Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo

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Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo is a remake of the second half of Monshou no Nazo and, as a nice bonus, modified remakes of all four episodes of the Monshou spinoff BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia Senkihen (becoming one of the few Satellaview exclusives to see an official rerelease in some form following the service's closure).

After the remake of the first half of Monshou sold poorly and the Nintendo 3DS' release approached, however, the marketing team decided that English-speaking audiences didn't need to know how Marth's tale finishes. Whether the tale of collapsing marriages bringing out apocalypse by mole dragon is even Marth's tale anymore is up to interpretation. After all, wasn't Kris, the Hero of Shadow, the actual savior of Archanea?

What, he never existed and was only invented for this remake? Don't be ridiculous.

Debug Map#

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Like many Fire Emblem games, Shin Monshou contains a debug map. To access this chapter, go to 39C585D in a hex editor and replace the "bmap202" string with "bmap000". This will take the player to the debug map upon completion of Prologue 1. Alternatively, one can disassemble their ROM and edit any of the "bmap" files in the "script" folder.

This code can be used to load the debug map as well. Hold L when loading from suspend.

02021164 E0820280
94000130 FDFF0000
02021164 E1A00002
D0000000 00000000

The map itself is comprised of a simplistic recreation of the first chapter of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light and Book 1 of Monshou, "Marth Embarks". As opposed to reusing the map texture of Shadow Dragon's version of the chapter, tiles corresponding to the appropriate terrain are placed without any heed being paid to it actually looking visually appealing.
In addition to the standard geography of Talys, a door connecting to a roof, a drawbridge, and a treasure chest are located at the southeast tip of the island, south of the player's starting position. Unit placement is similar to the chapter's previous incarnations for general consumption, but somewhat offset from their actual locations.
The player has access to 16 playable units, twice the standard amount of 8 that the chapter normally has by its conclusion.

Most of the enemies are pretty much the equivalent to the Galder Pirates, the standard enemies fought in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light's first chapter. Their positions are slightly offset, which leads to the boss no longer standing on the intended cell. In addition, almost every enemy is named "NoName" in plain English. Only the more interesting enemies will have their information shown here. Otherwise, the generic enemy formation is a measly level 1 pirate with iron axes. It appears they were not programmed to move, making them a slapstick for your units to deal with at their leisure.

There are several landmarks scattered around for the player to interact with.

• A save point can be found at 25, 10.
• The right hand village hands out a Steel Sword and a Vulnerary in addition to its standard 10,000 gold reward.
• The left hand village cannot be visited.
• There is an armory available at 27, 3, selling:
  • Iron Sword
  • Brave Sword
  • Iron Lance
  • Brave Lance
  • Iron Axe
  • Brave Axe
  • Iron Bow
  • Fire
  • Heal
  • Vulnerary
  • Master Seal
  • Elysian Whip
• An arena can be found at 29, 7.
• The seize point is at 25, 7. Castle siege takes the player to Chapter 1.
• The treasure chest contains a Vulnerary.
• The drawbridge can be lowered, but this does nothing.
• The door removes the roof when opened.
• Several houses around the Debug Map are inaccessible.

Items#

Almost a Fire Emblem tradition with how unused items usually involve a Torch effect, which is an item(or a staff) that increases the cell vision in Fog of War maps. Torch was probably cut due to just how limited its usefulness would be outside of multiplayer purposes, since Fog of War only appears in two of the game's 45 total story maps.

Dialogue#

To do: Document Boah's unused classic and casual death quotes

During Prologue 7, Katarina asks My Unit if there's a person who gives them a purpose to live. Kris responds that Marth is their liege, but strangely there is an unused dialogue branch where they’re unsure if there is such a person. Previous interactions would provide a yes or no answer. In this case, it was likely scrapped for story inconsistencies since Kris is going to become one of Marth's knights regardless of the choice, serving as an oddity that such an important unit that doesn’t know whether that choice is right ends up doing it anyways. Especially when it’s established that this is what My Unit wanted to do right up to this point.

At the end of Prologue 8, there is an unused scene where Norne says goodbye to the Avatar, like most of their other allies. Judging from the dialogue, it seems Norne was concerned about Ryan’s wounds if he fell in battle. Norne also has an unused retreat line, suggesting that she was to be playable in an earlier prologue chapter.

In Chapter 3x, Clarisse flees from the battlefield after a few turns before anyone (with an exception of Wrys) can reach her, however with cheating devices, you can see her opening and fallback quote by attacking her.

Maria, Nyna, Elice, and Lena have “How's Everyone” quotes, which go unused because they can only join at a certain point in the late storyline. For context, “How's Everyone” is only accessible from the preparation menu. It doesn’t offer anything groundbreaking though as their dialogue is the same for each situation.

Asterisks at the end of the string IDs stand for MARIA, NIENA, ERICE, or RENA.

Gotoh has death and retreat quotes as a playable character, but those are unused, as Gotoh is never playable in the game.

An aftermath scene for Chapter 6x if both Caesar and Radd were killed went unused. The message lines implies that Kris is speaking to Marth, by also erroneously using Marth's portrait. Due to a mistake in the internal script; a control character giving the dialog to Kris was overlooked(or perhaps scrapped as it was worked on) and so the game assigns the dialog to Marth instead.

Unused Playable Character#

Gotoh is the only playable character from Shadow Dragon who doesn't make a return in New Mystery. His single non-playable appearance in a scene in Chapter 14, though, does have stats attached.

Anti-Piracy#

The game uses the DS Protect anti-piracy library to ensure that it is not being run off a flashcart or emulator. If any of the DS Protect checks fail, the game removes several NPCs and infinitely loops the starter cutscene of Prologue 1 by restarting when the player reaches the tutorial section. Screen graphics will also get corrupted, even if you were to restart it repeatedly.