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Binary Hack Tutorials

Various tools and resources to help you develop your legacy hacks can be found here.

Section Staff: Bloodless, Hiroshi Sotomura, 8-bit Zeta, Spacewalker

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Featured Tool: Pokémon DS Map Studio

Thread created January 14th, 2020

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Promoted

Featured: Ultimate ROM Base (using the CFRU)

Thread created June 9th, 2018

502

Promoted

Featured Tool: Hex Maniac Advance

Thread created December 20th, 2019

100

Promoted

[Video Tutorials] Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking

Thread created May 28th, 2016

129

Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking Tutorials [Video Series]

(6 pages)

chethan, Dec 7: can you post a tutorial on how to add gen 4 -gen 8 pokemon

129 108,100

Started by Anthroyd

Rules

Binary Hack Tools, Tutorials & Resources Forum Rules

Christos, May 2014: *Binary Hack Tools, Tutorials & Resources 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...

0 35,967

Started by Christos

Gen 6 style Exp. Share using the CFRU

Bad_Eggy, May 9: men, i follow your steps and when used the exp share resets the game, i dont know exactly where is the mistake, maybe adding 1?

12 6,713

Started by Dark Gyarados

Basics of Scripting

(2 pages)

DarkDreamer404, May 9: ive tried following what you said exactly and my game keeps crash ing when i interact with the NPC

34 20,746

Started by destinedjagold

In depth Advance Map tutorial

(24 pages)

Aarush6500, May 8: I have the same problem guys

582 437,549

Started by link12552

[BDSP] Modifying the game's wild encounter tables on PC (Yuzu)

Lunos, May 6: Hi. I had to learn to mod Pokémon BD/SP for reasons. As it's normal for me, I decided to write the process that I followed in order to accomplish this task in simple steps. Method 1 Shorter and faster Method 2 The first method I learned....

0 169

Started by Lunos

[HG] - Adding a New Type to Heart Gold - Using Fairy as an Example

DannyDrawsaLot, May 4: The system cannot find the path specified, or something along those lines.

20 8,204

Started by BluRose

[XSE] Scripting Tutorial

(3 pages)

Jscothy, Apr 26: please could someone help my? im trying to get this script to work so that you get to choose a pokemon but if you have 6 pokemon in your party it says you have to many pokemon in your party. however the script works perfectly except if you do...

71 70,486

Started by Avara

Mugshots via ASM

(2 pages)

Derlo, Apr 18: Here the original Loadind.asm file: Download

32 18,255

Started by Kyoko1

CFRU Tutorial: Raid Battle Basics

Greenphx, Apr 8: Sorry, didn't see you asked questions when you responded. If you have discord, add me: Greenphx#5428 and I'll try and help you If not just post the images of errors here.

4 1,107

Started by DarkMadman_69

Spacewalker's Complete FireRed Upgrade Guidebook

(2 pages)

cielsensei, Apr 8: hello. How do you add types? example adding sound-type to the game?

34 24,468

Started by Spacewalker

GBA ASM Programming

(3 pages)

Bnthomason, Apr 1: Where do I find the Asm code? It's not on the page? Trying to understand asm as painless and easy as possible, but I can't find the asm code needed for this project... anyone have a backup?

72 71,921

Started by Shiny Quagsire

tajaros Xtreme Scripting Tutorial

(4 pages)

Technoxen100, Mar 31: Great guide for anyone new to scripting (like me) , so... i see that this thread covered almost anything scripting related, but i can't find any way to attach a script to a custom item. Sothe thing is, i just added new items in my FR rom and i was...

85 93,353

Started by tajaros

Starting out with Rom Hacking? Click here

(2 pages)

MJB1986, Mar 28: Thanks for theadvice. For me I just want to edit Pokemon Ultra Violet where the GYM Leaders and trainers in those gym are 5 levels higher and the same for random battles with Gary's and Giovanni and once you've defeated the Elite 4 twice You can...

28 145,253

Started by Danny0317

Editing graphics in Pokémon Black and Pokémon White with Crystal Tile 2

gicavac8, Mar 21: Thanks for sharing this info.

12 27,650

Started by Platinum Lucario

D/P/Pt/HG/SS: Remove the Framerate Limiter

Lunos, Mar 15: It's been a while. I decided to check this thread and give an update to the main post. I should have done it way back when Buffel taught me how you could just modify the ROMs directly really, but hey, better late than never. The video is...

5 55,488

Started by Lunos

Hacking the Emerald Title Screen - Tutorial by KhaosKnight

(3 pages)

Guzeinbuick, Mar 12: Great tutorial. Very concise and helpful. One problem: https://i.postimg.cc/LssDg1Pk/dfgh.png Bottom 90% is glitched out. I assume it's because the game loads the background to the "2005 Gamefreak" with its own palette, or something. Anyone...

68 55,548

Started by KhaosKnight

Fire Red - Easily Edit the Title Screen with HMA!

darthbr, Mar 6: thank you, but i got some problems, if i export and save, the title became glitch, im using the original one

1 1,736

Started by Greenphx

Adding New Types into Emerald

(4 pages)

Nombre Original, Mar 5: I can't find the image with the types in unLZ (Although I think I'm too late)

80 62,600

Started by MrDollSteak

Pokemon Fire Red: Editing The Town Map

ScripNewbie, Feb 18: This is really great tutorial!

1 1,557

Started by kalarie

Pokemon DS Rom Hacking Tutorial Videos

(2 pages)

MasterYesevil, Feb 5: Added videos on new Text editing, Trainer editing, and now Wild Pokemon editing!

26 11,293

Started by MasterYesevil

Adding New Evolution Stones the easy way

lojobambam, Jan 15: I follow the steps completely but for some reason when I go to evolve the Pokemon using the stone it allows me to use the item and it says “Huh?” and I press A but then nothing happens.

4 4,181

Started by BCTElite

Adding new types into Fire Red without replacing

(10 pages)

Gashnaw, Jan 14: Without the images it is extremely hard to follow.

237 85,551

Started by ShyRayq

[Tutorial] Create a basic BDSP mod (altering item prices)

WietPot, Jan 7: In this tutorial, you will learn the very basics of modding BDSP: extracting NCA files from original NSP files (base game AND title update), extract romfs and exefs folders from the NCAs, disassemble those folders in a readable JSON format, edit the...

0 1,577

Started by WietPot

16-Character Move Names Using the CFRU

Greenphx, Jan 4: Late reply, but here's a list of moves that need to be updated. There's probably more: Clang Scales Dark Lariat Dragon Rise Water Star Double Iron EerieImpulse Mystic Fire Power-Up Hit

4 3,113

Started by Z-nogyroP

Adding new evolution methods [FR]

(10 pages)

feight0, Jan 2: Would it be possible to make a pokemon evolve after reproduction? For example if we had a pre-evolution for kangaskhan that would evolve after reproducing instead of giving an egg. You could then consider kangaskhan as an egg in your party where...

228 72,002

Started by kearnseyboy6

Raid Battles through the Complete Fire Red Upgrade.

#Luke111, Dec 27: Loved it bro

1 830

Started by Greenphx

G3HS extended Pokemon in the wild

shabyfrost, Dec 17: How do you do this with items?

22 29,145

Started by Danny0317

How to expand Map Headers in FireRed to use names 0xC5-0xFC

DarkMadman_69, Dec 2: HOW TO USE MAP HEADERS C5-FC I created a this thread after posting this tutorial in its original thread here https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=212492&page=2 I hope that was ok....😅 This is my first time writing a tutorial but...

0 837

Started by DarkMadman_69

Resizing and editing the Font in Fire Red

LibertyTwins, Nov 25: I'm making a thread about editing and resizing the font in Fire Red, since it's a topic that's almost entirely overlooked, outside of the font width tables found in HMA. So in this thread I will explain how to edit and resize the fonts in Fire...

0 1,096

Started by LibertyTwins

Physical/Special Split w/ Images Tutorial (No ASM)

(2 pages)

bauaser-kun, Nov 19: Same here, there are no images and the selecting move red lines stuck

29 23,179

Started by metapod23

FR Complete Title Screen Editing

Ansh¹⁹⁸⁸, Nov 5: I successfully inserted the image and raw and the pallete also but even after inserting pallete it's showing messy colours.And it's showing yellow all over but there is no yellow in pallete I replaced. Please help

11 13,128

Started by Joexv

Adding New Moves and Creating New Move Effects

(12 pages)

ortz3, Nov 3: I fixed the glitch. This applies to EVERYONE. In order for your expanded moves to work with Disable/Taunt/Water Absorb/Volt Absorb etc you need to do the following At D7E9C change 0B D8 with C0 46 and at D7EB4, change 0E D9 with 0E E0

275 152,817

Started by itman

[FR/EM]Show item image when it added to the bag

(2 pages)

Luke111, Oct 25: can u insert for me

25 9,772

Started by ~Andrea

Hex Editing the Intro of Fire Red

(2 pages)

Ludology Laboratories, Oct 21: Can you update the file? I can't access it.

30 18,356

Started by BlitŻ

HGSS Summary Screen + How to Make a Summary Screen

clairepop, Oct 13 rom-hacking, binary

12 6,756

Started by Z-nogyroP

[TOOL RELEASE] Pokemon Gen 3 Egglocke Generator

gerben2e, Oct 8: Hello, If you want to play to have near endless replayability of your favorite gen 3 rom hacks, look no further! This tool is able to add tons of eggs to your save file, in order to let you experience a new egglocke every time! What is an...

0 2,730

Started by gerben2e

Adding Items for CFRU compatibility

Luke111, Sep 30: Pls make a patch for it

3 4,845

Started by __fred__40

FireRed: Fixing the trainer's facing

OPPAIDAISUKI, Sep 26: Hi sir can please post the code for USA/English Pokemon Fire Red,,,,because the download link is not working anywore...thanks sir in advance!!!

20 10,780

Started by NarutoActor

[FireRed] Expand Max # of Trainers

Zeta Sukuna, Sep 26: Does that flag solution actually work for Emerald? I've been trying to implement it, and all I've gotten was trainers simply looping after battles, and the trainer flags not being repointed. I've used Sierraffinity's port of JPAN's Save Block...

13 6,666

Started by esipode

POKEMON CENTER COST MONEY TO HEAL YOUR TEAM Script

Splinxsh, Sep 11: When you whiteout, you enter a completely different script and offset, so I suppose you could have it where if you wipeout they will do it for free as a good gesture but any other time you want to heal you are charged for it?

2 1,273

Started by elaf

Change the Bag of Berries

Mason Shu, Sep 10: In his screenshot, nlz was loaded with firered

2 1,850

Started by Juaquin472

Complete FireRed Upgrade: Creating Custom Moves

Dark Gyarados, Sep 2: Note: I won't include making Move Animations in this tutorial. If you want to get familiar with Move Animations, check out this thread: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=385321 Okay! Now, I've been using the CFRU for about half a...

0 1,510

Started by Dark Gyarados

How to Create New Evolutionary Stones: Step by Step

(2 pages)

Gabu Samagima, Aug 26: Should the new stone index differ from the real stone index?. Or should they be same?

47 30,118

Started by karatekid552

[Abandoned][Delete]

Mahian23, Aug 25: Delete

0 1,007

Started by Mahian23

Making new Evolution Stones using Hex Maniac Advance by replacing Unused Item slots

Drake Baku, Aug 18: Certainly going to use this, thanks

1 1,655

Started by DevidraGaming

[Fire Red]: Class Based Trainer Battle Music

(2 pages)

TaviTurnip, Aug 9: Did you ever figure this out? I just came to this thread to refresh myself on class music and attempt it in Emerald myself, and have gotten held up on the very first step. I figured I could reverse engineer the instructions from FireRed to Emerald,...

35 31,160

Started by Jambo51

Bad EGG Removal in GBA

DarkMadman_69, Jul 31: This is very helpful! Thank you!

4 26,628

Started by Amy May

Create new custom multichoice boxes (without deleting old ones)

DarkMadman_69, Jul 29: This tutorial was helpful. The converter link is broken, can someone fix it? Please

8 7,481

Started by Chicken Bones

Custom Gen 5 Pokedex Skins

BluRose, Jul 20: >gen 5 is 10 years out of date mate you're saying that to a forum that hacks games that are 16 years out of date but some good stuff! love seeing ds developments around here, we over at nds kingdom should start posting everything we find before...

1 1,859

Started by supershadow64ds

Adding New Custom Particles

(2 pages)

ortz3, Jul 19: Can you please walk through an example of changing the size. For the Solarbeam animation, I tried replacing the Solarbeam particles with the thunder particles from electric moves like Thunder, Thundershock etc, but all I got was glitched particles....

26 23,091

Started by MrDollSteak

[GOLD] Music Hacking Resource Document

TheClassyHerddIer, Jul 16: This will be helpful. Thanks

17 18,058

Started by Melash

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Featured Tool: Pokémon DS Map Studio

Featured: Ultimate ROM Base (using the CFRU)

Featured Tool: Hex Maniac Advance

[Video Tutorials] Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking

Pokémon Generation III ROM Hacking Tutorials [Video Series]

Binary Hack Tools, Tutorials & Resources Forum Rules

Gen 6 style Exp. Share using the CFRU

Basics of Scripting

In depth Advance Map tutorial

[BDSP] Modifying the game's wild encounter tables on PC (Yuzu)

[HG] - Adding a New Type to Heart Gold - Using Fairy as an Example

[XSE] Scripting Tutorial

Mugshots via ASM

CFRU Tutorial: Raid Battle Basics

Spacewalker's Complete FireRed Upgrade Guidebook

GBA ASM Programming

tajaros Xtreme Scripting Tutorial

Starting out with Rom Hacking? Click here

Editing graphics in Pokémon Black and Pokémon White with Crystal Tile 2

D/P/Pt/HG/SS: Remove the Framerate Limiter

Hacking the Emerald Title Screen - Tutorial by KhaosKnight

Fire Red - Easily Edit the Title Screen with HMA!

Adding New Types into Emerald

Pokemon Fire Red: Editing The Town Map

Pokemon DS Rom Hacking Tutorial Videos

Adding New Evolution Stones the easy way

Adding new types into Fire Red without replacing

[Tutorial] Create a basic BDSP mod (altering item prices)

16-Character Move Names Using the CFRU

Adding new evolution methods [FR]

Raid Battles through the Complete Fire Red Upgrade.

G3HS extended Pokemon in the wild

How to expand Map Headers in FireRed to use names 0xC5-0xFC

Resizing and editing the Font in Fire Red

Physical/Special Split w/ Images Tutorial (No ASM)

FR Complete Title Screen Editing

Adding New Moves and Creating New Move Effects

[FR/EM]Show item image when it added to the bag

Hex Editing the Intro of Fire Red

HGSS Summary Screen + How to Make a Summary Screen

[TOOL RELEASE] Pokemon Gen 3 Egglocke Generator

Adding Items for CFRU compatibility

FireRed: Fixing the trainer's facing

[FireRed] Expand Max # of Trainers

POKEMON CENTER COST MONEY TO HEAL YOUR TEAM Script

Change the Bag of Berries

Complete FireRed Upgrade: Creating Custom Moves

How to Create New Evolutionary Stones: Step by Step

[Abandoned][Delete]

Making new Evolution Stones using Hex Maniac Advance by replacing Unused Item slots

[Fire Red]: Class Based Trainer Battle Music

Bad EGG Removal in GBA

Create new custom multichoice boxes (without deleting old ones)

Custom Gen 5 Pokedex Skins

Adding New Custom Particles

[GOLD] Music Hacking Resource Document