The eighth game in the Fire Emblem series, the third release for the Game Boy Advance, and the second to be released outside of Japan. This game stars the royal twins of Renais, Eirika and Ephraim, as they try to find out why neighbouring kingdom Grado attacked their land and investigate into rumours of the Demon King being revived.

Sacred Stones brings back many features last seen in Fire Emblem Gaiden, such as a world map the protagonists navigate before battles and freely repeatable skirmishes that allow the player to grind up strength if they are struggling. It also introduces split promotions, allowing a unit to take an alternative route for their growth.

The Fire Emblem romhacking community has a bad habit of being unable to complete things. In all the years the Game Boy Advance Fire Emblem games have existed, a mere two romhacks have been completed to a decent standard; The Last Promise and Requiem.

The reason why things often fail to get completed? Getting overly hung-up on polish and quality, losing motivation trying to reach perfection in vain. The members of the Fire Emblem Universe forum had enough. Over one week, the members got their heads together and made a full thirty-chapter hack.

Join Void, and her uncanny lack of luck similar to a certain shaman from the vanilla Sacred Stones, as she seeks to defeat the evil Demon King. The hack features new portraits, edited graphics in many places, custom music, several ASM hacks, and is the first instance of a full skill system being hacked into a Game Boy Advance Fire Emblem game for more than a tech demo.

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Project source available here.

No-Intro Name: Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones (USA, Australia)
(No-Intro version 20130720-015858)
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ROM CRC32: A47246AE
ROM MD5: 005531FEF9EFBB642095FB8F64645236

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