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Decomp & Disassembly

Guides and resources to help you develop your decompilation or disassembly-based hack can be found here.

Section Staff: Avara, DrFuji

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[DECOMP] Simple Modifications Directory

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Lunos, Dec 7: I'm pretty sure I told you this in a different thread, but you seemed to be using an old version of Pokeemerald, at least back then. Try it on the latest repository of Pokeemerald, it should work.

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Started by Avara

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Pokeemerald

Battle Engine Upgrade

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bcrobert, Dec 6: There are no limitations at all to this engine compared to traditional hacks. But the workflow will strictly involve coding. Pros: -No more pointer problems. -More organized coding environment. -Easily edit assets like sprites etc. -Full...

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PoryMap | Map Editor for Pokeruby and Pokeemerald

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Lunos, Oct 16: Porymap v2.0.0 has been released! Among its new features there's a Dark Theme and a Wild Encounters Editor. As always, y'all can find the newest release in the GitHub Repository linked at the main post.

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General Information

Avara, Jan 26: 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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Decomp & Disassembly Forum Rules

Avara, Jan 23: *Decomp & Disassembly 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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Pokeemerald

[TUTORIAL] Set Trainer's Pokémon's Levels dynamically

Diego Mertens, Dec 5: And after a lot of try and error, I finally managed to get this thing working. The features that this presents are simple; Trainer Pokémon's level are -2, equal and +2 levels in comparison to yours depending if they have custom items, moves,...

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[Tutorial] How to build Pokeruby/Pokeemerald using devkitPro's MSys2

dioxias, Dec 4: this is a flawless tutorial. very helpful. for those coming from TheRisingSean's post regarding merging the different pokeemerald branches, you don't need to clone pokeemerald again. I do have one question, i was able to get this to compile into...

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Started by Lunos

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Pokeemerald

how to make pokemon trainer's levels be equal to yours?

UltimaSoul, Dec 4: My suggestion is to look at the syntax of other functions that use switches to know how to properly format it.

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Started by Diego Mertens

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Converting Field Moves to Hold Items

Lunos, Dec 4: You seem to be using an outdated version of Pokeemerald. That function is currently called SetPartyMonFieldSelectionActions. You're also using certain labels that look different now, than they do in the function your presenting. For example,...

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Setting trainer Pokémon levels dynamically

Diego Mertens, Dec 4: how can i do this? i tried, but i still have a lot to learn about pokeemerald xd

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Pokeemerald

Help with merging Battle Engine, Item Expansion and Pokemon Expansion and fixing merge conflicts.

TheRisingSean, Dec 1: Honestly i had a heck of a lota fun writing it! any questions just dm me..! ^_^

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Does there exist a "catch-em-all" branch for pokeemerald?

Lunos, Nov 27: Well, Advance Map naturally doesn't work here because we're talking about the disassembly and decompilation projects, but yeah, that's basically how it goes. Make the Prof. give you the National Dex, change the wild encounters and that's pretty...

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[Tutorial] How to build Pokeruby/Pokeemerald using Cygwin (64 Bits)

Vladmir_Fox, Nov 24: Thank you for this guide. Now I can dive in and try my hand with the pokeemerald disassbly.

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Started by Lunos

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Installing Pokeemerald (GUIDE)

HackerL, Nov 22: I'm sorry but, I believe this Guide is now obsolete, I recently found out. I'll be deleting this post. You should follow Lunos' guide instead. Sorry again and goodluck in the future!

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Pokemon Expansion

(2 pages)

Lunos, Nov 19: Patches are not in a thing when it comes to the disassembly and decompilation projects. To use Egg's branches in one single project, you slowly add them one by one using Git, and from there on, you do the rest of the work like you normally would...

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Started by DizzyEgg

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[Tool] Polished Map 4.4.3 and 2.4.3++: a pokecrystal and pokered map editor

Rangi, Nov 17: Version 4.4.3 and 2.4.3++ are out! The only new feature is support for "keyitemball_event" in Polished Crystal, but they also fix some memory leaks, so I recommend updating.

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Friendly Question about merging projects together

Hestia, Nov 11: Also a quick general note, it is difficult if not impossible to create an exact merging guide to merge a forked repo (such as the battle engine and the surfing project) to the original project (pret pokeemerald). Because for every time the...

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[Dissassembly] Setting up and using the Pokeruby/Pokeemerald dissassembly

DizzyEgg, Nov 10: This is most likely caused by the tools being outdated. Re-build them using build_tools.sh.

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Battle Transitions Guide

Avara, Nov 7: Configuring Battle Transitions This is the easiest bit which people should find the most straight forward, but writing this anyway in case it isn't so obvious to newbies at first glance. Have “src\battle_setup.c” open. As mentioned earlier on in...

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Maximum number of trainers in Pokeemerald

Buffel Saft, Nov 5: You're welcome! Good luck with this, hope you get it working!

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Pokecrystal

pokecrystal For Dummies

(2 pages)

Pia Carrot, Nov 3: Thread updated, will probably last longer!

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[TUTORIAL] Replacing Overworlds and adding Unique Palettes

vxo, Oct 31: Replacing Overworlds and adding Unique Palettes Part I: Adding Dynamic Overworld Palette System Source: https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wiki/Dynamic-overworld-palette-system Notice: The current implementation breaks the reflection palette...

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need help with making a voicegroup with every instrument

arceusgamingispretty, Oct 30: im trying to import midis into pokeemerald but most voicegroups dont work so

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Does anyone know how to get Stance Change and Shields Down working?

Ammy175, Oct 30: Me and a friend are messing around with the Emerald disassembly, and just managed to fuse together the battle engine upgrade, Pokemon expansion, and item expansion ones (don't ask how). She tested for me overnight if Shields Down and Stance Change...

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Pokecrystal

Having issues enabling the Celebi/GS Ball event!

Gameassassin989, Oct 25: Thank you for answering them. Thats exactly what I did to get things working for me. I placed mine so it enables after beating Red.

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Pokecrystal

Trying to add a new Key Item.

jensmoking, Oct 14: I'm not a 'pro' with that, but I'll try to get somethin'

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Creating new map sections

Bidoof, Oct 10: Hi all, I'm trying to create a new map section in pokeemerald. To specify, I'm not merely adding a new map, which I know can easily be done with the current version of Porymap, but also a new section. I'm having a bit of a trouble: I can make the...

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Dragonsbreath - a new scripting language for Pokeemerald

jensmoking, Oct 8: I'm not working on emerald, but I'll bookmark this and check it out later, it seems pretty intresting to try Also, I will try to report if find any bug Good luck with this!

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Started by Rainbow

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(UPDATE: I found cause of error, FIXED). Make Error I can't defeat and I've tried everything.

DizzyEgg, Oct 6: Thanks for making this thread man, I just had the same problem lol

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Started by kjl28

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Error when running "make" command

UltimaSoul, Oct 3: pokefirered is currently in a non-usable state. If you would like to use the decomps, please consider using pokeemerald.

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Kanto Overworld in Pokeemerald?

kuba15, Sep 24: Has anyone made an attempt to import FRLG's overworld into Pokeemerald? I want to make a hack based on FRLG but I like the idea of learning some actual programming while I'm at it. But since Pokefirered isn't really up to par with Pokeemerald, I was...

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Getting easy to digest syntax highlighting for the Decomp scripting engine.

Ryuhouji, Sep 18: Hiya. I've been working with the decomps for a little under a year now, and I'd like to share a resource that I developed for my own use. In the decomps, you edit scripts by opening them up in any text editor. This is... good enough, but not...

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Porymap Region Map Editor Palette Issues

ShantyTown, Sep 17: You can use Gimp to reorder colors in the palette. https://huderlem.github.io/porymap/manual/region-map-editor.html#background-image-tab

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Started by Navarre121

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Remove gender selection

SATLAB, Sep 17: Hi! I've recently changed some code lines about "removing gender selection". I suggest to change also the "Task_NewGameBirchSpeech_ProcessNameYesNoMenu" function this way: case 1: PlaySE(SE_SELECT); gTasks.func...

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Decapitalization of Pokémon Emerald's disassembly

AsparagusEdu, Sep 7: Hi, If anyone's interested, I solved the merge conflicts for the current state of the pokeemerald project. https://github.com/AsparagusEduardo/pokeemerald/tree/Decapitalization

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Pokecrystal

FroggestSpirit demixes

Azure_Keys, Sep 4: Awesome, thanks!

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Pokeemerald

Expand number of overworlds

Syreldar, Sep 4: I am using a branch that contains the following changes: - battle_engine_v2 - pokemon_expansion - item_expansion This change here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/419214240277200898/618926443560304670/chrome_riavWVlYf6.png

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Tile inserting & animating tutorial

Taの境界, Sep 4: Vanilla Water tiles graphic size is 16x120, so base on the theory its size is exactly 0x3c0 which make sense. Like Lyzo said, While I did some investigation and prove that the statement is right, simply by create the following instances into...

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More Bag Pockets

AsparagusEdu, Aug 31: New version! It has pocket sprites again, but you'll notice that it reuses other pocket sprites.

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Pokeruby

Problems setting up debugging functions

CHEMI6DER, Aug 25: Hi everyone! I'm making a translation of Pokemon R/S to Russian and I've faced a few issues with the build system of pokeruby. I have quite a bit of experience with C# and a bit with C++, so I feel comfortable coding in C, but I have no idea on how...

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Eon Flute Soaring

AsparagusEdu, Aug 25: Hi, I changed the sprites to Emerald equivalents :) I made a pull request for it

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Started by paccy

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"./build.sh" error...cygwin1.dll???

Jeesh, Aug 25: Ok, I will try using one of those two. The "git" commands with the links didn't work when I used them on Msys2, and I don't know about Cygwin yet, but I'll definitely try it again and see what I get. Where is this Discord and how do I join-oh...

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Removing EV and IV

Intelligent Researcher, Aug 11: How do i remove EVs and IVs cleanly, without corrupting the game? How do i replace it with a system that lets me add +1 to a chosen stat after each lvl up?

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Does anyone know how to make a Debug Log?

DizzyEgg, Aug 7: I think no gba handles AGBprtinf pretty well

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Create a debug menu

ThomasWinwood, Jul 26: I don't have a repo set up to check, but this isn't necessary and is probably the source of the problem you're having. #if DEBUG isn't checking whether DEBUG is equal to 1 - it's checking whether it's set at all. Setting DEBUG to 0 is still setting...

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help with understanding the script macros

Sidrk, Jul 21: Go ahead! I know that at least I'm going to be implementing this at some point. I'd also appreciate a link to the repo!

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trouble adding items

Yknr, Jul 16: Nevermind, didn't notice that the errors list the file path and line number where the error occurred. I was able to get it to build. seems the game doesn't like it when you put too many characters or an underscore in an item's displayed name.

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Help with adding music

Lyzo, Jul 2: Hi, I'm also relatively new, I found this so far though.. You can change songs by replacing the .midi files in sound/songs/midi. You can also change the way songs sound by editing their .s files and modifying the voicegroup line (often line 3)....

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Stack of 999 Items & 255 Pokemart Purchase

Buffel Saft, Jul 1: To expand bag size you'll also need to edit the size of these buffers in src/item_menu.c: struct ListBuffer1 { struct ListMenuItem subBuffers; }; struct ListBuffer2 { s8 name; }; I'm not sure if the buffer size is based on the...

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How to build Pokeruby on Puppy Linux

Lunos, Jun 28: This quick tutorial is more a reminder to me than anything else, because I doubt anyone's going to try to do this in the year we live in, unless they're forced by the circumstances or want to try something new just for the fun of it. What is...

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Help with retrieving egg moves

Bidoof, Jun 28: That's it! The texts are now displayed correctly. Thank you so much! I have some work still left to do as I don't want to ruin the dialog for all the regular move tutors in the game and TMs/HMs, but this was absolutely perfect! Thanks again!

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Any information on animated tiles

BUUTCranium, Jun 28: Thanks for making this, I really appreciate someone looking into this

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Pokeemerald Disassembly Trainer Editor

vblm, Jun 13: Heads up! This is a new tool that works best on Linux. It should be possible to use this on Windows and Mac, but some assembly is required, and I don't have those systems on hand to figure it out. If anyone knows how to set up Python3 + Gtk +...

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Unique surfing overworlds

wally-217, Jun 10: I'm planning on using this function for my hack so I will be working through all the overworlds as quickly as possible. Do the sprites need to be indexed for the engine? And if so am I right in assuming the first colour will be the transparent...

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Move Tutor Expansion

Buffel Saft, Jun 7: Thanks! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing a full game made with the decomps too, there's so much impressive stuff being done for them already. Yeah that's much better code, I'll update the OP to include it. Thanks for the constructive...

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