Data transfer

Several games in the Fire Emblem series allow the transferring of data from one game to another in order to obtain extra content. This page documents all such instances when a game can grant extra content when it is linked to another game.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

The connection loading screen for The Binding Blade data transfer in the Japanese version of The Blazing Blade.

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• The Binding Blade
• Monthly Nintendo: May 2003
• Monthly Nintendo: June 2003
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!! bonus disc

In the Japanese version of The Blazing Blade, the completed save data of The Binding Blade can be read from the Extras menu, unlocking Eliwood's tale and the extended epilogue involving Roy and Lilina, which normally require finishing Lyn's tale, and clearing the main game nine times respectively. If the save data ending at the Final Chapter is read, the extended epilogue involving Zephiel and Jahn is unlocked, which normally requires clearing the main game eleven times.

In the North American version, if the player's Game Boy Advance is connected to a GameCube running the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! bonus disc's "Fire Emblem GBA: Bonus Items" section, several weapons, items, and music used in the Sound Room can be accessed. Originally in Japan, these items were available only through taking one's copy of The Blazing Blade to a Monthly Nintendo demo kiosk at certain department stores and transferring the songs and items into the game on-site. As no such facilities existed outside of Japan at the time, the items were instead made available through this bonus disc. No equivalent distribution was made for the European or Oceanian releases.

Rewards in Japan
May 2003
Choose left	Choose right
Emblem Blade	Emblem Axe
Thor's Ire	Thor's Ire
Body Ring	Angelic Robe
June 2003
Choose left	Choose right
Emblem Lance	Emblem Bow
Vulnerary (60-use)	Vulnerary (60-use)
Secret Book	Goddess Icon
#99: "Legend of the Dragon God"

Rewards in North America
Item	Type
Dragon Axe	Axe
Silver Card	Item
Wind Sword	Sword
Energy Ring	Item
Emblem Seal	Item
Dragonshield	Item
Emblem Blade	Sword
Body Ring	Item
Emblem Axe	Axe
Thor's Ire	Item
Angelic Robe	Item
Emblem Lance	Lance
Secret Book	Item
Emblem Bow	Bow
Goddess Icon	Item
#99: "Legend of the Dragon God"	Music
#100: "Royal Palace of Silezha"	Music

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Raven's official artwork from The Blazing Blade, displayed in Path of Radiance's extras menu when The Blazing Blade is connected with Path of Radiance.

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• The Binding Blade
• The Blazing Blade
• The Sacred Stones

In Path of Radiance, if the GameCube is connected to a Game Boy Advance which has one of the three GBA Fire Emblem games inserted via a GBA Link Cable, the game's extras menu, which is unlocked after beating the game, will display an option to view the official artwork of the characters in the connected game.

In addition, linking with a GBA game will also unlock one of three Trial Maps; each game unlocks a different map, requiring all three games be connected with Path of Radiance if the player wishes to unlock all of the Trial Maps. The Binding Blade unlocks Desperation, The Blazing Blade unlocks Escape, and The Sacred Stones unlocks Trapped.

Due to The Binding Blade not releasing outside Japan, the Binding Blade artwork is completely inaccessible in the international regions of Path of Radiance, though their data still exists and can be reenabled through the use of cheating devices. The Trial Map Desperation is changed to be unlocked by linking with The Blazing Blade or The Sacred Stones in the international versions.

In the Nintendo Classics version of Path of Radiance, these contents are unlocked directly after beating the game without linking with any GBA games.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• Path of Radiance

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has perhaps the most extensive usage of data transferring in the entire series; there are many gameplay bonuses and extra content that can be unlocked if a Path of Radiance save file is transferred into Radiant Dawn.

To transfer Path of Radiance data to Radiant Dawn, a GameCube memory card with a completed Path of Radiance save file needs to be inserted to a Wii running Radiant Dawn. When starting a new game in Radiant Dawn, the player will be prompted to choose to transfer a completed Path of Radiance save file. A bug in the early North American versions of Radiant Dawn causes the game to freeze if any Path of Radiance save files on Easy Mode are found in the memory card; deleting these saves or using an updated copy fixes the issue.

Character stats

If a unit promoted or starts in their most advanced class, reached their maximum level, and reached their maximum in a stat in a transferred Path of Radiance file, they will receive a bonus in that stat in Radiant Dawn. The stat bonuses are +5 for HP; and +2 for strength, magic, skill, speed, luck, defense, and resistance.

Example: In a Path of Radiance game, if Oscar promoted to Paladin, reached level 20, and reached 60 HP and 26 strength (his stat caps in those two areas) by Endgame, when the file is transferred into Radiant Dawn, he will have 5 more HP and 2 more strength when he first becomes playable in Part III, Prologue.

There are two exceptions to the above system: Sothe and Danved.

• Should Sothe reach level 20 in a transferred Path of Radiance save file, all of his stats—with the exceptions of build and movement—will be directly transferred into Radiant Dawn, even if a transferred stat is worse than its original base stat. The stats are transferred with respect to the Rogue class's stat caps; for example, if Sothe's resistance in Path of Radiance is over the Rogue's resistance cap of 15, Sothe will have 15 resistance in Radiant Dawn when the save file is transferred and he joins.
• Stats capped by Devdan in Path of Radiance do provide bonuses to Danved in Radiant Dawn.

As he is not playable in Radiant Dawn, Largo's capped stats in a transferred file provide no benefit.

Due to joining at level 20 with capped strength, recruiting Giffca in Path of Radiance's Endgame will result in him automatically receiving a +2 strength bonus when he joins in Radiant Dawn's Part IV, Endgame (1).

Weapon experience

A unit's weapon level by the end of Path of Radiance can result in boosts to their weapon experience (WEXP) in Radiant Dawn if said Path of Radiance save file is transferred into Radiant Dawn. The minimum weapon level threshold in Path of Radiance to receive a WEXP bonus in Radiant Dawn is C.

Weapon experience bonuses in Radiant Dawn
Weapon level in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn	Total WEXP bonus in Radiant Dawn	Cumulative WEXP required to reach further weapon level in Radiant Dawn
D	C	B	A	S	SS
E	--	+30	+70	+120	+180	+250	+330
D	--	--	+40	+90	+150	+220	+300
C	+40	--	--	+50	+110	+180	+260
B	+80	--	--	--	+60	+130	+210
A	+120	--	--	--	--	+70	+150
S	+160	--	--	--	--	--	+80

Example: In Radiant Dawn, Jill starts with a B weapon level in axes. If she reached S in axes in a Path of Radiance save and the save is transferred into Radiant Dawn, she will gain a +160 boost to her WEXP in axes, enough to instantly increase her weapon level from B to S (as it takes 130 WEXP to increase it from B to S) and be 30 WEXP into reaching SS in axes.

Bond supports

If a unit reached an A-rank support with another unit in a Path of Radiance save, it will become a bond support when the file is transferred into Radiant Dawn, giving the pair a +5 critical hit and critical avoid bonus when they are adjacent to each other.

Character recruitment

Some units can be recruited by some extra characters with a transferred Path of Radiance save file. In Jill and Zihark's cases, they are only recruitable if their extra recruiter has acquired an A-rank support with them in the transferred Path of Radiance save file. There are no characters that are only recruitable if a Path of Radiance save file is transferred.

Chapter	Recruitable character	Always recruitable by	Also recruitable with a transferred file
Part III, Chapter 7; Part III, Endgame	Jill	Haar	Mist
Zihark	Lethe, Mordecai	Brom, Ilyana
Part IV, Chapter 3	Stefan	Micaiah	Lethe, Mordecai

Coins

Any and all Coins that the player possesses at the end of a Path of Radiance game will be present in Ike's convoy in the beginning of Part III in Radiant Dawn game if the Path of Radiance save file is transferred to Radiant Dawn. Coins are much more useful in Radiant Dawn compared its predecessor, as they can be used during forging to add a random bonus to weapons, whereas they can only be sold for exactly 1 gold in Path of Radiance.

Support Archive

All Path of Radiance supports unlocked across all save files in a transferred Path of Radiance copy can be viewed in the "POR Support Archive" section of Radiant Dawn's extras menu.

Extra base conversation

Transferring a Path of Radiance save file where Ike and Soren have reached an A-rank support with each other is one of the requirements to view the final base conversation in the game: "Soren" in Part IV, Endgame (5).

Fire Emblem Fates

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• Awakening

If the player's Nintendo 3DS has StreetPass data for Fire Emblem Awakening, they will obtain the Emblem Shield, an accessory item which reduces damage taken when in other castles.

Fire Emblem Engage

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• Heroes

At launch, Fire Emblem Engage had a cross-promotional event with Fire Emblem Heroes which added several items related to the latter game into Engage. During the event's duration, which was from January 20, 2023 to April 5, 2023, the player could access purchase the "Nintendo Switch Game Bonus Code + 5 Orbs" item for free in Heroes' My Nintendo store. This would create a code which could be entered in the Nintendo Switch eShop to obtain several items.

After the end of the promotion period, the items were made available to download directly through the Nintendo eShop as free DLC for Engage; they are labeled as the "Order of Heroes Item Set".

	Item	Type
	Fólkvangr	Sword
	Fensalir	Lance
	Nóatún	Axe
	Alfonse	S-Rank Bond Ring
	Sharena	S-Rank Bond Ring
	Anna	S-Rank Bond Ring

Fire Emblem Heroes

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• Three Houses
• Engage

Fire Emblem Heroes has had two limited-time events that coincide with the releases of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Engage as promotion for the two respective games; in both cases, the player is rewarded if they have their Nintendo Account linked to both Heroes and a Nintendo Switch, and own the promoted game in question. If the player owns a physical copy of the game, they must also manually redeem the copy's gold points; something which is automatically done when buying a digital copy.

For the Three Houses promotion, if an eligible copy of Three Houses is detected from July 26, 2019 to June 29, 2020, the player could obtain a 5★ copy of Byleth: Tested Professor.

For the Engage promotion, if an eligible copy of Engage is detected from January 20, 2023 to April 5, 2023, the player could purchase the "Nintendo Switch Game Bonus Code + 5 Orbs" item for free in Heroes' My Nintendo store to obtain 5 orbs.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Data for this game can be transferred from:

• Three Houses
• Warriors

If the player's Nintendo Switch has save data from Fire Emblem: Three Houses or Warriors, they can obtain some bonus resources by accessing the "Save Data Bonuses" section of the exploration menu of the Base Camp. Both games give the same materials, and the player can access the rewards for both games once, effectively doubling the rewards if the player has save data for both games:

	Item
	5,000 G
	Smithing Stone ×50
	Owl Feather ×5

Save Data Bonuses cannot be collected again, even on a New Game + playthrough.

In addition, if the player has sava data from Three Houses, when prompted to enter Byleth's name, the name used in the most recent save file will appear, unless this name was already used for Shez.

See also

• New Game +