A patch for this build can be downloaded here. This page dissects the differences between this build and the final version. A majority of the finished content is absent, including many portraits and new battle animations. It is by far the most incomplete and prototypical of the three leaked pre-release builds: a very large amount of its content is straight unmodified from The Blazing Blade, including even the title screen, and there is only the barest infrastructure for much of the completed game in place. This suggests that this particular build was assembled into a "playable" ROM form at this date and time by Makoto Katayama, a programmer credited in the finished game, which would date the build to roughly five months before the game's Japanese release. The leaked pre-release build of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, agbfe3_040531_2253 (meaning May 31st, 2004, 22:53), is timestamped as May 31st, 2004, at 22:45:41, along with the name "KATAYAMA". The three builds were internally timestamped as having been assembled a couple of months before the final releases of the games, and as such contain numerous differences of varying degrees of substantiality, and provide an interesting insight into the development of the games. In 2008, a set of three pre-release builds of The Blazing Blade and The Sacred Stones were leaked from the Intelligent Systems FTP server and obtained and subsequently released by a Japanese group, eventually coming to the attention of the English fanbase through the message board Fire Emblem: Sanctuary of Strategy. Title screen of build 040531_2253, unchanged from the title screen of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.
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