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Decomp & Disassembly Help icon

Decomp & Disassembly Help

Get the help you you need to develop your decompilation or disassembly-based hack here.

Rules

Decomp & Disassembly Help Forum Rules

Avara, Aug 29: *Decomp & Disassembly Help Forum Rules* Forum Rules This forum is bound by rules set in the global PokéCommunity Rules To make sure that things remain civil, and to make sure that everyone has an enjoyable time, we ask that, along with the global...

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Started by Avara

Help Thread

General Information

Avara, Jan 2019: What's the difference between binary hacking and using a decompilation/disassembly? "Binary hacking" in a nutshell can be defined as using various tools to edit a .gba or .gbc file to get the results you want. If you use a decomp/disasm, the...

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Started by Avara

Other

I want to add more types to hidden power

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, May 12: *Whistles* wow, ok very cool. thanks for the quick bitwise explanation, and yeah I completely understand that. Well said. :)

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Adding more moves to a Pokémon's learn set.

Buffel Saft, May 8: I suspect the issue is that there was a typo in one of the newly added moves (maybe a missing comma or bracket or something) which caused the error. To add new moves to a level up learnset all you have to do is add them in in the same format as the...

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Started by Hurdedur

Sprite Changing in pokemon emerald-expansion

WiserVisor, May 8: This tutorial will teach you all that you need for adding in new sprites, including replacing sprites that are already in pokeemerald.

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Started by Hurdedur

Hopefully a very very simple task someone could help me with

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, May 7: also for this you can find your way around better with a program meant for working on code projects. for example visual studio 2019 (use community version that's the free one) it has a nice feature that let's you "peak" at definitions and...

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Started by HustlerJim

Audio

Pokémon GSC sounds in pokeruby

McPaul, May 3: Damn I have no talent in music if there's no MIDI database I give up.

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Started by McPaul

Script

Is it safe to edit the game's metadata?

Anon822, May 3: TITLE is the "game title" in the rom header, changing it should be fine. MODERN allows you to compile the game using a more modern compiler (make modern). REVISION is indeed the "software version" number in the header, but in pokeruby and...

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Started by Yknr

Script

Emerald US Version - Opponent Party Size Location in WRAM?

Anon822, May 2: The enemy party count variable is not used for trainer battles. Instead the game just checks which mons have a valid species. You can call this function if you need to get the enemy party's size.

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Started by ringohoffman

Failure to install pokefirered decomp

RonaldHuntsman, Apr 30: Oof. I uninstalled and ran the installer again, making sure gba was ticked, with any anti virus software turned off, and still no Devkitarm folder appears under devkitpro. I looked at older versions of the devkit installer (2.2.1) which do have a...

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Started by RonaldHuntsman

Graphics

[pokeruby] Keep failing to load edited image

McPaul, Apr 30: I found it! Looks like I accidentally activated some transparency option.

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Started by McPaul

Script

[Pokeruby/Pokeemerald] Script to let Pokémon use HM without knowing them

McPaul, Apr 29: Ok thank you very much! I'll study that and see if I'm able to reach an outcome. I'm currently working on adding Egg Moves at the Move Relearner.

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Started by McPaul

Adding new Pokémon into Pokered disassembly?

Internet_Goblin, Apr 20: I'm sorry you're being ignored. Their isn't any up to date tutorials on how to add new Pokemon into Pokered, I'd know. I even asked the guy in charge of the disassembly's Github page and they said they were working on one, though it has been almost...

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Started by HarleyRayquaza

Graphics

Messed up EXP and HP bars

Condé, Apr 13: Hello, I hope I'm not in the wrong section. I'm making a romhack just for fun and actually editing some sprites, using Tilemolester / NSE / Infranview and everything went pretty good so far... Until I made it to the Experience bar and HP bar...

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Started by Condé

Other

Issue Making ROM

Jessler, Apr 13: So, I attempted to work on my game on another computer. I pulled the reop, installed agbcc, typed make, and... this happened. g++ -Wall -std=c++11 -O2 json11.cpp mapjson.cpp -o mapjson cc -Wall -Wextra -Wno-switch -Werror -std=c11 -O2 main.c...

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Started by Jessler

Graphics

Built-in Color Correction for GBC games

jojobear13, Apr 10: Many people nowadays play Gen 1 and Gen 2 pokemon games on modern backlit LCD screens: hd monitors, smartphones, tablets, the AGS-101 GBA SP, even game boys with an IPS screen mod. Playing GBC games this way will have you notice that the colors are...

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Started by jojobear13

Help with adding TMs 50-100 to Item Expansion

(2 pages)

Jessler, Apr 10: I hate myself sometimes, haha! The Pokemon on that line still had TMHM(HM01_CUT). Thanks for pointing that out!

28 2,254

Started by RadicalRadish

Graphics

Help replacing Professor Birch sprite from Intro

Bdoosh, Apr 9: I managed to get rid of the error! Somehow the image didn't convert to 4bpp with GraphicsGale, so I used another image editing program, and then it worked.

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Started by Bdoosh

Any Updates on the Dynamic Overworld Palette Edits for Pokeemerald?

FrontierBrainVitalo, Apr 9: Ok, too bad :/ Then I'll have to try it on my own. Maybe I'll try it first on a clean copy of pokeemerald.

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Started by Jessler

Script

Enable National Dex in PokeRuby, PokeFireRed & PokeEmerald when you first receive the normal PokeDex

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Mar 29: I don't know if you've solved this already but I just wanted to drop in my 2 cents. So depending on what your actual goal is there's a couple different ways you can go about this. For my stuff all I cared about was removing the non-region...

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Started by NitroHedgehog

How can I define the Fishing events to prevent reeling in the rod?

NitroHedgehog, Mar 24: You guys rocks! It now perfectly works! :D The only thing is that you do not see the dots while fishing in PokeRuby with this script, but you'll never have to reel in, as the only messages you can get will be ''A Pokémon's on the hook!'' or ''Not...

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Started by NitroHedgehog

Other

Can't compile PokeRuby or PokeEmerald at all...at all

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Mar 21: Well the reason is right there, in the warning. Ok so since the main goal of this thread is solved, you should really open a new thread for this issue, and take a look at some tutorials on the basics of working with decomps. But I'll give...

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Started by NitroHedgehog

Script

Porting PokeEmerald's items icons to PokeRuby?

NitroHedgehog, Mar 20: Hi! In PokeEmerald, they added thumbnails icons for all items in your bag as well as when you go shopping, and even gives you the ability to move items from Pokémon in the PC (Also present in FRLG). My big question is, can this script be ported to...

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Started by NitroHedgehog

Pokefirered: editing type interface icons messes up colors

jlaine3333, Mar 12: No matter what sprite editing tutorial I use or what program I use (graphicsgale, photoshop, and at one point i got desperate and used mspaint to see if that would work), when I edit the icon spritesheet for pokemon types, the colors are in reverse...

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Started by jlaine3333

Graphics

Any insights on how to edit/work with summary screen and health bar icon placement?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Mar 10: I'm looking to make some icon changes to the pokemon menus, but I have no experience with it, if anyone has tried this or has some knowledge on the subject I'd love to talk about it. I'm wondering how the space works for the health bar during...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Issue Making ROM

Jessler, Mar 8: That's ok, I understand. I mainly just changed the layout, added a new tileset, and moved around some warps. I also changed the wild pokemon list. Aside from that, I didn't really do anything else to it. I just reverted to a previous version and...

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Started by Jessler

Other

Continuing my binary hack in disassembly

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 28: update, so the first part was wrong, but there may be a way to do this. So the idea for decomp to my knowledge is to break down the rom using the same compiler it was built with. I believe that's either clank or gnc (don't quote me on those...

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Started by STikER

Graphics

Porting Vanilla Red/Blue colors to Yellow version?

NitroHedgehog, Feb 28: Hi, I know Yellow is already in color, but it is colored like the SGB palettes of Red and Blue rather than in full color like the Vanilla/Gen 2 hacks. My question is this; is it possible to port the full colors to Yellow, or to Red/Blue with...

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Started by NitroHedgehog

Other

How do I edit an existing data table?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 27: I need to add 2 bytes of padding to an existing table, the best solution I can think of is to add another column to the end and fill it with free space. But I don't know how I'd do that, or how to have it fill free space, but not overwrite...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Making SGB palettes display on the GBC

sporh23, Feb 23: It has been a while! I didn't post that I tried your updated ScrollCreditsMonLeft code before your edit and it actually seemed to solve the issue for me! And thanks for looking into the water tile thing too. I never got around to troubleshooting it...

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Started by jojobear13

Other

Function Help

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 21: Ok got it, works now, so the problem was nesting functions makes the inside one rely on the first being true beforehand, or it gets skipped over. And that OR functions work different when ! not is involved. The first argument is much more...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Script

Is there a way to change where bytes for specific things are put?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: gotcha.

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Graphics

[pokeemerald] Problem with World Map (512 tiles)

Doctor Juanjo, Feb 20: Thanks a lot, now it works!!! Is sad that now I can't do affine functions (for example, the zoom in Pokenav) but it is something https://i.imgur.com/U1ldM4r.png

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Started by Doctor Juanjo

Other

Anyone break down the process for adding abilities?

Anon822, Feb 20: pokeemerald's wiki has a guide for adding new abilities

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

Error help & C Syntax Tutorial

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 19: I found a nice site to help people new to C understand syntax errors, and other warnings they may get in the process of compiling or debugging. So I wanted to share this in the hope it helps someone else as well. ...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

Repo Clone Error: "Chmod on X failed: Operation not permitted, fatal: could not set ..."

Lunos, Feb 19: That's not how you clone anything. git remote allows you to track other people's repositories so you can pull commits from the branches in them. Considering you're having filesystem permission issues, I'd suggest you to try out these commands....

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Started by Le pug

Day/Night Cycle in Pokeemerald

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 18: This is from CFRU but if you can emulate it, it may help you.

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Started by spacemountaincarlo

Battle

How to Add a New Move to Pokeemerald

WiserVisor, Feb 18: I figured it out! I did some messing around with some other actions, specifically using the "Creep Closer" action that is used in the Safari Zone, as well as checking to see if the player's Pokemon is being "sky dropped" at the moment. If the...

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Started by WiserVisor

How to do scripting for fire red

Lunos, Feb 17: Considering you made this thread here, in the Decomp & Disassembly Help Section, I'll assume you're talking about Pokefirered. Scripting is no different in Pokefirered than it is in Pokeruby or Pokeemerald. They all use the same system based on...

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Started by Green playz

Other

Problem with pulling from other repositories

Lunos, Feb 12: The commits you pulled were merged into your branch successfully, and now Git is making you store everything in a commit symbolizing the merge. What you're seeing is Nano, a command line based text editor. In it, you can modify the commit title if...

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Started by FrontierBrainVitalo

Script

Unable to access gAbilityNames in field_specials.c

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 9: Thanks, I set it on blaze so I could test it at game start. but it works and I'm gonna do some craazy stuff with shedinja, now that I've got that working. :) I'm still a noob so I'll need a lot more research before I can tackle my next task but...

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Started by Mkol103

Map

[Pokeemerald]Deleting maps

Martyk, Feb 4: Okay, thanks i'll look into that. Yeah i will probably change some levels in vanilla to new maps, so i wont have to delete them but just change them. Thanks for your help!

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Started by Martyk

Script

[pokecrystal] Move relearner

McPaul, Feb 3: Hello! Thanks for the answer! I looked at Polished Crystal github and the game has become so far from original Crystal that it has almost nothing to do with it anynore (it asks for Heart Scales and displays Physical/Special/Status split for...

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Started by McPaul

Battle

Changing Battle Speed

Mkol103, Feb 2: I have a solution to this. Here is the link to the mod. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10266925#post10266925

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Started by Mkol103

Other

I can't build agbcc

Diego Mertens, Jan 31: Even after reinstalling EVERYTHING again, the error still shows. This didnt use to happen before, i have no idea why this started happening... I already reinstalled Git, devkitPro and updated cygwin, but this STILL appears. I honestly have NO idea...

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Started by Diego Mertens

Help with modifying Level cap, EXP, Types, balls, and pokemon.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 27: Were you able to change experience gain, I'm trying to do that too?

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Started by Zettai

Script

[pokecrystal] How do I use Unown text?

Morfeo, Jan 26: Good afternoon I request your support because I want to implement a part in my project to visualize the Unown text used in the UnownDex but I don't know if it is possible to do it in a "normal" way or how to do it if it is the case. I...

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Started by Morfeo

How to use default player/rival names (Pokered)

Avara, Jan 20: Hi, I've moved this over to Decomp & Disassembly Help as you've noted you're using Pokered.

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Started by Raichu

Compiling Multiple Upgrades Simultaneously

Lunos, Jan 18: There is a tutorial you can follow in the Decomp & Disassembly Tutorials and Resources Section. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=432321 You start by cloning the repository indicated there, jumping to the battle_engine branch and...

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Started by joeygmurf

How to add scrollbar to options menu?

Mashanny, Jan 18: So I've adjusted the autorun made by ghoulslash, so that it doesn't replace the button mode but adds to the option menu. Problem is I now have the autorun options at the bottom, replacing the Cancel at the bottom (it's now invisible at the bottom...

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Started by Mashanny

Trainer sending out incorrect second Pokemon

pokemonmasteraaron, Jan 16: Figured it out! For any other n00bs, you have to edit PartyFlags in trainers.h. It is a bit mask, you can just look at other trainers that do this and copy what they do. Very simple.

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Started by pokemonmasteraaron

Emerald: Wild encounter changes not reflected in pokeemerald.gba build

pokemonmasteraaron, Jan 13: Hi! Yes, I am modifying src/data/wild_encounters.json. Though I got nowhere with that, I was finally able to get a change to go through by modifying the header directly. Now, as you know with C, headers aren't recompiled if nothing which includes...

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Started by pokemonmasteraaron

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Decomp & Disassembly Help Forum Rules

General Information

I want to add more types to hidden power

Adding more moves to a Pokémon's learn set.

Sprite Changing in pokemon emerald-expansion

Hopefully a very very simple task someone could help me with

Pokémon GSC sounds in pokeruby

Is it safe to edit the game's metadata?

Emerald US Version - Opponent Party Size Location in WRAM?

Failure to install pokefirered decomp

[pokeruby] Keep failing to load edited image

[Pokeruby/Pokeemerald] Script to let Pokémon use HM without knowing them

Adding new Pokémon into Pokered disassembly?

Messed up EXP and HP bars

Issue Making ROM

Built-in Color Correction for GBC games

Help with adding TMs 50-100 to Item Expansion

Help replacing Professor Birch sprite from Intro

Any Updates on the Dynamic Overworld Palette Edits for Pokeemerald?

Enable National Dex in PokeRuby, PokeFireRed & PokeEmerald when you first receive the normal PokeDex

How can I define the Fishing events to prevent reeling in the rod?

Can't compile PokeRuby or PokeEmerald at all...at all

Porting PokeEmerald's items icons to PokeRuby?

Pokefirered: editing type interface icons messes up colors

Any insights on how to edit/work with summary screen and health bar icon placement?

Issue Making ROM

Continuing my binary hack in disassembly

Porting Vanilla Red/Blue colors to Yellow version?

How do I edit an existing data table?

Making SGB palettes display on the GBC

Function Help

Is there a way to change where bytes for specific things are put?

[pokeemerald] Problem with World Map (512 tiles)

Anyone break down the process for adding abilities?

Error help & C Syntax Tutorial

Repo Clone Error: "Chmod on X failed: Operation not permitted, fatal: could not set ..."

Day/Night Cycle in Pokeemerald

How to Add a New Move to Pokeemerald

How to do scripting for fire red

Problem with pulling from other repositories

Unable to access gAbilityNames in field_specials.c

[Pokeemerald]Deleting maps

[pokecrystal] Move relearner

Changing Battle Speed

I can't build agbcc

Help with modifying Level cap, EXP, Types, balls, and pokemon.

[pokecrystal] How do I use Unown text?

How to use default player/rival names (Pokered)

Compiling Multiple Upgrades Simultaneously

How to add scrollbar to options menu?

Trainer sending out incorrect second Pokemon

Emerald: Wild encounter changes not reflected in pokeemerald.gba build