It’s recommended to use VBA (or the Delta emulator), as other emulators (MGBA) seems to carry the most bugs in the game.
Fire Emblem Sealed Hope is a FE8 Rom Hack that was worked on as a hobby, and has been in development for years. It takes ideas from various Fire Emblem titles while balancing itself in it’s own way. Difficulty comparison-wise, Normal is similar to FE7 difficulty, while Hard is similar to FE6.
Story:
Llyr is the tactician of the Cipher Mercenaries, a small group of mercenaries that has accumulated fame over the years. After a successful job, he meets with his best friend, King Mao of Jrablibe who in search of his missing father, Aurlen. He believes his father’s disappearance is related to a object known as the Fire Emblem, and requests Llyr restore it to find further clues to his father.
Unknowingly to Llyr, his mission would only become a stepping stone into finding out the true meaning behind the world, and his life.
Features:
- 20+ Chapters
- 30+ Characters
- Durability system equivalent to Fates & Echoes (Infinite Durability but higher Gold cost)
- Hint system similar to Hannah/Nils Fortune reading in FE7.
- Support range has been increased, and thresholds for supports have been decreased to make it faster to obtain supports.
- Supports are limited by Rank rather than number of Supports. You can have multiple B Supports, but only one A Support.
- Building A Supports (or unique supports) grants Bond Essence that grant +1 to all stats. Certain A Supports grant skills based around relationships.
- Units have a Personal skill, a Movement skill, and a Promoted skill. (Ex: Lv5 Mercs get Shove, Lv5 Heroes get Swordfaire.)
- Holdable items that grant Stat bonuses.
- Secret Items/Events that grant rewards (Difficulty is considered without these specific rewards)
- All recruitable character’s are either recruitable with Game Over condition units (Story important characters), or can be recruited by three other units.
- Small Post-game with various stories.
- Quality of Life patches applied such as visual growths, animation numbers, and more.
- Music not in original FE8 (taken from the Fire Emblem Repository)
- Steve.
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Most of the files you're about to download need to be applied to your game. Here is a list of utilities that allow you to do this:
- Online Patcher: Marc Roblero's online patcher. Works with many different file types.
- Floating IPS: NWell-known patcher for applying IPS and BPS files.
- Delta Patcher: Used to apply xDelta files.
- More Patchers
On most files, you can also press “Patch It”, to apply the patch without downloading the file.