I hope to hear of your achievements in the near future!

Final Chapter: Credits, Thanks, and the Epilogue

This tutorial took quite a bit, but so did Fire Emblem hacking. Thus I’d like to thank people for all their work and effort. Please note that my memory is vague as well as not all-inclusive. If you feel you contributed a lot to the Fire Emblem hacking community and deserve to be here, just kindly contact me (don’t flame and get pissed). If I said something incorrect, please do the same. And if I forgot you, as I am quite forgetful, please do alert me as I want this to be a thorough list of people who deserve to be here. However, I’m not going to include everything everyone has done (or this list would be at least a dozen pages), but for major people, I will post their general accomplishments.

Major, Veteran Hackers:

Lute/Iggy – One of the original FE hackers who posted a page of data on FE hacking that got Pukachi/SpyroDi to make Nightmare modules.

Pukachi/SpyroDi – One of the original FE hackers. She created the original set of modules and has contributed in hacking games from FE4 to FE8, IIRC. An inspiration to others and the instigator of Fire Emblem hacking.

Xeld/Zeld/Hextator – One of the original FE hackers. He started with assembly hacks and miscellaneous stuff but eventually created FEditor Adv, one of the most used and best Fire Emblem hacking programs out there, which is capable of editing text and portraits better than any other program, and is also capable of importing battle animations in seconds, and making custom battle animations and spell animations (the former would be really difficult without him—the latter would pretty much be impossible without him). He’s also made several patches and in general has had a lot of accomplishments throughout his hacking career.

Blazer/Fire Blazer/Keriku/Luffy/FireShrine – One of the original FE hackers. I’ve been doing it for a long, long time, and I’ve helped lots of people with their questions and hacking. Whenever a new innovation came out, I’d almost always be there to test it out, help find bugs/glitches, or expand on information, write tutorials, etc… I helped Xeld and Nintenlord in the few ways I could (testing programs and reporting glitches) and have done my best to make use of everyone’s programs and finds by making hacks like Prince of Durand and Tactics Universe. I have a site dedicated to Fire Emblem with lots of hacking information, as well as forums with many hackers who can help out, and I am a member on most Fire Emblem forums. With this tutorial I hope that I have left hackers with most everything they need to make a hack on par with or better than my own hacks—not to be arrogant, but people have a hard time making use of things unless they know how, and I was often times one of the few people who knew how to do something (events, insert music, battle and spell animations, etc…). This tutorial is also to remedy that as I shouldn’t be the only one able to make full use of the knowledge out there that simply hasn’t been put in an easy-enough fashion for people who can’t figure everything out on their own. The reason why this paragraph is so long is because I made this tutorial, so of course I have to say a lot about myself. And there’s no way this paragraph could not sound egotistical and narcissistic no matter how I phrased it, if you ask me. =D

Flyingace24 – an inspirational hacker who has helped the community in ways most people don’t know. Has made nightmare modules and helped other hackers with their projects. He’s also one of the original FE hackers and one of my long time friends.

Arch – a veteran hacker who has lived through a lot of the changes in the FE hacking community. He was the driving force of the forums that were once renowned as the best Fire Emblem hacking forums, Fire Emblem Universe. Arch is also the creator of extremely popular hacks such as Elibian Nights and Fire Emblem 4 Advance (now discontinued).

Raydonn – a hacker whose name was a bit lost. He made use of information given by people to make Nightmare Modules and do other stuff. If you’ve hacked with Nightmare, you’ve most likely used one of his Nightmare Modules.

Icy Toast – he helped re-spark the FE hacking community, to some extent. Icy Toast made a revolutionary tutorial on how to insert custom maps and make your own events, amongst other stuff. This inspired me to try it out and I made a hack that I think got Nintenlord into Fire Emblem hacking—the reason why I say this is because I still have a PM from Nintenlord on youtube from years ago. Anyway, he has also contributed Nightmare Modules and his tutorials are still referenced today, even though there are programs that have made the things done in his tutorials much easier. I still miss Icy Toast to this day. 

Nintenlord – One of my favorite Fire Emblem hackers. Even if you aren’t too into meeting nice people, if you like smart, helpful, and unselfish people, Nintenlord is the guy. He’s made many programs like GBA Graphics Editor and the MAR Array Inserter that have helped tremendously with Fire Emblem hacking. He also has many Nightmare Modules he has made and many ASM hacks that give cool effects (like the move-after-attacking skill in FE10, for instance). He also made the Event Assembler, which is just another one of his awesome creations. I consider Nintenlord a good friend. :D

Honorable Mentions:

Zahlman – has helped a lot with improving FEditor Adv and has also made a Song Editor for music insertion. Is continuously making efforts to improve hacking amongst other stuff.

Shadowofchaos – although not the oldest hacker and doesn’t have a full-fledged hack of his own, he has taken the initiative to make use of programs like FEditor Adv to make battle animations, spell animations, insert music, import music, and has recently even done ASM hacks and other useful fixes for the community. He always likes learning new things, whatever that may be, and is a great help to people and their hacks when they need something done that they themselves cannot do on their own.

FurryYunSeong – a veteran Fire Emblem hacker who has made GhebFE and GhebSaga. Although his hacks are joke hacks, he knows how to hack, and has been one of the (unfortunately few) successful hackers around the community. He appears to have retired from hacking, however.

MageKnight404 – although he has never directly contributed anything to hacking innovation, he has inspired others to try out hacking, and the more people the better. He’s also made some popular hacks—one being called “MK404’s FE7 Hack”, and the other being “Fire Emblem: A Sacred Dawn”.

More Honorable Mentions:

(In no particular order, as I remember them)

Celice

VincentASM

Ryrumeli

Felover3

Kate

Atrius

CharontheFerryman

Camus the Dark Knight

Twilkitri

Mariobro3828

Mercenary/Rutger

SandwichSage

MageGirl

CrypticGirl

Markyjoe1990

Seph1212

Creators of all the many programs

Creators of all the many patches

Epilogue:

I hope I’ve helped you a lot with your Fire Emblem hacking. I’ve spent a lot of time on this tutorial and it’d be a shame if it wasn’t even used well, right?

With that being said, I have some favors to ask. First of all, there’s a large list of people in the credits. I’m not going to ask you to credit every single one of them just for being a decent part of the Fire Emblem hacking community. However, if you make a hack, you should probably credit the major hackers (and not just because I am there >_>) because it’s almost unavoidable that they have some sort of impact—whether direct or indirect—on your game. Especially people like Pukachi, Xeld, and Nintenlord, who have spent so many hours unselfishly working to help others with their hacking (and you’re bound to use one of their programs or modules). Just saying “thanks” isn’t much, but it’s a good thought.

Also, please don’t upload this tutorial to other sites without permission. If you need to share it, you can always link to my site or the online version of the Ultimate Tutorial so that people can download the latest version and older versions aren’t uploaded and spread about. I simply cannot keep version control of the Ultimate Tutorial everywhere, which is why it’s nice to have one place where people can always find various links to various formats of the latest version, and I’d like to keep it this way. Furthermore, please notify me of where said links (which I do encourage you to post around) are posted so that I can keep things up to date as much as I can regardless and answer anything related to the Ultimate Tutorial.

If this has done you any good, let me know, because I like knowing when I help others. I’m just that kind of guy (and I’m not a narcissist…). I’m looking forward to some epic hacks to play when I myself “retire”, and I really hope that the Ultimate Tutorial will help make those hacks epic, and come fast!

For everything… thank you!

~FIN