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Indexing and Inserting Sprites

Dragonmaster91

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Ripped directly from platinum. If you do what I did, you might have to edit a bit more. At least, I did not have to palette edit. :P

Yeah, I replaced those ?? pokemon.
 

victor_raymond

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I need help, I am having problem with offset number...

The unLZ-GBA program seem to not work consistently I open the pokemon fire red rom and enter random number (yes random number cause I don't know how you would look at hex number and get out a decimal number? cause I did use a a hex to decimal calc and so did not get the right number...) But once i found it the number around the 2630 zone, I edit import the image but i can't see seem to overwrite the offset of the picture that i want. But make trouble worse, when I close the program unLZ-GBA and delete the modified (wrongly) rom, then re-open the same source rom, it doesn't even go to the exact number that i take over 30 min to randomly find (why does this happen?)


Aside from the using hex editor to find the offset number which to be use in the program unLZ-GBA, the rest is clear to my eyes but when i did it, it just doesn't work.

I am not a computer noob :( but it seem to me like this program: unLZ-GBA have problem.


Unless i am wrong, please help me.

Thank you,
- Victor
 

Dragonmaster91

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victor_raymond said:
I need help, I am having problem with offset number...

The unLZ-GBA program seem to not work consistently I open the pokemon fire red rom and enter random number (yes random number cause I don't know how you would look at hex number and get out a decimal number? cause I did use a a hex to decimal calc and so did not get the right number...) But once i found it the number around the 2630 zone, I edit import the image but i can't see seem to overwrite the offset of the picture that i want. But make trouble worse, when I close the program unLZ-GBA and delete the modified (wrongly) rom, then re-open the same source rom, it doesn't even go to the exact number that i take over 30 min to randomly find (why does this happen?)


Aside from the using hex editor to find the offset number which to be use in the program unLZ-GBA, the rest is clear to my eyes but when i did it, it just doesn't work.

I am not a computer noob :( but it seem to me like this program: unLZ-GBA have problem.


Unless i am wrong, please help me.

Thank you,
- Victor
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966, that is mews number. When you search for a certain pokemon, look around there through 1400.
 

luker05

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Kay so my sprites go in fine, especially the front sprites. But when I have to import a sprite that is too big or whatever and I have to open the hex aditor to find free space (im asuming those are the large areas in the middle with lots of FFFF's) and i copy the offset, and do it that way, the game freezes when it attempts to load the sprite. Is there a certain area in the hex stuff that i should be getting the offset from?
 

mineowyn

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How big would the trainer profile sprite be? If I wanted to insert a replacement trainer sprite?

Also, I can't find the in-game trainer sprites for the main characters and rival (profile or backsprite using unzl.gba)
 
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destinedjagold

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~Watermelon said:
So... This helps!
And I was doing the palletes by myself in APE...
Thanks! You made my life easier!
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You are welcome~

Dragonmaster91 said:
Ripped directly from platinum. If you do what I did, you might have to edit a bit more. At least, I did not have to palette edit. :P

Yeah, I replaced those ?? pokemon.
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um, yeah.
so what? :\

Pokepal17 said:
This is a very good tutorial and the video makes life a lot easier :P
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thanks~

victor_raymond said:
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Thank you,
- Victor
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Do I still need to answer or does Dragonmaster's answer is enough?

luker05 said:
Kay so my sprites go in fine, especially the front sprites. But when I have to import a sprite that is too big or whatever and I have to open the hex aditor to find free space (im asuming those are the large areas in the middle with lots of FFFF's) and i copy the offset, and do it that way, the game freezes when it attempts to load the sprite. Is there a certain area in the hex stuff that i should be getting the offset from?
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Did you clicked the Automatically Fix Pointers checkbox?
Also, you might notice that in the Image offset, there, example, is 00123456... You should not remove those two 0's...

874521 said:
When you're inserting backsprite, is it the same as you insert frontsprite?
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yep, but if you already insert the pallete of the front sprite, then you don't need to import the pallete to the backsprite.

mineowyn said:
How big would the trainer profile sprite be? If I wanted to insert a replacement trainer sprite?

Also, I can't find the in-game trainer sprites for the main characters and rival (profile or backsprite using unzl.gba)
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the same size as the pokemon sprites.
 

Pokepal17

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I just used this tutorial for inserting a trainer and worked amazingly which meant no messing about with palettes. This is definitely the best tutorial on sprite indexing and inserting I've read :)
 

mineowyn

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No it is not the same size as Pokemon... I mean the trainer profile sprite - the sprite you see of the hero/your own character during the intro and on your trainer card..

This is what I get:
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from this:

Spoiler:
 
destinedjagold

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mineowyn said:
No it is not the same size as Pokemon... I mean the trainer profile sprite - the sprite you see of the hero/your own character during the intro and on your trainer card..
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oh, that.
are you using FireRed or Ruby?
If Ruby, then it's the same size.
If you're hacking FireRed, then this is the wrong tutorial.
 

Pokepal17

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874521 said:
What do you mean by I don't need to import the pallete to the backsprite?
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He means that since you've done the front sprite, you will have imported the palette. So there's no need to import it for the backsprite because the palette wil already be there.
 

mineowyn

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destinedjagold said:


oh, that.
are you using FireRed or Ruby?
If Ruby, then it's the same size.
If you're hacking FireRed, then this is the wrong tutorial.
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:( Yeah I'm hacking Fire Red..

But do you have any idea though, for Fire Red I mean..

I managed to get something like this:
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Any help would be appreciated..
 
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Pokepal17

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mineowyn said:
:( Yeah I'm hacking Fire Red..

But do you have any idea though, for Fire Red I mean..

I managed to get something like this:
Spoiler:


Any help would be appreciated..
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Ahh, there's a tutorial for this made by >Dante< called called Changing the intro Hero in FR correctly. Use that for help.
 
destinedjagold

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mineowyn said:
:( Yeah I'm hacking Fire Red..

But do you have any idea though, for Fire Red I mean..

I managed to get something like this:
Spoiler:


Any help would be appreciated..
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Sorry but I am not hacking FireRed, and as I said, this is the wrong tutorial for your concern.
And as Pokepal17 stated, search for Dante's tutorial.
Thank you~
 
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