ROM Hack [Research] FE: SOV Save Discussion

[Ghostlander]

The EXP byte, third one, you would just change to 0x0A and that's it.

Alright I'll try this out. I'm hoping those Overclasses don't super buff your stats, since they assume you're already 20.


Oh. I have to look for the character IDs now. Are those already posted?

 

[trainboy2019]

Can someone just verify for me that this is the exact start and end of a character block?

Spoiler

32 52 53 55 16 7E F1 28 00 84 64 28 00 3B 00 00
00 00 01 00 08 69 04 25 EC B4 E8 05 C9 4A 24 00
00 00 00 03 48 07 B6 2F 18 4C 2C 7E 02 00 00 00
03 A7 C5 B8 2F C9 F5 2D 7E 00 00 00 00 03 5A 11
C1 2F 2C 58 33 7E 00 00 00 00 03 64 A1 BB 2F 6A
CA 2F 7E 00 00 00 00 03 C8 7E 39 08 3C DF 14 04
00 00 00 00 03 0E 4D C6 89 70 03 D4 93 00 00 00
00 03 05 DC 10 37 4F E6 A9 45 00 00 00 00 03 68
8A 81 8C F0 75 26 D4 8C 00 00 00

In the save I posted earlier, this is Chapter2_dec bytes 324 through 459

 

[Koko-Kun]

Can someone just verify for me that this is the exact start and end of a character block?

Spoiler

32 52 53 55 16 7E F1 28 00 84 64 28 00 3B 00 00
00 00 01 00 08 69 04 25 EC B4 E8 05 C9 4A 24 00
00 00 00 03 48 07 B6 2F 18 4C 2C 7E 02 00 00 00
03 A7 C5 B8 2F C9 F5 2D 7E 00 00 00 00 03 5A 11
C1 2F 2C 58 33 7E 00 00 00 00 03 64 A1 BB 2F 6A
CA 2F 7E 00 00 00 00 03 C8 7E 39 08 3C DF 14 04
00 00 00 00 03 0E 4D C6 89 70 03 D4 93 00 00 00
00 03 05 DC 10 37 4F E6 A9 45 00 00 00 00 03 68
8A 81 8C F0 75 26 D4 8C 00 00 00

In the save I posted earlier, this is Chapter2_dec bytes 324 through 459

No that's not it, what hex editor are you're using? You should just use ctrl+f.

 

[Dzm20]

Alright.
I did everything, but something went wrong.
If possible, could you look over my work?

Spoiler: Pasting the Amiibo characters and Deen before Nomah's character block

Spoiler: How many units are in my lineup

Spoiler: my NART

Spoiler: My IFER and ILER

Spoiler: The pointers after EDNID

Where did I make my mistake?
Did I somehow miss a step?

 

[trainboy2019]

No that's not it, what hex editor are you're using? You should just use ctrl+f.

I'm using iHex, but I also have hhd. What would I look for with ctrl+f?

 

[Koko-Kun]

Alright.
I did everything, but something went wrong.
If possible, could you look over my work?

Spoiler: Pasting the Amiibo characters and Deen before Nomah's character block

Spoiler: How many units are in my lineup

Spoiler: my NART

Spoiler: My IFER and ILER

Spoiler: The pointers after EDNID

Where did I make my mistake?
Did I somehow miss a step?

The pointers are correct. I'm assuming you originally had 33 characters and now adding the 8 so the unit # is correct and for the chracter blocks they look good. Just backup.

I'm using iHex, but I also have hhd. What would I look for with ctrl+f?

You should be looking for the character that you're looking for by searching for it's ID.

Spoiler: WIP Character Block!

I made a mistake, the orange F1 belongs with the green highlighting, the Skill Item in progress. The Byte after the item is the rank, 10 = 1 star, 20 = 2 start, etc.

This is an example of what a generic block would look like.

 

[Dzm20]

The pointers are correct. I'm assuming you originally had 33 characters and now adding the 8 so the unit # is correct and for the chracter blocks they look good. Just backup.

But, every time I start it up, the game crashes.

 

[Koko-Kun]

But, every time I start it up, the game crashes.

Show me your file so I can check.

 

[Dzm20]

Here it is.
It's already decompressed.

 

[WarioTails358]

The pointers are correct. I'm assuming you originally had 33 characters and now adding the 8 so the unit # is correct and for the chracter blocks they look good. Just backup.

You should be looking for the character that you're looking for by searching for it's ID.

Why do we have to edit the # that shows how many units we have? For me, all I did was replace Alm's id with Marth's (Amiibo) and then injected my save back on to my game, (Before I did this I made sure to save my game on the overworld map as attempting to do this in a dungeon WILL crash your game) Alm's name was there and his class was the same but I know it wasn't Alm but Marth because when I went into a dungeon all of Alm's stats/class and weapon transfered over to this "Clone" (Marth) and Alm was given basic starting stats like when you start a new game.
And when I exited the dungeon my # of units was automatically updated from 15 to 16.
Before I did this with Marth I used Alm as a child from the prologue just to be safe and yes the same thing happened and my # of units went from 15-16 as I tested this with only 15 units in my army. Then I just reclassed Marth with a code and everything was well.

 

[Koko-Kun]

Here it is.
It's already decompressed.

Here you go, you just copied something wrong on Deen, I replicated (tried) as I'm bit lazy atm.

Why do we have to edit the # that shows how many units we have? For me, all I did was replace Alm's id with Marth's (Amiibo) and then injected my save back on to my game, (Before I did this I made sure to save my game on the overworld map as attempting to do this in a dungeon WILL crash your game) Alm's name was there and his class was the same but I know it wasn't Alm but Marth because when I went into a dungeon all of Alm's stats/class and weapon transfered over to this "Clone" (Marth) and Alm was given basic starting stats like when you start a new game.
And when I exited the dungeon my # of units was automatically updated from 15 to 16.
Before I did this with Marth I used Alm as a child from the prologue just to be safe and yes the same thing happened and my # of units went from 15-16 as I tested this with only 15 units in my army. Then I just reclassed Marth with a code and everything was well.

You have to change the # of unit because the game checks for some reason, and if it's wrong well then it won't load it. What you did did not change the # of units you had. You just replaced a character. Well I'm assuming you just changed you're Alm's ID to Marth and so it basically has the same boosts he has as Alm and etc. The game just gens another Alm and Celica whenever you enter a dungeon so there won't be any bugs and stuff. I think it just uses the same Dispos? (I don't know how Echoes loads a character) as it would from Chapter 1. Which is why the unit count went up 1.

 

[Dzm20]

Here you go, you just copied something wrong on Deen, I replicated (tried) as I'm bit lazy atm.


You have to change the # of unit because the game checks for some reason, and if it's wrong well then it won't load it. What you did did not change the # of units you had. You just replaced a character. Well I'm assuming you just changed you're Alm's ID to Marth and so it basically has the same boosts he has as Alm and etc. The game just gens another Alm and Celica whenever you enter a dungeon so there won't be any bugs and stuff. I think it just uses the same Dispos? (I don't know how Echoes loads a character) as it would from Chapter 1. Which is why the unit count went up 1.

Fantastic.
It works!
I'm going to take a look at it and see what I did wrong.

Thanks!

 

[whitewolf8]

You can't revive someone on the opposite route though.

oh? That doesn't work in this? Did in the original. fascinating.

 

[Ghostlander]

Can anyone help me here identify which characters are which in the code so I can edit the levels?

 

[WarioTails358]

Here you go, you just copied something wrong on Deen, I replicated (tried) as I'm bit lazy atm.


You have to change the # of unit because the game checks for some reason, and if it's wrong well then it won't load it. What you did did not change the # of units you had. You just replaced a character. Well I'm assuming you just changed you're Alm's ID to Marth and so it basically has the same boosts he has as Alm and etc. The game just gens another Alm and Celica whenever you enter a dungeon so there won't be any bugs and stuff. I think it just uses the same Dispos? (I don't know how Echoes loads a character) as it would from Chapter 1. Which is why the unit count went up 1.

Actually the method I used only works on Alm as doing it with Celica does not generate another Celica after replacing her with someone else. (if that makes any sense)
Alm is considered the "Real Main" in the way the games treats his character so it usually only works with Alm. I tried both with Celica as leader before entering a dungeon and it had no effect besides changing her head Sprite to that of the character I replaced her with.

 

[Dzm20]

Can anyone help me here identify which characters are which in the code so I can edit the levels?

A save research/discussion for Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Sole purpose to collect IDs for convenience. I'm pretty sure it's possible to search for all of them somewhere in the game's romfs, though no public source. My resource.

 

[Ghostlander]

I opened "chapter 1" data and there are no number sets corresponding to any of those. And Global is an even smaller list of code. AM I missing something here?

 

[Dzm20]

I opened "chapter 1" data and there are no number sets corresponding to any of those. And Global is an even smaller list of code. AM I missing something here?

Open Chapter1, CTRL+F the code for whichever character, refer to the Character Block picture on page 1.

 

[Ghostlander]

Open Chapter1, CTRL+F the code for whichever character, refer to the Character Block picture on page 1.

Im still having trouble with that. a search for the string doesnt work. So I tried just 'c9' and there's none with the next set in the list. Looking at Atlas: 0xC924DD07511647AB

 

[Dzm20]

Im still having trouble with that. a search for the string doesnt work. So I tried just 'c9' and there's none with the next set in the list. Looking at Atlas: 0xC924DD07511647AB

I'll give you an example of what I'm doing.

I use HxD.
When I ctrl+F, I specify the search as "hex-values," search direction: "All" and search "C9 24 DD 07 51 16 47 AB"

Not sure if that helps