#fire emblem hacking

[caliburnabsolute]

please play Souls of the Forest it's so good (and gay)

[melohax]

Introduction To Hacking A 3DS For The Complete Noob

How To Hack When You Have No Idea Wtf You’re Doing

Before We Start:

Hi guys, some of you might have known me before as fireemblemhax and read some of my old tutorials but I’m here with a new blog now.

I realized a bunch of my previous tutorials were honestly a bit too “advanced” for someone who’s completely new to 3DS hacking so this time around, I’m gonna try to cater my tutorials for complete newbies in mind. I’ll try to make hacking as accessible and unscary for you guys as I can.

With that said, some of the most frequently asked questions I’d get on hacking a 3DS were: Is it safe to do this? Can I break my 3DS by trying to hack it?

And to those questions, the short answer to both is: Depends

Now lemme explain why.

Is it safe to hack your 3DS? Depends on what method you choose to use.

Can you accidentally brick your 3DS through this? Yup but once more, depends on what methods you use. In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you the safest, virtually-impossible-to-screw-up way I know of.

Still, always try to read all possible information you can on hacking AND as a disclaimer, remember that I am not responsible if you happen to somehow brick your 3DS. It’s extremely unlikely this will happen as it’d honestly require almost willfully screwing things up but if it does somehow happen, I am not responsible for it.

I can still try to help you if you think you broke it though, cus sometimes something MIGHT look scary and broken but it’s in fact actually completely ok and unbroken (this happened to me when I first started hacking, I was 99% sure I’d broken my 3DS only to find out a few days later that everything was fine lol).

Also, always remember: Do NOT automatically upgrade your 3DS if you plan on hacking it! This guide was written with firmware 11.3 in mind, anything that might come after this might render all of the hacking methods described here completely useless. Always remember to check first online if it’s ok to upgrade your firmware before doing so.

OK, with all of the above out of the way, let’s get on with the guide. Everything under the cut:

So You Wanna Hack Your 3DS But Have No Idea Where To Start:

That’s ok, I gotcha. I was once a total noob too and though hacking your 3DS might seem scary at first, I promise you it’s not that hard. Just a kinda long and sometimes tedious process but otherwise, anyone can do it with just the right info and tools.

This tutorial might get long but I’ll try to cover as much info as I can for you to be able to fearlessly begin your hacking journey.

What Does Hacking Your 3DS Mean And Why Would You Want To Do It?

Hacking your 3DS basically means modding your 3DS and 3DS games by using various tools and exploits. Think of it as a Powersave but completely integrated into your 3DS.

You can get everything you’d get from a Powersave for free on almost any game by hacking your 3DS but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. A hacked 3DS can give you access to even cooler stuff when used alongside the right tools. This is where it goes way beyond what a Powersave could provide for you.

Like for example, let’s say you’re annoyed that games like Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates have mostly nothing but Hetero romance options for your characters. With a hacked 3DS, you can easily fix this by using UV’s famous Same-Sex Marriage Hack for instance, which would then give you a ton of support options with no gender restrictions as well as a bunch of new, custom support conversation.

Or maybe you’re playing Animal Crossing but are having a frustrating time getting your Dreamies to move into your town or hate having to wait around for villagers to suggest Public Works? In that case, you can just get yourself ACNL’s Save Editor and get to editing any part of the game you want to make building your dream town a less tedious process.

Maybe you play pokemon and would love to edit your pokemon’s models and textures to look cuter/cooler/prettier/whatever? Then getting Ohana3DS would help you.

So I think you can see the various reasons one might want to get to hacking their 3DS and 3DS games.

Getting Started: A Brief Summary Of Homebrew.

In order to get started though, you need to understand a few things first.

To be able to mod your games and get access to hacks, you need to get Homebrew.

What is Homebrew? Homebrew is unofficial software made by amateur developers for closed systems such as the 3DS and PSVita. Homebrew is the software necessary for practically all sort of hacking to work so you need to be able to run it on your 3DS.

To be able to access homebrew on your console, you need what is known as an entrypoint. An entrypoint is a modded game or app that will act as a “door” between your 3DS and Homebrew. Some examples are:

Pressing A on a modded Ocarina of Time save will take you directly to the Homebrew Channel.  

Putting a certain modded sound file in your 3DS’s SD card gives you access to Homebrew through the 3DS’s stock sound application.

Putting a modded file in your your 3DS’s SD card gives you access to Homebrew through the game Freakyforms Deluxe.

A bunch of other entrypoints are listed on the official 3DS Homebrew Launcher website

Before You Choose An Entrypoint:

Before trying to get Homebrew, you need to know three very important things: whether you have an Old or New 3DS, your region and what firmware your system is currently on. These 3 things will determine which Homebrew entrypoints you can use as not all of them work on all system versions.

To check whether your 3DS is Old or New: Easy enough, just compare your 3DS to the ones on this pic and you should know whether yours is Old or New. 

Note that 2DS’s are automatically placed in the “Old” category.

To check your firmware version and region: You can see which version of the system software you have by accessing the System Settings and looking on the bottom right of the top screen. The number is your version with the letter at the end of it is your region.

Letter E means: Europe and other PAL regions aka Australia, New Zealand and any other countries with PAL software. Letter J means: Japanese region, also known as NTSC J. Letter U means: Region used in USA, Canada, Central America and South America.

Letter K means: Korean region.

Now that you know which 3DS you have and what firmware version you’re on, you can check which entrypoints are available to you here. Compare the “Supported firmwares” section of each entrypoint/exploit to see if it could work on your own system.

BUT I’m assuming you are a complete noob to this, which means you’re very probably on firmware 11.3 and you would rather go for the easiest to use entrypoint that’d work on the latest firmware.

Nothing to worry about, I gotchu.

Launching Homebrew Through Soundhax:

SO, the easiest and safest method that I know of for the current firmware (11.3) is Soundhax.

Soundhax is an entrypoint that uses the stock Sound application that comes with every 3DS ever so it honestly doesn’t get any easier and cheaper than this.

To get started, follow the steps listed below (links to everything you need included):

Turn off your 3DS. Now take your 3DS’s SD card out and plug it into your computer. If you have a New 3DS, you’ll probably have to take off your console’s back cover and use a usb plug for microSD cards. Follow the instructions Nintendo gives on this page.

Once your SD or microSD card is plugged to your computer, download the Homebrew Starter Kit from here. The download link is in the “Preparing your SD card” section of the page. When it says “Extract it at the root of your SD card”, this just means “Don’t put it inside any folders inside the SD card”. Just put the files and folders you just downloaded directly in the “open” space of your SD card and ignore any other folders you might find already in it.

Next up, download the right sound file over at nedwill’s soundhax website. Choose the region that matches your 3DS’s and then just choose between Old and New. Then click on “Download MP4” and you should now have a MP4 file downloaded to your computer. Now, just drag this file on to the root of your SD card.

Now go back to Homebrew’s website and scroll down to the “Otherapp/ropbin payloads” section. Here, you need to download the right “otherapp” file for your console by choosing wheter you have an Old or New 3DS, choosing the exact firmware numbers you see when you go into system settings and then choose your region’s letter. Just go back to system settings, check the bottom right of the top screen and input the numbers and letter in exactly as they are on your 3DS (zeros and all). After you do this, click on “Download otherapp”.

Drag the file you just downloaded to the root of your SD card. It has a super long name that you’ll want to change so rename the file to “otherapp”. Note: Normally, just renaming the file to otherapp should work but there’s been people who reported this sometimes doesn’t work. If when you try to launch homebrew nothing happens, try renaming this file “otherapp.bin” instead.

Eject your SD card from your computer and put it in your 3DS now. Turn on your 3DS now.

Now go to the Nintendo 3DS Sound application. This one:

Once inside the app, use your stylus and choose your SD card folder and you will then see a sound file named “<3 nedwill” aka probably the only file you’ll see. Play this file and ta da! 

You should get a scary black screen with random words and numbers that will then flash colors but don’t worry, this means everything worked and you can now access homebrew!

If nothing happens or your screen freezes for a long time, don’t panic cus this is normal (soundhax sometimes glitches out), just reboot your 3DS and try opening the sound file again.

After the black screen and flashing colors, your 3DS screens should now look like this:

Congratulations, you now have access to Homebrew!

Ok, I Have Hombrew But Now What?

Now you can use any hacks you want for any game you want :) I happen to only know hacks for 3DS Fire Emblem games and ACNL but you can always go on gbatemp and search for other hacks for other games.

To hack Fire Emblem, I recommend for you to watch this video. It’s pretty outdate but most of the steps in it still work.

To hack ACNL, I recommend you go watch this video. Very up to date.

Have fun and if you have questions or comments, just shoot me an ask.

[slanax]

Presenting Sala’s FE8 Mod V3: The Deadlords

My FE8 Mod has reached what I consider completion for now. Future updates will likely be limited to fixing stuff and maybe adding portraits for a certain special set of characters...

Just like with the first two versions, I haven’t played through the thing from start to finish yet, but I figured if anyone wants to play it why not throw it out sooner rather than later. Again, the changes aren’t all that sweeping and the more complex changes I added this time around were actually tested, so the game should run just peachy.

DOWNLOAD LINK

POSTS FOR PREVIOUS VERSIONS: V1, V2 (include download links)

FULL LIST OF CHANGES AND KNOWN ERRORS BELOW THE CUT! If you spot a difference from the vanilla game, please refer to this list first before reporting it as an error!

Changes already present in previous versions are in italics

Changes to classes:

-Snipers (M/F) now have a +15 Critical bonus

-Wyvern Knights (M/F) now have a +15 Critical bonus

-Great Knights now have 7 Mov instead of 6

-Journeyman (2)/(3) now has 11/13 base Con, Recruit (2)/(3) now has 9/12 base Con, Pupil (2)/(3) now has 8/11 base Con

-Pupil (2) now starts with an E rank in Light magic

-All promoted classes that started with an E rank in their secondary weapon type(s) now start with a D rank instead

-Revenants now have 5 Mov and 25/5/2/2/6/1 bases. Entombed now have 6 Mov and 35/8/4/5/9/4 bases.

-The following classes gain Canto: Mauthe Doog, Gwyllgi, Tarvos, Maelduin, Mogall, Arch Mogall, Gargoyle, Deathgoyle

-Bow Wights, Gwyllgis and Deathgoyles now have a +15 Critical bonus

-Monster classes gain the following promotion bonuses:

Entombed: 4/2/2/3/2/3 (matches General (M))

Wight: 4/1/ 2/2/2/2 (matches Hero)

Bow Wight: 4/3/1/1/ 2/2 (matches Sniper (F))

Elder Bael: 4/1/1/1/ 2/2 (matches Berserker)

Gwyllgi: 5/2/0/0/2/1 (matches Swordmaster (M))

Maelduin: 3/1/ 2/0/3/3 (matches Warrior)

Arch Mogall: 4/0/0/3/2/2 (matches Druid)

Deathgoyle: 4/2/2/0/2/0 (matches Wyvern Lord)

-Rangers, Mage Knights and Valkyries have their Mov buffed to 8 to match the other promoted units. Knights now have 5 and Generals and Dancers have 6.

Changes to weapons/items:

-Bows now have the following Mt values: Iron 8, Steel 11, Silver 15, Killer 11, Brave 10, Short 6, Long 8 (and 70 Hit) and Nidhogg 20

-Short Bows lose their 10 Crit, in exchange for now being 1-2 Range weapons

-Select tomes now have modified Wt: Lightning 3, Shine 5, Divine 9, Aura 12, Fenrir 11, Gleipnir 15 and Naglfar 9

-Gleipnir is now effective against monster classes

-Slim Swords now have 4 Mt and 15 Crit, Slim Lances now have 6 Mt and the Shamshir now has 10 Mt and 40 Crit

-Luna now has 70 Hit in exchange for losing its 10 Crit

-Aircalibur, the usually inaccessible Wind tome with the broken animation, now has Excaliburs icon instead of the Ballista’s. Not perfect, but better.

-All non-Shadowshot monster weapons now have 1 Wt, effectively being weightless. Shadowshot keeps its 20 for being a siege weapon.

-Fiery Fang and Hellfang now have 10 Crit

-Shadowshot has 0 Crit rather than 5

-The Master Seal now has 35 uses and is unsellable. One is found in a treasure chest in Ch3. This is only intended as a way to promote any tier 0 trainees the player may have gotten in a randomized playthrough.

-Chest Keys now have 5 uses. In accordance to this their value has been cut to 1/5.

-Monster weapons now contain their Mt, Hit and Crt (where applicable) in their description

Changes to chapters:

-In Ch2 Ross starts as an ally so he can be kept safe even in randomized playthroughs.

-Ch4 has its player phase music replaced from Distant Roads to Shadows Approach.

-Ch6 has a Fighter that drops a Halberd. To make sure he actually does so, he doesn’t carry an Iron Axe anymore.

-Ephraim Chapter 11 has L’Arachel and Dozla start as allies. Additionally, the Entombed in the same chapter have been slightly nerfed in level and equipment. Just like with Ch2, this is to help with saving them in randomized playthroughs.

-The Berserk Druids in Ephraim Chapter 15 are now stationary to make recruiting a randomized Rennac more bearable.

-Chapter 20 and the first part of the Finale now features a total of twelve new cameo minibosses modeled after a certain group of bosses from a certain other FE game. They have been added to make these chapters less of a steamroll and, of all the features listed, are the most likely to be adjusted in any possible future versions of the mod.

Other changes:

-The Armories in Chapter 9A and 10B now sell Short Bows instead of Iron Bows

Known issues:

Currently none

[slanax]

@ everyone remotely experienced in FE hacking, Nightmare in particular

So I want to insert the Deadlords from Jugdral into the FE8 endgame as a little easter egg/added challenge. I stored their names and description in 0x0D4C to 0x0D58, with 0x0D58 being the description. Now when I was testing this with a renamed Frelian messenger as seen above, I tried to set the Description value to said 0x0D58 (and tried entering its decimal, 3416, as well) but it keeps resetting to the above 0x58, which from testing is read as 0x0258 for some reason (so the description just reads “Maelduin”)

How do I fix this and/or how do I get around it?

[melohax]

Hey I just dumped my fates rom and managed to get the hair models out of it, I want to export them to another program for a project but I can't find proper textures for them? The folders I got when extracting them only have transparent textures with dots. Do you know where to find the physical textures for the hair?

Those are the actual textures. You need to follow @grimnaga ’s tutorial on texture editting fates to be able to see them. It’s normal for them to he extremely transparent.

Look under my tutorials tag and my hacking resources for beginners page, a link to his tutorial must be somewhere in there.

[necromancy-enthusiast]

Hello! I have a huge question and I saw you had the Gay Fates working with soundhax, how did you do it? Someone made a guide but it never works for me and it is a little confusing. I am able to do everything but I always get the white bar at the top screen. Any help would be surely appreciated! Thank you. p.s. Did you ever get Awakening to work? I still can't get it.

Hey! No problem, I know how frustrating modding and hacking can be...Especially with the 3DS since A) Nintendo HATES people messing with their IPs to like, a near obsessive degree, and B) doing modding on the 3DS is especially a pain because you have to do it in a roundabout way on a computer instead of on the console itself.

I have to put a disclaimer here that I’m not really a techie person, I’m just stubborn enough to usually figure this sort of thing out...Eventually...After much consternation. So with that out of the way, which guide did you used, I know there are several. Was it the one that nedwill put up specifically for soundhax?

Oh, and I’ve gotten both Awakening and Fates to work with the Gay mods, they’re almost the exact same process, unless of course we’re talking about getting second gen units, but let’s focus on the main problem first.

[another-fire-emblem-sideblog]

Anyone out there know much about hacking Shadow Dragon? I do have Nightmare, but do I have to decompile the rom to hack it? I just want to change a single portrait (or more, if I’m feeling sassy)

[invdrzim13]

Some more fanart from /u/Chinelo-is-not-Crash from reddit!

Link to the reddit thread