Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu

Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Also known as: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War Developer: Intelligent Systems Publisher: Nintendo Platform: SNES Released in JP: May 14, 1996 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused text. This game has anti-piracy features.

To do: Most info is sourced to Serenes Forest. Rewrite these sections with help from the link in the next to-do; it includes in-depth info about the stuff that's already posted here. Undocumented info is missing from this page. Bring over the missing info. This webpage needs the Notes and Bugs subpages. Get the unused portraits of the Soldier and Spear Soldier classes.

Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu (Genealogy of the Holy War) is the second Fire Emblem game for the Super Famicom, set in a different continent but in the same timeline(?) as the previous games. It provides some twists on the standard gameplay formula of the series, including the introduction of the popular Weapon Triangle system.

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Build Date

Region	Offset	Text
JP	0x068000 0x1F8000	VER 960402 2000 1996/01/10 05:29 by manchan

Battle Animations

The Emperor class can equip bows and staves. However, there are only two Emperors in the game, Arvis and Zeus, and neither is ever seen using these weapon types in-game: Arvis comes equipped with a Silver Sword and Valflame, while Zeus uses the Earth Sword in the arena. They cannot be seen normally and must be swapped with an existing class in order to be seen.

In addition to battle animations, the class has a complete set of field animations for walking, using swords, bows, and staves that go unused. Many weapon frames are unpolished and misaligned.

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By modifying an existing unit to become an Emperor and inserting bows and staves in their inventory, the game allows you to proceed into battles using both. Equipping a bow creates an unusually long loading screen. Arden is best suited for this role as he has no palette associated with him. The cheat code to access the class is 7E2CDCː1B.

Hilda is a boss you encounter twice. Once in chapter 10 and in the last chapter. In the Final Chapter, she carries a Fortify Staff to heal an army of Baron units. The healing itself is used, but only as a field animation. Her battle animation is always skipped no matter what settings you use. To see this, change an ally, such as Larcei, into the Queen class and use a staff to heal a unit. The code to access the class is 7e2de8ː31.

Unused Classes

There are five unused Soldier classes in the game, which may have been replaced with the different armored units.

Soldier ⁠— Can wield C Rank Lances

Sword Soldier ⁠— Can wield C Rank Swords

Spear Soldier ⁠— Can wield B Lances

Axe Soldier ⁠— Can wield C Rank Axes

Archer ⁠— Can wield C Rank Bows

The Spear Soldier is a stronger variation of the basic Soldier with higher stats and the ability to equip B rank Lances, while Sword and Axe Soldiers would've filled out a trio of nondescript infantry melee weapon classes. The Archer class, meanwhile, was seemingly replaced by the final game's Bow Fighter, Hunter, and Armored Bow classes. None of them can be promoted. Both the Soldier and Spear Soldier classes use a portrait which isn't used in the final game.

All of them share the same inherent stats, aside from their weapon levels:

Base stats

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement
30	6	0	5	5	0	7	0	6

Max stats

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement
80	21	15	20	20	30	22	15	6

Class growth rates

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance
100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	10%

(Source: Serenes Forest, Fire Emblem wiki)

There also exists an unused variation of the enemy-only Ballista class called the Great Ballista, which simply would have been a stronger variant of the Ballista, and would have wielded the also unused Great Ballista weapon.

Its stats are as follows:

Base stats

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Weapon Level
30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Bow A

Max stats

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Weapon Level
80	15	15	15	15	30	15	15	0	Bow A

Class growth rates

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance
100%	30%	10%	30%	30%	0%	30%	0%

(Source: Fire Emblem wiki)

Unused Items

Icon	Name	Translation	Weapon Rank	Might	Hit	Weight	Range	Durability	Worth	Notes
	サイレスの剣	Silence Sword	Sword A	8	70	12	1	50	15,000	A sword that would have had a small chance (a percentage equal to 30 minus the target's Resistance stat) to inflict the Silence status on an enemy when it hits. Likely intended to be a third counterpart to the game's Berserk Sword and Sleep Sword, which can inflict status ailments in a similar manner.
	グレートアーチ	Great Ballista	Bow Prf*	30	50	30	3-10	255	65,535	A ballista intended to be used by the unused Great Ballista class mentioned above. Going by its stats, it would have been twice as strong as the regular Ballista, although slightly less accurate.
	チャームの杖	Charm Staff	Staff A	--	--	--	1-10	0	0	Seems to be a status ailment staff like Sleep, Silence, and Berserk. No known effect is applied to the unit.
	シーフの杖	Thief Staff	Staff B	--	--	--	1-10	0	0	Steals gold from enemies. It only works with map animations off, as it will crash the game with them on. It would later make a proper debut in Thracia 776, as one of Tina's personal staves.

(Source: Serenes Forest, Fire Emblem wiki)

Unused Skills

While never appearing as class or personal skills, these skills are fully functional, complete with icons. However, they have glitchy descriptions. Return, Recover, and Re-Move are technically used in-game, they never show up as visible skills.

Return: Same effect as the Return Ring, which allows the user to warp to the main castle when used.

Recover: Same effect as the Recover Ring, which restores all HP at the beginning of the turn.

Re-Move: Same effect as the Knight Ring, which allows the user to continue to move after performing an action. Later Fire Emblem releases would rename Re-Move to Canto or Canter.

An unnamed skill that has a chance of either increasing the user's damage output by 20 or decreasing incoming damage by 20.

Another unnamed skill that has a chance of either multiplying the user's damage output by 1, 2, or 3, or decreasing incoming damage by 20.

 ???

(Source: Serenes Forest, Fire Emblem wiki)

Unused Dáinn Holy Blood Growth Rate Bonuses

Each of the thirteen types of holy blood in the game have growth rate bonuses associated with them that are applied to characters with that holy blood, and doubled if that holy blood is major. Almost every type of holy blood is given to at least one playable character... with the exception of Dáinn blood, which is possessed only by Travant and Arion, neither of whom are recruitable. As only player units are capable of leveling up and thus making use of growth rates, the growth rate bonuses granted by Dáinn holy blood, which are identical to those granted by Forseti blood, are effectively unused.

HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance
+20%	±0%	±0%	±0%	+30%	±0%	±0%	±0%

Anti-Piracy

The game contains a much more thorough set of anti-piracy tests than those seen in earlier SNES titles.

Failing any of the below tests will hang the game on the above message after it fades in on boot.

Note: The console's RAM is mostly random on boot and can result in a false positive for the Stack Tests and RAM Tests. To account for this, an error message will be displayed first:

Boot State Test

Almost immediately after booting, the Emulation Flag and Direct Page register are examined. The console already being in Native Mode and/or the Direct Page register containing a non-zero value fails the test, as these are evidence that another program (e.g., a backup unit menu) was running before the game had a chance to boot.

Stack Test

If the Reset Vector was at the top of the stack, the test fails. Explained in more detail in the next section.

RAM Tests

The beginning of RAM (range $7E0000-7E1FFF) is searched for three types of fingerprints left behind by the unauthorized devices. The two jump tests, along with the stack test mentioned in the previous section, are looking for the various methods that attached hardware can use to switch from its programming to that of the game cartridge.

Jump $4C

Checks for operation $4C????, where ???? is the Reset Vector.

Indirect Jump $6C

Checks for operation $6CFCFF, an indirect jump.