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ROM Hacking Help

Need a helping hand? You can get help on any ROM Hacking-related problems or questions you have here.

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Launchpad

Team The Pokémon Gnosis team is...

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Research & Development

Research & Development

Development ASM Resource Thread

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Tools, Tutorials & Resources

Tools, Tutorials & Resources

Resource [Fire Red] Touched's Mega...

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Decomp & Disassembly

Decomp & Disassembly

[DECOMP] Simple Modifications...

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Help Thread

How To Patch

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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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Rules

ROM Hacking Forum Rules

Logan, Oct 2016: *ROM Hacking Forum Rules* An Introduction The ROM Hacking forum is our new home for asking ROM Hacking questions, and answering them of course! The big difference between this forum and the old Beginner's Lounge is that this is solely for...

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[TUTORIAL] Decomp - From start to finish

DizzyEgg, Dec 8: Right, it was because my repo wasn't up-to-date with pret's. Cancel the merge(git reset --hard HEAD) and it should work this time.

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Just starting out

Dewpider Propaganda, Dec 8: so me and a group of people are trying to make a new rom hack. It based around mayan culture. How should we start out? This is going to be an emerald rom hack. I have advancedmap and other tools like G3T and Advanced series but have no idea what to...

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Map

Setmaptile partially working

mcferaligatr, Dec 8: The final values of setmaptile were correct, so that wasn't the problem. I figured that the setmaptile script has certain bugs when it has to work 7 to 8 tiles from the beggining of the map or something like that. I however managed to temporarily...

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Script

Gen 7 USUM Ultra Wormhole Script Editting?

Monty3540, Dec 8: Hi there I was wondering if there is anyway we can alter the Scripts for the Ultra Wormholes in order to catch all the possible Legendaries? Or are we only able to change the Static Encounters for the Ultra Space Wilds for now using PK3DS? ...

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ASM & Hex

Understanding the PSS (FR)

Petuuuhhh, Dec 7: I noticed this post https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=234550 is basically giving you the source code for the PSS, but not explaining how it works to you. Is there anyone here that understands what this code does, and would like to share?

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Audio

Can I have some help with inserting audio into my ROM HACK?

Momoro, Dec 6: Hi, guys! I need some help inserting audio into my game(For battle-purposes) I was going to add Pokemon Trainer Red to the game, and I wanted either his Gold / Silver / Crystal theme to play when battling, or his SoulSilver / Heartgold theme. But...

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Map

Map looks dimmer/night/darker after connection

UltimaSoul, Dec 6: This dimming is caused by setting the weather to Cloudy perhaps.

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Script

Advance Map type 2 level script problem

kalarie, Dec 6: This is one of the flaws of AdvanceMap. I often restart AdvanceMap before and after importing level scripts to be safe;)

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Started by mcferaligatr

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Script

Get Selected Pokemon's Level

Dr. POP, Dec 5: Dragonite2963, this Reddit post seems to have exactly what you need. I was looking for this type of script myself, and I've tried out this ASM routine and it works as intended. I am copying it here for reference/archival purposes, but all credit...

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ASM & Hex

How to code the ASM for a Battle Tower (FR)

Petuuuhhh, Dec 5: I've been wanting to make a Battle Tower in a hack for a while, but I could use some help with how to code the Battle Tower. Somebody told me BP is just using vars: setvar 0xXXXX YY //Set var 0xXXXX to YY BP addvar 0xXXXX YY //Add YY BP to var...

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Pokemon game editor - gba won't open

jensmoking, Dec 4: Exactly what and how did you do? Those things screw up with little errors so check your editions/additions to the game to see if you made a mistake. Also, try another emulator; maybe the one you use isn't working.

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ASM & Hex

Help With Understanding Pointers in Platinum

AlphaMeece, Dec 3: Figured it out, and I was asking the completely wrong question for the answer I found, each Pokemon has 7 evolutions, represented by a string of 42 bytes then 2 bytes of white space before the next Pokemon, as far as I can tell, it follows the order...

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Other

how can i publish my hack rom

jojobear13, Dec 3: Sounds like Sideshow material.

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Audio

No Audio/Sound Effect when '!' is shown above an NPC

Smech, Dec 3: So today all was going well. I started to playtest my game after I finished a bit of mapping and noticed that suddenly there is no sound effect for the '!' or '?' when appearing above NPC's heads. I have deleted my audio folder and pasted in a fresh...

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Graphics

Inserting large graphic help

Reminder, Dec 2: I just spent a long time preparing a graphic to put into an expanded emerald ROM via advance map 1.92. I created a custom pallet and changed all the colors to fit within the parameters. but once I tried to insert it a couple things happened. first...

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Map

"Map Swap" glitch

Child Amnesiac, Dec 2: Hey, thanks. This has been a huge problem for me, and now I think I can fix it. Edit: No, it just caused another problem. You can't move, and the map looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/050i4Ab.png I used an unused ID, should I not...

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Graphics

where do people download the actual moemon sprites? not patches, the sprites themselves

PinkPrincessRei, Dec 2: I've only been able to find moemon patches, and since i want to use a rom hack, either Pokemon Emerald Final or Sigma Emerald, these moemon patches don't work as they require a clean rom. So I will have to use a sprite editor on the patched rom,...

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Other

Creating/Editing your own 'mons

Tacobell24, Dec 2: As a side note. Sprite insertion is way easy with PGE. You can just make a .png Sprite Sheet at 256 x 64 pixels and it does all four (non-shiny, shiny, back, shiny back) at once.

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Need help understanding the difficulty of implementing certain features

DeathstickeR, Dec 2: Thank you for the reply! Im glad to know that adding a new type is a good place to start and I thought the EV and IV thing would be like that. Seems like something I'll have to cut. And I was looking at the upgrade thing before, but i'll have a look...

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Graphics

Issues with importing custom sprites in PGE

maxig09, Dec 1: Hello! I am new to rom hacking, for starters I only want to make a few sprite changes, but I can't find a way to import my custom sprite and the palette correctly... I'm using PGE, here are the screenshots:...

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Graphics

Issues with importing custom sprites in PGE

maxig09, Dec 1: Hello! I am new to rom hacking, for starters I only want to make a few sprite changes, but I can't find a way to import my custom sprite and the palette correctly... I'm using PGE, here are the screenshots:...

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Script

Ayuda con script

jensmoking, Dec 1: No sé´ḿúćho de scripts, pero lo traduzco por si alguien en ingles si sabe :V English: I made a script so the player has to pay some money to go somewhere. The problem is that when doing the script to get the Pokédex (Fire Red), my script...

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ASM & Hex

How do you make Egg Moves pass down from both parents in Emerald?

dearman4, Nov 30: Please? Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Map

How to change Player(Red,Ash,ETC.) house exit to house in Viridian City.

GlitchyTSP, Nov 30: So, I had an idea for a hack intro. The idea is that I could Turn Pallet Town into a small research camp for the Hacks intro. (AKA where you would get your first Pokémon.) And I could make Viridian City the home town, but...I don't know how to...

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Tool

All versions of PGE are giving me this error

MazdoTechno, Nov 30: Im not very computer savvy either, just trying to learn as I go along. I gave rom hacking up for a year and am now back at it and making more progress than I had before. It definitely requires decent amounts of free time though.

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Audio

OR/AS midi or music patch for emerald?

CQR, Nov 29: Hello everyone. I have worked on the music tracks of my hack for some days. Now I really want to put some tracks in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sappire to my hack. I used google and searched for midi files. And finally did some pieces successfully by midi...

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Tool

some problems on PokeDSPic

xxyzx, Nov 29: I'm trying to hack Platinum with PokeDSPic. When I imput a new Pokemon Sprite into narc,only image can be imputed.Where can imput the palette of these image? (I'm not English speaker,so maybe there are some grammatical errors in my expression,I'm...

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hidesprite

__fred__40, Nov 29: Hey guys I was wondering if you know any alternative and original way of permanently hiding a NPC I know that it is easier just by setting flag but I almost finished the few safe flag available Maybe there is a way of using variables to hide...

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Gen 3 OW

__fred__40, Nov 29: Hey guys Does anyone know a thread or website or anything that has some Gen 3 OW sprites especcialy pokemon sprites? Fred

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Other

[EM] hall of fame problem

Alghisius, Nov 27: Hi, while I was working on my hack rom I noticed that in the hall of fame new Pokémon are not visualized correctly. Has Anyone else encountered this problem or know how to fix It? (now that I think about It I'm using a old save state... could this...

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Graphics

Is there a program that can rip all the map tiles from Gen 3?

PokeTester9000, Nov 27: I normally go through the game slowly and manually rip as I go, but is there a program that can do it? I ask because I was not smart enough to back up my RSE Tilesets and they were lost during my annual Computer Reformatting.

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Script

Setting the Nature of a created pokemon (CFRU)

Mkol103, Nov 27: Problem solved!! Basically, the problem was that I edited the header, but I never used clean.py to reset the compilation of the script. Because of this, the header changes were never saved!

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ASM & Hex

Changing keyboard language (Black 2 / White 2)

Drakyem, Nov 27: I'm traslating Volt White 2 to spanish (with Dray's permission) and I don't have any idea of how to change the english keyboard to the spanish one (with á, é, í... ¡¿, ñ, etc.). Could anyone help me, please?

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Script

I need help with trainerbattle 0x9

__fred__40, Nov 27: I found it out myself so just for the archive,the script goes as follows: . . . trainerbattle 0x9 0x001 0x3 @msgwin @msgdefeat special 0x0 . . . no waitstate command after the special and 0x3 as the filler value between the 1st message...

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Can anyone help me get started rom hacking? (gba)

MazdoTechno, Nov 27: I second YouTube tutorials, especially if you are a visual learner. But yeah you pretty much learn one thing at a time until you know everything you need to know to make your full hack and then you do it. That’s what I’m doing.

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Script offsets other than 0x800000 not working.

leedsunited, Nov 26: I'm sorry, perhaps I didn't explain as best I could. In writing my scripts, I followed the instruction of DiegoIsAwesome. I'll go through everything I did, step-by-step. - I wrote a talking script using the 0x800000 offset, and it worked...

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Other

Help me to find the rom hack i forgot the name + a request

Shateiel, Nov 26: Hello guys. I was wondering that you can help me or not. I hope I opened the thread in the correct section. There was a hack i really don't remember whe I was playing. It should have been 2016 or sth. like that. There was 721 pokemons in the...

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Script

Getplayerposition

__fred__40, Nov 26: I found the answer in another thread( https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=377893 ),the variable for PLAYERFACING is 800C So the script goes as follows #dynamic 0x800000 #org @start lock faceplayer compare 0x800C 0x3 if 0x1 goto...

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Script

Editing the Ending Cutscene/Credits

MonopolyRubix, Nov 25: I don't know about the credits, but the scene of the player, rival, and Oak leaving is a level script for the outside of the Pokemon League building (as in, the map you can fly to). There are also level scripts in the Champion's Room and in the...

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Script

[Resolved] What is the offset location of the Rival's name? Trying to nickname a Pokémon after the Rival.

Dr. POP, Nov 25: This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks alot, I did not know about the preparemsg command, but it makes a lot of sense. I will test it out tomorrow. :-) Edit: I have tested DrFuji's script and it works exactly as intended. Thank you...

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Map

Changing icon & text color for top layer locations on Firered's World Map

MonopolyRubix, Nov 25: I see. Thank you very much!

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Script

Black 2 / White 2 Text Editor (with search function)

Drakyem, Nov 25: Well, hello, I'm using Spiky's DS Map Editor to translate PKMN Volt White 2, but while it has a text editor, you can't find text lines with words. I know DS Text Editor can do this, BUT only with 4 GEN games. Is there any tool like that for B2/W2?

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ASM & Hex

[FR] Title screen edit & Oak Info removal

orznick14, Nov 24: Hello, this is my first post here so sorry if it's incorrect and everything. I'm im the process of learning and creating a rom hack of Fire Red, and want to do a few specific things that I have been researching for about a week. So first of all,...

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ASM & Hex

Adding extra daycare slot in Emerald

Wiserospray, Nov 24: Hello! I am looking to add another daycare-type slot into my Emerald rom hack. Is there a way to copy one of the current slots coding and paste it over?

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Tool

[FR] Trouble getting the Pokemon Expansion Mod to play nice with scripts

Mkol103, Nov 24: I figured it out. I'm dumb. Basically, if you don't touch either the Dynamic Pokemon Expansion or the CFRU's expanded learnset and you edit the CFRU learnset to include every pokemon, then it works perfectly.

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Other

Fire Red: Changing which World Map Loads

/JASHIN/, Nov 24: So I'm noticing that the rom does not actually point to the arrays for the second or third sevi island maps. How does the game know when to load those two maps? I've repointed the first set of arrays to C00 000 (just some free space) so that I could...

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ASM & Hex

Need help with a problem or two

JordanB500, Nov 23: i am looking for the movetable of all pokemon from ?? to chimecho so i can replace it with the proper code from a fresh backup, i am using a pre-existing rom file with modifications and with as many there are i dont want to have to re-do them all...

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What to do first and step by step stuff

jensmoking, Nov 23: You should first decide if you're gonna work with a decomp or ROM: A decomp is a 'project' of the game: instead of one rom file, you have the game splitted in parts, it's easier to find something, but some people prefer working with ROM. The ROM...

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Idea for ROM Hack

jensmoking, Nov 23: You should start with a simple hack, only for testing the concept; then try with PSDK to make the actual game. It would be a very cool game to play, so I'm sure that you could easily get a team -developers, artist, etc-.

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Battle

TCG style Mod Firered Stacking Poison/Burn/Sleep

jensmoking, Nov 23: I'm not sure about the status stacking being possible... Anyways, you should look for scripting tutorials; maybe creating more status ailments for combinations, so the game can handle them like only one status.

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