What originally started as kind of a joke hack quickly turned into something more, something actually serious. I led the project since I had "romhacking experience", meaning I'd used Lunar Magic before nevermind that LM is for an SNES Mario game and Fire Emblem is a GBA game. We'd been enjoying a thread about FE romhacks and decided to just give it a shot. It began back in early 2013 as an attempt by a bunch of users from Something Awful's Let's Play subforum to make our own good Fire Emblem romhack. And yes, I know this is SMWC3 and not a Fire Emblem fansite lol.Īwful Emblem is a romhack of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones for the GBA.
Along with his son, a young boy named Shon, the rebel Siegfried creates another rebellion however, this time he forges new alliances and gains new comrades in an attempt to halt Etruria and help conquer their oppression.Welcome to Awful Emblem! This is the first time I've ever been able to show off this project at a C3 and I'm very happy to be releasing a bit of it for people to play today. However, one man begins a rebellion– unfortunately his attempts are futile and he is forced to retreat and go into hiding. Lycia is taken over for the most part, most of Sacae is dominated, the nomadic tribes are in turmoil, Ilia is conquered, and the empire of Bern is barely maintaining itself. The other kingdom’s have been unable to stop their advance. Tactics Universe takes place on the continent of Elibe–the same continent where the stories of Fire Emblem: Sealed Sword and Fire Emblem occur.Ĭurrently, Etruria is invading the land and taking over each region in a massive assault. I hope everyone enjoys the new Fire Emblem experience presented in this hack! However, when the forums died, Blazer, the game’s producer and director, took over and continued the hack anyway. Tactics Universe was originally a forum hack where members contributed to the creation of characters in the game amongst other things. New chapters, new maps, new characters, new classes, new animations, sprites, music, and more all contribute to the epic story of various characters in Tactics Universe. Tactics Universe is a largely custom hack of Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword that has been widely regarded as a completely new game by Fire Emblem fans. Lots of characters from video games (Like Luna from Lunar: Silver Star Story and Mia from Golden Sun), one anime/manga character (Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura), and original characters (such as Chris and Jenny, the Pent and Louise of this hack) make an appearance. Gameplay should feel mostly the same as FE7, but hopefully, you'll get a kick out of the new little things here and there. Currently, this hack goes all the way through Eliwood Normal Mode.
Unlike most hacks, you can choose to play in Linoan Normal Mode and enjoy the tutorial as well as starting in Linoan Hard Mode. This hack is currently "Lyn Normal Mode friendly". The point of this ROM hack is not not be insanely hard or challenging, it's to have fun. The enemies have received a minor boost in stats, but are still fairly easy to treat with. You will NOT see unfair enemy stats, nor you will see any over the top situation in which you must savestate a hundred times to clear an area. Difficulty won't be that much harder, mostly along the lines of FE9 Normal to Hard Mode late game. Many characters, some from video games, one from an anime (that would be Sakura), and many original characters join up to thwart Ingram's plans, defeat the Fire Dragon, and maybe have some fun along the way. This hack follows Eliwood, Linoan from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, and the hack's author MageKnight404 in a simple retelling of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword. MK404's Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade Hack