Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Also known as: Fire Emblem: Shin Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Ken (JP) Developer: Intelligent Systems Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: August 7, 2008 Released in US: February 16, 2009 Released in EU: December 5, 2008 Released in AU: February 26, 2009 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a Nintendo DS remake of the original Famicom game. It was released following Marth's debut in Super Smash Bros. Melee, which no longer gave Nintendo an excuse to keep the series Japan-only, so they finally localized one of his games for the rest of the world. Things didn't turn out so well for the sequel though.

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Version Differences The US and European translators can't seem to agree with each other.

Unused Portraits

There are several unused portraits:

• Midia, Caeda, and Minerva, all dressed in a less formal attire.
• A duplicate of the boss Zharov's portrait, intended to be used by Nehring, a boss from Mystery of the Emblem. This is rather bizarre, as not only does Nehring not appear in any version of Shadow Dragon, but he uses a completely different portrait in New Mystery of the Emblem.
• A dummy portrait obviously used in the early stages of the game before the portraits were drawn out. The Japanese text on the portrait is 制作中, which means "in production."

(Source: Previous (The Spriters Resource))

Unused Classes

Fire Dragon, Mage Dragon and Divine Dragon exist as separate classes, but without fully working map animations; their statistical data is actually used when fighting using dragonstones. There is also data for male and female Cavaliers on foot, which probably meant dismounting (like in Mystery of the Emblem) was planned to feature at one stage.

Unused Item

The Torch item, which is used to increase a unit's vision in fog of war maps, is present in the game's data. It was likely cut due to the fog of war mechanic being exclusive to multiplayer versus matches in Shadow Dragon.

Unused Hair Color Settings

Blonde and purple hair for women are both fully implemented and functional in Shadow Dragon, even though they wouldn't actually be used until New Mystery.

Scrapped Features

My Unit Function

The My Unit feature, which allows players to create their own character, may have been planned to debut in Shadow Dragon, instead of New Mystery of the Emblem. In the game, there is an unused and untranslated heading for a "My Unit Registration" and "My Unit" is spelled in exactly the same way as the custom character in New Mystery and Awakening.

Order Function

It seems Intelligent Systems were planning to implement the ability to issue orders to units, like in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, but this was dropped at the last moment for this game and New Mystery. This function would have been used to tell all units, besides Marth, how to behave when you end the turn without manually giving them instructions.

The graphics for a tutorial about issuing orders can be found in the game, unused. The US version has the text translated, but not the graphics: they couldn't make a screenshot of a scrapped feature, after all.

Text for this feature is still in the ROM:

• Avoid[X] Order units to stay out of enemy range unless otherwise instructed.[X]
• Protect[X] Order units to protect Marth unless otherwise instructed.[X]
• Attack[X] Order units to attack nearby enemies unless otherwise instructed.[X]
• Wait[X] Order units to stay put unless otherwise instructed.[X]
• Follow[X] Order units to stay with Marth unless otherwise instructed.[X]

(Source: https://serenesforest.net/general/unused-content/)

Development Text

Within arm9.bin, 0xD05F8 (EU):

Offline Shop
かいわそのた
Talk 016-204
Talk 005-015
10KMI_MyUnit
Preview Face
オープニング

Wireless対戦
Anytime Load
10DebugMenu2
Sound Player
イベント回想
金子　第２章
10EMI_Record

Ohashi(Link)
Battle Aging
大橋（通信）
11KMI_IDAging
Wi-Fi Utility
11DialogYesNo
11DbMI_Kaneko

11DbMI_Ohashi
11DbMI_Ending
My Unit Entry
ロードメニュー
12KMI_MagAging
LR : Round %2d
フレンドリスト

メインメニュー
Practice Match
Wireless Match
Preview Battle
Preview Effect
どこでもロード
12DbMI_Kaneko2

12LMI_Practice
12LMI_Wireless
12DbMI_Opening
Title Sequence
スタッフロール
13OMI_OnMapUnit 
13KMI_AgingSkip

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English
オフラインショップ	Offline Shop	Wireless対戦	Wireless Match	大橋（通信）	Ohashi(Link)
かいわそのた	Talk etc.	どこでもロード	Anytime Load	バトルエイジング	Battle Aging
かいわ 016-024	Talk 016-024	10デバッグメニュー2	10DebugMenu2	大橋（通信）	Ohashi(Link)
かいわ 005-015	Talk 005-015	サウンドプレイヤー	Sound Player	11KMI IDエイジング	11KMI_IDAging
10KMI マイユニット	10KMI_MyUnit	イベント回想	Event Recollection	Wi-Fiユーテリティ	Wi-Fi Utility
プレビューフェイス	Preview Face	金子　第２章	Kaneko the Chapter 2	11ダイアログはいいいえ	11DialogYesNo
オープニング	Opening	10EMI リコード	10EMI_Record	11DbMI 金子	11DbMI_Kaneko

Japanese	English	Japanese	English	Japanese	English
11DbMI 大橋	11DbMI_Ohashi	メインメニュー	Main Menu	12LMI プラクティス	12LMI_Practice
11DbMI エンディング	11DbMI_Ending	プラクティス対戦	Practice Match	12LMI ワイヤレス	12LMI_Wireless
マイユニットエントリー	My Unit Entry	ワイヤレス対戦	Wireless Match	12DdMI オープニング	12DbMI_Opening
ロードメニュー	Load Menu	プレビューバトル	Preview Battle	タイトルシーケンス	Title Sequence
12KMI マグエイジング	12KMI_MagAging	プレビューエフェクト	Preview Effect	スタッフロール	Staff Roll
LR：ラウンド%2d	LR : Round %2d	どこでもロード	Anytime Load	13OMI オンマップユニット	13OMI_OnMapUnit
フレンドリスト	Friend List	12DdMI 金子２	12DbMI_Kaneko2	13KMI エイジングスキップ	13KMI_AgingSkip

Oddities

A certain tile in Chapter 12 is defined as a Forest tile, even though no forest is actually visible on that tile on the map. Since a forest tile is present at those coordinates in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, the developers most likely just forgot to place a forest tile there when recreating the map's visuals for the DS remake.

(Source: https://www.fireemblemwod.com/fe11/errores.htm)