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ROM Hacking Help

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Section Staff: Avara, Bloodless, Dr. Seuss, Upsurge

Binary Hack Research & Development

Development Complete FireRed Upgrade

1 Day Ago by Upsurge

Binary Hack Tools, Tutorials & Resources

Tutorial [Gen III]: Battle Scripting...

2 Hours Ago by M̷̗̟̥̏a̶̰͐̐̇s̸͙̈͗̊o̵̡̩͐̑̒n̷̗̗̈

Decomp & Disassembly Tutorials & Resources

Simple Modifications Directory

43 Minutes Ago by ghoulslash

Decomp & Disassembly Help

How to use default...

3 Hours Ago by Avara

Guide

Beginners' Directory

Avara, Dec 2017: lightbulb-o ROM Hacking: Where do I start? Mapping: The process of creating areas for the player to explore; you could create your very own region if you wanted. You can also add custom tiles to give your hack a new look! Scripting: How you create...

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Started by Avara

Rules

ROM Hacking Help Forum Rules

Logan, Oct 2016: *ROM Hacking Help Forum Rules* An Introduction The ROM Hacking Help forum is for asking ROM hacking related questions, and answering them of course! Any idea or team related threads are to be homed in the Recruitment forum. * Forum Rules ...

0 9,860

Started by Logan

ASM & Hex

Teleport Item

Asith, Jan 19: Oh my, that use of select script seems to be working perfecly! I didn't realise there was such a simple solution haha. Thanks very much for the help!

5 121

Started by Asith

ASM & Hex

What does it mean to compile/decompile. & how to use XSE

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: Yes that has been my experience, so if xse is indeed for ony event scripts, then I guess people work with battle scripts and all the other types, via just asm and disassembly only then. Thanks for confirming.

2 96

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

making a pokemon gane

6IVMagikarp, Jan 19: I think it would be helpful to mention what skills or experience you have with rom hacking too such as scripting, map editing, etc. It's been awhile since I've edit roms but back then when I messed with my own hack, I did not see a lot of the newer...

1 115

Started by zxrace1

Pokered music error

Raichu, Jan 19: Hello. I was replacing the music in my Pokered hack with other files, but when I replaced Cities1 with something else it gives me these errors. $ make rgblink -p 0x00 -d -m pokered.map -n pokered.sym -l layout.link -o pokered.gbc audio_red.o...

0 61

Started by Raichu

Script

Does anyone know how to add a cutscene right after Oak's intro?

kalarie, Jan 19: @Meister_anon~Master_o f_None Being around here on the forum for some time, I think it's pretty clear what @SadOldMan meant. Especially considering these two passages and . Either way, you're bringing in a lot of different terms you admit you...

4 140

Started by SadOldMan

ASM & Hex

Find functions for held item effects

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: I'm trying to find the effects of certain held items. I've found the arguments for use items, but I can't seem to find where the code is for held items.

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Script

Pokemon Fire Red - Move Reminder Script need help

darkyy92, Jan 19: Great work! You just saved me some hours ;-)

3 812

Started by STADIUM_TOKEN

Wild pokemon AI?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: not that badly, just a gap in our knowledge and perspective, I'm still mostly working with binary, so I don't know the disassembly tips and tricks yet. thanks, it'll take some time for me to get there but I'll look into that.

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Script

need help starting terrain via item

Mkol103, Jan 19: For future reference, could you please post your solution in case other people have this problem?

2 77

Started by razord

ASM & Hex

Pokemon Emerald Gender Choice Box, Battle Level Text, & Pokedex Layout

Mkol103, Jan 19: I would recommend decomp. That will make it a lot easier for a translation. Sorry if this is a useless reply, but it'll probably be way harder to translate by binary hacking.

1 102

Started by ultron90

ASM & Hex

How to change mart costs

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: Awesome, that sounds like it may solve the other thing I was going to ask too. many thanks. :)

2 83

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Script

FR PokeMart Questionnaire

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: nvm my other post, I was looking for something else and I think I found it. check offset. 1A7702

4 612

Started by __fred__40

HGSS Pokemart item editing

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 19: Just found this myself, if HG SS has a decomp that is, if there's a complete decompilation of the source code(most likely on github), you can find a listing of all the items in the game by their codes, that's what I used in firered. the file for...

1 163

Started by theernestrain

Other

Fire Red level soft caps?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 18: In the mean time, I'll leave this here, if you already know what you're doing with asm, you can probably edit it to make it work for you.

2 99

Started by ckalp67

Script

Text box text alignment question

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 18: There isn't exactly a set way, but I recommend checking out this video, this guy is pretty experienced and he talks about his method for deciding when to line break.

2 121

Started by Tacobell24

Script

Does anyone know the animation pointer for Skull Bash in Emerald?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 18: Well making this a one turn move wasn't really the point of the thread, it was to find the right animation he wanted to use. For doom desire if it doesn't show a second animation in the tab if its a two turn move, I can only assume it only uses...

9 205

Started by Indigo_Thief

Script

My event keeps re-triggering after I Save&Quit

Indigo_Thief, Jan 18: @Mkol103 @Avara Thanks guys! @Mkol103 Alright. I'll try and keep to the "state of " vars. The one for Dewford works perfectly fine and solved my problem :) @Avara Thanks for the link! The list certainly helps a lot :)

3 95

Started by Indigo_Thief

Other

Error when opening Overworld Changer 4.0.1

Litten0212, Jan 18: I have a problem too, when i double click the overworld changer it wont open it, do you know how to fix that?

2 1,007

Started by jiangzhengwenjzw

ASM & Hex

Anyone know where the move limiter offest is for firered

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 17: Found it here. https://github.com/haven1433/HexManiacAdvance/wiki/Move-Expansion-Explained

5 102

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Map

Advanced Map Problem

Jakob99, Jan 17: Alright, I got this problem solved, at least in POKéMON Emerald. So here's what I was doing. When I was creating the map to connect to another map that I had made, I would save it to the same "folder" as that one. For example, the existing map is...

12 690

Started by Jakob99

Graphics

Do I need to separate the Gen III sprite sheets for Fire Red? If so how?

Tacobell24, Jan 17: Ah I see. Then yeah, you'll need the front sprite with the regular palette and the back sprite with the shiny palette for the DPE. GIMP will probably be the best program to index the colours, since you can easily rearrange the order

5 155

Started by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB

ASM & Hex

Changing the offset where a patch is applied

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 17: gotcha and yeah what I was using was an ips patch. I was applying phy special split, with an ips patch and that created a log file when it was done. That may be the only one I've seen do that, but I haven't used many anyway and just can't ...

10 203

Started by castlemurphy

Other

How do I add gen 3+ abilities and moves in rom hacks?

Upsurge, Jan 17: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7henr9o8yacvo4/Optional%20Changes%20In%20DPE.rar?dl=0

7 176

Started by Shashu-Greninja

Plain text paste of all legendaries and mythical. I could not find one

blaca, Jan 16: Articuno Zapdos Moltres galarian zapdos galarian articuno galarian moltres Raikou Entei Suicune Regirock

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Started by blaca

Tool

Dynamic Overworld Palette compiling issue.

ckalp67, Jan 16: hmm well I got the script to compile and apply, but it appears to break any ROM I patch it to, even a fresh one. After insertion the game just loads to a black screen. If I use the IPS patch, it works fine, but the github version seems to break...

2 112

Started by ckalp67

Tool

Problem with Advance Map v1.95

Upsurge, Jan 16: Goto (Ctrl+G) 77DD5, not find for 0x77DD5. See the mistakes?

2 93

Started by Shashu-Greninja

Tool

Facing problem with wild encounters after installing DPE

Upsurge, Jan 16: DPE* (since it handles all PKMN data).

4 121

Started by Shashu-Greninja

Graphics

(Please Help!!!!!) Summary Screen

M̷̗̟̥̏a̶̰͐̐̇s̸͙̈͗̊o̵̡̩͐̑̒n̷̗̗̈, Jan 16: Try to resprite it using paint, then download the hg ss summary screen and follow the offset guide to insert it

1 87

Started by Juaquin472

Other

Anyone experience this bug on Ash Grey 4.3.5?

Spennycatchem, Jan 16: I haven’t used any cheats and only recently discovered there were bad eggs in my storage lol... was curious about what those were for, but left them alone. Let me check my version... I may not have 4.5.3 (it’s what I meant in the original... not...

2 87

Started by Spennycatchem

Other

Is it possible to make players able to choose the Hidden Power's type in HGSS?

Hexx17, Jan 16: what i would do (probably the easiest way) is just make a hidden power for every type as mkol said, then add a tutor npc for it somewhere.

8 233

Started by Palossand25

Other

How do I add sprites and learn sets to an existing ROM hack?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB, Jan 16: I will try with that tool later but I think I somewhat figured it out. As far as the sprites are concerned they come in 256x64 sheets. I know they are meant to be split into 4 64x64 sprites (front, back, shiny, and icon) in order to be used with DPE...

4 156

Started by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB

Noob Scripter here, wanting to start a ROMhack

BlueBird, Jan 16: Good luck and i'm glad you found the help you need, unfortunately the projects more or less cancelled at least for now. I don't think this is my speed with how complex it is. If I ever do a ROM hack it'll likely be without CFRU.

7 191

Started by BlueBird

ASM & Hex

How do I get rid of this mechanic, I want it gone.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 15: This.

0 92

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Advance Trainer using a bunch of random items in battle

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 15: Is it that the trainer's pokemon don't have held items, or the trainer them self that doesn't have any battle items to use?

1 138

Started by ortz3

ASM & Hex

How do I add icons for a new type (coordinate counting)

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 15: Ok so check this out, when you're adding a new type you need to add some dummy space to fill in for the 5 non-type icons, you can use this script courtesy of haven (creator of Hex maniac Advance) to fill in the space and add your new type....

2 157

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Universal Pokemon Randomizer Error (Fire Red)

B4Gr1m, Jan 15: This error shows up when I try and save the rom Randomizer Version: 1720 ROM: Fire Red (U) 1.0 (ROM Hack) Code: BPRE Reported Support Level: No Static Pokemon java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 65535 at...

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Started by B4Gr1m

How do I find and work with Tables within the code.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 15: I kinda got that part, but thanks. if you've got any indepth tips , or things I should avoid doing I'd appreciate that though. What I want to do is mess around with abilities, and other mechanics like status or evs.

7 205

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

A little big trouble with PGE... Please, help! D:

Newo RGBY, Jan 14: DUDE, THANKS I confused it with another Cries editor that only works for inserting cries, thanks for the info!

3 80

Started by Newo RGBY

Other

tutorial writebytetooffset (WBTO) for FR

Upsurge, Jan 14: I mean, yes? It can be used in any ROM for that matter. For example, try this (this will put black bars on the bottom and top, like a movie trailer): writebytetooffset 0x80 0x4000044 writebytetooffset 0x20 0x4000045 To clear it:...

2 894

Started by nachoius

How to make rom hack on android

Newo RGBY, Jan 14: Don't expect so much here... Even in Mac or Linux there aren't some much resources for Hack (But, having some handful editors like for Decomp, in case of using Pokemerald) But hey, theres some things: - There are Patchers like Lucky Patcher...

3 112

Started by Green playz

Script

Should I edit existing scripts?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 13: Ok know its been a while but right as I was about to give up all together, inspiration, so I finally figured out what flag the trainers were using, its the same one in the trainerbattle script, but just up 500 in hex. ex. trainer battle 0x0 0x6e ...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

What exactly is action replay code?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 13: Much appreciated as always, I've had no luck with searching it in the past, I usually find an fb-i or shiny quagsire post, but I think it was by F-BI now that I'm recalling. Eitherway I'll keep an eye out hopefully I come across it again. Thanks...

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Script

How to extract texts from Pokémon Yellow?

NormaShearerFan, Jan 12: Hello everybody. I wanna to know how to extract the texts from "Pokémon Yellow" GameBoy ROM. I wish to translate this ROM to Brazilian Portuguese, my native language, and I need some help with the extraction of the texts. There's a specific...

0 79

Started by NormaShearerFan

ASM & Hex

Does place in a table determine the byte value a variable as listed as?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 12: Alright awesome, I haven't dove into it yet, but that looks like it'll solve all the problems I was having when I added the fairy type to mine.

2 97

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Tool

Advance map download help

kalarie, Jan 12: @Meister_anon~Master_o f_None It's better to use Gamer2020's unofficial version of XSE, it fixes some bugs of the official version.

3 90

Started by Fire red 1996

How do I edit the trainers in advancemap?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 12: You can't edit teams in advance map, advance map is just that, for maps and other visual events only. What you'd need is a hex editor to go in, and adjust existing values or add new ones. But there are also plenty of tools you can use instead to...

2 78

Started by ROMcat

The mystery of Shedinja: How is the HP stuck?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 11: ok thanks. that covers everything i need to get started i think.

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Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

What are the 'go-to' toosl for a GBA ROM hack of Firered?

kalarie, Jan 11: @Hexx17 The top tier stuff at the moment is not yet coming from decomp hacks, at least not for remotely complete hacks. In the future that will probably be the case, but not yet. Unbound is probably top tier at the moment in terms of mechanics...

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Started by DaleH771

New to rom hacking, and I need advice on my core foundation of the rom hack im trying to create/ develop

kalarie, Jan 11: @scoop263 Shadow pokemon have not yet been implemented in any ROM hack, neither are there any resources about them as far as I know. Pokemon Essentials ≠ ROM Hacking.

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Started by scoop263

Other

surfing problem

kalarie, Jan 11: @Bjorn_92 I see you're using essentials, that is not related to ROM hacking. Try the Game Development forum.

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Started by Bjorn__92

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Teleport Item

What does it mean to compile/decompile. & how to use XSE

making a pokemon gane

Pokered music error

Does anyone know how to add a cutscene right after Oak's intro?

Find functions for held item effects

Pokemon Fire Red - Move Reminder Script need help

Wild pokemon AI?

need help starting terrain via item

Pokemon Emerald Gender Choice Box, Battle Level Text, & Pokedex Layout

How to change mart costs

FR PokeMart Questionnaire

HGSS Pokemart item editing

Fire Red level soft caps?

Text box text alignment question

Does anyone know the animation pointer for Skull Bash in Emerald?

My event keeps re-triggering after I Save&Quit

Error when opening Overworld Changer 4.0.1

Anyone know where the move limiter offest is for firered

Advanced Map Problem

Do I need to separate the Gen III sprite sheets for Fire Red? If so how?

Changing the offset where a patch is applied

How do I add gen 3+ abilities and moves in rom hacks?

Plain text paste of all legendaries and mythical. I could not find one

Dynamic Overworld Palette compiling issue.

Problem with Advance Map v1.95

Facing problem with wild encounters after installing DPE

(Please Help!!!!!) Summary Screen

Anyone experience this bug on Ash Grey 4.3.5?

Is it possible to make players able to choose the Hidden Power's type in HGSS?

How do I add sprites and learn sets to an existing ROM hack?

Noob Scripter here, wanting to start a ROMhack

How do I get rid of this mechanic, I want it gone.

Advance Trainer using a bunch of random items in battle

How do I add icons for a new type (coordinate counting)

Universal Pokemon Randomizer Error (Fire Red)

How do I find and work with Tables within the code.

A little big trouble with PGE... Please, help! D:

tutorial writebytetooffset (WBTO) for FR

How to make rom hack on android

Should I edit existing scripts?

What exactly is action replay code?

How to extract texts from Pokémon Yellow?

Does place in a table determine the byte value a variable as listed as?

Advance map download help

How do I edit the trainers in advancemap?

The mystery of Shedinja: How is the HP stuck?

What are the 'go-to' toosl for a GBA ROM hack of Firered?

New to rom hacking, and I need advice on my core foundation of the rom hack im trying to create/ develop

surfing problem