nat5/Stan's C wizardry for FE8-US ("C HAX")

GBAFE wizardry (in C!) and EA/make demo. See FE8UASMHax for way older things (there's still a few things left there that I haven't ported to here yet).

Wizardry is the term I use to identify blobs of "ASM" code patches (which are made by "Wizards"). Traditionally those were called "ASM Hacks" or "ASM Patches" but with the possibility of using C rather than ASM, these names became a bit obsolete. Another popular name for these is "Engine Hacks".

See releases for pre-built ("ready to include") versions of wizardry featured here.

Everything in here (that I made) is released under CC0 unless specified otherwise.

Building

You probably need to be on some Linux (Windows users: consider using WSL).

This repository makes use of the git submodule facilities. If you didn't clone the repository using git clone --recursive, then you will need to git submodule update --init --recursive before being able to build this.

• Have a arm-none-eabi binutils+gcc toolchain. On Debian/Ubuntu you can simply sudo apt install arm-none-eabi-gcc. Otherwise, devkitARM works too.
• have python 3 installed and in your path. (the makefile should be able to find the correct python executable name. See tooks.mk).
• have built Tools/EventAssembler by running Tools/EventAssembler/build.sh. See the attached README for details.

Once all of that is done, you can navigate to this folder in your shell and do the following:

• make or make hack to build the ROM (requires FE8U.gba in the directory)
• If you want to make a speicifc hack, simply include its main installer from Main.event or Wizardry/Wizardry.event and make again.
• you can make SomeFile.[o|asm|dmp|lyn.event] to make a specific file (asm files are generated from C).
• run make clean to clean build outputs.

hf :)

Thankies

I stole one of the test maps from Alusq.

Some of the wizardry in this repository (under Wizardry/3rdParty) was borrowed from circleseverywhere, Tequila, Kirb and Zane Avernathy.

Shout outs to circleseverywhere, Tequila, CrazyColorz5, Zane Avernathy, Leonarth, Tiki/laqieer and 7743. These are all wonderful and nice people from whom I have learned (and borrowed) so many things. I wouldn't be here without them.

Shout outs to the people of Fire Emblem Universe for being nice.

Other things

• DOC: GBAFE reverse-engineering notes.
• fe6: decompilation of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.
• fe6-wizardry: wizardry for fe6.
• fe7-stuff: catchall for fe7-related things (wizardry, doc, projects, ...).
• gbafe-eu-wizardry: misc wizardry for fe7-eu1, fe7-eu2 and fe8-eu.
• SkillsLite: an attempt to make a usable minimal alternative to the ubiquitous FEU skill system.
• VBA-MAKE, FRIC, telefon-stan: various other projects which feature wizardry not found elsewhere.

Contact

You can find me over at the Fire Emblem Universe Discord under the handle nat5#4387.