How to get Twin Kanas from Paralogue 2

First, this process assumes you already have a method of running romhacks, it is not something I plan of explaining, so if you have no way of running your romhacks or don’t know how, this is a good place to start as it explains very well and is Fates specific.







So first off, here are some download links;

Patches here;

GameFiles for running with NTR CFW or HANS here;

Both are necessary, the romfs files are needed because the map unit spawn data needs to be edited for both Kanas to spawn and join you, however the GameData.bin.lz file needs to be patches to assign both Kanas to a single MU, because Male and Female Corrin are completely different characters as far as the internal game data is concerned, meaning if you spawn both Kanas without patching the parent pointer, one of the will be parentless.





First off, from the patches file, open up Lunar IPS.exe, this is the patcher, if you want to make your life easier, just hit the “Register file type” option, and the .ips files should now have a heart icon on them, like so;

Anyone who’s patched GBA games at one point or another will probably be familiar with this already.





Now, we’re going to patch our GameData file, located in the romfs on GameData/GameData.bin.lz





First, we need to decompress this file, if you’ve never messed with the file before, dragging it into FEAT should be good enough to extract it and produce a .bin file.





If you’re running a romhack that edits the GameData.bin.lz file, you’ll probably need BatchLZ77 to do the job, just drag the file into the decompress section and it should give you a file that ends in .decompressed.

If BatchLZ77 gives you this error;

“Not all files were processed successfully.

[(FILEPATHHERE)GameData.bin.lz]: Not a compressed file!”, we’ll need to do an extra step.



Drag your file into a hex editor (HxD works just fine), and delete the very first 4 bytes, bytes are pairs of 2 numbers, so the first 8 numbers would be the first 4 bytes, like highlighted here;

Your first 4 bytes will probably be different than mine, that’s of no concern, just hit backspace to delete them, and hit save to save the changes, the file should now correctly decompress when dragged into BatchLZ77.





Copy your now decompressed file into the same folder as the patches, just to keep things easy, and since the patches should have been associated with lunar ips earlier, double clicking the patches and selecting your gamedata file should be all you need to do.





There are 3 patches, each one has a self explanatory name,

TwinKanaMaleMU.ips patches the GameData so that both Kanas are assigned to Male Corrin, likewise TwinKanaFemaleMU.ips instead patches both Kanas for Female Corrin, and if you want to undo the patches, you could use RestoreDefaultKanaParents.ips to undo both of them.





So with that in mind, we simply double click on the patch file you want to use, say you double click on TwinKanaMaleMU.ips, this window should pop up;

Click on the dropdown box that says “Most Common ROM Files”, and change it to “All Files”, you should now be able to locate your decompressed GameData file, like so;

Now just select your decompressed GameData file, hit open, and now it’s patched! Easy as that.

Now drag your now patched file back into the compress section of BatchLZ77, it should save the file with a .compressed extension, just rename the file back into GameData.bin.lz, and run it through your favorite method of running romhacks.

If running HANS, romfs/GameData/GameData.bin.lz

For NTR CFW, using the files I provided, depending on your game the path would be;

Birthright/GameData/GameData.bin.lz

Conquest/GameData/GameData.bin.lz

fefatesSE/GameData/GameData.bin.lz





If everything has been done correctly, when running NTR/HANS, you should be greeted by this when entering paralogue 2;

Both Kanas should have correctly inherited skills from the MU and their spouse, as well as the MU’s Spouse’s Hair Color, in this Case, Mozu was married to Kaden, and Male Corrin was then Married to Selkie.

And now you’re free to enjoy your twin Kanas!