#fire emblem hack

The ~*Process*~

I tend to write the dialogue and get that working first, and then afterwards, go through and change all the voice prompts. But I haven't found any documentation out there on which files correspond to what voice line, so I've also been listening to each sound file and making a list for myself. I'll probably share that once I'm finished with it.

Corrin

Some characters (royals) have a lot of versatile lines, so they're pretty easy to find matching clips for. Others are a bit harder - Corrin in particular can be tricky. They were written as a fairly passive character to begin with, so it can be hard to find appropriate reactions if I have them acting more aggressively. I've been using a lot of the attack/damage grunts to cover that.

Corrin has a lot of lines for events in the original story, so they've got a lot of specific, situational lines. They have no My Room lines though, which takes out a huge cache of non-specific reactions like "hmm", laughter, "uh-huh", etc.

There's also the fact that there are 6 different voice actors for Corrin, and a ton of varied reads - when F3 says "I'm so sorry," she sounds more casual, like she's stepped on someone's foot. When F1 says "I'm so sorry," she sounds devastated, like she's just... killed a beloved sibling, perhaps? 😂

CORRIN

Any dialogue script that Corrin speaks in has both a male and female version, because of the way the game calls sound files. The text is usually the same between both, so it's mostly a matter of copying and pasting, then changing all of Corrin's sound files to match (and watching out for pronouns). In dialogue files without Corrin, there is a way to set the dialogue to call a different word depending on whether they're registered as male or female, so it really is mostly the sound files making things complicated. The chapter I'm working on today, "Hoshido", has around 60 different dialogue files, counting all the Corrin duplicates!

Anyway, better get back to it. If you made it through all of this, here's a side tidbit that I didn't notice until I started doing this hack: