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FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Final Altissimo 2024-06-23 | I originally recorded this and chapter 24 in the same video, but ended up redoing this map because I was pressed for time on the original recording and skipped showing units, which I think people want to see.Here are the stats of the units that have come to the final battle (minus Fae and Lalum):Compared to averages, Roy has:+ 4 HP+ 1 Str- 0.5 Skill- 1 Speed+ 0 Luck- 1.25 Def+ 0.5 ResAverage Roy. I hear he could have doubled Iduun with one more speed I think? Ah well.Raigh has:- 4.45 HP- 0.55 Mag+ 0.55 Skill+ 1.4 Speed+ 2.15 Luck+ 2.15 Def- 1.65 ResI know Raigh is mediocre but listen I love him he usually gets fast enough to double things with a lot of investmentThea has:- 1.4 HP+ 0.4 Str+ 0 Skill+ 0 Speed- 1.6 Luck- 0.35 Def+ 1.2 ResOne of my favorite units here. I always love a good strong falcoknight. Hence why she shows up over Miledy!Ogier has:- 1.8 HP+ 1.8 Str- 0.4 Skill- 2.6 Speed+ 0.6 Luck- 0.6 Def+ 3.9 ResHis stats don't show it now, but he was definitely blessed earlier on. Fun unit.Shin has:- 1.25 HP+ 0.85 Str+ 0.5 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 2.25 Luck+ 2.3 Def- 3.05 Resbusted still, I love nomadsGonz has:+ 0 HP+ 1.4 Str- 3.9 Skill- 3 Speed+ 0.9 Luck- 0.5 Def- 2.3 Resrip speed and skill, some of his most important stats. Ah well, fun nonethelessLugh has:+ 2 HP+ 0.4 Mag+ 4 Skill+ 0 Speed- 3.9 Luck- 2.1 Def+ 0.8 ResI like magesSaul has:+ 1.6 HP+ 3.4 Mag- 0.3 Skill+ 0 Speed- 0.1 Luck- 0.1 Def- 2 ResTHIS guy was something else, I hope you all enjoyed the 20/20 Saul to S Rank Light journey---Final Chapter of FE6 Hard Mode Ranks[This part of the description excised to make space for chapter-specific discussion. Refer back to previous videos to see the rest of this section.]---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 10 (I took 2 turns, so I'm -55 total)EXP: 50100 (total)Funds: 150000 (total)Power: 1001 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 24 Altissimo 2024-06-23 | My reason for showing off the items in my convoy at the beginning of the chapter is to prove my Funds rank is over 150k, which was my personal goal for this run. According to my calculations, the items in my convoy specifically are worth a total of 129,625 . Add to that the amount of gold I have and I have 152310, which exceeds the requirement - and this is to say nothing of all the items not in my convoy in this video.This chapter was played 'blind' because I didn't see it necessary to route what amounts to "hit legendary weapon button", which explains the occasional suboptimal moves with Lalum/Fae etc.Very amused to break Fae's divinestone at the time I cap her, though.Compared to averages, Fae has:- 3.7 HP- 0.1 Str- 1.15 Skill+ 1.65 Speed+ 0 Luck- 1.7 Def+ 2.5 ResFae stats, who really caresI showed off all units at the beginning of the video except the ones I bring to this chapter (which I'll show off next time). Here are the final comparison stats of every unit that is promoted, gained at least one level, and did not come to this chapter:Marcus has:+ 0.8 HP- 0.5 Str+ 0.6 Skill+ 0.5 Speed+ 0.6 Luck- 0.3 Def- 0.4 ResHe only gained 2 levels lolZelot has:+ 0.25 HP- 0.25 Str- 0.2 Skill- 0.2 Speed- 0.15 Luck+ 0.7 Def- 0.15 ResHe only gained 1 level lolLance has:- 1 HP+ 1 Str+ 2.75 Skill+ 0.5 Speed- 0.75 Luck- 1 Def+ 6.25 Res (????)Nice Res bless, I guess.Alan has:+ 2.75 HP- 0.25 Str- 1 Skill+ 2.75 Speed+ 5 Luck+ 0.75 Def- 1.5 ResI like the slightly higher Speed stat.Cecilia has:- 0.2 HP+ 0.3 Mag+ 0.1 Skill- 0.5 Speed+ 0.5 Luck- 0.4 Def- 0.5 ResShe gained 2 levels lolHugh has:- 0.25 HP- 1.3 Mag- 2.3 Skill- 1.95 Speed+ 1.25 Luck- 2.2 Def+ 1.35 ResPretty average. Extra healing is nice though.Melady has:+ 0.5 HP+ 0 Str+ 0 Skill+ 0 Speed- 1.5 Luck- 0.4 Def- 0.1 ResHard to tell if she was blessed because three stats are capped lolZeiss has:- 1 HP- 1 Str- 1 Skill- 1 Speed+ 0 Luck+ 3 Def+ 0 ResI guess screwed overall? Not that matters, he's still pretty good.---Chapter 24 of FE6 Hard Mode Ranks[This part of the description excised to make space for chapter-specific discussion. Refer back to previous videos to see the rest of this section.]---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 20 turns, so I'm -47 total)EXP: 49100 (total)Funds: 144000 (total)Power: 991 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 23 Altissimo 2024-06-23 | We continue to flex by stealing even more items. Astore caps in the process, and we cap off the two archers. The idea of sleeping the ballistae was suggested to me in my previous run when I had issues dealing with them, it's a pretty good idea for this situation.Compared to averages, Astore has:+ 0 HP+ 0.5 Str+ 2 Skill+ 0 Speed- 0.5 Luck- 1 Def- 1 Resthief stats, who really caresDorothy has:+ 1.55 HP+ 3.5 Str- 0.65 Skill- 0.65 Speed+ 3.05 Luck- 0.55 Def- 1.55 ResCool strength bless, I suppose.Wolt has:+ 2.8 HP+ 0.4 Str- 4.5 Skill- 2.6 Speed- 2.6 Luck+ 3.2 Def- 1.9 ResBad unit and he got screwed on top of that.---Chapter 23 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 12 turns, so I'm -42 total)EXP: 47600 (total)Funds: 138000 (total)Power: 936 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 22 Altissimo 2024-06-22 | All the promoted units exist, Astore gets some EXP stealing things, and we do what I personally think is a beautiful clear of the throne room! This was fun to plan - I hope you enjoy!---Chapter 22 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 24 turns, so I'm -34 total)EXP: 46100 (total)Funds: 132000 (total)Power: 921 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 21x Altissimo 2024-06-21 | The first chapter without unpromoted units! I just want to rush through this one and get it taken care of.The chests in this chapter work as follows:3 chests will be manaketes and 3 will have elixirs. Whatever random number generation decides which is which is identical to what decides if a unit picks up a desert item, which means I can't actually route the whole chapter in advance since I won't know if I need to use RNs on attacking manaketes until I get there. Therefore, everything after the first chest Roy gets was played 'blind'. A rare occurrence in this otherwise perfectly structured run.---Chapter 21x of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 20 turns, so I'm -33 total)EXP: 45100 (total)Funds: 126000 (total)Power: 911 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 21 Altissimo 2024-06-21 | This is probably the funniest chapter because of how hard I enemy phase some of these turns, you'd think it's FE7 with this kind of play.I brought Cecilia because I had an extra unit slot, and no units that I hadn't already promoted that I'd want to bring. In my previous run I was adamant about making sure I didn't use prepromotes after Marcus and Zelot in the early game, and while I kept the mentality this time, I simply didn't promote enough units to make that possible. Fir and Sue were strength screwed, Lilina (as a long term unit) was speed screwed, and no one else really stood out to me as being promotion-worthy.That said, Hugh does promote, despite being aggressively average. More healers & Aircalibur users is just nice to have.Regarding Galle: I like to leave him alive because I like to imagine he and Melady can still be together after the war :( her talk with him makes it seem like he is going to die and I want to prevent that!!!Also, his AI is actually predictable. He and his squad, and I think some of the reinforcements, share an AI that I believe works as follows:1) If Roy is in range, they will attack Roy.2) If Roy is not in range, but could theoretically be attacked if the wyverns have infinite movement, they will surround the nearest unit without attacking. (This means that Roy cannot currently be rescued, and he has to have a path of empty tiles between the wyverns and him.)3) If Roy cannot be attacked with the weapon the wyvern has, they will attack as normal enemies do.Because Galle has a Spear, he can hit Roy from 2 tiles away. You'll notice that the turn the wyverns that were previously passive start to attack is the turn that Roy is blocked from north and south on the east side, but Galle doesn't attack because Roy is still targetable with a 2-range weapon. This is how I manipulate Galle.Compared to averages, Lilina has:- 3.55 HP+ 0.75 Mag+ 1.2 Skill+ 0.35 Speed+ 1.5 Luck+ 2.1 Def- 3.65 ResI would have promoted her and used her long-term if she didn't end up with normal Lilina bad speed, but alas. I've seen the blessed Lilinas and they kick butt, but not this one.Sue has:+ 0.55 HP- 1.7 Str+ 1.55 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 0.5 Luck+ 1.1 Def- 2.85 ResStrength screwed and really only saved by bows' flier effective damage. A shame, I would love to use her in endgame over Shin, but she just is usually not better.Zeiss has:- 1.4 HP+ 0 Str- 1.5 Skill- 0.55 Speed- 0.6 Luck+ 1.75 Def+ 0.35 ResAverage. Flying is nice, a defense stat is nice, and supporting with Miledy is nice, though.Hugh has:- 1.75 HP- 0.5 Mag- 1.5 Skill- 0.25 Speed- 0.25 Luck- 1 Def+ 1.25 ResAlso pretty average. I don't really have a lot of overall blessed units this run, huh?---Chapter 21 of FE6 Hard Mode Ranks[This part of the description excised to make space for chapter-specific discussion. Refer back to previous videos to see the rest of this section.]---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 30 (I took 23 turns, so I'm -33 total)EXP: 43100 (total)Funds: 126000 (total)Power: 851 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 20x Altissimo 2024-06-21 | Some more scrub grinding, this chapter doesn't have much to say. Sophia and Roy cap, and Wolt and Dorothy get very close. We are in the home stretch!Compared to averages, Sophia has:- 1.4 HP+ 1.55 Mag- 1.6 Skill- 1.7 Speed+ 0.2 Luck+ 2.2 Def+ 0.55 ResShe just isn't good.Roy has:+ 2.4 HP+ 0.4 Str- 1.5 Skill- 1.6 Speed- 0.4 Luck+ 0.25 Def+ 0.3 ResMaybe a little below average, but perfectly serviceable for endgame once he gets the Binding Blade. ---Chapter 20x of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 18 turns, so I'm -26 total)EXP: 41100 (total)Funds: 120000 (total)Power: 831 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 20 Altissimo 2024-06-20 | Lots of capped units this chapter. It's pretty easy to feed the brigands to any low leveled unit, even a lance user, simply because enemy axes are so inaccurate.I would have liked to have Lugh at C staves before starting the chapter to make my life easier with Restore, but oh well.Also, we finally see the second triangle attack, which I promised earlier I would show off!Compared to averages, Wendy has:- 4.15 HP+ 1.4 Str+ 0.4 Skill+ 1.4 Speed- 0.55 Luck- 0.7 Def+ 0.1 ResHaving Speed that isn't utter garbage is helpful, I guess, but Wendy is still just not worth it. But you all knew that.Noah has:- 1.75 HP+ 0.1 Str+ 0.15 Skill+ 0.1 Speed+ 0.8 Luck+ 1.1 Def+ 0.7 ResI guess he wouldn't have been an awful filler paladin, but he probably isn't doubling anything.Lot has:+ 1.4 HP- 0.1 Str+ 0.9 Skill+ 2.05 Speed- 1.1 Luck- 0.8 Def+ 0.45 ResHe's average now, but he had like 7 strength in chapter 18 and struggled to do significant damage. The Speed blessing is pretty funny though. He probably wouldn't be an awful unit to promote.Dieck has:+ 0.5 HP+ 1 Str- 2 Skill- 1.5 Speed- 2.25 Luck+ 0 Def- 0.25 ResHe's such a good early game unit but clearly struggles later on.Shanna has:- 0.55 HP+ 2.3 Str- 0.45 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 1.6 Luck- 1.9 Def+ 1.25 ResBlessed, and I still just don't think she's a very worthwhile combat unit worth promoting.---Chapter 20 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.[This part of the description excised to make space for chapter-specific discussion. Refer back to previous videos to see the rest of this section.]---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 25 turns, so I'm -24 total)EXP: 39600 (total)Funds: 120000 (total)Power: 786 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 19 Altissimo 2024-06-19 | The cut at 29:49 is again due to my controller disconnecting.Only one armor knight remains to cap and then the saga of "oh god I have to train armors" will be over! Cath and Chad make an appearance to steal items, but this chapter conveniently also has a great training opportunity for them both. Compared to averages, Bors has:+ 0.9 HP+ 0.3 Str+ 2.3 Skill- 0.6 Speed- 0.5 Luck- 1.65 Def- 1.9 ResVery average all around. Which is not a good unit.Chad has:+ 0.85 HP+ 2.5 Str- 2.5 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 0.6 Luck- 2.75 Def+ 1.15 ResChad is surprisingly decent at combat even with average growths.Cath has:+ 3 HP+ 0 Str+ 0.25 Skill+ 0 Speed- 2.5 Luck- 1.25 Def+ 2 ResStill not a good unit, but at least capable of beating brigands.---Chapter 19 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 21 turns, so I'm -24 total)EXP: 37600 (total)Funds: 114000 (total)Power: 726 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 18 Altissimo 2024-06-17 | Wolt and Dorothy begin their push to level 20, Sue resumes hers, and we get a few more units capped. As you can see, it's surprisingly easy to get lots of scrub kills this late in the game. That said, the ease with which I can set up archer kills here is the entire reason I didn't want to go to Sacae; while I would have preferred to flex by doing the harder route, I wasn't sure that it was going to be possible to also get all units to 20 simultaneously.Compared to averages, Gonzales has:+ 0 HP+ 0 Str- 2.25 Skill- 1.5 Speed+ 4.75 Luck+ 0.25 Def- 1.75 ResWeird Gonz. He isn't very good, but I don't really have a better Armads option.Trec has:+ 0.4 HP+ 1.6 STr+ 0.2 Skill+ 0.4 Speed- 1 Luck- 2.8 Def- 0.8 ResAverage, I guess.Wade has:+ 0.5 HP+ 3 Str+ 3.9 Skill+ 0.4 Speed- 0.1 Luck- 2.4 Def+ 0.1 ResYou'd think this would be a blessed Wade, but he's just still not a good unit.Lalum has:- 2.3 HP- 1.9 Str+ 1.05 Skill+ 0 Speed- 0.2 Luck- 0.8 Def+ 1.3 Resdancer unit lol---Chapter 18 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 21 turns, so I'm -25 total)EXP: 35600 (total)Funds: 108000 (total)Power: 705 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 17 Altissimo 2024-06-16 | This was an annoying chapter to figure out, actually. Trying to get Geese to 20 turned out to be much harder than expected since the pegs give, like, no EXP. And I didn't have any good way to give the boss kill to an unpromoted unit due to accuracy issues.Compared to averages, Geese has:- 1 HP- 2 Str+ 0 Skill- 1 Speed- 2 Luck+ 0 Def+ 1 ResHe was never going to be used long term anyway.Barthe has:+ 0 HP- 0.6 Str+ 0.25 Skill+ 0.8 Speed+ 0.8 Luck- 1.4 Def- 0.22 ResVery average. I don't think 1 defense is making much difference overall.On my previous upload, I was asked to give a list of all units so we can see how many still need to cap. Here are my unpromoted units' current levels, from highest to lowest.Hugh 19.23Wendy 18.77Gonz 18.69Lalum 18.48Bors 18.22Roy 18.20Trec 18.05Wade 17.24Dieck 17.10Shanna 17.10Noah 15.65Astore 15.38Lilina 15.14Lot 14.57Chad 14.32Sophia 13.30Zeiss 13.09Sue 12.40Fae 8.75Cath 8.60Dorothy 6.06Wolt 5.05---Chapter 17 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 19 turns, so I'm -26 total)EXP: 34100 (total)Funds: 102000 (total)Power: 691 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 16x Altissimo 2024-06-15 | Even more promotions, Elen caps (meaning our only healers are all promoted units), Barthe gets a little screentime, and we discover that apparently Elen is able to be berserked. I know I could have ended the map a turn earlier, biut Compared to averages, Shin has:+ 0.75 HP+ 1.25 Str+ 1.5 Skill- 2 Speed- 0.75 Luck+ 2.5 Def- 1.25 DefGood unit.Raigh has:- 1.4 HP- 0.6 Mag+ 0.6 Skill+ 0.8 Speed+ 0.8 Def+ 0.2 ResPretty average. Still need an Apocalypse user, though.Elen has:- 1.1 HP+ 0 Mag+ 2.6 Skill- 2.6 Speed- 2.6 Luck+ 1.1 Def- 4.8 ResWow this Elen got very screwed lol---Chapter 16 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 19 turns, so I'm -25 total)EXP: 32600 (total)Funds: 96000 (total)Power: 646 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 16 Altissimo 2024-06-15 | More promotions, lots of staff spam on Lugh, a Guiding Ring, and some levels on the murder chicken. This is probably one of the most interesting maps in the game tbh, there's tons of side objectives, and getting the Member Card over to the secret shop can be a hell of a thing sometimes. I'm pretty proud of this clear overall.Compared to averages, Alan has:+ 2.85 HP+ 0.45 Str+ 0.4 Skill+ 2.45 Speed+ 5.4 Luck (???)- 0.75 Def- 0.9 ResThis is pretty good! Nice Luck stat.Lance has:- 0.2 HP+ 0.4 Str+ 3.45 Skill+ 0.5 Speed+ 0.35 Luck- 1.8 Def+ 5.15 Res (??????)So Alan got a Luck bless and Lance got a Res bless. Fascinating.Clarine has:- 1.6 HP+ 1.3 Mag- 3.6 Skill+ 1.5 Speed- 0.35 Luck- 0.9 Def- 2.6 ResOdd spread.---Chapter 16 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 21 turns, so I'm -19 total)EXP: 30100 (total)Funds: 96000 (total)Power: 596 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 15 Altissimo 2024-06-12 | Glad to finally be done with 14 and 14x and into slightly easier chapters to deal with. Here we get three more capped units, Lugh starts healing to see if he can rank up a single time this playthrough, and everyone gets mad at me as I leave Percy and Igrene behind, I'm sure.Compared to averages, Lugh has:- 0.5 HP+ 1.4 Mag+ 1.5 Skill+ 1.5 Speed- 1.65 Luck+ 0.15 Def- 1.7 ResPretty blessed where it counts!Ogier has:- 1.45 HP+ 1.2 Str+ 0.9 Skill+ 1.35 Speed+ 3.65 Luck+ 0.6 Def+ 4.45 ResVERY blessed overall. Excellent!Miledy has:- 0.5 HP+ 0 Str+ 0 Skill+ 2.5 Speed- 1.5 Luck- 3 Def- 0.5 ResWeird Miledy. I like Speed though.---Chapter 15 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 19 turns, so I'm -15 total)EXP: 28100 (total)Funds: 90000 (total)Power: 536 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 14x Altissimo 2024-06-10 | I do not respect this chapter.Compared to averages, Thea has:- 0.2 HP+ 1.2 Str+ 0.6 Skill+ 0 Speed- 0.8 Luck+ 0.2 Def- 0.4 ResThe Str blessing, though slight, is enough to make her worthwhile imo.---Chapter 14x of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 15 turns, so I'm -14 total)EXP: 26100 (total)Funds: 84000 (total)Power: 516 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 14 Altissimo 2024-06-08 | The cut around 33 minutes in and state loaded message was because my controller disconnected. I made a state, restarted the emulator to get it to recognize my controller again, and loaded the state.Fir and Rutger finish their training. Notice Rutger started at level 12 and made it to 20 and still had a few enemies to beat. This chapter is excellent for getting absurd amounts of EXP on any sword user. Do recommend.Thea, Miledy and Raigh also get a lot of experience... preparing for them to promote pretty soon. Unsure if I'll promote Lugh or Raigh first, but they're both getting promoted at least. Thea got a couple lucky Strength levels, plus promoted flyers are good, and Miledy is Miledy.Sophia also managed to pick up 6 and a half levels in this chapter alone! That's impressive, I'd say.Compared to averages, Rutger has:- 1.8 HP- 1.8 Str+ 0 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 2.2 Luck- 1.2 Def- 0.2 ResPretty average.Fir has:+ 0.75 HP- 3.75 Str+ 0 Skill+ 0 Speed+ 1.5 Luck- 0.85 Def- 0.8 ResI would have promoted her if she was screwed in any stat other than Strength :(---Chapter 14 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 22 turns, so I'm -9 total)EXP: 24600 (total)Funds: 84000 (total)Power: 481 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 13 Altissimo 2024-06-06 | Thea continues to be immediately better than Shanna. Looking forward to promoting her for sure.Otherwise, I'm not sure there's a whole lot to say here, other than pointing out that Raigh's perfect level after killing the boss was not rigged at all. This chapter is just a big EXP fest for so many of my units.Okay, I lied. I do have one more thing to point out and that's Saul's absurd 22 speed. I love this unit.---Chapter 13 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 24 turns, so I'm -6 total)EXP: 22600 (total)Funds: 78000 (total)Power: 426 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 12x Altissimo 2024-05-25 | Someone asked me to show off both triangle attacks if I could. After considering the relative cost of bringing three armors to various maps, I decided this would be the best place to do it.---Chapter 12x of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 21 turns, so I'm -10 total)EXP: 21100 (total)Funds: 72000 (total)Power: 411 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 12 Altissimo 2024-05-22 | Saul finally caps. I've been building to this for a while - I want to get him to Aureola rank for the last couple maps. I know it's possible because I did it on my previous attempt. This Saul is a little slower than the previous one, but he can still double the hero, at least.Compared to averages, Saul has:+0 HP+2 Mag+0.25 Skill+0.25 Speed-1.25 Luck-0.25 Def-0.5 ResI rigged a couple Mag/Speed levels to ensure he'd be decent at combat (especially doubling), so this is about what was expected.Meanwhile, Bors continues to get disappointing levels overall. Lilina got Speed again, I guess that's nice.---Chapter 12 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 20 turns, so I'm -11 total)EXP: 19100 (total)Funds: 72000 (total)Power: 376 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 11 Altissimo 2024-05-18 | Ogier continues to get fantastic levels. I swear I'm not rigging them. I also didn't rig Thea's 2 for 2s on Strength and Speed. She's already better than Shanna!Wendy taking out all the cavs with Horseslayer is terrific and it shows why Horseslayer is actually integral to developing the armors. I'll probably be burning at least one Hammerne use on it later. She got lucky with a couple of her levels too.Gonz however didn't get as many offensive levels as would be expected for his growths. Neither did Shin. Unfortunate.I'm really proud of how I approached this map and enjoy the novel way I got Klein recruited and all the green units rescued. I hope you enjoy watching it too!---Chapter 11 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 20 turns, so I'm -16 total)EXP: 16100 (total)Funds: 66000 (total)Power: 281 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 10 Altissimo 2024-05-14 | Ogier gets to be 2 for 2 on Str this map which is awesome. Wendy isn't so lucky, picking up only one point of Speed, but at least she got some training.Most of those low% hits on the fighters at the end of the chapter weren't rigged lol. I just got lucky.Also got lucky with the boss kill. Just decided to see what would happen if I had Fir hit him with Wo Dao, got double crits, and decided to roll with it.---Chapter 10 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 19 turns, so I'm -11 total)EXP: 14100 (total)Funds: 60000 (total)Power: 251 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 9 Altissimo 2024-05-11 | More lucky levels on the people I need them on. Lilina gets speed, Lugh gets offensive levels, Saul gets magic, and Ogier gets to be a very blessed unit.A lot of low% crits in this chapter! I didn't rig them and I didn't anticipate them, they just kind of happened.Barthe never having a hit rate above 70 is so hilariously sad.---Chapter 9 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 21 turns, so I'm -5 total)EXP: 11600 (total)Funds: 54000 (total)Power: 216 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 8x Altissimo 2024-05-03 | All around some very lucky levels here, which I wasn't even rigging for. You love to see it.Alan/Lance finally finish their support grinding, giving them +3 Attack (+4 with Roy) which is REALLY GOODTrec living with 1 HP from the fire tile was calculated.---Chapter 8x of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 15 turns, so I'm -6 total)EXP: 10100 (total)Funds: 48000 (total)Power: 201 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 8 Altissimo 2024-04-30 | time to begin training one of the worst of the units that I'll have to raise in this run! Fortunately she got a couple Str/Speed levels early so maybe that will help. A little bit. We will see.Also, Lilina got speed! Here's hoping for a speed blessed Lilina that I can use long term and promote.---Chapter 8 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 25 (I took 23 turns, so I'm -1 total)EXP: 8100 (total)Funds: 48000 (total)Power: 161 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 7 Altissimo 2024-04-20 | Bors trying to take on the southern cavs, like I wanted him to, ended up being a pretty poor idea since this version of Bors has gotten fewer Speed levels than the one I used in the previous attempt at this. Ah well - he got a couple kills. Sue also got some excellent levels; at this rate she might be worthy of a late-game promotion if she keeps it up.The first turn was inspired by Melth's T1 in his LP, although I used Bors instead of Dieck.This chapter was streamed on the r/FE server and I received some community feedback in helping to construct a good clear, and while this one does have a lot of cases where my units are hitting on below-70 hit rates, it's kind of the nature of Chapter 7 that you have to get lucky with hit rates if you want a very solid clear.---Chapter 7 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 16 turns, so I'm +1 total)EXP: 6600 (total)Funds: 42000 (total)Power: 116 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 6 Altissimo 2024-04-14 | Saul training arc begins. Bors actually being a pretty good choice here is pretty funny. Lugh got some good levels as well, which I'm grateful for.I'm also pretty pleased with the crazy rescue-dropping techs I used to get Chad all over the map in a reasonable amount of time.---Chapter 6 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 20 (I took 20 turns, so I'm +5 total)EXP: 5100 (total)Funds: 36000 (total)Power: 91 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 5 Altissimo 2024-04-14 | Rerecorded to use the battle stats patch.Lance finally levels strength, but is it enough to catch up in time?! We will see. Shanna getting a couple strength levels was nice though.The 90% miss the mage had on Shanna was not rigged. It just happened that way lol.Bors continuing to miss. Things will be a bit easier for him soon!---Chapter 5 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 22 turns, so I'm +5 total)EXP: 3100 (total)Funds: 30000 (total)Power: 71 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 4 Altissimo 2024-04-13 | Rerecorded to use the battle stats patch.Sorry for the delay. I finished routing the run only to realize my notes were actually unusable, so now I have to redo the whole thing lmfaoBors and Wolt getting what scarce exp they can before they're benched for a while. It comes at the detriment of my actual good units like Alan and Lance, but... I mean... Lance still hasn't leveled strength. Don't like it.---Chapter 4 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 15 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 2100 (total)Funds: 24000 (total)Power: 56 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 3 Altissimo 2024-04-11 | Rerecorded to use the battle stats patch.Wade and Lot get a C support, which will do little to help them in the long run, and maybe even the short run as well. Axe accuracy is just that bad.This is where I start to abandon some of my previous attempts to use "safe" strats. Obviously Bors is still using vulns to ensure his survival, but the axe bros take a lot of uncertain hits at low health. It will only get worse as the run goes on!!---Chapter 3 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 16 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 1100 (total)Funds: 18000 (total)Power: 41 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 2 Altissimo 2024-04-08 | Rerecorded to use the battle stats patch.Bors needs to stop missing so much.Lance and Alan get a C support. I'll be actually gunning for supports a bit more than usual in this run, so this isn't the last you'll see of the Christmas cav duo doing everything while standing adjacent to one another.---Chapter 2 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 13 (I took 12 turns, so I'm -3 total)EXP: 600 (total)Funds: 12000 (total)Power: 26 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 1 Altissimo 2024-04-08 | Rerecorded to use the battle stats patch.The sequel to my FE7 Intended Ranks run, it's time to start on my FE6 run! Like the FE7 run, I'm trying to get all unpromoted units to level 20, so units like Bors and Wolt have to be used here in this chapter to get any sort of fighting chance at doing anything in the future. In this case, Bors... doesn't do as much as expected due to accuracy issues and WTD. Oh well, we'll find time for him to do things later.---Chapter 1 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 12 (I took 10 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 300 (total)Funds: 6000 (total)Power: 7 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 5 [old] Altissimo 2024-04-04 | Lance finally levels strength, but is it enough to catch up in time?! We will see. Shanna getting a couple strength levels was nice though.The 90% miss the mage had on Shanna was not rigged. It just happened that way lol.Bors continuing to miss. Things will be a bit easier for him soon!---Chapter 5 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 22 turns, so I'm +5 total)EXP: 3100 (total)Funds: 30000 (total)Power: 70 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 4 [old] Altissimo 2024-03-30 | Sorry for the delay. I finished routing the run only to realize my notes were actually unusable, so now I have to redo the whole thing lmfaoBors and Wolt getting what scarce exp they can before they're benched for a while. It comes at the detriment of my actual good units like Alan and Lance, but... I mean... Lance still hasn't leveled strength. Don't like it.---Chapter 4 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 15 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 2100 (total)Funds: 24000 (total)Power: 55 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 3 [old] Altissimo 2024-03-17 | Wade and Lot get a C support, which will do little to help them in the long run, and maybe even the short run as well. Axe accuracy is just that bad.This is where I start to abandon some of my previous attempts to use "safe" strats. Obviously Bors is still using vulns to ensure his survival, but the axe bros take a lot of uncertain hits at low health. It will only get worse as the run goes on!!---Chapter 3 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 15 (I took 16 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 1100 (total)Funds: 18000 (total)Power: 40 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 2 [old] Altissimo 2024-03-13 | Bors needs to stop missing so much.Lance and Alan get a C support. I'll be actually gunning for supports a bit more than usual in this run, so this isn't the last you'll see of the Christmas cav duo doing everything while standing adjacent to one another.---Chapter 2 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 13 (I took 12 turns, so I'm -3 total)EXP: 600 (total)Funds: 12000 (total)Power: 26 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
FE6 Hard Mode Ranked Run - Chapter 1 [old] Altissimo 2024-03-09 | The sequel to my FE7 Intended Ranks run, it's time to start on my FE6 run! Like the FE7 run, I'm trying to get all unpromoted units to level 20, so units like Bors and Wolt have to be used here in this chapter to get any sort of fighting chance at doing anything in the future. In this case, Bors... doesn't do as much as expected due to accuracy issues and WTD. Oh well, we'll find time for him to do things later.---Chapter 1 of FE6 Hard Mode RanksThis run, in a sense, uses RNG manipulation. The RNG of FE6 is static, which means that from a fresh reset, the same numbers are rolled to determine any action that uses RNG, such as whether an attack hits, crits, or misses; which stats are gained on a level up; which direction the enemies move on enemy phase; and which direction the arrow pointer moves if it has to redraw itself. I used this, along with savestates, to my advantage in my routing. This run is constructed by me making an action with the unit, observing the outcome of either the attack or the entire player phase, and deciding what to do afterward. If the outcome is successful or neutral, I would continue on from there. If the action failed, I would reload savestates and play with different enemy targets, movement orders, weapons, or placement until I got an outcome I liked. This means that this strategy is not at all safe: if I send Sophia who gets OHKO'd and doubled by an opponent to attack that opponent with a 43% hit rate, I'm doing it because I know in advance that she'll hit, so there's no risk of her taking a counter.I recognize that this isn't everyone's cup of tea; I think a lot of people want to watch Fire Emblem content that seems a lot more properly random instead of "rigged", and while it is possible to SS-rank the game without using savestates or paying attention to RNG, I wasn't sure if my goal of getting all units to 20 would even be possible without rigging some actions in their favor (like the Sophia example above).This series is largely intended as a proof-of-concept demonstration. At some point in the future, I would like to revisit ranked runs and play them live, without knowing what the RNG will do. But for right now I am just testing the game's limits.---The strategies and unit deployment, while at times inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Binding-Blade-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA. The filter being used is mGBA's OpenGL filter, which desaturates and darkens the colors to something a little less eye-searing.Ranking requirements for this chapter:Turns: 12 (I took 10 turns, so I'm -2 total)EXP: 300 (total)Funds: 6000 (total)Power: 7 (represents the combined total of all recruited units' levels; promoted units are their level + 20)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Augury" option before a chapter (first available somewhere around ch11). Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/binding-blade/miscellaneous/rankings/details/.I also have several sub-goals:* Finish the game with more than 150k in funds (this is what the funds ranking is supposed to be but for the bug mentioned in the Serenes Forest link).* Get the best ending (fight Iduun & use the Binding Blade to finish her).* Get a Roy/Lilina A support for the additional cutscene at the end.* Recruit all characters. Recruit Cath in chapter 12. Recruit Hugh for full value.* Visit every village, get every chest, and also visit every house even though they're useless.* Steal all items worth a Lockpick or more, and steal as much else as is feasible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to the A route on the Western Isles, the route that gets you Echidna and Lalum.* Go to Ilia. (I wanted to do Sacae for the flex, but I'm not sure that's compatible with the "get all units to 20" rule without more RNG manipulation than I want to bother with.)I'm also going to try to get at least one S rank user of every weapon type, but may have to settle for all but Light.
Lets Play Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (Part 4) Altissimo 2023-11-11 | I felt like doing nostalgia things and showing off all the secrets in this game that I know about for the benefit of the people who comment that they didn't know about things on my music uploads. I also don't care about professionality, editing, or having good equipment, so maybe you'll think it's cringe, but that's okay!
Lets Play Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (Part 3) Altissimo 2023-10-19 | I felt like doing nostalgia things and showing off all the secrets in this game that I know about for the benefit of the people who comment that they didn't know about things on my music uploads. I also don't care about professionality, editing, or having good equipment, so maybe you'll think it's cringe, but that's okay!
Lets Play Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (Part 2) Altissimo 2023-10-03 | I felt like doing nostalgia things and showing off all the secrets in this game that I know about for the benefit of the people who comment that they didn't know about things on my music uploads. I also don't care about professionality, editing, or having good equipment, so maybe you'll think it's cringe, but that's okay!
Tack-Q Bowling: Easy 260 Points Altissimo 2023-10-02 | I wanted to show off the strategy I developed when I was much younger for getting a lot of points on the game. Here's what to know:* For the first ball: You want to hit the fourth balloon that will come in on the top conveyor, which will be blue. To time it, try to prepare so that you hit your Tack-Q right before the blue balloon scrolls on screen at the right. The timing here is a little flexible (as shown in the video) due to the balloons' large hitboxes, but you probably need to wait a half second longer than you think you do in order to time it right. This is probably the hardest one of the three to get right.* For the second ball: Immediately after hitting the first ball, head to the second ball and hit it as soon as you walk in front of it. If you are early on the first ball, it's possible to be barely too early on the second, so you may want to delay your input for a split second if you fear that (which I did in this video, it's hard to tell though).* For the third ball: After you hit the second ball, you will see 3 red balloons come across the bottom conveyor (one of which will already be on screen when you hit the second ball), followed by a blue balloon. You want to hit the blue balloon, which should be lined up with the top conveyor such that you will hit two blue balloons simultaneously. I don't recall ever having a problem to where I would hit the first blue balloon but not the second, the timing is flexible here, and it should be easier to predict the blue balloon's timing than it was on the first ball. You can hit your Tack-Q after the blue balloon starts scrolling on screen and it will work.Hopefully this helps all the hammos out there who struggle(d) with this minigame!
Lets Play Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (Part 1) Altissimo 2023-10-01 | I felt like doing nostalgia things and showing off all the secrets in this game that I know about for the benefit of the people who comment that they didn't know about things on my music uploads. I also don't care about professionality, editing, or having good equipment, so maybe you'll think it's cringe, but that's okay!
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Final Altissimo 2023-06-22 | My notes are too long for the YouTube description, so I made a pastebin:pastebin.com/QZft6vkgIf you're still reading this, thanks for watching this series! I appreciate the support!---Final Chapter of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 10 (8 for part 1, 2 for part 2)EXP: 3000 (2800 for part 1, 200 for part 2)Funds: 80% of 150000, so 120000 (all from part 1)Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 12 (10 for part 1, 2 for part 2) (I took 6 turns total, so I end the run with 12 extra turns)EXP: 3050 (2800 for part 1, 250 for part 2)Funds: 80% of 150000, so 120000 (all from part 1)A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 32x Altissimo 2023-06-21 | Remember how I said I wanted a sword unit when I promoted Sain? Here's why. If I didn't promote him, I would have used Heath, but Heath and Florina are both so high-leveled that they don't take nearly as much EXP from the enemies - which is why I wanted a lower-leveled promoted unit to bring to this map. One of Heath or Florina had to be dropped to make room for Sain, and I chose to drop Heath because Florina is closer to Killing Edge rank. I bet you also weren't expecting to see Karla and Karel here. I love how this run gets me to use everyone.Also, in Genesis, it was pointed out to me that Florina landed on a chest and didn't open it. I intended to open it. If I had, though, I would be 1 chest key short on this chapter, since the chest key used here is a 2-use key (out of 5) used to open 2 chests. Matthew stole a couple of 1-use chest keys back in Night of Farewells, so I could have just put one of them on Merlinus and had Karla take it out after getting the first chest.There isn't much to say here, though. Other than the novelty of Karel and Karla, it's just a bunch of swordies hitting axe guys and getting stupid amounts of crits and EXP.I didn't intend for Florina to crit Kishuna. I wanted to take out the rest of the berserkers. But I also didn't care enough to re-record. Oh well, a few extra turns granted this way anyway.For those keeping track at home, though, I got Karla 7 levels here. I love this dumb map.As this is Karel and Karla's last appearance, here's their stat comparisons:Karel 14-0.2 HP-0.8 Str-2 Skill+1 Spd-0.8 Luck-0.6 Def+1.1 ResHe did what he needed to, not much to say.Karla 12+1.8 HP+0.25 Str+1.85 Skill+1.15 Spd+2.2 Luck+0.3 Def+0.6 ResShe's above average in every single stat! I don't think any other unit has been so far. That's pretty funny. GOAT Karla over hereMerlinus 10+0.2 HP+0 Str+0 Skill+0 Spd+0 Luck-0.2 Def+0.4 Res... it's Merlinus. Although, since I deployed him on every map and he never died, I think 20/10 is the max level he can be.---Chapter 32x of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 0EXP: 0Funds: 0Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 12 (I took 19 turns, so I'm -6 total)EXP: 1400Funds: 80% of 13000, so 10400A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 32 Altissimo 2023-06-20 | Time for Dart and Dorcas to finish their training. Then, only Eliwood, Lyn, and Nils will be left.One of the reasons I wanted to promote Sain is because, if I didn't have him to bring, who else could I have brought? My only other promoted units are Bartre, Karel, and Karla. Bartre's unfortunately gotten pretty speed-screwed and thus can't do much, and Karel and Karla both I plan to use later. Promoting Sain gives me an additional useful unit who can gain a lot of EXP here. Certainly he's better able to handle this chapter than Isadora, unfortunately for her. But I think you'll be surprised at the contributions of Marcus, Isadora, and Geitz here.Dart and Dorcas getting a lot of exp in the middle area isn't as hard as you might expect. I've gotten Nino a lot of levels there before in easier modes.Canas is getting pretty close to level 20 promoted.........................!Hawkeye wasn't supposed to get hit by the valkyrie to go to 3 HP. I don't know where I did something wrong, but I clearly did, so Pent had to Physic him and I had to play differently from there on.lol @ Renault doing 1 damage to a falco with lightning. gotta love light magicAlso I'm very amused with myself for the strategy of having Dart pick up the village by crossing the river.Vaida killing a valk with a Brave Lance was also a mistake. She was supposed to use something else and I think she was supposed to kill someone else, but I clicked too fast and thus wasted a Brave Lance on something that would have died to anything else. Fun!Sadly I wasn't able to get Renault a single level :( I was hoping I could claim to have gotten at least 1 level on everyone except Athos, but alas, it was not to be. Not for lack of trying, though. Renault was very helpful.Dorcas:+0.4 HP+2.8 Str-0.8 Skill-0.4 Spd+0.35 Luck+3.75 Def+1.45 ResSurprisingly blessed overall.Dart:+1.6 HP-1.8 Str-2.4 Skill-1.2 Spd-0.2 Luck-1.4 Def+0.2 ResBad unit here. Watching him facetank wyverns and slowly rise to the challenge was fun though.Geitz 10+2.05 HP-0.5 Str+0.9 Skill+1.2 Spd+1.2 Luck-1.4 Def+0.6 ResHe was fun to use, and the extra Speed was nice.Isadora 4-0.25 HP-0.9 Str-0.05 Skill-0.5 Luck-1.35 Luck+0.4 Def+2.25 ResI guess she got 3 for 3 on 25% Res. I didn't even notice.Marcus 9+0.8 HP-1.4 Str+0 Skill+1 Spd+0.6 Luck-1.2 Def+0.2 ResAverage Jagen. I love that I got use out of him in Victory or Death though.Vaida 11+0.8 HP-0.9 Str-0.5 Skill+0.2 Speed-0.6 Luck-0.5 Def-0.3 ResShe got two levels. There wasn't much variation possible here for her.Hawkeye 10-1 HP-2.4 Str+3.2 Skill+1.5 Spd+1.6 Luck-1.2 Def-0.1 ResSKILLED HAWKEYE---Chapter 32 of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 15EXP: 6150Funds: 80% of 50500, so 40400Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 15 (I took 17 turns, so I'm -13 total)EXP: 8000Funds: 80% of 50000, so 40000A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 31 Altissimo 2023-06-19 | Today Kent, Raven, Legault, Serra, and Nino finish their training. Lyn and Eliwood get some use too, but don't cap - I think you'll be amused to see what happens with them.With so many deployment slots, though, I have a lot of room for other units. Pent is necessary as a second staffer. Louise supports Pent and has good use due to being able to hit stuff through the wall. Hawkeye is a beast, and Geitz is really just filler lolYes, I really did sent Eliwood down to the left with an Iron Rune and expect him to do well. No, it didn't work. Laugh if you will. You can see I realized it wouldn't work when I sent Geitz over to help.Kent using Brave Lance was pretty cool if you ask me. The fact that he's fast enough to wield it all 4 times and usually strong enough to get kills with it is so nice.I'm very amused by the maneuver I used to get Denning trapped, where each unit killed a unit that allowed another to move into place.For those keeping track at home, we have five unpromoted guys left to cap!Legault:-0.8 HP+1 Str+1.4 Skill+0 Spd-0.8 Luck+0 Def-2 ResAverage. It's a thief. What do you do?Nino:-2.25 HP-0.5 Mag+0.75 Skill+0 Speed-0.75 Luck-0.25 Def-4.5 ResBelow average Est unit. I love using her with her high speed but meh.Raven:+0.25 HP-4.25 Str+1 Skill+0 Speed-0.25 Luck-1.75 Def+0.75 ResHe got strength screwed real badly. He hasn't gained any strength in like 10 levels or something dumb like that too.Kent:+1.85 HP+5.4 Str-2.5 Skill+4.45 Spd-0.8 Luck-2.75 Def-1.75 ResHoly heck, he might have gotten even more Strength and Speed blessed than the minmaxed Sain!Serra:-2.5 HP+3.5 Mag-2.7 Skill+2.4 Spd-2.4 Luck+0.15 Def-0.45 ResI love promoting healers for the meme. I would totally have promoted her here in any other run and laughed about bishop Serra.---Chapter 31 of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 11 (actually counts as 12 turns though no matter what)EXP: 2050Funds: 80% of 45000, so 36000Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 11 (actually counts as 12 turns though no matter what, so I'm -16 total)EXP: 2400Funds: 80% of 47000, so 37600A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 31x Altissimo 2023-06-19 | It's Hammerne time. (This was not meant to be a pun on "hammertime" but I'm leaving it anyway.) Melth suggested to use it on the Rapier and Wolf Beil, because they are very valuable and very useful (meaning you're not going to want to hold onto them for the funds rank when you can use them instead). I agree, so I've chosen them and the Brave Lance, which was basically like the next best item for Funds (and one of my most useful weapons overall), to Hammerne. If you couldn't tell by the Rapier and the Wolf Beil being left at 1 use each, the use of Hammerne was planned and I set things up to get them down to 1 use.Also, surprise Sain promotion out of nowhere! This was actually not in my original plan for the game. However, my first attempt at the run was a few levels short of meeting the requirement. Since Heath and Florina came to Night of Farewells instead of Fiora and Farina, they're also higher-leveled than they were in that failed run. I crunched my Funds rank and realized I had enough to promote an extra unit. While lots of unit types would have worked for this, I settled on Sain because a) I wanted a sword unit in particular for something going forward, b) he has a mount, c) he has those funny minmaxed stats, and d) it honestly would seem like a waste to bench him after all the effort that went into him in Lyn mode. So welcome back Sain as a team member with three chapters left in the game.I don't need all the elixirs I buy, but the best way to improve funds rank here is to buy things with the Silver Card using every piece of gold you can. I think ending up with 12 left is pretty good.Bartre 5-0.7 HP-2 Str-0.7 Skill-1.8 Spd+0.4 Luck-1.6 Def+0.5 ResSadly, Bartre remained unlucky to the end.---Chapter 31x of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 5 (actually counts as 6 turns though no matter what)EXP: 0Funds: 80% of 31000, so 24800Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 5 (actually counts as 6 turns though no matter what, so I'm -15 total)EXP: 0Funds: 80% of 31000, so 24800A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 30 Altissimo 2023-06-18 | The inventories, movement, and overall strategy here was ripped from Melth pretty shamelessly. It's a good strategy for getting lots of items. It'd be better if you could set up the precise numbers of weapon uses to maximize it, but there's not really a good way to know in advance what will crit or what your stats will look like. This is the best I can do in these circumstances.Otherwise, there isn't much to say. I got everything except the Pure Water and only had to drop a single Vulnerary, which is pretty cool. I got bad luck when it came to the Kaim fight, though. If I had gotten one crit, or if Hector had one more point of strength, I could have completed the map at least a turn earlier, but sadly my luck was poor there.---Chapter 30 of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 0EXP: 0Funds: 0Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 14 (I took 15, so I'm -17 overall)EXP: 650Funds: 80% of 31000, so 24800A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 29 Altissimo 2023-06-18 | Time for Fiora and Farina to have their Days, as well as, surprisingly, Lucius. Lucius does something very, very dumb in this chapter. I hope you're all excited to scream obscenities at me for how dumb it is.Pent and Louise are here because a) I want an extra healer and restore user, and Serra is close to capping and can't fight besides and b) I really just want to get all of Louise and Pent's talk convos for some reason. Which means Louise gets to come to this chapter, even though other units might be better. Oh well!!!!I'm rather partial to using Merlinus to equip Farina to kill the druid. I could have given her those weapons from the beginning, but I didn't, so it was pretty cool when I got to that part and realized I could still make it work with Merlinus. I also use Merlinus to equip Vaida later in the chapter, too. Uses for Merlinus!I'm also quite amused that using Barrier on an injured Farina to let her tank monks is better than healing her.Lucius face-tanks wyverns for 4 levels. That's what I meant when I said it was dumb. He literally cannot take more than 1 hit and sometimes not even 1. It's just FE7 dodge tank at work and I'm sure you are screaming obscenities at me for it. Enjoy the show!Florina gets slept, she's too far away to do much with, so I just... leave her there. She starts out with 2 EXP when she goes over there and when she wakes up she has 45. She got nearly half a level from just sleeping on the battlefield. This run is dumb.The reason capped Hector kills a wyvern is because, if he doesn't (and enemy phase starts on the same RN), Lucius will die to the very last wyvern to attack him. It'd be a shame if that happened, so I just had Hector kill the offending wyvern and then changed the rest of my player phase to ensure enemy phase starts on the same RN (which is why nobody attacked). Lucius lives!I made a mistake in where Vaida dropped Florina. You can see me try to reach her with Ninian and realize I screwed up. From that point on, I'm having to improvise. It's part of why Lucius and Farina suddenly start doing things despite being capped, and why I check a whole bunch of damage range stuff. It worked out, I guess.Fiora:-0.1 HP+1.45 Str+0.2 Skill-1.5 Spd-0.9 Luck+3.4 Def-1.5 ResSurprisingly decent Defense... you know, if peg HP wasn't awful.Farina:+1 HP+1 Str-0.2 Skill+3.4 Spd+0.4 Luck+1 Def+0.5 ResLucky overall! Shame I couldn't promote her.Lucius:-1.35 HP-0.2 Mag+0.5 Skill-0.8 Speed-0.4 Luck-0.7 Def+1.8 ResEven after all that, Lucius is pretty average. I think he's a really fun unit to use anytime. I love his speed.---Chapter 29 of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 20EXP: 3650Funds: 80% of 36000, so 28800Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 30 (I took 24, so I'm -18 overall)EXP: 3550Funds: 80% of 21500, so 17200A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 28x Altissimo 2023-06-17 | Fun With Ballistas: Part 5 (and Last)This chapter is long, boring, and turtle-y. But it features 5 guys capping, Nino getting a ton of EXP, and Bartre getting to level 5, so can't be all bad, right?Originally I wanted to bring Fiora and Farina over Heath and Florina for additional EXP but in practice my team was just too scrubby to do anything meaningful. Heath and Florina were great for setting up kills though, especially on wyverns, and tough enough to not be threatened by long-range magic or ballistas most of the time.Matthew needs the light brand to do anything worthwhile. 6 strength is simply too low to rely on here. It's pretty fun seeing how much I'm able to do with it, though.Rebecca getting her last level by taking potshots at promoted guys to soften them up for others is really funny and anticlimactic (but simultaneously #ThisRunInANutshell)Things you can do with a ballista: take a unit and drop them while riding the ballista. This run has been mad interesting for ballistas and if you don't think so you're wrongThe thief not being able to access the chest because someone keeps standing on it was unintentionally but really, really funny.Yes, everyone really did get stuck in the water and have to deal with it for 2 turns. This chapter is boring. At least I set up things for them to do while stuck.The noticeable audio cut/"State loaded" moment is because I disconnected my controller while recording, knew I couldn't fix it quickly, but didn't want to restart the recording. I made a save state so I could close the emulator and recording, and then loaded when I resumed.Canas sleeping a thief here was an excellent idea suggested by KrashBoomBang when I complained about the thieves on this map.The Erk/Priscilla support never comes back. I just figured it was funny to do it.Jaffar's Silencer wasn't planned, but I actually really wanted it to get Jaffar more EXP, so I was very glad when it happened.After that, Canas is really just using Physic for staff & wexp.Compared to level 20 averages:Guy:-1.75 HP-0.1 Str+0 Skill+0 Spd+1.35 Luck-0.55 Def-2.25 ResPretty average.Rebecca:-1.4 HP+0.4 Str+0.5 Skill-1.4 Spd-1.5 Luck+2.15 Def-1.7 ResAlso pretty average, and after all that time rigging early level ups to let her do anything. Archers suck.Hector:-0.1 HP-2.4 Str+0.45 Skill+2.35 Spd-2.7 Luck-4.5 Def+0.25 ResHoly heck Hector is low on Defense. At least he got Speed I guess??Matthew:-6.5 HP-1.4 Str+2.8 Skill+0 Spd+4 Luck+2.5 Def+0.4 ResWhat a weird Matthew.Erk:+0.65 HP+0.4 Str-2.6 Skill+2.5 Spd+0.3 Luck+0.2 Def+4.4 ResWhat a weird Erk, too. Wish I could have promoted him with that Speed.Priscilla:+4.35 HP-0.8 Mag-5.5 Skill-0.8 Spd+0.95 Luck-0.55 Def-1.5 ResWhat a weird Priscilla. I think she ate Matthew's HP.---Chapter 28x of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 28EXP: 2250Funds: 80% of 94000, so 75200Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 28 (I took 33, so I'm -12 overall)EXP: 2950Funds: 80% of 95000, so 76000A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
FE7 HHM Intended Ranks - Chapter 28 Altissimo 2023-06-16 | Melth's LP showed me how possible, and surprisingly easy, it is to trivialize this chapter, and also how to set things up so your weak units (Kent and especially Lowen for me) can get kills. If I recall correctly, he brought a level 3 or 4 Kent and managed to make him not completely dead weight, which I don't have nearly the skill for. Instead, we'll have to settle for some impressive-looking Ninian maneuvers and rescue-drops here.Why Louise? Because I like fielding her when I field Pent. That's literally it. I have no doubt someone like Marcus or even someone like Raven or Lucius or a flyer would have been better here. I'm just weird about Pent and Louise tbhFlorina surviving two hits from Maxime after rescuing Kent is pretty funny... granted she had a Ninis' Grace but I still think that's just amusingAs you can see Ninian gets tons of mileage this chapter. She's a great way to get EXP on awful units; unfortunately I don't get to field her every map because I need to bring so many scrubs, but for those with a less tight schedule she can really help out with grinding. But I'm sure you all knew that, especially since y'all probably use arena, unlike me.Ninian originally used Filla's Might on Lowen to let him kill the hero. Until Lowen got a convenient crit.I'm rather proud of the maneuver where Kent gives Jaffar to Lowen before taking out the archer. I thought that was pretty clever.I'm also very amused by the grand rescue chain that gets Nino all the way to the left side and then lets her attack too!Canas' Afa's Drops already seem to be putting in work. Florina and Pent both got awesome level ups this chapter too, though.Compared to averages, Lowen has:-1.2 HP-1.4 Str+3.6 Skill+0.6 Spd+3 Luck-1.2 Def-0.4 ResWish those blesses could have been in speed or something. Ah well.---Chapter 28 of FE7 HHM Intended RanksThe strategies used for Hector Mode, while often inspired by those of the ranked runner Melth - lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Blazing-Sword-(by-Melth) - are ultimately of my own creation. These were recorded on mGBA and should be replicable on mGBA, though perhaps not on a cartridge copy; I've heard that the public ROM differs from the cart copy, but I don't know exactly how.Ranking requirements for this chapter (used rankings):Turns: 15 (actually counts as 16 turns though no matter what)EXP: 1800Funds: 80% of 71500, so 56800Ranking requirements for this chapter ('intended' rankings):Turns: 15 (actually counts as 16 turns though no matter what, so I'm -17 overall)EXP: 2050Funds: 80% of 73500, so 58800A Ranked Run is a run of Fire Emblem where you attempt to have 5 stars in every rank by the end of the game. Ranks can be viewed with the "Fortune" option before a chapter, or in "Battle History" from the main menu, which shows you the data for each difficulty's highest rank. Information about what is needed to achieve each rank can be found at serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/miscellaneous/rankings/.Hector mode uses the data for Eliwood mode. Whether this was intentional or not, we aren't sure, but the game does contain unused values that correspond with Hector mode. This run is an attempt to complete a ranked run of the game with the "intended" ranks. I am using a modded ROM that uses the unused values for ranks, but no other modifications have been made. The unused data for Hector Normal Mode can be found at pastebin.com/2TPNzcUR and Hard Mode at pastebin.com/E9qKxwME.I also have several sub-goals:* S-Rank Lyn Mode.* Unlock all chapters. This includes 19xx which means Nils must be leveled to 7 in Lyn Mode.* Recruit all characters. This includes Farina, who costs 20000 gold, and Karla, who requires promoting Bartre.* Steal as much as possible.* Raise all unpromoted units to (at least) level 20.* Never use the Arena.* Go to Linus' version of Four-Fanged Offense.* Go to Jerme's version of Pale Flower of Darkness and recruit Karel.
