Fire Emblem - The Dragon Herald ROM

Features

• Total original story with original setting, except Anna still exists
• One route because I am but a man
• 22 chapters with an intermission
• 30-something characters
• Fully complete endings and supports, with all supports unlocked in the support viewer except there are some character spoilers so don’t view until finishing the game if you care about that sort of thing
• Assets I jacked from the community repo because I have no artistic skill
• Potentially unlimited bugs because instead of testing I just sort of played the game through once

Weapon Changes

• Standard Bows (Iron, Steel, Silver) are 2-3 range.
• Iron Bows require D bows to use, with Short Bows being the only E-rank bow.
• Magic Swords do not use half Str at range, but are weaker to compensate.
• Magic Swords also give out WEXP.
• Lances and Axes are largely unchanged, probably.
• Swordslayer effectiveness extended to Rangers and the main lord’s classes.
• Anima/Light/Dark tomes have adjusted Wt/Mt to create roughly the same balance as Lances/Swords/Axes.
• Light/Dark A and B rank tomes shuffled around a bit with new effects.
• Staff EXP changed around. Example: Heal grants 15 EXP.
• Fortify has been removed. Sorry.

Class Changes

• Mounted casters do not have access to staves, with one obvious exception.
• Great Knight updated to 7 Mov.
• General (renamed to Vanguard) updated to 6 Mov and can use bows.
• Soldier is a real class (enemy growth Str/Skl focus).
• Archer has enemy growth Skl focus with lowered Spd.
• Berserker loses +Crit, gain low % chance of halving damage against them.
• Assassin gains Bows and no longer has lethality.
• Only Snipers can use ballistae.
• Falcoknights use Lances and Staves.
• Wyverns are Axe-based like newer games.
• Wyvern Lord has armor, removing Bow and adding Armorslaying vulnerability. Has 7 Mov.
• Wyvern Knight loses pierce but has 9 Mov.
• A lot of promotion switches, have fun figuring those out. Promotion gains also altered.
• Some new classes as well.

General Changes

• Game is Hard Mode-locked. It’s probably not too hard.
• No branches.
• No world map.
• Some units are considered Lord units and cause a Game Over. These include You and Taiga.

Known Bugs

• Upon resetting, your save for that particular chapter could possibly disappear at random. It is unknown if this is an emulator-specific thing or what, but it is recommended to make a copy of your .sav file after a chapter clear, just in case.
• In chapter 17, the optional reward for escaping with more units appears to be bugged.
• Loading from a save state may freeze or crash at certain cutscenes. It is recommended to simply reset your game and resume the save file normally if this occurs. Note that this presents an inherent risk when using the DS FE patch; however, you should be able to load a DS FE patch save file using a regular patch rom if such an issue occurs for the purpose of getting past any save state-related issues.

Changelog

25-05-25

• Various bug fixes

20-09-24

• Text error fix
• Added some QoL patches.

19-04-24

• Small Forz buff.