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Binary Hack Research & Development

Got a well-founded knack with your binary Pokémon hacks? Love reverse-engineering them? For the traditional Pokémon ROM hacker, this is the spot for polling and gathering your ideas, and then implementing them! Share your hypothesis, get ideas from others, and collaborate to create!

Section Staff: Hiroshi Sotomura, ShinyDragonHunter, Pyxal

Promoted

Featured: Complete FireRed Upgrade

Thread created October 11th, 2019

435

Promoted

Featured: Quick Research & Development Thread

Thread created January 9th, 2010

1210

Promoted

Mega Evolutions and Primal Reversion

Thread created April 29th, 2015

535

Promoted

[FR] Sideways Stairs

Thread created September 22nd, 2016

Code

Ability Resource Thread

(19 pages)

Noivsonar, Aug 26 megathread

472 190,186

Started by MrDollSteak

Code

ASM Resource Thread

(65 pages)

Volpe92, Aug 11 megathread

1,616 517,086

Started by esperance

Code

Move Resource Thread

(19 pages)

Noivsonar, Mar 31 megathread

465 298,957

Started by Spherical Ice

About the Research & Development Forum

Hiroshi Sotomura, Feb 2022: https://www.pokecommunity.com/uploads/imageshare/5_16446339601762210194.pngAbout the Binary Hack Research & Development Forum The Binary Hack Research & Development forum is the place for developing new code and gathering suggestions to improve...

0 2,199

Started by Hiroshi Sotomura

Quick Research & Development Thread

(49 pages)

Yave Yu, Sep 26: PCM volume, channel, and quality controller. FireRed: 0x1DD0C8 Emerald: 0x2E0104 Vanilla value is 00 C5 94 00, what does they mean? C5 can take two parts. C is PCM volume, 5 is PCM channels. Some hack increase channel to 12, so it would be CC....

1,210 795,028

Started by Spherical Ice

Research

2D/Fake Soaring in the Sky/Eon Flute for R/S/E/FR/LG

(2 pages)

Garaglia06, Jul 24: Can it be used on Pokeemerald? Was it updated ever since?

27 14,333

Started by thedarkdragon11

Development

More TMs/HMs

(2 pages)

PokéemeraldFan92, Jul 19: Is there a better way to do this? I wish there was a patch for TMs up to 108.

35 23,262

Started by ZodiacDaGreat

Development

Adding New Moves to Gen 3

(6 pages)

Silviacat3, Jul 15: Need help I am use Emerald I add new moves, but Metronome working only Pound (1) to Psycho Boost (354) , how to add new moves and randomized Metronome?

142 89,748

Started by Jambo51

Development

12 Palettes for Icons

zhyruk, Jun 26: You can make a tutorial with images and more details or, failing that, a video?

21 14,215

Started by Makotto

Research

PokéRide in Gen 3

sylingga, May 28: Thank you for the respond. Yeah, i made my one kind PokeRide for Cut, Rocksmash, Strengh and Surf just using those script and flag.

6 5,385

Started by Yak Attack

Development

The 4th gen class split in 3rd gen

(14 pages)

FurretOmega, May 16: Hi, small brainer here, what exactly am I supposed to change? Or, more simply, can you dumb down the explanation cause I'm working on a pokemon romhack using HMA and dont know what im supposed to do or change to get the physical-special split,...

345 220,912

Started by JJames19119

Development

The Miscellaneous Script Thread

(4 pages)

sylingga, Apr 26: Sorry to reply old post. Wanna know, do we need to insert other routine before, or we can just use the script in Vanilla FR rom?

78 36,341

Started by Spherical Ice

Development

I'm Fixin' It: Emerald's Broken PRNG

darthbr, Apr 25: THE IPS PATCHES ARE NOT WORKING... SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO SOLVE IT? I WANT MAKE SOFT RESET AGAIN

21 27,987

Started by HackMew

Development

[FR] Gen. 6 Exp All - Updated tutorial with data from all sources

BrandonFortie, Apr 11: what is a reverse hex?

4 2,657

Started by Mixone

Development

The Secret Sauce: Triple-Layer Blocks

evanonline, Nov 16: Wow, I'm really glad I found this - it would have come in handy for me earlier but it's going to make the rest of my mapmaking endeavors go a lot smoother for sure. Thank you for posting & sharing this!

23 23,557

Started by Sierraffinity

Development

Pokémon HOME Style Pokémon for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl WIP

Escope12, Nov 3: Hi guys. Would anyone like to help me with a texture mod project that I was working on for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl? It’s called Pokémon HOME Style Pokémon where every Pokémon has their textures replaced with the ones from...

0 646

Started by Escope12

Research

A document on Fire Red voice groups and the instruments they play.

(2 pages)

DanEditsGBALegends, Oct 18: what hex code do i use in my song? My song has: Piano Electric Bass Strings Brass Section (i'll change it to Trumpet) French Horn Flute Applause

41 57,247

Started by Magnius

Development

[B2W2] Insert the Fairy-type

the_teenag_villain, Sep 2022: Amazing!!!

24 39,036

Started by MeroMero

Research

Hacking Emerald's Animations

DjTarma, Jul 2022: I want to insert this in Fire Red xD

15 24,112

Started by Shiny Quagsire

Script

Post game script

Huplabombasnow, Jun 2022: After beating the champion for the first time in Emerald, Norman gives you the travel ticket, one of the Lati twins spawns, and Birch upgrades your Pokedex, but the scripts for these aren't attached to any maps or NPCs. Does anyone know the offsets...

0 902

Started by Huplabombasnow

Patch

Shiny PID Reroller(Changing shiny odds)[Fire Red, Emerald]

(2 pages)

Viperio, Jun 2022: Hi there, I'm planning on doing a shiny only soullink with someone in FireRed and LeafGreen so I found this to increase the shiny odds, however it doesn't seem to work in LeafGreen (I stubbornly tried to just use the FireRed patch but it crashes...

49 117,624

Started by The Shadow Knight

Research

USUM Model Replacement

TriedAndTRUE, Jun 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/l0kpl8/pok%C3%A9mon_ultra_sunultra_moon_firstever_complete/ It's possible. I'm trying to contact the dude and see how he did it, and will post updates here.

0 1,095

Started by TriedAndTRUE

Development

Animated Sprites in Ruby and FireRed

(5 pages)

meg2232, May 2022: I open my hexeditor press "goto" type either 0x2349bc or 2349bc for good measure and try to repoint those offsets by typing in their place 0xB00000 or some other offset in reverse 00 00 B0 + 08 so the engine knows your repointing then I'll type my...

124 70,462

Started by altariaking

Research

FireRed: Map Headers and What They Mean

Pyxal, May 2022: Pretty, extremely, and very late to the party, but Byte 19 and 20 are the same thing: the Footer ID. For example, 0F 01 (10F) is the Footer ID of One Island's PokéCenter.

4 6,217

Started by aar2697

Development

Gen III Animation Scripting: Tasks and Templates

AkameTheBulbasaur, Apr 2022: I corrected two mistakes I found. 1. In the Emerald macro, ColourParticle has the wrong address. It is listed at 08116665 when it should be 08116849. The FireRed macro is fine. 2. There is a GIF in the Task GIFs that is named SpringLoad which...

19 4,522

Started by AkameTheBulbasaur

Development

Why the really tall grass doesn't work in firered and how to fix it.

(2 pages)

eMMe97, Mar 2022: FIX: ash grass on behaviourbyte 0x24 eh 08059f50 0x2824 eh 08059f52 0xE7F3 eh 0806ebdc <special tile with ash> eh 0806ebe0 <special tile without ash> eh 0806ec00 <grass tile without ash> in a level script "On entering map/on menu close "...

40 31,158

Started by knizz

Development

New map names in FR

(2 pages)

Joseph 91, Mar 2022: Very good tutorial, thanks. Does everything work without bugs in the rom after expanding?

32 27,538

Started by ShinyBill

Development

Move Animations General

ortz3, Mar 2022: Is it possible to use pokespritetoBG command for both the User and the Target in the same animation? When I try to do it, it causes the game to freeze at the end of the battle

12 12,403

Started by DizzyEgg

Development

Japanese Rom Music Hacking

Robinny, Jan 2022: Hey! The link for the dropbox doesn't work anymore!!

3 4,914

Started by xGal

Research

Displaying Custom Tilemaps / Hacking the Diploma Screen

Ansh¹⁹⁸⁸, Jan 2022: you can use fadescreen??

12 11,375

Started by Spherical Ice

Research

Sierra's Miscellaneous Finds

kalarie, Nov 2021: @LibertyTwins I don't really see how this is specifically related to this (very old) thread? Better post this in the Quick Research and Development thread.

21 24,821

Started by Sierraffinity

Development

Day/Night Switching of Wild Pokémon

(3 pages)

Kertra, Oct 2021: There is a problem. If we add Wild Day / Night Pokemon, the game will freeze on the emulator. This is because game turns on crying pokemon in the maps. Due to the fact that we are adding new tables, the game does not read crying correctly and the...

69 35,946

Started by Jambo51

Pokémon Gold - Details about all 495 trainers - Completed!

Ludology Laboratories, Sep 2021: Thank you for this!

2 7,101

Started by ericgall23

Development

Editing Battle Tower Pokemon (Crystal)

KOGUY_87, Sep 2021: Hello! How can I find specific Battle Tower Pokemon? I've never used hex editor :p

3 16,571

Started by AxeArmor214

Research

Decoding Field Animation Structure

Jugales, Aug 2021: Awesome tip! I did some digging through the C code, and found what is happening. There is a "palette tag" system. I write right about the two primary palettes, in the decomp they have constants FLDEFF_PAL_TAG_GENERAL_0 and...

2 4,077

Started by Jugales

Research

[RUBY] IV/EV Viewer

DarkMadman_69, Aug 2021: Thank you for this! I don't know how I missed it while researching. Much appreciated!

7 13,332

Started by ~Andrea

Development

Creating New Battle Animations

(7 pages)

ortz3, Aug 2021: Hello, I finished my GUI tool which will hopefully help some of you with adding move animations: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=457087

153 75,215

Started by Chaos Rush

Research

Pokemon Conquest Rom Hacking Documentation

PK_Will, Aug 2021: The Ransei region discord of 191 members thanks you, this is the sort of break we've been looking for over the past year, we already have atleast 2 people (including myself) looking into this further. once again thank you

1 6,539

Started by pkmnconqusetanon

Research

Pokémon Emerald Special and Special2 Commands (Fire Red As Well)

(2 pages)

Splifingald, Jul 2021: Hi there, I'm struggling to find something. I want to find the level of a chosen pokemon in my party. So I should do special 0xA2 waitstate to select a pokemon but then how can I retrieve its level ?

34 32,435

Started by GoGoJJTech

Tool

[Gen IV] Move Data Editing

BluRose, Jun 2021 ds, gen 4

8 12,184

Started by BluRose

Research

[UNFINISHED] Emerald Animations: Codes and Offsets Database

Supercookie07, Jun 2021: This may be an old thread, but here's some more info on the frame control table: Like stated before, the table is located at 0x309AAC, and has one pointer per Pokémon. These pointers point to two or more (usually two) pointers, starting at...

14 14,556

Started by Jeesh

Development

The Follow Me Script

(16 pages)

Fantaseed, Jun 2021: c2EJYmHZ34M Based from Touched's Follow me ASM+Touched NPC Sprite switch. Works well. But... What I wanna happen is to make the NPC to follow you at the begining even if you took a quick detour from a different direction into another map....

389 150,351

Started by Touched

Development

Dynamic Pokémon Data

Li Yun, May 2021: Link Off. Would anyone have the link of this file to Emerald?

4 11,657

Started by kleenexfeu

Research

FireRed Pokédex Hacking

(12 pages)

BluRose, Feb 2021: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=417493 use this bad boy instead

276 120,048

Started by Jambo51

Research

The Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire Dissassembly/Decompilation Project

(2 pages)

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Jan 2021: So is there no effective difference between decomp hacking and binary hacking, other than decomp being easier to read and change, otherwise you can do all the same things with asm? And if its only the text and windows that can't decomp well, can...

25 20,968

Started by ProjectRevoTPP

Development

Dynamic Overworld Palettes

(4 pages)

Andy Sama, Dec 2020: Is there any way to convert it for the use of French Rom ? Sorry for reviving an old thread... Do you mind if I convert the system for French Rom ? With your credits.......I'll post it here if I finish it :)

81 50,741

Started by Navenatox

Research

EM & FR - Natures

Fansity, Nov 2020: Fixed, thanks for the warning. That's right, you can do this. For example, I can create a Nature that increases Atk and Sp.Atk without reducing any other statistics. The image below proves it. Before: After: In the example of the...

3 8,261

Started by Fansity

Development

[FR] Unown Report

7777Nox, Jun 2020: Where did you get that Menu thing?

5 16,318

Started by Spherical Ice

Development

Pokémon Fire Red Hacked Engine

(24 pages)

JustIChris, May 2020: There isn't but this has many of JPAN's features included, and many many more, plus applying it doesn't remove scripts. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=425447

579 322,741

Started by JPAN

Research

Pokémon Emerald Weather Hacking

kapparill, Apr 2020: For anyone viewing this these days, as evident in the amount of views, there are some helpful resources out there. I did not mean to ghost you, I just lost interest in Pokemon! An older weather development thread:...

2 13,054

Started by kapparill

Development

Weather hacking

(3 pages)

__fred__40, Apr 2020: i compiled the routine for harsh sunlight ,inserted in free space in fire red and replace the indicated pointers,but it doesnt work,more specifically whenever I leave the player house the game freezes.What did I miss here?Did I had to edit some...

51 33,599

Started by daniilS

Research

The save file structure of Gen 1 Hall of Fame data

Halfshadow, Apr 2020: Ok, I see. Then I already done it, I restarted a new HOF data deleting it before trough a cheat code to disable it in the PC, then the game thought that was the first time and recorded it fro the beginning. Thank you for this help however.

5 12,528

Started by jojobear13

Development

Darthatron's Hacks

(2 pages)

dearman4, Mar 2020: Having some trouble with this in emerald, I am trying to have an item set or clear a flag (200) but I either get a black screen or the item is selected with no message and the cursor is locked until B is pressed, with the flag not being set or...

27 31,422

Started by Darthatron

Research

Script Animations for Fire Red and Leafgreen

__fred__40, Mar 2020: what's the animation for flash? I mean the one that lights up fi a cave EDIT:I found out,ahhaah its another command ahahha

17 10,517

Started by Megiddo-san

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Ability Resource Thread

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About the Research & Development Forum

Quick Research & Development Thread

2D/Fake Soaring in the Sky/Eon Flute for R/S/E/FR/LG

More TMs/HMs

Adding New Moves to Gen 3

12 Palettes for Icons

PokéRide in Gen 3

The 4th gen class split in 3rd gen

The Miscellaneous Script Thread

I'm Fixin' It: Emerald's Broken PRNG

[FR] Gen. 6 Exp All - Updated tutorial with data from all sources

The Secret Sauce: Triple-Layer Blocks

Pokémon HOME Style Pokémon for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl WIP

A document on Fire Red voice groups and the instruments they play.

[B2W2] Insert the Fairy-type

Hacking Emerald's Animations

Post game script

Shiny PID Reroller(Changing shiny odds)[Fire Red, Emerald]

USUM Model Replacement

Animated Sprites in Ruby and FireRed

FireRed: Map Headers and What They Mean

Gen III Animation Scripting: Tasks and Templates

Why the really tall grass doesn't work in firered and how to fix it.

New map names in FR

Move Animations General

Japanese Rom Music Hacking

Displaying Custom Tilemaps / Hacking the Diploma Screen

Sierra's Miscellaneous Finds

Day/Night Switching of Wild Pokémon

Pokémon Gold - Details about all 495 trainers - Completed!

Editing Battle Tower Pokemon (Crystal)

Decoding Field Animation Structure

[RUBY] IV/EV Viewer

Creating New Battle Animations

Pokemon Conquest Rom Hacking Documentation

Pokémon Emerald Special and Special2 Commands (Fire Red As Well)

[Gen IV] Move Data Editing

[UNFINISHED] Emerald Animations: Codes and Offsets Database

The Follow Me Script

Dynamic Pokémon Data

FireRed Pokédex Hacking

The Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire Dissassembly/Decompilation Project

Dynamic Overworld Palettes

EM & FR - Natures

[FR] Unown Report

Pokémon Fire Red Hacked Engine

Pokémon Emerald Weather Hacking

Weather hacking

The save file structure of Gen 1 Hall of Fame data

Darthatron's Hacks

Script Animations for Fire Red and Leafgreen