FEXP: The much, MUCH older version of FEXNA.

If you like coding in C#, this is a particularly powerful option. It has a lot of unique features though, as we’ll later see. It has lots of QOL functionality but is less open-sourced than LT and as such has a smaller community. This is BwdYeti’s custom engine that has been in development for almost a decade. If you like coding in Python, this is a particularly powerful option. It’s also fully compatible with the Graphics Repository. It’s versatile, easy to use, and easy to set up. This makes FE games not by modifying a ROM, but by creating a game from scratch.

Lex Talionis AKA ‘LT.’ This is Rainlash’s engine that has been in development for only a few years, but has several coders updating it extremely frequently.

Typically, new users should start with FEB and advance to Buildfiles if they crave more control over their projects. This is an advanced form of Romhacking that is much cleaner to use, makes projects that do not tend to accumulate garbage data, is easy to bugfix, but requires a bit of advanced hacking knowledge to understand. It is simple and easy to use, though it can also be a bit unwieldy in specific circumstances.

This is engine, which the majority of the fandom uses to make their hacks nowadays. This is not an engine, but the usage of FEBuilder or Buildfiles or some other older methods to modify a ROM of FE6/7/8 to make a game. Throughout this topic, I will be mentioning the following engines.

I will be happy to add more points as time passes, and I intend to keep this topic relatively updated, especially as new features drop for Lex Talionis. I’m probably not going to be able to hit every bullet point, but if you guys feel I missed something, let me know. Today, I’m going to be talking about as many of the main engines people use to custom-create their own Fire Emblem or FE-like games as I possibly can. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, not something I researched or investigated heavily. When I first wrote a comparison post about the three main ‘engines’, I did so in about two hour’s time without a lot of thought. This is effectively a major update to that post I made over a year ago.

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