Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

FE Decomp Portal

This is a disassembly of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (U)[!]

It builds the following ROM:

• fireemblem8.gba sha1: c25b145e37456171ada4b0d440bf88a19f4d509f

Quick Start

If you just want to get the repo building quickly (Ubuntu/WSL, Arch Linux, or macOS/Homebrew), drop your legally obtained ROM at the repo root as baserom.gba and run:

./scripts/quickstart.sh [--rom /path/to/baserom.gba] [--refresh-agbcc]

See docs/quickstart.md for full details, flags, and troubleshooting tips.

Building

To build the ROM:

make fireemblem8.gba -j$(nproc)

To clean all build artifacts:

make clean

To clean all build artifacts except the extremely slow battle animation compression outputs:

make clean_fast

Setting up the repository manually

1. You must have a copy of the Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones ROM named baserom.gba in the repository directory.
2. Install devkitPro or GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain.

# for Ubuntu/WSL users
apt install binutils-arm-none-eabi

3. Install agbcc to this project.

cd /path/to/agbcc
./build.sh
./install.sh /path/to/fireemblem8u

4. Build tools.

cd /path/to/fireemblem8u
./build_tools.sh

5. Build the project.

make

6. You will see this for success.

fireemblem8.gba: OK

Q: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory

A: Install libpng to build tools/gbagfx.

Q: make: *** No rule to make target 'baserom.gba', needed by 'xxx'. Stop.

A: You must place a copy of the Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones ROM named baserom.gba in the repository directory.

Q: unrecognized option '--add-symbol'

A: Update your devkitPro or embedded toolchain. Read this for more info.

Q: .dep/src/xxx.d:2: *** missing separator. Stop.

A: rm -rf .dep or disable VSCode Extension: Makefile Tools if installed.

Check INSTALL.md and INSTALL.md if you have trouble in setting up.

Check remove_tools branch if you don't want to build agbcc and other tools by yourself. It uses docker to make setting up easier. Follow its README.md instead.