FE3H Access runs beside Eden, reads what the game shows, and speaks it through your screen reader. It also adds sounds and keys to find your way: a pathfinder for battles and for walking around the monastery, a beacon, automatic walking, and wall sounds. It only reads: it never changes the game, its saves or the emulator, and it doesn't use the internet.
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A zip of about 33 MB, with nothing else to install. Both mirrors hold the same file.
What you need
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
- The Eden emulator. FE3H Access is made and tested with Eden 0.2.1.
- Your own copy of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the US version, with update 1.2.0 installed in Eden. Other regions and versions aren't supported yet. The Cindered Shadows DLC is supported, but not needed.
- A screen reader. NVDA is what the mod is built and tested with. Without one, the Windows voice speaks.
What it does
- Everything on screen, spoken: the title and the save files, menus, shops, the Forge, Battle Prep, unit details and the game's tutorials, all in the game's own words.
- Dialogue with the speaker's name. O twice turns it off and on, and the history keeps every line either way.
- Battles: the square under the cursor with its unit and terrain, who can reach it and how hard they hit, the battle forecast, each fight's result, the enemy phase move by move, and Divine Pulse.
- A battle pathfinder: enemies, allies, chests, healing squares, objects and target destinations, nearest first, with the arrow keys to press, a unit's route turn by turn, and guidance as you move the cursor. The directions turn with the camera. O is a scanner of everything within 5 squares.
- The monastery you can walk: lists of places, people, objects, items and exits, a beacon that sounds from where the chosen thing is, automatic walking to it, and wall sounds that follow the game's own walls. The Abyss too.
- Big panels in parts: Control and the arrow keys read a unit's details, a shop item or the battle forecast one piece at a time.
Installing
- Unzip the whole "FE3H Access" folder somewhere you can write to, for example your Documents folder or your Desktop. Keep every file together.
- Close Eden, then run "Set up Eden keys.bat" from the folder, once. It moves Eden's own volume keys away from minus and equals, which the mod uses, and tells you when it's done.
- Keep Eden's keyboard controls for player 1 at their defaults.
- Start FE3HAccess.exe. You hear "FE3H Access started." Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" the first time: choose More info, then Run anyway.
- Start Eden and the game. When the game runs you hear "Connected to Fire Emblem Three Houses."
The README in the zip lists every key, the game's buttons on Eden's keyboard, and the settings.
The main keys
The keys work while Eden is the window in front.
- Shift+P repeats the last line. Shift+left bracket and Shift+right bracket step through what was said.
- Control+Left and Control+Right read the previous and next part of a big panel, Control+Up and Control+Down one item inside it.
- Minus and equals pick a category of the pathfinder, left bracket and right bracket its items, P says how far the item is, and P twice guides you there.
- In the monastery, Backspace walks to the chosen thing by itself and O turns the wall sounds on and off. In a battle, O is the scanner.
- Apostrophe says where you are: the square's terrain in a battle; the date, the place and your goals in the monastery.
- Control+Shift+Q quits FE3H Access.
Troubleshooting
- Nothing is said: check that your screen reader runs.
- "Unsupported game version": FE3H Access needs the US version of the game with update 1.2.0.
- Minus or equals changes Eden's volume: run "Set up Eden keys.bat" with Eden closed.
- The letter keys do nothing in the game: switch your keyboard to English while Eden's window is in front.
- Control and the arrow keys move the game's cursor instead of reading: maximize Eden's window.
- For any other problem, send the file fe3h-access.log from the FE3H Access folder. It starts over each time the mod starts, so copy it first.
Questions or feedback?
For any feedback or bugs, please let us know on the Heavenay Discord.