Development
Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi was developed by Shouzou Kaga, the maker of Advance Wars (which shares some of Fire Emblem's strategic elements), who would go on to work on every other Fire Emblem title until Thracia 776.
Controversy began in 2001 when Kaga left Nintendo to found Tirnanog, an independent studio. One of his first games was Tear Ring Saga for the PlayStation, a game that borrowed heavily from the Fire Emblem series in terms of graphics and gameplay. The game was initially similar to Fire Emblem in title, with the development name being Emblem Saga. Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Tirnanog and the game's distributor Enterbrain seeking $2 million in the belief that the game infringed upon Nintendo's copyright. Nintendo lost, and Tirnanog later produced a sequel called Tear Ring Saga: Berwick Saga.
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