FE8 PC Port v1.1

A PC port of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA, USA), built from the FireEmblemUniverse fireemblem8u decompilation.

No ROM is included. You need your own copy of the game: the USA .gba, SHA-1 c25b145e37456171ada4b0d440bf88a19f4d509f. The game refuses other versions, hacks and patched copies.

Windows: how to play

1. Unzip fe8-pc-port-v1.1-windows.zip into a folder of your own (not inside the zip, Program Files or a cloud-sync folder).
2. Put your .gba file in the same folder as fe8pc-sdl.exe.
3. Run fe8pc-sdl.exe. The exe isn't signed, so Windows may warn you the first time. Choose "More info", then "Run anyway".

Updating from v1.0: replace fe8pc-sdl.exe and SDL3.dll. Your saves and settings carry over.

What's new in v1.1

Everything new is in Reforged Options (title menu → Extras). With every new option at its default, the game plays as v1.0 and as the GBA original.

• Randomizer, seeded, in the manner of the Universal FE Randomizer: growths, bases, classes (player, boss, enemy), recruitment (who joins where, with names, portraits and dialogue following), weapons, rewards, drops and shops, characters' own battle colours on new classes, and a Nuzlocke rule (deaths stay through resets). It applies to the next New Game; each save keeps the run it was started with.
• Game fixes: six optional fixes to the original's rules (early kill EXP, promoted enemies' growths, AI healers on full-HP units, Canto after a cancelled Trade, the Devil Axe at very high Luck, the Chapter 15 staff drop). Off by default, chosen per run.
• Controls (two keys and two gamepad buttons per GBA button), Display (window size, scaling, smoothing, fullscreen), Option sets, and command-line settings.
• During a chapter: the map menu's Reforged entry changes the options that are safe mid-run and shows what the run was started with. Randomizer and game-fix settings can't be changed mid-run.
• Fixed: a Dancer fighting with a tome could freeze the battle (reproduced on the GBA first; part of "Original-game bug fixes", on by default).
• Checked: saves from late in both stories and the post-game match mGBA's and move between the PC and mGBA both ways.

Keep the small .reforged file next to your .sav: it holds a randomized game's settings. Full list: CHANGELOG.md. Guide: PLAYING.md. Fixes: PATCH-NOTES.md.

How it was tested: ACCURACY.md. Credits: CREDITS.md. Found a bug? Open an issue and attach fe8pc-sdl.log.

FE8 PC Port v1.0

A PC port of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA, USA), built from the FireEmblemUniverse fireemblem8u decompilation.

No ROM is included. You need your own copy of the game: the USA .gba, SHA-1 c25b145e37456171ada4b0d440bf88a19f4d509f. The game refuses other versions, hacks and patched copies.

Windows: how to play

1. Unzip fe8-pc-port-v1.0-windows.zip into a folder of your own (not inside the zip, Program Files or a cloud-sync folder).
2. Put your .gba file in the same folder as fe8pc-sdl.exe.
3. Run fe8pc-sdl.exe. The exe isn't signed, so Windows may warn you the first time. Choose "More info", then "Run anyway".

Saves are standard 32 KB .sav files that work in mGBA both ways. Full guide: PLAYING.md.

What's in it

• The game plays like the GBA original. It was checked tick by tick against mGBA on routes through both stories and the post-game.
• Reforged Options (title menu → Extras): optional extras such as fast-forward, danger zone, casual mode, HP bars and cheats. Everything is off at first except fast-forward and two fixes for freezes in the original game (Pierce, and Riev's Chapter 20 softlock). See PATCH-NOTES.md.
• Linux: build from source (BUILDING.md).

How it was tested: ACCURACY.md. Credits: CREDITS.md. Found a bug? Open an issue and attach fe8pc-sdl.log.