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

[X-Buster]

I download what ZDG post here, what should i install..?the file name..?

[NytewolfAU2k7]

Nice work , I wrote a basic hex editor myself once, though I did it in C++ rather than VB6.

[ZodiacDaGreat]

I download what ZDG post here, what should i install..?the file name..?

try the setup 1st then acmboot(something like that) if not acmboot then setup, honestly you should try first - wont damage your pc, or check the readme

[X-Buster]

now their asking for the CD Key, where could I find It..?

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by X-Buster

now their asking for the CD Key, where could I find It..?

in most versions on the net the key "000000000000000000" works. :D

[X-Buster]

Thanks for the both of you..!

[hi sir tomato my password is syvniti]

Once agian i need your wonderfull help. As you might Know I'm making md tool, But then i need to ask you, About Text Editing?
How could i make a Text editor, so i go load the text from the text part (Not hex) And then show, and you will be able to rewrite and save it.. Mainly My ask, is How does i make it as it only loads the part with the text i want to use, and not any thing else?
I can not just load all the text into a richtextbox.
Does you know how? (Sorry if it don't belong here...)

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by Son Sebbe

Once agian i need your wonderfull help. As you might Know I'm making md tool, But then i need to ask you, About Text Editing?
How could i make a Text editor, so i go load the text from the text part (Not hex) And then show, and you will be able to rewrite and save it.. Mainly My ask, is How does i make it as it only loads the part with the text i want to use, and not any thing else?
I can not just load all the text into a richtextbox.
Does you know how? (Sorry if it don't belong here...)

I'll write you up a Function and send it to you on MSN, and if you like I can explain what everything means. Tommorow, I'm going to bed now, BYE!!!!!

[cloudffvii2696]

...I'm not dumb...
I'm just a little special...

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by cloudffvii2696

...I'm not dumb...
I'm just a little special...

I didn't mean to insult, but make sure to read over the details in Tutorials before you ask questions. Thankyou. :D

[Swampert 22]

Hey Darthatron buddy, it's been a while, since I asked you a question, but I need your wisdom to progress!

How do you get a listbox's list values to be data that the program has read from the ROM?

I'll explain what I mean:

I want the list of 'words' in the list box to be Pokémon. But the order is obviously dependant on what the program reads. If I got it to read data at &H30303 for example, and the hex-byte was 0A, I would want it to say "Caterpie", if it was FB I would want it to say "Celebi". This list would have to be as long as there as relevant bytes to change, so the list could be 251 'words' long.

I hope you understand that, cus I don't think i understand what I just wrote lol!

Thanks Darthatron!

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by swampert22

Hey Darthatron buddy, it's been a while, since I asked you a question, but I need your wisdom to progress!

How do you get a listbox's list values to be data that the program has read from the ROM?

I'll explain what I mean:

I want the list of 'words' in the list box to be Pokémon. But the order is obviously dependant on what the program reads. If I got it to read data at &H30303 for example, and the hex-byte was 0A, I would want it to say "Caterpie", if it was FB I would want it to say "Celebi". This list would have to be as long as there as relevant bytes to change, so the list could be 251 'words' long.

I hope you understand that, cus I don't think i understand what I just wrote lol!

Thanks Darthatron!

I think I understand....

ListBox.ListIndex = ReadHEX(LoadedROM, Location, 1)

Is that it? Unless you mean the list of Pokemon is jumbled up and you want to read the Byte, rather than the location?

First off you'd make the ItemData to the actual number of the Pokemon.

Check out this demo source and see if you can understand it. I did comment it, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

CLICK HERE!

Hope I could help? If not try and rephrase the question. :D

[X-Buster]

how do i make a file change its file type..? (example: I'll make a tool that will open a .raw and saving it, it will turn into a .wraw?)

[Lin]

Hey, just to let you know, I grabbed tiles from a ROM and displayed them. It's very hard though, but I made a function to. Pretty much all of the credits to helping me do it goes to Cearn. He's a genius with this stuff. He's helping me cover saving now, and it's a lot harder than you'd think ;)

[[HoN] Jereziah]

Can someone Mail me the download link of Visual Basic 6.0...
PLease ... so i can make a tool...
Thanks...

Cool Thread
Can you please Mail me the download link of Visual Basic 6.0
Thanks and in addition Im gonna rate this 5/5...

[zacdet]

How do i make buttons? I don't understand

[cooley]

Originally Posted by lmg123

Can someone Mail me the download link of Visual Basic 6.0...
PLease ... so i can make a tool...
Thanks...

Cool Thread
Can you please Mail me the download link of Visual Basic 6.0
Thanks and in addition Im gonna rate this 5/5...

Just download an ISO version of it and mount it with MagicISO.

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by zacdet

How do i make buttons? I don't understand

As I've said many times. Don't use this guide unless you understand the basics of VB6.

[cooley]

Thanks Darthatron! Look what I made:


Well with all the0 Gold Data anyways

[Darthatron]

Originally Posted by cooley

Thanks Darthatron! Look what I made:


Well with all the0 Gold Data anyways

Well, from the picture it looks okay, but I can't really see it due it's small size. Perhaps you could upload a larger version?
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In other news I updated the HEX Editing Module, now the WriteHEX Function will be faster and use less memory.

[hi sir tomato my password is syvniti]

Thanks forupdating the hex functions, you are a true hero!
I'm not realy able to fell the diferrence, just like that, but that's probely just me...
Anyway, you are doing a big work in helping with programing!

[ThuGie]

Hey,
I checked out your function "ReverseHex",
And to tell you the truth it gave me the creeps :p,

First i noticed that when you run this its a example

Dim test As String
test = "01"
msgbox(ReverseHex(test))
msgbox(test)

test will be empty after your function has been used,
And your for loop well you did add a break to it but stil you make it run 2 times it actually needs to loop.
But here's my remake of it.

Public Function ReverseHex(HexData As String) As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim Temp As String
Dim HexHold As String

HexHold = HexData

    If InStr(Len(HexHold) / 2, ",") > 0 Then HexHold = "0" & HexHold

    For i = 0 To (Len(HexHold) / 2) - 1
        Temp = Left(Right(HexHold, Len(HexHold) - (i * 2)), 2) & Temp
    Next i
    
ReverseHex = Temp
End Function

I was bored anyway :-),
And dont say i simple made a copy of your and changed it a bit.
I didnt do any speed check but it should be faster.
At least i think its cleaner that your current one.

edit:
Changed a small thing,
Still if your using mine updating would be smart.
Since now it wont alter the input data at all!

[D-Trogh]

Same problem occurs when you want to use your WriteHEX function to write some data a couple of times..
An example:

WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset1>, sData
WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset2>, sData
WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset3>, sData

Would result in the program writing 'sData' to offset1, but not to offset2 or offset3, as sData is empty..

[ThuGie]

Originally Posted by D-Trogh

Same problem occurs when you want to use your WriteHEX function to write some data a couple of times..
An example:

WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset1>, sData
WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset2>, sData
WriteHEX sROM, &H<offset3>, sData

Would result in the program writing 'sData' to offset1, but not to offset2 or offset3, as sData is empty..

Yeah its quite a strange thing,
But i think its because he changes the data itself that the function is given,
Like the function gets sData,
In the function itself its called HexData,
He alters HexData but probably in vb6 HexData is simply sData just under a diffrent name,
So because he alters it more like clears it up.
The next time you want to use it its empty,
Its quite easy to fix though,
Simple first Place HexData into a temp and use the temp to alter it .
I will take a look maybe i will also recreate that function.

[D-Trogh]

Yeah well..
Maybe 'we' (Read: All people interested in programming ROM Hack tools) should create this module file with good/fast working HEX Edit functions.
Darthatron started all this by sharing his functions.. But as there are some (minor) things that don't work properly..
I also heard Darthatron aren't the fastest.. Haven't checked the latest 'release' though