to fix*

That being said I feel like I'm not contributing anything else to this thread, a quick suggestion, a custom sprite for Bellona would be nice, and if you host images on a photobucket you could always just link to your photobucket gallery if others want to see your other images (from the screenshots that you displayed on the 1st post you don't even know that custom maps exist unless you've seen the other ones on FEU, like me...)

Honestly once I beat FE10, I will rampage through this and be sure to note anything that needs fixing. Until then I will just constantly tell you how I will play it and how I haven't actually gotten to it. lulz.

[Mage Girl]

Yes, I'm definitely going to be doing a custom battle animation for Bellona; I'm also going to do the same for Brenna. Although Brenna's design will still be fairly similar to Eirika's because I already made Brenna's promoted battle animation.

As for the screenshots... Yeah, I know I didn't do the best job at showing many screens, perhaps I was a little TOO conservative when I limited the screens I posted. XD

[Fire Blazer]

Custom battle animation > no CBA, newer screens that show more aspects of the hack > older screens and whatnot.

I didn't need to tell you that though. lol. *downloads*

[badkiara]

I played it a bit and....

Battle sprite of Bryndis looks very ugly, might want to look into that.

and Valeri has like 2 light blue pixels in her face XD might want to fix that.

No problems with the cavs and paladin..

I think you said it but I am gonna say it anyway, the world map with text bla bla you know about the story a bit miss a few sprites.

Also... WAY too much girls. Is this like girls only in the game?

The mage has a pretty nice battle sprite and so does the myrmidon.

[Mage Girl]

Yes, I know Bryndis' palette for her battle sprite is wonky. Been meaning to fix it but haven't gotten around to it.

As for the light blue in Valeri's face, guess I had a few issues importing her portrait. I did that one the old way, so any stray colors were likely caused by errors recoloring the sprite to fit the palette I was using in TLP. I should have an easy time fixing that, however.

And yes, there's a female heavy cast. Neglected to mention that in the first post of the topic. XD I wanted to reverse the usual balance of male characters to female characters... If you don't like the female heavy cast, I'm sorry.

[Holy Kensai]

Yeah, I got to Chapter 3 before I gave up. No offense, but the heavy female cast really turned me off. Females just aren't warriors. A rare few, but not many. It makes the game too unrealistic for me.