I understand what your saying but I've had to use rom's to play games before so I'm kind of used to it. For some reason my copy of golden sun erases all my saved data when I turn off my gba so I can never save or turn off the gameboy, hence I ended up downloading the rom.
On the topic of recruitment in Fire Emblem 7 there seemed like there were some enemys that I could recruit to join my team but I had no idea how to go about doing it so I ended up killing all of them.
Also I'm surprised you never continued the game if your character died bengabenga, I had a good amount of dead characters by the time I finished Fire Emblem 7. Although thats also partly due to the fact that I didn't know that characters died permanently in Fire Emblem games.
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