[Other] Visual Basic 6.0 HEX Editing Functions - For Hacking ROMs.

[cooley]

It was a great Idea to make this Thread. Especially for me!
I have a question, will these commands work for Visual basic 2008 Express edition? Because I can't find VB 6.0 anywhere!

Oh yeah, another thing, As long as you have the data for the Rom, you can make tools for it right?

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by cooley

It was a great Idea to make this Thread. Especially for me!
I have a question, will these commands work for Visual basic 2008 Express edition? Because I can't find VB 6.0 anywhere!

Oh yeah, another thing, As long as you have the data for the Rom, you can make tools for it right?

No, I don't think they will work with VB 2008. Although these languages are similar, they also have some major differences. When I get time I will try and make functions for .Net 2008.

[Swampert 22]

Hey everyone. The development of new tools is coming along at a simply staggering pace now. I wish to add my own to the mix!

It is a RBY gym and elite4 editor.

It reads data from the rom ok, but writing it back is the only problem. We all know (well most of us) that a Pokémon's "hexbyte" only lasts one byte in RBYGSC, but whenever my program writes, it writes 2 bytes, and erases the byte after the desired one aswell. Does anyone know how to get it to write just one byte?

Thanks

[ZodiacDaGreat]

Yeah, Thanks to this thread, I've made my first tool, which is in the toolbox.

Bravo! Darthatron!

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by swampert22

Hey everyone. The development of new tools is coming along at a simply staggering pace now. I wish to add my own to the mix!

It is a RBY gym and elite4 editor.

It reads data from the rom ok, but writing it back is the only problem. We all know (well most of us) that a Pokémon's "hexbyte" only lasts one byte in RBYGSC, but whenever my program writes, it writes 2 bytes, and erases the byte after the desired one aswell. Does anyone know how to get it to write just one byte?

Thanks

WriteHEX LoadedROM, Offset, Right("00" & Data, 2)

That should work a charm.

[Reaper 6]

how do u make other tools such as a tile editor

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by Reaper 6

how do u make other tools such as a tile editor

Well.... You would have to decompile the actual tile image and then get the program to read it and make it editable, then work out how to recompile it and insert it into the ROM.

Good luck, I don't know how to do it.

[Swampert 22]

Thanks Darthatron buddy, I'd tryed that but it hadn't worked before, I think I didn't Dim LoadedRom as String???

Thanks again. My tool will be out soon!

[Reaper 6]

Originally Posted by Darthatron

Well.... You would have to decompile the actual tile image and then get the program to read it and make it editable, then work out how to recompile it and insert it into the ROM.

Good luck, I don't know how to do it.

oh i dont understand it that much but thanks anyway

[Dan13x]

Where do I make it the tools? In which program?

[ZodiacDaGreat]

Where do I make it the tools? In which program?

lol, a programming language of course, people here mostly use VisualBasic 6, just as the thread suggests, a download can be found if you search at wikipedia, thats where I found mine.

It isn't simple though, to code

[X-Buster]

and how do you use it?

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[Game goer]

sweet! I finally fulfilled my dream of making a tool! lol

Darthatron, do you mind if i take this tutorial for a youtube video? I'll give you all the credit!

[Lin]

This is pretty much useless to me, because I've like mastered VB and already know ROM Hacking: This just uses methods that contain Get, Seek, Put, Open, etc... And here's my main question: I need to know how to hack graphics. Get this: I've been trying for almost a year now. I've tried the set pixel method, Line, etc... And looked at so many sources, even the EM sources and I can't grab graphics. I went to Jathy's IRC channel (Creator of SMILE) and tried to learn to graphics hack from him. He just explained to me what I needed to know, the format of the gb/c/a, and that just made it worse, because I already knew the format of the graphics. I've edited the graphics of a ROM via hex editor, like I did in Zelda LA, and I can't display the graphics in VB. I just don't know how to check the byte on an offset and display that pixel. I know how the hex editing works, byte pairs, offsets, etc... And the format of the systems. I was wondering if you knew how and could teach me; I've gone on long enough without knowing... Thanks, and sorry for the super long reply for a simple question

EDIT: I already know you use ASM for uncompressing the graphics and then recompressing them, but in the games I want to hack, such as Zelda LA, a bunch of the tiles aren't compressed. So I just need to know the method...

[Dan13x]

I'm using Visual Basic 2008 Express edition, does anyone know how to create a ROM Hacking tool in this program?

[Swampert 22]

Originally Posted by Dan123412

I'm using Visual Basic 2008 Express edition, does anyone know how to create a ROM Hacking tool in this program?

It is possible, but some of the commands in 2008 are different to VB6. Your best bet is to do a google search for VB6. It's around somewhere. Then you can open up sources that come with programs to see what meakes 'em tick!:D

[lugiale]

Thanks very much for the tutorial darthatron,it helped to me a lot.
I hope you will do more interesting tutorials like this one : D


Bye!

[Dan13x]

Finally, I was able to successfully install VB6! Now I can create ROM Hacking tools!

[ZodiacDaGreat]

OK, for those who donot have vb6, a copy can be found at http://www.brandinimp.com/VBBasics1/tut.html

[Dan13x]

Woah, it's hard to code!

My message is too short...

[ZodiacDaGreat]

whats the code to copy large amount of hex data, say for example. From offset &H800000 to &H800500, after copying those, paste at &H900000 to &H900500. Which is basically copy and paste. So whats the code?

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by ZodiacDaGreat

whats the code to copy large amount of hex data, say for example. From offset &H800000 to &H800500, after copying those, paste at &H900000 to &H900500. Which is basically copy and paste. So whats the code?

WriteHex LoadedROM, CLng("&H800000"), ReadHEX(LoadedROM, CLng("&H900000"), CLng("&H500"))

That should work, however I didn't test it.

[X-Buster]

How do I install it?

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[cloudffvii2696]

augh, i broke my rom... I think it had to do with the code i typed in...
i would ask somebody what i typed wrong, but i file shredded those files out of anger...
or is it cus i was dumb and used a leaf green rom?

yessss 15 posts! now i can start my thread!

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by X-Buster

How do I install it?

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Download it, then open the Install file..?

Originally Posted by cloudffvii2696

augh, i broke my rom... I think it had to do with the code i typed in...
i would ask somebody what i typed wrong, but i file shredded those files out of anger...
or is it cus i was dumb and used a leaf green rom?

yessss 15 posts! now i can start my thread!

If you didn't change the offsets, it's because your dumb. If possible try and show me your code and I'll see if I can fix it?