Glitches (orbugs) are unintended behaviors in a game's logic. These can happen accidentally while playing, or triggered by the player intentionally. This page details glitches inFire Emblem series games. It should be noted that some behaviors documented below may simply be intended gameplay quirks, but these cannot be confirmed without developer commentary.

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light

Manakete defense glitch

When aclass change item is used by aManakete unit with adragonstone equipped, it raises that unit'sdefense by whatever the dragonstone increases defense by (i.e. 12 forfirestone, 13 fordivinestone, 15 formagestone, 23 forearthstone), and the item is not used up. This can be used to exceed the class's usual stat cap of 20. Anything above 99 will not display properly in the stats screen, with only the last two digits showing.

Once the unit's defense increases above 127, it loops down to −128. Enemies will refuse to attack this unit, believing it to have high defense, but it does act properly as negative defense when the enemy counterattacks. On the status screen, −128 displays as 0, −127 displays as 1, and so on; and the battle GUI will always have the defense meter filled.

Once defense loops back up to zero and above, it works normally again.

Incorrect text when talking while on a house or village

In the English version, if a unittalks to another while standing on a house or village tile that can be visited, the dialog will instead display the house or village text.

Talisman glitch

If a unit has hadBarrier used on them and the boost is still active, attempting to use a Talisman on them will cap their resistance without using up the Talisman.

Fire Emblem Gaiden

Skip recruiting Gray

Normally, at the start of the game, Gray blocks the exit of Ram village; when he talks to Alm and join's Alm's team, he will vanish. If the game is reset after speaking toMycen a second time, however, the NPCs will be in different positions, andLukas (if he was not already recruited) will block the entrance, and Alm can leave without recruiting Gray.

Recruit Alm route characters with Celica

During the ending ofAct 2 Celica gains access toAct 1's portion of the world map. Celica is able to walk pastZofia Castle and visit all the locations in that portion of the world. Characters that Alm did not talk to and recruit will still be present and can be recruited into Celica's party. This is an oversight, as they have the same dialogue—some characters, such as the villagers, will call Celica "Alm", and Alm's portrait will appear when speaking toForsyth. It was acknowledged inthe remake, whereKliff andFaye have unique dialogue if they are recruited by Celica in Act 2; other characters, however, either automatically join (such asGray andTobin) or can be spoken to by Celica but can only be recruited by Alm (such as Forsyth andPython).

Remove NPC units from battles

If the player retreats from a map that has NPC units present, the NPCs will disappear when the map is re-entered.

Units using Physic on themselves

If a unit moves, then selectsPhysic and the tile they were previously occupying, they will use Physic on themself. The unit will not be healed, but will take damage from using Physic.

Kill Duma with Nosferatu

For unknown reasons theNosferatu spell is able to reduceDuma to zeroHP, a feat normally only able to be accomplished with Alm'sFalchion. Defeating Duma with Nosferatu causes minor graphical glitches during the ending sequence and the credits.

This glitch was retained in the remake,Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, as an intentional feature.

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

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Capricorn Shard glitch

When applying the growth modifiers for theAstral Shards, the game checks that the unit is holding items within the range of the Astral Shards' internal IDs ($6E to$79). However, the check for the upper bound is a strict less than (<), meaning that the Capricorn Shard, which occupies ID$79, is not treated as an Astral Shard, and as a result its bonuses are never applied.^[1]

Higher hit rates bug

Random events inMystery of the Emblem are resolved by getting a random number from 0–256, dividing it by 2.56 (rounding up), and comparing the result against a probability of the event; if the generated number is less than the probability of the event, the even occurs. However, attacks are determined to hit if the generated number is less than or equal to the chance to hit, rather than simply less than, meaning that all hit rates are in practice 1% higher than displayed.

Hidden treasure durability

When finding a hidden treasure in version 1.0 ofMystery of the Emblem, the item's durability will be set to a different value depending on which button is held down.

• D-pad right: 1
• D-pad left: 2
• D-pad down: 4
• D-pad up: 8
• Start: 16
• Select: 32
• Y: 64
• B: 128

The buttons can be combined to produce a durability that is the sum of the parts (e.g. holding D-pad left + Start + Select will result in an item with 50 durability), with each button corresponding to a bit. Any item with over 127 durability will have it displayed as "--", and any item with between 127 and 100 durability will have it displayed as "100".

InfiniteHammerne exp

When using Hammerne, the game will ask the player to select a unit, and then ask them to select a weapon on that unit to repair. If the player backs out before selecting a weapon, the wielder will gain experience as if she used the staff, but without expending her turn or a use of Hammerne.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

Equipping otherwise unequippable weapons

Weapons only check whether or not they can be equipped or purchased when in thearmory, pawnbroker or when attempting to manually equip a weapon in a unit's inventory. Notably, they do not check whether a weapon can be equipped when it is being repaired from its equipped broken form, or when loading a save in which said weapon was already equipped. This can enable theMiracle Sword to be used by male units, by having a female unit break it and sell it into the pawnbroker as aBroken Sword; the Miracle Sword only checks if it can be equipped when it is actually a Miracle Sword, so a male unit can still buy and equip the broken sword, then repair the sword, causing the Miracle Sword to be equipped. However, once unequipped, the male unit will be unable to re-equip it as they cannot equip it normally and in order to re-equip, must have a female unit buy and break it and sell the broken sword back into the pawnbroker for the male unit to buy, equip and repair.

This glitch can also be combined with the (standard) Valkyrie item corruption glitch below to cause other weapons that are otherwise unequippable to become equipped.

Safeguard village freeze

The game may freeze whenSilvia visits the village containing theSafeguard inChapter 4. The freeze can be avoided by reloading a save file on the turn Silvia will visit the village.

Rescue a guarding unit into the home castle

If a unit guarding the home castle is rescued by a unit within the home castle, the guarding unit is considered to still be guarding the castle, resulting in a number of unique properties:^[2]

• Primarily, the guarding unit will be able to use the depart command; doing so will "cancel" their turn, but will preserve any movements they made and will allow them to move again. The unit cannot depart when there is another unit two tiles below them, as they would be unable to from a unit blocking the exit to a castle.
• The guarding unit can besiege enemy castles from any tile within two tiles of its defender. However, only attacks from the top three such tiles (only two of which are typically accessible) will result in normal combat; besieging from any of the other five tiles (two of which are typically impassible) will result in combat as if it were further away.
• The guarding unit will be healed as if they were guarding the home castle, though they will use the terrain bonuses of whatever terrain they are actually on rather than those of the castle.
• Another unit cannot guard the home castle, as the game considers the castle to already have a guard.

If an enemy attempts to seize the home castle while this glitch is active, the game will softlock.

The glitch can be ended by selecting depart in front of the home castle or finishing a chapter; the glitch will also end when seizingGaneishire inChapter 6, though seizing other castles does not end the glitch.

Valkyrie item corruption

A glitch involvingValkyrie's resurrection menu can be exploited to corrupt item data.

Standard glitch

If, while viewing a unit's profile in the Valkyrie menu, the player presses L or R then exits and views their profile again, the unit's equipped weapon will be changed either to a 98-useIron Lance or a 140-useWarp (depending on the item). If this item is in the unit's inventory, it will be deleted from their inventory when the game is reset; if it is sold, it will remain in the shop. The item's durability after reloading the save will be the same as what the item had when it was glitched, modulo 64 (i.e. if it was made into an Iron Lance it will save with 34 durability and if it was made into a Warp staff it will have 12 durability); this can potentially be used to repair items.

Viewing the Nintendo logo as the game starts up and not selecting a unit on the map before viewing a unit's profile with cause the extended version of this glitch to occur; skipping the logo or selecting a unit will prevent it from occurring.

This glitch is capable of placing theholy weapons into thearmory; they normally cannot be sold, but the corrupted Iron Lance or Warp can be. The most popular use of this glitch is to allowLarcei andScáthach to useBalmung; ifChulainn is their father, they will have majorOd blood, and can use—and thus purchase—Balmung if it is removed fromShannan's inventory with this glitch.

Another possible application of the glitch abuses the fact that a 140-use Warp staff has a buy price so large (140,000 gold) that it overflows to 8,928. If depleted to 131 uses, it will then sell for over 50,000 gold, instantly maxing out any staff user's gold supply. Additionally, as sell prices are calculated before any potential overflow, any Warp staff that has between 66 and 131 uses (inclusive) will sell more than it can buy for, though until it is below 100 durability, it will cost too much to buy without Bargain (as Bargain is calculated after any overflow).

Extended glitch

To perform the extended variant, the Nintendo logo must have been displayed while the game was booting up, and the player must not have selected any unit on the map since they last reset. This corrupts the data of multiple items in internal order, starting at the dead unit's equipped item (seeulti-mage's item table for the order); some items before the dead unit's equipped item may be corrupted due to integer overflows. The exact items that are overwritten varies drastically depending on the item that is equipped when the glitch is executed (seeulti-mage's ValkyrieGlitch program for a calculator).

Saving the game after this glitch is performed or moving a unit holding an invalid non-weapon item can delete save files.

Technical explanation

The game goes through the following steps when the extended glitch is performed:

1. A "current item" variable is initialized as the unit's equipped item's index in the list of items in memory.
2. $DD (221) bytes from ROM address$3F0004 are written to RAM, starting at the address of the current item's location (which can be calculated as(c − 1) × 6 + 4 + $7E3D87), wherec is the current item's index).
3. The current item is replaced, its value being set to the lowest byte of the address used in the previous step.
4. The ROM address is advanced by$DD.
5. If the current item is not a weapon, steps 2–4 are repeated.
6. Steps 2–5 are repeated. The ROM address is reset to its initial value of$3F0004.

Steal + Wrath

If a unit withSteal is fighting against a unit that hasWrath activated, the unit with Steal will also be given a 100% critical rate.^[3]

Jealousy

Main article:Glitch/Jealousy

When checking which units will be given love points, the game fails to reset a pointer when female units are adjacent. As a result, when the game gives out adjacency love bonuses, certain female units will steal love points from others, depending on their priority.

Game freeze from negative Adept rates

If a unit withAdept has less than −20 attack speed, the game will freeze when they attack, as their Adept activation rate will become negative. Since the heaviest weapons—broken weapons—have 30 weight, 10 speed will prevent this from happening; onlyLene andLeif can have Adept and be slow enough for this to happen.

DuplicateLightning

InChapter 7, if Erinys did not have kids, a Lightning tome will appear in the armory. WhenHawk joins, he will have a duplicate of this Lightning (i.e. a Lightning tome that shares its kill count with the one from the Armory) in his inventory. Upon saving and resetting the game, the original Lightning tome will disappear, leaving only the one in Hawk's inventory.

Enemy recruitable units in the HomeCastle

If they are not recruited or killed, certain recruitable enemy units—includingTine,Febail, and their substitutes—will appear in the following chapter's Home Castle as enemies. While they are in the Home Castle they can be treated as playable units.

Canto storage

If a unit with Cantodances or usesFortify, and the cursor was last on another unit (can be done by selecting a command such as "Attack" that moves the cursor off of the unit, and navigating to the Dance/Fortify command without closing the menu), the unit that the cursor was last on will be selected, and the unit who performed the action will not immediately activate Canto, instead requiring the player to manually select them before they can Canto.

While in this state, a unit can return to the Home Castle and perform actions like normal. However, if they attempt to use a staff outside of the Castle besides Fortify, the game will scroll to a glitched unit located at the top-left corner of the map (attempting to use a staff on this unit does nothing). Doing this causes the items of playable units to corrupt, and attempting to save the game can result in the save slot selected being erased. This staff bug behaves differently in some translation patches^{[clarification needed]}, instead causing graphical glitches.

Lover return glitch

When a unit without Canto uses a staff on the home castle's entrance, the game normally will open up a menu after doing so, prompting the unit to enter the castle or guard the castle. However, if the unit is using Return or Warp to send a unit to the home castle, and the unit being returned has a conversation with their lover when returning to the home castle, the conversation will activate while the menu is open. As a result, the hand indicating the option being hovered will stay on screen while the menu will disappear, and the unit will visually disappear. When reselecting the unit, they will reappear and be able to move again, though they can only perform actions as if they were Cantoing.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

Rescuing Eyvel in Chapter 5

InChapter 5, it is possible to get Eyvel out of the arena without being petrified ifNanna is rescuing her when the arena door is opened, which requires that Nanna levelconstitution at least five times. If this happens, then the event will play as if Eyvel was already petrified, without actually removing Eyvel from Nanna. Furthermore, this does not causeMareeta to leave, making it possible to steal theShadow Sword from her.^[4]

However, if the player ends the turn with Eyvel still being rescued by another unit, then at the end of the turn, the scene that plays if Eyvel is captured by an enemy will occur, and she will be taken and petrified. If the player, after opening the arena door with Eyvel rescued by Nanna, then has another unit take and drop Eyvel, then Eyvel will not be petrified and can be used for the remainder of the chapter. If Eyvel uses the escape point and escapes, she will not appear inthe next chapter and will be sent toChapter 24x, but she will not be petrified there.

If both Eyvel and Mareeta are being held by other units at any point, then the scene that plays when Mareeta is captured will occur, and Mareeta will be removed from the map. However, the scene will glitch when attempting to move Eyvel to Veld to be petrified, which will result in Eyvel still being held by whoever rescued her, but in a petrified state. It is possible to then take and drop Eyvel from her rescuer. If Eyvel was petrified in this way and an enemy then captures her and takes her off the map, she will get sent toChapter 21x in a petrified state instead of Chapter 24x, and it is possible to retrieve her from Chapter 21x by rescuing her and having the rescuer escape the map despite her being petrified. Eyvel can then be deployed in subsequent chapters, though petrified and unable to do anything. However, starting Chapter 24, theKia Staff can be used to de-petrify Eyvel, allowing her to be used as a combat unit from then on.

Furthermore, Eyvel's invincibility is only revoked at the start ofChapter 24x. Since the player has already retrieved and de-petrified her, it is not necessary to go to Chapter 24x to re-recruit her anymore. If the Kia Staff is disposed of (by usingSteal to force it onto an enemy or by letting an enemy capture a player unit), Chapter 24x can be skipped and Eyvel will retain her invincibility going into Chapter 25. Likewise, it becomes possible to obtain anSSS rank without going to Chapter 24x.^[5]

Extra S Drinks in Chapter 14x

InChapter 14x, it is possible to get more than 6 S Drinks from the civilians if certain conditions are met. Specifically, the following must occur:

• The enemy escape point is blocked by a player unit (located 2 tiles west of the player's escape point)
• At least One NPC civilian is captured by enemy units
• The enemy units capturing the civilians have all of their weapons stolen

Once these conditions are met, when a player unit reaches the escape point and escapes, and the player then ends their turn with no further actions being taken, then each time the disarmed enemies carrying civilians move, the event that plays when a civilian escapes will play (if these enemies end their turn outside of the player's vision range, the escape dialogue will not play, but the player will still obtain an S Drink). However, this will only occur once per civilian-carrying enemy per player unit escaped. More Stamina Drinks can be obtained by having more player units escape, one unit per turn. Since the player can deploy up to 10 units, andLinoan joins at the start of the chapter, this glitch can be executed up to 10 times for a total of 60 S Drinks.^[6]

Enemy status staff users targeting other enemies without being Berserked

Enemies usingSilence,Sleep, orBerserk uniquely do not check their own status condition for determining who to target, but rather the first unit of their affiliation loaded into the game's memory. In most chapters, this is the chapter boss, who is often posted on a gate or throne, and thus cannot be targeted with status staves, nor be afflicted by status-inflicting weapons. However, in some chapters, the enemy on the gate or throne is not the first enemy loaded, causing the first unit on the enemy list to not necessarily be on a gate or throne. In such cases, it is possible for the first enemy on the list to be hit with Berserk.

Because status staff users only check the status of the first enemy on the list to determine who they can and cannot target, if this first enemy is berserk, they will treat themselves as berserk for the purposes of status staff targeting, and will therefore consider units of all affiliations as potential targets. Enemy status staff users in this state may also target units on gates or thrones and successfully status them, being the only way to do so, and creating normally-impossible scenarios such asCohen being put to sleep orRaydrik getting Berserked and leaving his throne. Furthermore, Silence casters may use Silence on targets who do not use magic or staves at all, or have none in their inventory. However, if this first enemy then has their status condition overwritten (such as being hit with a poison weapon), then this effect ends, and enemy status staff users resume normal targeting.

Additionally, the first enemy in the list does not necessarily have to be alive for this behavior to occur. As long as their data still stores them as in the Berserk state, the effect will persist. Even if the first enemy is killed, as long as they were Berserk at the time of their death, the effect will persist. However, if enough enemy reinforcements spawn such that dead unit's data gets overwritten (the unit cap is 50; the 51st enemy will overwrite the data of the first dead enemy in memory), then the effect ceases, as the reinforcement would overwrite the status condition entry with their new value.^[7]

As a side effect of this behavior, berserking enemy status staff users directly will not cause them to consider targeting other enemies, since the first enemy in the load list needs to be berserked for that to happen. This is, unlike the requirements to pull this glitch off, a realistic scenario.

Known first enemies on the list

• Chapter 18: LeonsterSoldier closest to right side starting positions
• Chapter 20: BossBaráth
• Chapter 21: BossFraus (on a Gate; can't be berserked)
• Chapter 21x: BossZaom
• Chapter 22: LeftmostSword Armor
• Chapter 23: LeftDark Mage
• Chapter 24:Dark Mage in the NPC room closest to the nearby stairs
• Chapter 24x: BossDark Bishop on the escape point
• Endgame:Dark Mage inMus's room

Issues with rescued units forcibly moved by tile changes

InChapter 11,Kempf's trap can have odd effects when the door tile changes forcibly move units that are holding other units. Due to the game updating the rescued unit's data incorrectly when moving their rescuer the rescued unit is flagged as "rescuing someone" and they will behave as such, but there is no valid unit in their possession, causing the game to behave irregularly when the invalid unit is interacted with.

Interactions with the invalid unit include:

• Attempting to drop the invalid unit freezes the game. The tiles the invalid unit can be dropped to appears to be random and irregular (such as wall tiles).
• The game freezes if the holder dies and is forced to drop the invalid unit.
• Trade with the invalid unit can be initiated, but results in an unusual inventory being accessed; exiting the trade menu results in a game freeze.

Enemy movement freeze

During circumstances that are not entirely certain, it is possible for the player to prevent enemies from moving toward a player unit if the last action before ending the player phase is waiting withLeif. The only known instance of this being possible is inChapter 5. In this scenario, the player can use this glitch to haveEyvel immediatelycaptured, which will eliminate one of the three arena fighters, as they will always escape the turn after having captured Eyvel. The glitch can then be used to prevent the remaining arena fighters from attackingNanna, which is useful for allowing the player to not have to fight additional arena fighters that spawn from killing previous fighters.

When the glitch is active, enemies will not move to a space where Nanna could attack them but they could not attack her. With theLands Sword and 5 move, Nanna has an attack range of 7; with 6 move and 1-range weapons, theGeneral andWarrior arena fighters will also have 7 attack range. Because they cannot reach Nanna from outside her range, the enemies will not move to attack her. If an enemy has more move, they will be able to reach her from outside her range, but will still only move to spaces in her range where they could attack her.^[8]

Trigger map events remotely

Certain tiles have special events that the player can choose a unit to activate: for example moving to a Village gives the player the prompt to Visit the Village with said unit. For this glitch, the player must move a unit with either aWarp orRewarp staff and the ability to use it onto such tile, and then selects said staff (in Warp's case another unit must be standing adjacent to the tile), at which point the game will allow the player to move the cursor to any tile to perform the Warp/Rewarp. If the player moves the cursor to be over another event tile, backs out to the initial menu (where the player selected the "staff" command), and activates the event tile, the game will activate the tile the cursor was previously over, instead of the event on the unit's position.

In the case of a chest, the game will consume a chest key if the tile the unit is standing on is a chest, but not if the tile the cursor was over was a chest. This also works with thrones, though this is impossible to see in normal gameplay asLeif is unable to use staves, and the game does not activate the Throne event unless Leif was the one to activate the command. This glitch can also be used to visit the secret shop from anywhere in Chapter 24, provided the staff user has the member card in their inventory.

Sol and skill weapon glitch

When a unit with Sol equips a weapon that gives a skill internally stored in slot 2 (Nihil,Vantage,Miracle, orCharm), Sol cannot activate. This happens with theKing Sword,Mareeta's Sword,Beo's Sword,Dragon Lance,Blessed Sword, andBragi Sword.

Game Boy Advance games

Enemy control glitch

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade andThe Sacred Stones both have a glitch involving certainterrain hazard behaviors. To utilize this glitch, an enemy must initiate an attack on their phase when standing on a certain tile to be controlled. The glitch can be activated by resetting the game after the enemy completes their attack, but before the next enemy moves. The player will then be given control of enemies for that turn.

When the glitch is in effect, the player has total control of the enemy army and can perform any action that they could with their own army. This allows them to make enemies perform actions that enemies otherwise would never perform, such asrescuing andtrading with each other, or accessingMerlinus'ssupply convoy. As enemies drop the last item in their inventory, the item that is dropped can be manipulated through trading, and can potentially allow the player to obtain items that are otherwise unavailable.

The tiles that trigger this (and thus the tile that the enemy must be standing on) are:

• Lava tiles that shoot flames
• Snag tiles, where the snag used to be.^{[citation needed]}
• The tile where a torch staff was used.
• The tile at map position (0, 0)—i.e. the top left corner tile—after a map change (such as achest opening or a wall being broken) has occurred.

Additionally, the tile where aMine was placed can activate this glitch; the game should be reset during or after the Mine animation, or before the next enemy moves. Mines are normally only available inThe Blazing Blade, but the glitch can still be performed with the unused Mine item inThe Sacred Stones.

Applications

• As dropped items have their durability restored, controlled enemies can take an item out of the convoy and give it to an enemy that drops an item to restore its durability.
• InChapter 24E/26H ofThe Blazing Blade, the glitch can be used to makeVaida put her special "Uberspear" into the convoy, or trade it to an enemyShaman who drops aLuna to make them drop the Spear instead.
• InThe Sacred Stones, when aGorgon Egg becomes aGorgon, the durability of the items in its inventory is restored. Through the use of this glitch, items can be given to a Gorgon Egg to be restored when it hatches; however, the first item in its inventory is deleted, and the glitch will need to be performed a second time to retrieve the items.
• InThe Sacred Stones, players can obtain monster-exclusive weapons through the enemy control glitch.Myrrh can use weapons such asSharp Claw orFiery Fang, while weapons used byMogalls,Arch Mogalls, and Gorgons are considereddark magic, and can be used by units that normally cannot use dark magic due to their--weapon level.
  • Stone uniquely provides dark experience, allowing any unit the ability to use dark tomes. Classes capable of usinganima orlight magic can use dark magic with no issues, but other units revert to map animations when using magic.Tethys does play animations when using magic, however theDancer animation is not programmed to return to "standing and ready to attack" state after attacking once, and the game will softlock if Tethys'sattack speed is high enough to follow-up.

Canto glitches

In all of the GBA games, a glitch can occur that prevents a unit withCanto from activating it. If thesupply menu is opened or atrade partner is selected but the menu is closed before any items are exchanged, then, without closing the action menu, an action is performed that would allow the unit to activate Canto (e.g. using anitem orrescuing a unit), the unit will be unable to activate Canto to utilize their remaining movement.

Additionally, the tiles that allow theenemy control glitch to be triggered also cause mounted units to activate Canto after actions such as Attack which do not normally allow it.^[9]

Status effect counter

In all of the GBA releases, the turn counter for status effects does not decrease when that unit is being rescued. This prevents poison damage and makes thedancer ring buffs last for more than one turn.

Unit stacking

It is possible to place multiple allied units on the same tile with frame-perfect inputs.^[10] However, while enemies can target any unit on that tile, the player can only select or target the one which is lowest in deployment order.

Erroneous autolevels on non-generic enemies

InThe Blazing Blade and the Japanese version ofThe Sacred Stones, certain non-generic enemies are erroneously set to receive autolevels as if they were generic units, resulting in extreme increases in their stats:

• Fargus in Eliwood Hard ModeChapter 16x ofThe Blazing Blade.
• Maxime in Hector Hard ModeChapter 28 ofThe Blazing Blade.
• Pablo inChapter 13A ofThe Sacred Stones.
• Amelia in Chapter 13A ofThe Sacred Stones.
• Cormag in Chapter 13A ofThe Sacred Stones.
• Riev inChapter 20 ofThe Sacred Stones.

In the localization ofThe Sacred Stones, the way stat gains from autolevels were determined for non-generic enemies was changed, resulting in each character gaining significantly fewer stats.

Three bosses inThe Binding Blade—Roberts,Maggie, andRose—also gain autolevels in this way, though this is intentional.

Devil Axe and ranged axe animation bug

If, with combat animations on, a unit has the Devil Axe backfire on them, and is then hit with a ranged axe (Hand Axe,Tomahawk, orHatchet), the games will undergo significant visual bugs:

• If the throwing axe user doubles or neither unit doubles, the first throwing axe that hits the Devil Axe user will cause their health bar to rapidly increase beyond their max HP, until it reaches0xFFF (4095) inThe Binding Blade andThe Blazing Blade and0xFF (255) inThe Sacred Stones, at which point the combat will continue as normal. If the Devil Axe user dies, they will not display their death quote.
• If the Devil Axe user doubles, the HP overflow will happen on the follow-up attack. If the unit with the throwing axe does not have a death quote they will die when they land their hit.

This is purely a visual bug with the animations, and does not change how much damage each unit took.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Berserk causing glitched graphics

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If Berserk breaks while animations are on, the message "A Berserk Staff broke!" that should be displayed does not appear, and the display in the center of the screen shows glitched graphics.^[11]

Recruitable characters getting extra stats on Hard Mode

When calculating extra stats for Hard Mode enemies, recruitable characters are supposed to be excluded from the bonuses. However, an oversight causes the game to incorrectly give these bonuses to any recruitable enemy if they appear after the start of the map. This includes characters who join after the map starts but before the player's first turn (such as Perceval inChapter 15), as well as units who are only enemies in cutscenes (such as Melady inChapter 13). When calculating these bonuses, the game will not use the character's growths, but their class growths.^[12] (This inconsistent behavior is exclusive toThe Binding Blade: inThe Blazing Blade, all recruitable enemies get the appropriate bonus levels, whereas inThe Sacred Stones, none of them do.)

Obtain aFirestone

InThe Binding Blade there is an AI oversight that allows the player to obtain aFirestone, a normally enemy-exclusivedragonstone weapon, through having aThief afflicted byberserk steal one from an enemyManakete. Obtaining a firestone requires a map to have both aManakete with a Firestone and an enemy with aBerserk staff (requirements which Chapters22 and23 satisfy); a playerThief (Chad,Astolfo, orCath) is also required.

Fae is able to use the firestone, though it causes benign graphical glitches. The animations handle the transformation dynamically, showing Fae transform into a fire dragon despite her not being able to access one in normal gameplay; the map animations suffer no graphical glitches whatsoever.

The AI oversight that causes this is the internal list of items that the AI uses when deciding what to steal. For whatever reason, it contains all three types of dragonstones (including the unused Demon Dragonstone) as the highest priority loot despite them not being stealable within intended theft mechanics.

Failing a 100% chance

InThe Binding Blade it is possible for a 100% chance to, very rarely, fail due to an error in howThe Binding Blade generates random numbers. The expected range for random numbers is 0 to 99, and a random check succeeds if a generated random number is lower than the success rate (e.g. a stat with a 50% growth rate will grow when numbers 0–49 are generated, and will not grow when 50–99 are generated). An error in how the random numbers are generated allows for a 36/65536 or about 0.055% chance of the game generating a 100, which would force a 100% success based on a single random number, such as a growth rate orstaff attack, to fail. Most attacks, however, are calculated based ontrue hit, where the average of two random numbers is checked against the hit rate; as such, two 100s would need to be generated in a row to force an attack to miss—an event which has slightly more than a 0.00003% chance of occurring.^[13] This does not occur in the other Game Boy Advance games.

Rescued unit able to move again

If a unit who has already moved getsrescued by another unit and the rescuer dies, the rescued unit will be able to move again. If the rescued unit ended their turn by waiting, they will not be able to perform any action except wait and will be forced to move if they are selected, as if they had activatedCanto; additionally, this can cause visual errors, such as incorrectly coloring tiles that the rescuer could have attacked but the rescued cannot traverse. This does not occur in the other Game Boy Advance games.

Impossible Arena enemies

If the player enters the Arena several times, players may occasionally encounter an enemy wielding incompatible weapon types in the arena. Unpromoted units may encounter aBrigand with a type ofbow (Iron Bow,Steel Bow, orSilver Bow), and promoted units may encounter aWarrior with a type ofanima tome (Fire,Elfire, orFimbulvetr). Once this happens, the match will take place in total darkness as there is no animation programmed for this scenario. If the opponent is physical, they cannot retaliate; magical opponents can retaliate and possibly kill with a critical hit. It is also possible for the player unit to die. After one round of combat, the match ends as if the player had rescinded their bet.

Staff AI priority

The AI of units with theBerserk andSleep staves is intended to prioritize units with the highest hit rates and level by checking each target's staff hit and level to the previous. However, the game does not store the previous unit's hit rate, which results in the AI almost always prioritizing the unit in the highest deployment slot. This bug does not affect enemies usingSilence staves, which use a different priority system of hit rate + magic.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

100% support graphical glitch

A minor graphical glitch occurs in the English localization ofThe Blazing Blade, when 100% of support conversations are unlocked in the support viewer. "Success" overlaps with 100% by a few pixels.

Help description text overflow

The Blazing Blade's North American release introduced a glitch with theWind Sword's andDragon Axe's help descriptions; both of their help descriptions are too long to display properly; this also causes other graphical glitches to occur. These errors were fixed in the PAL release byshortening the descriptions.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Pierce glitch

A glitch with thePierce skill was introduced inThe Sacred Stones's localization. If animations are on and a unit activates pierce on their first hit, then attacks again while the opponent's HP is still decreasing, the game freezes.^[14] Normally, the game waits for HP to finish decreasing before allowing the unit to attack again, but for some reason Pierce skips this waiting period. This glitch can be entirely circumvented by turning animations off.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Ike's fourIron Swords

There is a bug in the North American version ofPath of Radiance that causesIke to have fourIron Swords inChapter 1 if the Visit tutorial is skipped. This was not present in the Japanese version, and was fixed for the PAL release.

Critical glitch

In the Japanese version, forging a 5-critical weapon to 0-critical at a weapons shop changes it to 255-critical. This glitch was fixed in the international versions.

Reduced number of available units at advance preparations

In the Japanese version, if the player recruits a unit right after leaving the base, has only Ike deployed, then immediately returns to the base and saves, the number of available units at advance preparations will be reduced.^[15]

Shinon not dropping his Brave Bow

InChapter 18 of the Japanese version,Shinon will not drop theBrave Bow if the player saves at the preparations screen; if the player resets the game, then Shinon will drop the Brave Bow as usual. This glitch was fixed in the international versions.

Same two item illustrations appearing

When selecting a trial map, a confirmation message will be displayed. If the cursor is highlighting "No" when the option is selected and the player then looks at the character illustration in that state, they will see the same two item illustrations.^[16][17]

Ike activates Aether 10 times in a row

If Aether activates when Ike attacks a door with an indirect attack, it will be activated 10 times in a row without the health gauge on the door decreasing.^[18]

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Data Transfer Freeze

If a player transfers aPath of Radiance cleared data where Jill defected inChapter 20, the game will freeze; deleting these saves fixes the issue.

Pass glitch

When the player is moving a unit withPass and at least 8 movement, the movement arrow can be maneuvered to be much longer than normally possible—and can even exit the blue tiles, although it must return to a blue tile immediately afterwards—if it is moved through at least one enemy unit; the player cannot move a unit somewhere they would otherwise not be able to move. Though this glitch is normally harmless, it can have game-breaking effects in extreme cases.^[19]

Treasure glitch

The international versions fixed a glitch that was found in the Japanese version where a unit could repeatedly attempt to obtainhidden treasures by cycling through theDirect and Cancel commands.

Enemy Class Change

InChapter III-11, if a player unit is level 20 with 99 experience and is hit with anOnager, theSniper shooting it will suddenly class change into aMarksman with Shinon's model and a villager portrait.^[20]

Heather does not promote with Steal

IfHeather reaches level 21 with experience fromstealing instead of combat or bonus experience, she will reset to level 20 instead of promoting. This does not happen in the Japanese version, where aMaster Crown is required for promotion.

Equipping Micaiah with staff causing buggy movement

If Micaiah is equipped with a staff when the player clears Part III, Chapter 6 (and clear the map while equipped with a staff in Chapter 7), Micaiah, who is supposed to be sleeping in bed during the events of Chapter 12, is standing on the bed and clipping past it. Similarly, in the final chapter of Part III, when Micaiah retreats, her walking becomes faster if she is equipped with a staff.^[21][22]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Warp staff cloning glitch

When using the Warp staff and quickly skipping the animation, an invisible clone of the teleported character can appear where they were standing before being teleported away. This glitch is present in the Japanese and North American versions; it was removed in the European.

The glitch works differently between the Japanese and US version. In the Japanese version, the clone disappears immediately when an enemy moves. In the North American version, it will remain for 1 to 3 turns and impede enemy movement, similar to aLight Rune orShine Barrier.

Obtain twoFalchions

It is possible to accessChapter 24x and also keep both Falchions. The requirements to access Chapter 24x are: Tiki is not present in the party (either she has been defeated or she was never recruited) and Falchion must not be present anywhere in theconvoy or anyunit's inventories. To enter 24x while in possession of Falchion, a unit holdingMarth's Falchion (other than Marth himself; this unit can be Tiki) must die duringChapter 24. Dead units' items are sent to the convoy at the end of the chapter; it appears the game fails to account for this when checking the player's items for the presence of Falchion, as the player will be sent to 24x as if they did not have Falchion.

The player will then recruitNagi and obtain another Falchion upon completion of Chapter 24x. Additionally, the player may use theAum staff, obtained the previous chapter, to revive the unit that died while holding Falchion.

Turn Count overflow

During the ending, where the turn count of each chapter is displayed, any turn count that exceeds 255 turns will overflow, and the displayed turn count will be the true turn count modulo 256.

Fire Emblem Awakening

Battle zoom-in garbage effect

If the3DS's 3D effect is turned on during the transition into an attack, the blur effect will be partially corrupted by garbage graphics.

Detailed unit list glitch

In the detailed unit list inpreparations, highlighting the top unit, changing the table sort, and highlight a new top unit does not update the bottom screen's display. This behavior indicates that the table's header and the first unit of the list both share the same table entry index number. Since changing the cursor from the header to the first unit will not result in a different index number, the bottom screen is not updated.

Vaike's axe cutscene after death

IfVaike dies on the same turn he is given hisIron Axe inChapter 2, the cutscene withMiriel scolding him will take place after Vaike's death, but will play out as normal.^[23]

Japanese voice glitch

In the North American release, if the game is reset while voices are set to Japanese, the voices will go back to English. Cinematic cutscenes are still in Japanese, however. This glitch was fixed in the PAL release.

Luna teleport

If aGreat Knight onOrigin Peak triggersLuna, followed by aDual Strike or a second attack, they will teleport after Luna's animation.^[24]

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

HP overflow issues

HP regeneration from forts and similar tiles can encounter overflow issues with units with very high HP,^[25] resulting in unintended HP values being applied. In the case of the referenced example, doing exactly 3 damage toEdelgard inAzure Moon Chapter 22—whose last HP bar has 199 HP on Maddening mode—and allowing her HP to be "restored" results in her death due to her HP being set to 0.

Songs not unlocking in the Music Library

If the voiceover language forThree Houses is set to English, the songs "Song of the Nabateans" and "The Edge of Dawn" will not appear in theMusic Library, even if they are encountered in gameplay (which would normally unlock them). This may be due to the conditions for the English version of both songs having been incorrectly set, as both songs feature lyrics in English and Japanese.

Authority skill point loss when battalions are automatically equipped

Edelgard,Hubert,Dimitri, andClaude each have a unique battalion automatically equipped to them at different points in the story—inChapter 12 if siding against the Church for Edelgard and Hubert, and inChapter 13 for Dimitri and Claude in Azure Moon and Verdant Wind respectively—and have theirauthority skill increased to C if it is below that; at this point, they will lose any points they gained toward the next authority level even if their level was above C, though they will not decrease in skill level. Presumably, this is caused by an oversight in how their authority level is increased.

Skipping to unintended dates and repeating months

When skipping to specific dates on thecalendar, it is possible to select a different day than intended by holding a direction on the left control stick or D-pad when selecting "Skip to Date"; doing so causes the cursor to move—though inconsistently—in the direction indicated, allowing players to skip to dates they conventionally could not. In chapters where the mission does not occur on the last day of the month, it is possible to skip to a day after the mission, though this can be inconsistent. After skipping the mission, the month will restart from the beginning and proceed as normal, and all events—including story events, instruction days, and the gold awarded at the start of the month—will occur again, effectively allowing for infinite acquisition of gold, experience, skill points, etc.^[26]

Unlocking S supports in New Game + that have not been unlocked

Units that cannot unlock an S support with Byleth continue to gain support points with Byleth up to the S support threshold (1001 points), while those who can unlock one will stop at 1000. In New Game +, characters who reached the S support point threshold—even if the support was not unlocked—can have their S supports unlocked in Byleth's Journal viarenown;^[27] e.g. if Felix reaches 1001 points with a male Byleth in a file, and that file is used to start New Game + with a female Byleth, Felix's S support with Byleth can be unlocked.

Shambhala music stops playing

InSilver Snow Chapter 20/Verdant Wind Chapter 21, if the player defeats all visible enemies, the music will stop playing for a brief period before restarting. This is likely because the game assumes the chapter to be completed once all visible enemies have been routed, as the hidden enemies in the closed rooms are only spawned once the rooms are opened.

Silence animation does not correspond to success

When a unit is targeted with theSilence spell, the animation they perform does not correspond to whether they are actually afflicted withSilence—the unit may perform the "getting hit" animation while the effect does not activate, or they may perform a dodge animation while the effect does activate.^[28]

Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE

Character Profile Crash

In the character profile located under the Artists menu, while quickly scrolling through the character's biography, there is a chance that the game will crash, and theWii U will make a loud buzzing sound. This is most notable withTsubasa's profile page as she has the longest biography section. This glitch is seemingly fixed inEncore.

Medeus Game Crash

If Medeus is killed by either the Pale Druid or Pale Sorcerer (which can happen if they are confused or charmed), after the cutscene plays and Tiki heals everyone, the game will crash, and the Wii U will make a loud buzzing sound for about 5 seconds. This glitch only works in the Wii U version; inEncore, the Pale Druid and Pale Sorcerer are prevented from attacking when Confused or Charmed.

Yashiro Fight Softlock

If the player loses the battle againstYashiro at the start ofChapter 3 by having their last standing character physically attack Yashiro while he has hisCounter ready, a line of dialogue at the end of the fight will not properly play. After the fight, the game will initially appear normal. However, when the player tries to engage with another enemy afterward, the game will be waiting on that missed cutscene while in aGame Over state, and thus will be stuck hanging on the loading screen. This has been fixed in theEncore version, allowing the cutscene to play properly if the above conditions are met.

Pierce glitch

In the logic that constructs session combos, the skill Pierce (which ignores Resist) is incorrectly treated as its upgraded version Penetrate (which ignores Resist, Null, and Drain). Hitting into Null, Drain, or Repel for an element causes the session combo to end prematurely, so if a character equips Pierce, then the bug frequently leads to them breaking session combos. The bug is most noticeable on the Carrietta enemies in Chapter 5, as they have Null Fire and Null Elec, whichTouma andEleonora with Pierce will frequently hit into. This bug is present in both the original andEncore versions.

TearRing Saga: Yutona Heroes War Chronicles

Obtain two Magic Staves

If, when visiting Mars Temple, Mel has her weapon inventory full and Maruj has at least one empty slot in his weapon inventory, twoMagic Staves will end up in the convoy, when normally only one will be obtained.

Make a duplicateKrishna

It is possible to make a duplicate of the characterKrishna and duplicate items with the two Krishnas. This is caused by an oversight with a story event where Krishna leaves the party then rejoins later. To do this glitch, complete the following steps:

• SendVega withHolmes's group during the first route split.
• Agree to view the event between Krishna,Shigen, and Vega that occurs right beforeMap 14: Holmes the Hero.
• Let Krishna die before Holmes enters theTower of Morse for the first time. (This occurs afterMap 30: The Legendary Swordsman, so there is plenty of time to do this.)
• Enter the tower and reach the top floor; use theDakruon to revive Krishna, leave the tower.
• Enter the tower again and deploy her on the fifth floor and have Shigentalk to her.
• Despite already being in the party, Krishna will be added to the party again, resulting in two of her in the roster.

Under normal circumstances, Shigen's conversation with her is the point where she rejoins the party; it seems the developers did not make a contingency for if the event is skipped by her being dead and being revived afterwards, resulting in her being added to the party despite her already being there.

The two Krishnas share their inventory. By placing items in the bottom-most Krishna's inventory and closing the item management menus, the items will be duplicated into the top-most Krishna's inventory; removing items from the top Krishna's inventory will not remove them from the bottom Krishna's inventory. Doing the reverse, giving items to the top Krishna, will instead overwrite items in the bottom Krishna's inventory, losing the items. Additionally, the bottom-most Krishna's stats will be overwritten by the top-most Krishna's stats after each battle.

TearRing Saga Series: Berwick Saga

Move and attack with Burroughs

Normally,Burroughs cannot attack after having moved on the same turn. However, if his weapon is unequipped before he is moved, he will be able to attack after moving.

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