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[SwiftSign]

Originally Posted by HaydenSane

Okay. I know how to edit scripts that are already there. And usually if there are already enough scripts, I'm fine. But I'm not sure, in AdvanceMap, how to add a totally new script. For example, I increase the number of signposts, and set the X and Y coordinates to where I want them to be. But then what? I looked through the tutorials but didn't see one that explained how to create an entirely new script at a new point. I get the concept of the dynamic offsets, but not how to point AdvanceMap at one.

Sorry if I'm rambling or not making sense.

You need a scripting tool, such as XSE, which will compile your script to a ROM and give you an offset to then put into A-Map ;D.

XSE can be found in the toolbox, under Hackmew's Tools.

[HaydenSane]

Originally Posted by SwiftSign

You need a scripting tool, such as XSE, which will compile your script to a ROM and give you an offset to then put into A-Map ;D.

XSE can be found in the toolbox, under Hackmew's Tools.

I have XSE. I just didn't know it gave me the offset to put into A-Map. Where do I find that?

Sorry for being an idiot.

Edit: Never mind. Figured it out. Thank you!

[SpadeEdge16]

Originally Posted by Banjora Marxvile

A MIDI is a type of music file that you can compose using MIDI editing programs, and most game systems use some sort of MIDI as the music. MP3's cannot be used in hacking at all, you need to search for the MIDI file of whatever music you want to insert, due to the... I want to say simplicity, but that's not the right word. More of the layout of MIDI files allowing for an easier difference of the instruments and voicegroups in the file, whereas MP3 files are more compressed... It's difficult, but basically MIDI files are a different kind of music files that can be composed and created using specific programs on the computer, and can be used in games such as Pokemon.

If you want a really really good hack, it can take years. For one that is reasonably basic, then it takes months. It depends on the hack and the hacker, as well as what you want to include. ASM heavy hacks take ages due to the knowledge needed or the work, whereas small script edits and graphics take a shorter amount of time (depending on the scripts). So it depends.

So, if I found a song on YouTube or have a song that I like as an mp3 (I'm not asking to use mp3s in the game) would there be any way to put those songs into the game?

Dang...I've seen people who get together on here and make hacks, how would I go about possibly getting some help? Cause I know that since my hack is FR it wouldn't take as long as a Black and White hack, but I do have a lot of ideas for it and I don't want it to take too long. :/

[Banjora Marxvile]

Originally Posted by SpadeEdge16

So, if I found a song on YouTube or have a song that I like as an mp3 (I'm not asking to use mp3s in the game) would there be any way to put those songs into the game?

Dang...I've seen people who get together on here and make hacks, how would I go about possibly getting some help? Cause I know that since my hack is FR it wouldn't take as long as a Black and White hack, but I do have a lot of ideas for it and I don't want it to take too long. :/

No, unless you can find a MIDI file of the same song on the internet.

[SwiftSign]

Originally Posted by HaydenSane

I have XSE. I just didn't know it gave me the offset to put into A-Map. Where do I find that?

Sorry for being an idiot.

What you need to do is set your script out like:

#dynamic 0x800000

#org @Start
lock
etc.
etc.
etc.

Making sure all your @pointers are like that, not specific numbers. Then in the 'file' section of XSE, the bit just above where you type the script, open up your ROM.

If you then hit the compile button, which looks like two gears, it will check the ROM for errors and then give you the offsets. Use the copy button to copy the '@Start' part of your script, or whatever you have called the first pointer, and paste that into the offset box in A-Map.

[SpadeEdge16]

Originally Posted by Banjora Marxvile

No, unless you can find a MIDI file of the same song on the internet.

Is there a link or something where I can find a lot of different MIDI files?

[Banjora Marxvile]

Originally Posted by SpadeEdge16

Is there a link or something where I can find a lot of different MIDI files?

Use Google, there isn't one list of all the MIDIs, it is your best option to find specific MIDI files.

[redriders180]

Originally Posted by SpadeEdge16

Is there a link or something where I can find a lot of different MIDI files?

My favorite resource for midi files is here. There are a ton of ripped music from other video games, meaning it's perfect for finding simple midi files, instead of very complex ones (10 tracks IS the minimum, after all)

I should've realised I never added a link...>_<

[SpadeEdge16]

Originally Posted by redriders180

My favorite resource for midi files is here. There are a ton of ripped music from other video games, meaning it's perfect for finding simple midi files, instead of very complex ones (10 tracks IS the minimum, after all)

That sucks, cause you know there's all those cool battle remixes on YouTube and I was hoping I could use something like that, not just another song that's exactly like all the other original games.

[Banjora Marxvile]

Originally Posted by SpadeEdge16

That sucks, cause you know there's all those cool battle remixes on YouTube and I was hoping I could use something like that, not just another song that's exactly like all the other original games.

Some remixes are actually created using MIDI files. The site that was linked may contain some (if it was vgmusic, as I am unsure as to the site linked because this laptop sucks)

[redriders180]

Originally Posted by Banjora Marxvile

Some remixes are actually created using MIDI files. The site that was linked may contain some (if it was vgmusic, as I am unsure as to the site linked because this laptop sucks)

Originally Posted by SpadeEdge16

That sucks, cause you know there's all those cool battle remixes on YouTube and I was hoping I could use something like that, not just another song that's exactly like all the other original games.

I actually did something stupid...I never posted a link. I just edited my previous post to have the link. It was vgmusic, so good call, Banjora

Edit: I was actually going to say that .midi files are fairly easy to remix, since they are set amount of different tracks, you can cut and paste a bunch of different ones together, if you wanted to. I've only dabbled a very small amount in the GBA music, partly because I always play all Pokemon games on mute, so I might not be able to help as much as someone more experienced.

[Eelektross]

Shared map data ;w;
I can't seem to fix it myself, so uh...
It's not the simplest of simple questions, and I don't expect anyone would like to help, but...
I tried changing the Contest Hall maps to maps of hidden hollows. The first one worked fine, then it all went pear-shaped as I was in the process of remapping to be identical, editing movements and events. There's a copy before and after the Fallarbor Town Contest Hall (one room) broke, so if someone could maybe help me out, that'd be great D: Even restoring the Contest Halls would be good...

BEFORE BREAKING: http://www.mediafire.com/?a8n909fbdjn7icq
AFTER BREAKING: http://www.mediafire.com/?a3un517msk7a5ln

Sorry ;w;

[LugiaMZ]

I just repost and add more question at here... Don't know why... No people answer me, I wonder is my bad english.

1) If I use Showpokepic command at XSE, when I test at game It show pokemon sprite and has cry sound when pokepics is appeared, how do I make it when show pokepic but no cry sound effect?

2) I played a hacked rom called "Pokemon Mirage" it Rom base is Ruby I think. At the game started, after the intro, it appeared many full screen sprite to say its story ( In the game, its Arcues and the fakemon at the sprite ), can I make it too? At FR rom also can do it?

3) I use Advance Map 1.92, How to Import or Export map? EX : I want to use Pallet Town and import the map to Vidirian City, how to do it?

4) I seen Fire Red Hacked engine, the trainer customization change the add more trainer back sprite function, it say "if you want to insert images to use with this, you cannot insert them over Un-LZ,"
How to insert trainer back sprite without not using Un-LZ?

[redriders180]

Originally Posted by LugiaMZ

I just repost and add more question at here... Don't know why... No people answer me, I wonder is my bad english.

1) If I use Showpokepic command at XSE, when I test at game It show pokemon sprite and has cry sound when pokepics is appeared, how do I make it when show pokepic but no cry sound effect?

2) I played a hacked rom called "Pokemon Mirage" it Rom base is Ruby I think. At the game started, after the intro, it appeared many full screen sprite to say its story ( In the game, its Arcues and the fakemon at the sprite ), can I make it too? At FR rom also can do it?

3) I use Advance Map 1.92, How to Import or Export map? EX : I want to use Pallet Town and import the map to Vidirian City, how to do it?

4) I seen Fire Red Hacked engine, the trainer customization change the add more trainer back sprite function, it say "if you want to insert images to use with this, you cannot insert them over Un-LZ,"
How to insert trainer back sprite without not using Un-LZ?

1. The option to play a cry is built-in to the command itself. You could edit the commands properties with ASM, but it's much easier to just ignore the cry.

2. This was probably achieved using ASM as well. It's not very difficult if you know ASM. Simply use the decompression swi to decompress the image and tilemap, write the palette to the WRAM, and you're good to go for fullscreen images. If you don't know what I'm saying, don't try it.

3. File > Map > Save map as... will save a map, and File > Open Map will open it.

4. Firered's person backsprites are uncompressed images, which means UNLZ.gba doesn't work, since UNLZ.gba only deals with compressed images. Nameless Sprite Editor will let you import and export uncompressed images into your game.

[FrozenInfernoZX]

How do I make a sprite disappear or reappear from a different map? Like the the guy in the original FR/LG that blocked Cerulean Cave.

[SacredMurathJohn]

I don't know what I did, but a major bug appeared on my hack:
My POKéMON cannot evolve anymore. When my POKéMON evolves and writes "X evolved to Y.", it freezes.

Is there a way to fix it?

EDIT: POKéMON FIRERED (BPRE)

[CrystalStatic]

Hello, I have another question. I wasn't sure where to post this - on the script help thread or this one. But I'm having trouble with this script. Well, not really with the script. The problem is, when the script gets to the "applymovement 5 @m2" command, somehow the player gets turned into the person event... The camera unlatches from the player and locks onto the person event... Then, the script ends and my game freezes. Help please?

#dynamic 0x800000

#org @start
lock
textcolor 0x0
message @t1 6
applymovement 0xFF @m1
waitmovement 0x0
message @t2 6
giveitem 0x4 0x1 MSG_OBTAIN
trainerbattle 0x1 0x2E5 0x0 @before @after @further
end

#org @further
message @t3 6
applymovement 5 @m2
waitmovement 0x0
hidesprite 0x5
setflag 0x527
setvar 0x5024 0x1
release
end

#org @m2
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0xFE

#org @t3
= Thank you for battling me.\nYou may pass.

#org @after
= Very nice. You may pass.

#org @before
= But before I let you pass, how\nabout a POKéMON battle?

#org @t2
= I'm here to give all of the new\ntrainers a starting POKé BALL.\pPOKé BALLS can be used to catch\nPOKéMON in wild battles.\pHere you go!

#org @m1
#raw 0x1
#raw 0xFE

#org @t1
= Excuse me...

(Wasn't sure where to post this because it's not really a scripting problem I don't think... It's more of a bug or something.)

[Darkrai Lv.1000]

Originally Posted by CrystalStatic

Hello, I have another question. I wasn't sure where to post this - on the script help thread or this one. But I'm having trouble with this script. Well, not really with the script. The problem is, when the script gets to the "applymovement 5 @m2" command, somehow the player gets turned into the person event... The camera unlatches from the player and locks onto the person event... Then, the script ends and my game freezes. Help please?

#dynamic 0x800000

#org @start
lock
textcolor 0x0
message @t1 6
applymovement 0xFF @m1
waitmovement 0x0
message @t2 6
giveitem 0x4 0x1 MSG_OBTAIN
trainerbattle 0x1 0x2E5 0x0 @before @after @further
end

#org @further
message @t3 6
applymovement 5 @m2
waitmovement 0x0
hidesprite 0x5
setflag 0x527
setvar 0x5024 0x1
release
end

#org @m2
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0xFE

#org @t3
= Thank you for battling me.\nYou may pass.

#org @after
= Very nice. You may pass.

#org @before
= But before I let you pass, how\nabout a POKéMON battle?

#org @t2
= I'm here to give all of the new\ntrainers a starting POKé BALL.\pPOKé BALLS can be used to catch\nPOKéMON in wild battles.\pHere you go!

#org @m1
#raw 0x1
#raw 0xFE

#org @t1
= Excuse me...

(Wasn't sure where to post this because it's not really a scripting problem I don't think... It's more of a bug or something.)

What I believe is the problem is either the 5 is supposed to be 0x5 (if that's the guy's People ID), or that trainerbattle command is only supposed to display the one message @t3 after the battle, and nothing but, which is why it freezes if it attempts to do anything else.

I also have an AdvanceMap question:
Is it possible to rearrange maps to create my own order? Like if I wanted to have Saffron City's map with Pallet Town's house interiors, could I rearrange them so they'd be in the same category?

[redriders180]

Originally Posted by CrystalStatic

Hello, I have another question. I wasn't sure where to post this - on the script help thread or this one. But I'm having trouble with this script. Well, not really with the script. The problem is, when the script gets to the "applymovement 5 @m2" command, somehow the player gets turned into the person event... The camera unlatches from the player and locks onto the person event... Then, the script ends and my game freezes. Help please?

#dynamic 0x800000

#org @start
lock
textcolor 0x0
message @t1 6
applymovement 0xFF @m1
waitmovement 0x0
message @t2 6
giveitem 0x4 0x1 MSG_OBTAIN
trainerbattle 0x1 0x2E5 0x0 @before @after @further
end

#org @further
message @t3 6
applymovement 5 @m2
waitmovement 0x0
hidesprite 0x5
setflag 0x527
setvar 0x5024 0x1
release
end

#org @m2
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0x12
#raw 0xFE

#org @t3
= Thank you for battling me.\nYou may pass.

#org @after
= Very nice. You may pass.

#org @before
= But before I let you pass, how\nabout a POKéMON battle?

#org @t2
= I'm here to give all of the new\ntrainers a starting POKé BALL.\pPOKé BALLS can be used to catch\nPOKéMON in wild battles.\pHere you go!

#org @m1
#raw 0x1
#raw 0xFE

#org @t1
= Excuse me...

(Wasn't sure where to post this because it's not really a scripting problem I don't think... It's more of a bug or something.)

Is it a green script tile that activates it, or a person event, or a level script? If person event, and the event you talk to is set to "Look down", change it to "No movement". Otherwise, I'm not completely sure. XSE is completely fine with taking numbers that don't begin with 0x...0x simply means its a hex number. Omit it, and XSE will assume it's a decimal number, and do the necessary conversions.

Edit:

Originally Posted by FrozenInfernoZX

How do I make a sprite disappear or reappear from a different map? Like the the guy in the original FR/LG that blocked Cerulean Cave.

The best way is to assign a unique person ID to the person, and set the flag with that person ID. So, if you gave the person an ID of 0027, using "setflag 0x27" will make him disappear permanently.

[CrystalStatic]

Originally Posted by redriders180

Is it a green script tile that activates it, or a person event, or a level script? If person event, and the event you talk to is set to "Look down", change it to "No movement". Otherwise, I'm not completely sure. XSE is completely fine with taking numbers that don't begin with 0x...0x simply means its a hex number. Omit it, and XSE will assume it's a decimal number, and do the necessary conversions.

Edit:

The best way is to assign a unique person ID to the person, and set the flag with that person ID. So, if you gave the person an ID of 0027, using "setflag 0x27" will make him disappear permanently.

Ah, it worked. Just for the record, it was a script tile. But the person that the player talks to was in a "looking down" state. Changed it to "no movement" and it worked. Thanks!

[oobio]

I want to have a "spawn" point in a town so that if you lose to a wild Pokemon or a trainer, you will return there. I am assuming that this may be incorporated in a Flying Position, but I cannot add any of these as events. How can I do this?

Another question, how can I edit Professor Birch's speech in the beginning of the game?

[CrystalStatic]

Does anyone know what the number in unLZ is for the Team Rocket Grunt? (The boy grunt)
I was searching for it and I could not find it... Thanks.

[KhaosKnight]

Originally Posted by CrystalStatic

Does anyone know what the number in unLZ is for the Team Rocket Grunt? (The boy grunt)
I was searching for it and I could not find it... Thanks.

For Fire Red the unLZ # for the male Rocket Grunt is 1608

[tajaros]

Originally Posted by CrystalStatic

Does anyone know what the number in unLZ is for the Team Rocket Grunt? (The boy grunt)
I was searching for it and I could not find it... Thanks.

You can view them much easier in NSE 2.x...

[LugiaMZ]

Originally Posted by redriders180

1. The option to play a cry is built-in to the command itself. You could edit the commands properties with ASM, but it's much easier to just ignore the cry.

2. This was probably achieved using ASM as well. It's not very difficult if you know ASM. Simply use the decompression swi to decompress the image and tilemap, write the palette to the WRAM, and you're good to go for fullscreen images. If you don't know what I'm saying, don't try it.

3. File > Map > Save map as... will save a map, and File > Open Map will open it.

4. Firered's person backsprites are uncompressed images, which means UNLZ.gba doesn't work, since UNLZ.gba only deals with compressed images. Nameless Sprite Editor will let you import and export uncompressed images into your game.

1) But I need to use showpokepic to show a person face, like some hacked rom.

2) Have a tutorial there?

3) Thanks!

4) When I using Nameless Sprite Editor just open the sprite I want to insert and go to File > Insert > Image Data and set the free space I where I want to insert, that a method to insert a uncompressed images?

I got some more question.

5) This question is about .s file. .s file original manuscript is Unknown Application, I double click the .s file. After that, It appeared 2 choices " Use the Web service to find the correct program " and "
Select a program from a list of installed programs ". I choosed "
Select a program from a list of installed programs " and choose Notepad and checked "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file".
Then, I use Sappy 2006 mod 15 to assembly .s file and click " Cook it "( In another Version that's "Assembly that ugly thing", it appeared a error, "XXXX Can't find file "MPlayDef.s" for inclusion Assembly halted". I placed MPlayDef.s file with the .s file I wanted to insert my rom, but also have this problem, so I think is the " "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" problem. I use Windows 7, how can I change the .s file return to Unknown Application? Or a else way to fix this problem.