Help Thread: Quick Questions & Answers

[JordanB500]

i am trying to get a script to work if anyone can help me

Spoiler:

'---------------
#dynamic 0x740000

#org @start
lock
faceplayer
checkflag 0x999
compare LASTRESULT 1
if 0x1 goto @done
msgbox @Question 0x5
compare 0x800D 1
if 0x1 goto @Opened
compare 0x800D 0
if 0x1 goto @Sealed
release
end

#org @Opened
msgbox @yep 0x6
checksound
cry 0x196 0x2
waitcry
playsong 0x480 0x0
setwildbattle 0x96 0x46 0x0
setflag 0x999
release
end


#org @Sealed
msgbox @nope 0x6
release
end




#org @question
=A Pokémon is sealed within a Pokéball /pDo you want to release it?


#org @nope
= You leaft the Pokéball alone... for now


#org @yep
= You opened the Pokéball..../pThe Pokémon inside attacked!

#org @done
- The Pokéball is empty

i am still having trouble with this if anyone has an answer i would appreciate it

 

[Aruaruu]

i am still having trouble with this if anyone has an answer i would appreciate it

What happens exactly when you try to initiate the script?

EDIT:
I am not sure, but do you even need the bolded part?

checkflag 0x999
[B]compare LASTRESULT 1[/B]
if 0x1 goto @done

 

[destinedjagold]

i am still having trouble with this if anyone has an answer i would appreciate it

'---------------
#dynamic 0x740000

#org @start
lock
faceplayer
checkflag 0x999
compare LASTRESULT 1
if 0x1 goto @done
msgbox @[COLOR="red"]q[/COLOR]uestion 0x5
compare 0x800D 1
if 0x1 goto @Opened
compare 0x800D 0
if 0x1 goto @Sealed 
release
end

#org @Opened
msgbox @yep 0x6 
checksound
cry 0x196 0x2
waitcry
playsong 0x480 0x0
setwildbattle 0x96 0x46 0x0
setflag 0x999
release
end


#org @Sealed
msgbox @nope 0x6
release
end




#org @question
=A Pokémon is sealed within a Pokéball /pDo you want to release it?


#org @nope
= You leaft the Pokéball alone... for now


#org @yep
= You opened the Pokéball..../pThe Pokémon inside attacked!

#org @done
[COLOR="red"]msgbox @msgdone 0x6
release
end

#org @msgdone
=[/COLOR] The Pokéball is empty

Fixes are in red.

 

[JosefigGaming]

i am still having trouble with this if anyone has an answer i would appreciate it

just adding to what destinedjagold said, safe flags are from 200 to 2FF, and you don't need to use compare lastresult after checkflag

 

[NG55]

It is a simple level script. It should be on that map.

Well it's not. Although, the clerk telling you to say hi to Oak is there. I'll take a print screen of it.

View attachment 73587

View attachment 73588

View attachment 73589

Why do these things get added to the script? The highlighted text and the text below the battle text

View attachment 73590

 

[JordanB500]

just adding to what destinedjagold said, safe flags are from 200 to 2FF, and you don't need to use compare lastresult after checkflag

i just put 999 because i didnt know which ones are in use or were good to use

ty and destinedjagold for the help and i didnt know that you have to put a dowildbattle after the setwildbattle however i cannot get the playsong to work whenever i use dowildbattle it just uses the wild battle music

also

"a Pokémon is sealed within a Pokéball /pDo you want to release it?" and

"You opened the Pokéball.../pThe Pokémon inside attacked!"

appear incorrectly ive tried /p /n /l and it doesnt work for some reason if you can help me with that i believe thats all i need(that and the music)

 

[Joexv]

Whoch Pokedex Order Editor are you using? If you're using Sebbe(sp)'s one it can be buggy, I had to manually edit all my entries in the PGE Pokedex Editor to fix it - i'd restart and use that one! =)

I have a couple of questions of my own...

I'm hacking FR, does anybody happen to know the palette offset for this screen, or know how I could find it?

Also, I'm interested in editing the "Old Man Catches Weedle" event. I know how to change the old man's back-sprite in NSE, but I'd like to change the Weedle for another Pokemon. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

A really easy way to edit what the old man is catching is to install jpans hacked engine onto your rom. He added a special that will allow you to have him catch any Pokemon. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=194241

Spoiler:

Special 0x9c – Old man Battle for all

Receives Arguments? Yes.
0x8004 is the Pokémon species to be captured
0x8005 is the Pokémon Level

Returns values? No

The old man can now catch all pokémon! Well, not quite. It seems that, because this code and some others have been programmed to happen with a specific pokémon, some pokémon were barred from its execution. As such, the old man can catch no legendary except for the bird trio (ask not why), blissey and a few others in the legendary region. Chimecho is ok though. I don't have a full list of pokémon that do or do not work, so you'll have to try and find out.
Also (just because), to change the old man out and someone else in, its image is uncompressed at 0xe70ec0, together with most other backsprites.
As of version 1.0, changing the pointer to this image is asking for trouble on the change backsprite hack. As such, edit over him.
-Quoted form jpans hacked engine instructions-

Why do these things get added to the script? The highlighted text and the text below the battle text

View attachment 73590

OK so the level script for that event is at 0x16A205.
The reason that those weird script lines are apearing is because you are overwriting other scripts and they are showing up in the current one, all you need to do to avoid that is to add a new dynamic offset for the starting script. So if you wanted to edit the marts script it would looklike this(changes in red):

Spoiler:

'---------------
[COLOR="Red"]#dynamic 0x800000
#org @start[/COLOR]
lockall
textcolor 0x0
applymovement 0x1 0x81A75ED
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox [COLOR="red"]@1 [/COLOR]MSG_KEEPOPEN '"Hey!\nYou came from PALLET TOWN?"
closeonkeypress
applymovement 0x1 0x816A262
applymovement MOVE_PLAYER 0x816A25C
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox [COLOR="red"]@2 [/COLOR]MSG_KEEPOPEN '"You know PROF. OAK, right?\pHis or..."
setvar 0x4057 0x1
additem 0x15D 0x1
loadpointer 0x0 [COLOR="red"]@3[/COLOR] '"[player] received OAK'S PARCEL\nfr..."
giveitem2 0x15D 0x1 0x13E
setvar 0x4055 0x5
releaseall
end


'---------
' Strings
'---------
#org [COLOR="red"]@1[/COLOR]
= Hey!\nYou came from PALLET TOWN?

#org [COLOR="red"]@2[/COLOR]
= You know PROF. OAK, right?\pHis order came in.\nCan I get you to take it to him?

#org [COLOR="red"]@3[/COLOR]
= [player] received OAK'S PARCEL\nfrom the POKéMON MART clerk.


'-----------
' Movements
'-----------
#org 0x1A75ED
#raw 0x2D 'Face Down (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

#org 0x16A262
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x30 'Face Right (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

#org 0x16A25C
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x2F 'Face Left (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

In doing so would allow you to edit as much of the script as you would like.

i just put 999 because i didnt know which ones are in use or were good to use

ty and destinedjagold for the help and i didnt know that you have to put a dowildbattle after the setwildbattle however i cannot get the playsong to work whenever i use dowildbattle it just uses the wild battle music

also

"a Pokémon is sealed within a Pokéball /pDo you want to release it?" and

"You opened the Pokéball.../pThe Pokémon inside attacked!"

appear incorrectly ive tried /p /n /l and it doesnt work for some reason if you can help me with that i believe thats all i need(that and the music)

A little trick for text strings is to use XSE's built in text editor. Click Crtl-T and it will open it for you, and when using that you won't have to worry about having to add in the \n\p\l (and btw its supposed to be a backward slash not forward, that may have been your problem)

 

[Chronosplit]

Question about inserting cries.

I've expanded my Pokedex to 30 species more, and I'm really stumped here as to how to get cries pointed. Nearly every tool I'm looking at either doesn't support an expanded 'Dex (or doesn't seem to support Fairy-type very well in the case of GBAPGE), or requires me to deal with finicky options.

Sappy seems like the best way to go for actually getting the cries inserted into the ROM, so there seems to be no problem. But where do I go from there?

 

[HidoranBlaze]

Question about inserting cries.

I've expanded my Pokedex to 30 species more, and I'm really stumped here as to how to get cries pointed. Nearly every tool I'm looking at either doesn't support an expanded 'Dex (or doesn't seem to support Fairy-type very well in the case of GBAPGE), or requires me to deal with finicky options.

Sappy seems like the best way to go for actually getting the cries inserted into the ROM, so there seems to be no problem. But where do I go from there?

You could hex edit? lol. If you go to your cry table (which I think G3HS expands for you?), you'll see something like this: 20 3C 00 00 XX XX XX 08 FF 00 FF 00 repeated a loooot of times. XX XX XX 08 is basically your pointer to where the cry is at. Does that help?

 

[Falkner92]

Look, I'm sorry but I really need some help here. None of the standard Pokemon hacking tools seem to work on my PC for some reason. My PC seems to think all of the Advanced tools have trojans or are viruses except for Advanced map. I installed PoketScript and PkmAdvanced but the scripts don't compile correctly. And every time I try to run XSE I get Error 13 "Mismatch". I'm running Windows 8 btw.

Can anyone please help me? I can't really do anything with just Advanced Map.

 

[HidoranBlaze]

I have a couple of questions of my own...

I'm hacking FR, does anybody happen to know the palette offset for this screen, or know how I could find it?

You could use VBA's Palette Viewer and search for the palettes in a hex editor. Hope that helps.

Look, I'm sorry but I really need some help here. None of the standard Pokemon hacking tools seem to work on my PC for some reason. My PC seems to think all of the Advanced tools have trojans or are viruses except for Advanced map. I installed PoketScript and PkmAdvanced but the scripts don't compile correctly. And every time I try to run XSE I get Error 13 "Mismatch". I'm running Windows 8 btw.

Can anyone please help me? I can't really do anything with just Advanced Map.

Hmm that's weird. My tools are all running fine on Windows 8.1. IIRC antiviruses have a whitelist for non-malicious programs, so you could use that? Also for your XSE problem, try this: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/older-programs-compatible-version-windows
Idk if it'll work though. Also don't use PoketScript. That's seriously outdated.

 

[Falkner92]

Doesn't really matter since I can't get either of them to run. Do I need to set up anything to run XSE? Or should I just be able to click XSE.exe and run it right then and there?

 

[Moosh]

Hello :) I'm currently making a G/S/C remake and I really need some tiles for the interior of Sprout Tower. I don't care if they are from G/S/C or HG/SS. I just really need the tiles. I have someone who does tiles I just need the tiles be it a link or a picture I really appreciate the help :D

 

[NG55]

A really easy way to edit what the old man is catching is to install jpans hacked engine onto your rom. He added a special that will allow you to have him catch any Pokemon. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=194241

Spoiler:

Special 0x9c – Old man Battle for all

Receives Arguments? Yes.
0x8004 is the Pokémon species to be captured
0x8005 is the Pokémon Level

Returns values? No

The old man can now catch all pokémon! Well, not quite. It seems that, because this code and some others have been programmed to happen with a specific pokémon, some pokémon were barred from its execution. As such, the old man can catch no legendary except for the bird trio (ask not why), blissey and a few others in the legendary region. Chimecho is ok though. I don't have a full list of pokémon that do or do not work, so you'll have to try and find out.
Also (just because), to change the old man out and someone else in, its image is uncompressed at 0xe70ec0, together with most other backsprites.
As of version 1.0, changing the pointer to this image is asking for trouble on the change backsprite hack. As such, edit over him.
-Quoted form jpans hacked engine instructions-

OK so the level script for that event is at 0x16A205.
The reason that those weird script lines are apearing is because you are overwriting other scripts and they are showing up in the current one, all you need to do to avoid that is to add a new dynamic offset for the starting script. So if you wanted to edit the marts script it would looklike this(changes in red):

Spoiler:

'---------------
[COLOR="Red"]#dynamic 0x800000
#org @start[/COLOR]
lockall
textcolor 0x0
applymovement 0x1 0x81A75ED
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox [COLOR="red"]@1 [/COLOR]MSG_KEEPOPEN '"Hey!\nYou came from PALLET TOWN?"
closeonkeypress
applymovement 0x1 0x816A262
applymovement MOVE_PLAYER 0x816A25C
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox [COLOR="red"]@2 [/COLOR]MSG_KEEPOPEN '"You know PROF. OAK, right?\pHis or..."
setvar 0x4057 0x1
additem 0x15D 0x1
loadpointer 0x0 [COLOR="red"]@3[/COLOR] '"[player] received OAK'S PARCEL\nfr..."
giveitem2 0x15D 0x1 0x13E
setvar 0x4055 0x5
releaseall
end


'---------
' Strings
'---------
#org [COLOR="red"]@1[/COLOR]
= Hey!\nYou came from PALLET TOWN?

#org [COLOR="red"]@2[/COLOR]
= You know PROF. OAK, right?\pHis order came in.\nCan I get you to take it to him?

#org [COLOR="red"]@3[/COLOR]
= [player] received OAK'S PARCEL\nfrom the POKéMON MART clerk.


'-----------
' Movements
'-----------
#org 0x1A75ED
#raw 0x2D 'Face Down (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

#org 0x16A262
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x1C 'Delay5
#raw 0x30 'Face Right (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

#org 0x16A25C
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x11 'Step Up (Normal)
#raw 0x2F 'Face Left (Delayed)
#raw 0xFE 'End of Movements

In doing so would allow you to edit as much of the script as you would like.


A little trick for text strings is to use XSE's built in text editor. Click Crtl-T and it will open it for you, and when using that you won't have to worry about having to add in the \n\p\l (and btw its supposed to be a backward slash not forward, that may have been your problem)

I don't know what you're talking about for my thing. I'm not overwriting other scripts. And that has nothing to do with the shop.

 

[Chronosplit]

You could hex edit? lol. If you go to your cry table (which I think G3HS expands for you?), you'll see something like this: 20 3C 00 00 XX XX XX 08 FF 00 FF 00 repeated a loooot of times. XX XX XX 08 is basically your pointer to where the cry is at. Does that help?

Actually that helps a loooooot. Thank you, I see how it works now!

 

[Joexv]

I don't know what you're talking about for my thing. I'm not overwriting other scripts. And that has nothing to do with the shop.

You may not be intentionaly overwriting other scripts, it will happen almost everytime you add to a preexisting script. Heres an example:
just a basic script

Spoiler:

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
release
end

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Now that script has been put into a small amount of freespace into your rom. There is almost always another script before AND after your script. And because of that adding anything to the script will cause it to overlap the next script causing those odd lines at the ends of your code.
ie: adding something simple like special 0x0 would cause it to glitch out.

Spoiler:

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
special 0x0
release
end

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Becomes

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
callglitch
callstf 0x302395023
(this is just an example it wont be this random)

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Hopefully this makes a little more sense. Oh ant btw that offset i gave you is the Viridian City mart script that gives you Oaks Parcel.(gotten from a clean fire red rom)

 

[HidoranBlaze]

I don't know what you're talking about for my thing. I'm not overwriting other scripts. And that has nothing to do with the shop.

Ok, since it seems like you don't know what a level script is, https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=304296
That should help, I hope. Also, you find level scripts by looking in the header tab, fyi.
Also, if Gamefreak's default scripts are getting screwed up like that, you probably did overwrite something. That happens when you don't dynamically repoint scripts when you're changing them. (By that I mean pointing a script to a new offset). You should probably make a new script for the rival, it's not that hard.
EDIT: nvm, got ninja'd

 

[NG55]

You may not be intentionaly overwriting other scripts, it will happen almost everytime you add to a preexisting script. Heres an example:
just a basic script

Spoiler:

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
release
end

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Now that script has been put into a small amount of freespace into your rom. There is almost always another script before AND after your script. And because of that adding anything to the script will cause it to overlap the next script causing those odd lines at the ends of your code.
ie: adding something simple like special 0x0 would cause it to glitch out.

Spoiler:

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
special 0x0
release
end

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Becomes

#org 0x123456
lock
faceplayer
msgbox 0x123457 0x6
callglitch
callstf 0x302395023
(this is just an example it wont be this random)

#org 0x123457
=Hi

Hopefully this makes a little more sense. Oh ant btw that offset i gave you is the Viridian City mart script that gives you Oaks Parcel.(gotten from a clean fire red rom)

So why exactly is it not giving me free space then? The people on these sites act like I'm a complete idiot. I'm not a complete idiot. I know what free space finder is

 

[Joexv]

So why exactly is it not giving me free space then? The people on these sites act like I'm a complete idiot. I'm not a complete idiot. I know what free space finder is

Well you dont need FSF if your making scripts. Just use dynamic 0ffsets instead of static. so use @start instead of a normal offset for you code. Then you should have no problems.

Oh and I hath a question. Is it possible to store all of the players pokemon into the game as to allow you to have more than one party? Kinda of a battle tower like system, just without the battle tower.

 

[JordanB500]

Look, I'm sorry but I really need some help here. None of the standard Pokemon hacking tools seem to work on my PC for some reason. My PC seems to think all of the Advanced tools have trojans or are viruses except for Advanced map. I installed PoketScript and PkmAdvanced but the scripts don't compile correctly. And every time I try to run XSE I get Error 13 "Mismatch". I'm running Windows 8 btw.

Can anyone please help me? I can't really do anything with just Advanced Map.

the "Error 13 "Mismatch" is just telling you something is wrong with the script you are using ill give you an example

if you want to use a givepokemon command it requires 6 different sets of numbers the first is the pokemon (in hex) the second one is the level (in hex) and the third is an item for the pokemon to hold (also in hex) the three following it are just fillers if you remove them you will get a type mismatch

if you have an anti-virus thats blocking your tools you should try and change the settings on your anti virus and add an exception to the tools you use so they arent blocked

also if anyone knows how do you change the music in a wild pokemon battle with dowildbattle