The Progressively More Confusing History of Fire Emblem's Actual Secret Codes 

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Wanna point out a very strong lead here with the results screen password. Metroid Zero Mission has a hidden mode you can unlock with codes. It's a Time Attack mode, which isn't too much different from what the standard New Game Plus gives you in Zero Mission, but Time Attack mode tracks a few extra things throughout a playthrough. However, once you beat the game in a time attack run unlocked with this secret code, the ending results screen gives you a password in Zero Mission as well, tracking very similar data as in FE7's password, essentially putting your results into the contents of a code. And it is actually very well documented that Nintendo held a speed running contest in Japan for Zero Mission, and the first place prize for the fastest time completing Zero Mission in time attack mode was a special Game Boy Advance SP with Samus's suit colors and the drawing from the ending screen in the lower right of the GBA. The interesting connection here is that Intelligent Systems worked on Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion. That's why Arran is literally just an expy of Samus (with the Samson/Arran reference introduced in FE1 and Arran being intended to look more like Samus of the two) and his backstory detailed in New Mystery is designed to be just a medieval expy of Metroid 2's plot, with the twist he doesn't come to his senses in time like Samus and is haunted by his massacre for the rest of his days (a fate heavily implied to be something that would have befallen Samus had she fully gone through with that in Metroid 2). However, Intsys stopped working on the 2D installments of the series after Fusion. Buuuut it's definitely possible that ideas were passed around between the main Nintendo development team working on Zero Mission and Intelligent Systems, especially given that Zero Mission runs on a heavily modified Fusion codebase, a game Intsys did work on. I'm not sure if there was a Blazing Blade contest that ever actually happened in Japan, but it was probably a contest for Low Turn Count clears if it was held given the parallels with Zero Mission here and the data that's actually given by the password. There was a Binding Blade contest that actually was held in Japan, and the top ranked players received special cartridges of Binding Blade with exclusive trial maps. This is documented on SerenesForest, but I don't think there's any similar password system in FE6, unless it's undiscovered? It's possible they held or intended to hold a similar contest for FE7 and wanted a password system to weed out frauds, and Zero Mission took a similar idea later due to Metroid's close ties to Intsys up to that point.

I love the secret codes it might be more relevant if you find out some secret codes for awakening or fates. And do a video on it. I started fire emblem with awakening and fates so finding neat things to do there would be of interest to me and those games are more accessible then the Gameboy ones so more people could try them out

Basically a factory reset for your cartridge.

Not being able to get both Easy Mode and the money code is slightly annoying though

How?

I've gaslighted him on purpose several other occasions for other jokes, but the way this one came about was him playing Thracia for the first time blindly, and only once he got towards the end of the game I said something along the effects of "Bro, if you're having that much trouble with the Ballistas just start over on Paragon mode!" He was confused, so I explained what Paragon mode was, he then told me I was full of sh#$

Granted, I explained it in a very nonbelievable way

@@Nupleyboi he gaslighted himself on that one

@@Nupleyboi Gaslighting 4D chess

A bit too faithful if you ask me. The atrocity that is Gaiden’s map design shouldn’t have come back in it’s remake.

@@maximeminassian6002 I mean, Kaga did them - so it's at least something left from him in the series

@@byronvonedmund I mean, it’s true but honestly the map design of the Kaga games are generally very boring, having way too much open fields and a tendency of really badly placed ennemies, I’m staring at you Nuibaba’s abode. And personally, I feel like the purpose of a remake shouldn’t be to copy everything from the original and only changing the graphics and aesthetic, but to improve on what was previously done, in order to give a much more pleasant experience for the new generations of fans, something SoV barely even tried.

Agreed, besides, Thracia's stat caps are so absurdly low sometimes it doesn't even help that much that you level up faster

Keeping your money on New Game is arguably more useful I suppose

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 even then, Thracia throws money at you. The difficulty from thracia doesn't come from stats or resources.

That wouldn't really made sense tho. PoR is not known to have ever had a tie to FE7 and FE8 is completely out of the question because that game was quickly thrown together as a fillergame until the release of PoR, FE7 was originally meant to be the last GBA game.

and in 3H and other FE games I think, it resets the game back to the main menu

@@aegrajag That's a more bog-standard soft reset that has been nearly standardized in the JRPG genre. The fact that it has a distinctly different behavior in BSFE is of note.

The lost media that makes fans sad.