v5 - Release #1

With minor technical difficulties (incredibly minor considering that I've had terribly buggy releases in the past!), we've gotten a new patch out for all to enjoy.

Tales 1 - 4, and all of the gaiden tales are available for you to play right now!

Download the patch here, at Fire Emblem Café!

Solicitor Alert!

This is something I hoped I'd never have to do, since I find the practice to be rather annoying. However, reality says I have to earn money in whatever way I can, since I'm poor as dirt with bills to pay.

So, I've been forced to solicit your monitors with a donations button. I've been working hard on Elibian Nights for about a year and a half now, putting my best effort into the project to produce a top-notch game for everybody to enjoy (free of charge). It's taken countless hours, it's been a labor of love for the fans. I hope you all enjoy Elibian Nights; and hey, if you really enjoy the game, perhaps you could spare a small donation? This poor college student would sure appreciate it! If not, I totally understand. I have when people solicit me for donations too.

Onward, to Hector's Tale!

These are the kinds of numbers that Hector likes.

Progress report update: Tale 2x is officially completed, tested, and bug-free. I'm waiting on a new map for Tale 2, after which I'll be making some improvements there, but, for now, I'm moving onward to Hector's tale!

So, keeping with that, I figured now would be a good time for a bit of Elibian Nights trivia. Hector's tale underwent a rather unusual development cycle. It started with Hector leaving his post for some breathing room, in his absence Dawson's armies seized Ostia. Hector, Orun, and Matthew, stranded by themselves near a lake, had to fight their way to Ostia, picking up allies (Oswin, Serra, the NPC Ostian Knights, Erik, and Fargus) along the way. However, when it came time for revisions, I found the whole "your castle was seized while you left for 20 minutes" thing to be rather ridiculous, so I decided to basically invert the entire chapter.

"The director told me to come find you,
he's changing everything again!"

Dawson and Hector's starting positions were literally just switched, and the chapter was reworked around that swap. Not only that, but the starting parties were also inverted. In the original version, you started with Matthew and Orun, picking up Serra and Oswin later. Now, as players know, you start with Oswin, Serra, and the NPC knights, with Orun and Matthew coming in as reinforcements after a few turns.

Version 4.0ish Released

In light of the recent major changes this hack has undergone, I saw fit to release one last beta of the v4 release. After this patch, a lot of things will be radically altered. v4.0ish is the hack in it's current state, before the changes begin. I didn't get a chance to fix 100% of the reported glitches from before, but all of the critical ones should be gone. Please report any bugs you find (hopefully there are far fewer than the last release) on the Serenes Forest topic. This is the closest thing to a full v4 release you're going to get. I'll fix any critical bugs, and minor ones will be fixed at my leisure (which could mean they don't get fixed until the next full release, I am in college after all and don't have much time for leisurely hacking). There will be no official full release of version 4, instead the next complete patch will be "Elibian Nights v5."

You can get "v4.0ish" on the Downloads page.

Just When I'm Getting Close

So, for those of you who haven't been following the Serenes drama, longtime helper, Nayr, and I have parted ways. He doesn't want any of his content in the hack, and I'm satisfying that demand. What does this mean? Well, first and foremost, it means that the next Elibian Nights release is going to be heavily delayed, and quite a few changes are coming.

What all is changing:
- Tale 1, Tale 4, and Tale 4x are getting entirely new maps. Nayr made the originals, so look forward to some new, improved gameplay and maps for each of the tales!
- Tale 2's core plotline was the idea of Nayr, and he's revoked my ability to use that idea. Tale 2 is being entirely rewritten to its core. Look forward to seeing Raven and friends hunting for the deadly assassin, Alastor, throughout the Western Isles in Raven's quest for vengeance.
- The five mugs of his that remain in the project will be removed.

So anyways, stay tuned for updates! Just when I get close to a new release, we get a huge setback. But I'm positive that, although a setback this may be, the project will come out ultimately much better because of it. Hope you're all looking forward to what's coming up in the next few months, I know that I am!

Elibian Nights in the NCFC

Hello everyone! I have a special announcement for all of the fans out there!

Fire Emblem: Elibian Nights has found its way into the Nintendo Community Fangames Convention! This is a big step for us in the Nintendo Community, and we would like you to support EN as both fans of the project, and fans of Fire Emblem as a whole! And be sure to check out all of the other amazing projects while you're there, such as Metroid: Project AM2R, Fire Emblem: Immortal Sword (by the fandom's own BwdYeti), and many... MANY others!

View our project, and everyone elses, here
http://www.nintendocfc.com/booths.html

Elibian Nights v4 Trailer

Tale 7: The Work Begins