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 main character, Prince Gerald of one of the continent’s superpowers, Gilgam, was on a mission with some knights assigned to him. One day, an invasion from the other superpower, Attika, changed how his daily life worked…

Features:

-Melee/Magic Hybrid classes like Harriers
-Gameplay Changes
-Status Weapons
-Heroes Repositionals
-Quality of life improvements (stuff like danger Zone, display healed amount, display growth rates, etc.)
-Bad mugs for the most part (if you’re into that sort of thing)
-An Anima Weapon Triangle, with Fire, Thunder, and Wind
-24 playable chapters in a single route
-SNES Criticals

Known Issues:

-At the end of 1-F when Gerald promotes, the graphics glitch a bit before the promotion but it does not impact the gameplay in anyway.
-The modified weapon triangle kinda conflicts with the anima triangle only in the essence of "the enemy has the new bonuses but player units have the vanilla WT bonuses.
-If the Thunderbolt spell misses, a part of Thoron plays. Not major at all.
-If you load a file on EPILOGUE, the turncount scene can look a bit off, but the turncounts are shown correctly.

The download contains four .ups patches: the standard hack, 0% and 100% growth modes, and a toggle to revert the player palette to traditional Fire Emblem blue.

The Fire Emblem Universe thread contains further information.

No-Intro Name: Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones (USA, Australia)
(No-Intro version 20130720-015858)
ROM/File SHA-1: C25B145E37456171ADA4B0D440BF88A19F4D509F
ROM CRC32: A47246AE
ROM MD5: 005531FEF9EFBB642095FB8F64645236

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