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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.

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

Binary Hack Research & Development

Development Complete FireRed Upgrade

1 Day Ago by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Binary Hack Tools, Tutorials & Resources

Tool HexManiacAdvance: A New Hex...

48 Minutes Ago by haven1433

Decomp & Disassembly Tutorials & Resources

Follow Me

1 Day Ago by ghoulslash

Decomp & Disassembly Help

Making SGB palettes display...

3 Days Ago by sporh23

Help Thread

Patching & Emulation

(55 pages)

MrMuggles, Feb 3: There's a program called Free Space Finder, it helps you find offsets with enough space to fit what you're trying to put into it. The only thing I can't help you is with the amount of bytes to search for, seeing as I don't use DPE or its counterpart...

1,351 400,788

Started by Logan

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...

0 25,832

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 10,060

Started by Logan

Tool

Looking to remove EV yields from all Pokemon in Black2/White2, what program would I need?

Sea-Jay, Feb 26: I've never tried it but it looks like Project Pokemon Rom editor could work https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/2072-project-pokemon-rom-editor/ When you open it click file new project and insert the rom. Then click edit and click pokemon...

8 246

Started by Dolando

Help with saving progress in Prime Dialga's DNS Tool

Xero3C, Feb 26: Hi, I want to use Prime Dialga's DNS Tool (v2.0) to add RTC functionality, but I want to remove the Day-Time Palettes (so that is always day palette-wise for Story-Reasons). My Question now is how I save the changes from unchecking of the...

0 89

Started by Xero3C

Messed with OW pallets, now name selection screen is messed up

mcferaligatr, Feb 25: Change the palette to the way it was before ( revert the palette ID/slot to match previous values, and if you forgot, you can use an unmodified rom to check the values.) and see if that fixes anything (revert the character back to the way it looked...

1 88

Started by TheTinkerer

Script

Can someone make a battle script tutorial

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 25: A little update, with the resources I've gathered I can read a little battlescript. Attached is an example battle script to compare. So using that, an ability table, for my rom, plus the chart of bs commands courtesy of HMA. I was able to draw...

3 192

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Different Type Effectiveness in Hacks

Hexx17, Feb 25: my personal hacks have an altered type chart. mainly for balance purposes, and also based on what i think makes sense. but its definately the biggest reason i havent shared any of them yet. tbh i dont mind playing a hack with an altered chart,...

10 8,825

Started by Rezzo

Script

Animation Color Change

Bdemp99, Feb 24: First post on the forums 😃 I'll do my best to explain exactly what I'm aiming to accomplish ~ I have multiple tilesets which are copies, but in different hues/colors. I would like to make the rustling grass animation for each colored tileset...

0 66

Started by Bdemp99

Item won't show up.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 23: If its not that then maybe, you're just not closing your emulator between changes, you'd need to completely close and reopen the emulator for new changes to appear. and maybe leave the map and come back.

5 161

Started by acetrainereddie

Script

How to add items on Platinum maps

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 23: try porymap

1 75

Started by ClaireStarsword

ASM & Hex

(Concept) Changing the cap on EVs and IVs.

Snowka85, Feb 22: What would the offsets for these be in Emerald? Also, how would I remove the 510 cap in that game?

13 2,055

Started by BirdstarCat13

Other

How to edit when the player is defeated on a battle without messing up the entire rom

Asith, Feb 21: What do you mean? You can edit a decent amount of that, but it depends on what exactly you want it to do

1 96

Started by DaimyoHermit

Script

New Game Problem

kalarie, Feb 21: Pokemon Essentials ≠ ROM Hacking

1 92

Started by ekimb23

How to edit incomplete roms? it's possible?

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: depends on if it was made with decomp or binary, if its binary its simple and you should have no issue opening them in advance map. you didn't try to open the patch file with advance map by chance did you? You need to apply the patch to a rom...

4 261

Started by zerodown

Tool

Changes won't appear in my game

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: are you opening a new game to check these things, because if you're just continuing from an existing save, nothing already saved will change? as at that point its in the ram.

3 149

Started by BurningIgglybuff

Script

I'm having issues with Dynamic Pokemon Expansion

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: read this. https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=443233

3 181

Started by lhw02

Tool

I want to edit stats of pokemons in an existing rom hack (Radical Red)

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Try opening it with hex maniac advance, should work no problem as long as it isn't a really complex decomp hack. (and most aren't) Then just ctrl g and search for the pokemon's name.

2 166

Started by Devenery

Script

[Emerald] A trainer battle is occurring twice when there's no clear indication in the script of a repeated battle.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Sounds interesting, maybe I can use that as a simple way to make battles repeatable, without having to edit every script.

4 128

Started by ShinyTillDawn

Graphics

Keep running into an error with sprites

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: I get what its saying but not why its happening, my recommendation would be to use a different program. Try hex maniac advance instead. Once you get used to it, you'll be able to use it for that , and much much more. I know it has some ways of...

1 128

Started by Crona

Need an npc to stop the player from moving

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Ok here's the thing, stopping a player is as simple as using the lock command. its the same command no matter how its triggered, If you stop when talking to a person, if you look at their person event script in xse you will see that the first...

5 173

Started by Naglu

Change OAK's movement firered

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: I don't know why an option would be greyed out but all you should need to do is change the position of his hidden sprite in advance map, see where it says look up, change it to face the direction of the new town entrance, in your case look right. ...

1 98

Started by Nick Saandehand

ASM & Hex

[Leon's ROM Base] Shedinja Evolution

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Instead of looking in vanilla, look in the files for leon base and see if it changes the evo method.

2 498

Started by Blackforest

Script

Issue with Tiles scripting

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Did you remember to set talking level of the script to height 2 in advance map.

1 108

Started by Naglu

ASM & Hex

Gen 6 Exp All/Share In Platinum - Help please!

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 20: Don't know how to change how the items work, without using decomp, but for a quick fix you could change the script that gives the exp share, to give players 6 of them instead of just 1. That's the solution some hacks like drayano's blaze black &...

1 127

Started by YokoSays

I want to create a Pokemon NDS Rom Hack of my hometown and I need some help as a beginner

ClaireStarsword, Feb 20: To my knowledge it's impossible so far to add more Pokémon to DS games, only replace them. If there's a way I'd love to know it too. If you're a beginner to DS hacking I recommend Jay-San's tutorials:...

1 164

Started by GreeFoss

Is there a hack which can restore the original lighting effects from Red/Green to RBY?

Blasting Off, Feb 20: Just been reading that the original Red & Green games released in Japan had high speed lighting effects, usually when a Pokemon used moves like Hyperbeam, electrical attacks, ect. But after the Porygon incident in 97 they toned the strobing right...

0 25

Started by Blasting Off

Audio

Glitchy Music Insertion

MewWhoMakesStuff, Feb 20: @kalarie Thank you so much. I was finally able to get it to work!

5 138

Started by MewWhoMakesStuff

ASM & Hex

[Yellow] Reclaiming ROM0 space

BenJuan26, Feb 19: I'm using pokeyellow and trying to add the A-button HM shortcuts from Gen2 onward. I've started by testing whether I can detect a CUT-able tree in front of the player and showing some text if successful. The problem is that overworld.asm is in ROM0,...

0 71

Started by BenJuan26

Other

Pokemon Emerald Level Scaling By Badge

megatyler30, Feb 19: Could you share this ASM please?

2 481

Started by MagallanesX

Pokemon Paradox

kalarie, Feb 18: @ltlvixen This thread has been dead for over 12 years, I think it's safe to assume it's not in progress anymore. Also, please don't revive these ancient threads.

10 7,697

Started by twi1ight

Other

Pokemon Game Editor- Emerald Pokemon Expansion Cry Issues

kalarie, Feb 18: @PorousMist326 Still, I don't recommend to use PGE to edit anything related to Pokemon data. It would probably a better idea to use Esperance's Cry Editor and edit the ini to work with expanded pokemon.

3 115

Started by PorousMist326

Audio

need help with sappy

Ka1zerzwei, Feb 18: hello i am making a basic rom hack from me and my friends to play and i am trying to edit the in game music. im attempting to change the regular fire red battle music to music from other rom hacks. for some reason when i export the songs from the...

0 77

Started by Ka1zerzwei

Script

Battle Script Commands.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 18: List of battle script commands, for my other thread. As pulled from the hex maniac advance resource folder, so big thanks to Haven. 00 attackcanceler 01 accuracycheck param0<> param1: 02 attackstring 03 ppreduce 04 critcalc

0 96

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

Other

How to learn hexadecimal.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 18: This is actually a tutorial, I decided to make to help others learn the vital skill of counting in hexadecimal. You could use a calculator/converter when editing but things go much faster if you have at least a basic understanding of how it works, ...

0 82

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

ASM & Hex

(Fire Red) Increasing the EV gain from Vitamins

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 17: Just use ModEXE and I'm questionable if it even works anyway.

11 1,393

Started by Manekimoney

ASM & Hex

Noob needs help, either removing features or adding them to existing IPS file.

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 16: Patches are just copies of byte changes in a rom. So everything in the patch is something they changed in their rom, with the tools available in this community. You can't change the patch itself, if you want different features or to remove...

1 131

Started by Haddock

ASM & Hex

510 EV cap on CFRU based ROMs

Hexx17, Feb 16: does anyone know where these offsets are in emerald?

14 892

Started by McPaul

Other

About the RTC

Corpyo, Feb 16: Just downloaded Pokémon Unbound on Delta emulator on my phone just and the RTC does not work and im missing other parts of the game that need it. I want to know if I have other options to fix this problem.

0 104

Started by Corpyo

Shiny Hack Maker V2

papascoops, Feb 15: I’m using an older shiny hack but when I use it these are my problems 1. If I catch, defeat, or run from the battle any Pokémon encountered after it is shiny 2. If it defeats me and I encounter it again it is no longer shiny, I haven’t checked...

0 134

Started by papascoops

Script

help fix error expected statement/identifier

Meister_anon~Master_o f_None, Feb 15: No you did perfect, that, and what you said earlier cleared up a lot of this for me. So parenthesis go from after the if, to just before the open curly bracket. If doing conditional statements with the Or operand, I need to wrap them all...

9 271

Started by Meister_anon~Master_o f_None

ASM & Hex

[XD] EV Cap

McPaul, Feb 15: Hello! Could maybe someone help me with raising the 510 EV cap in Pokémon XD please? I'm familiar with it in GBA games but I can't hack GC at all. Thanks a lot!

0 85

Started by McPaul

Graphics

Status on HUD issue

Tacobell24, Feb 15: Hey team. EDIT: The issue may have just been a result of testing using the opening rival battle since opening the Pokemon Selection screen made it show up. {Solved.. I think] I'm doing some tests with some of my updated graphics and I've hit...

0 95

Started by Tacobell24

Tool

[gen 1] How do I fix PokeEditGB getting Runtime Error 75?

Snowka85, Feb 14: Every time I click "Save," it literally just crashes. "Path/File access error" is what it says, even if I run as Administrator, which definitely means the actual program is breaking in some way. Edit: So apparently the bloody file was set as...

0 78

Started by Snowka85

Does anyone have a mirror for Shufflejoy's Psy/Spec/Status patch?

OscureGeniusK, Feb 14: U can use the tool "TL's Quick Enhacer, and add the Physical/Special/Status with icons in Fire Red and Emerald. Works good with no bugs and its only one click bro

5 221

Started by _FyreNova

Other

Pokemon Sage Sprites

Maruno, Feb 14: Given that they haven't been made publicly available, and indeed the Sage team have explicitly stated that they don't want anyone else stealing their assets, I don't think this is something you should be doing.

2 212

Started by Glubschmaster

Advanced Map issues

papascoops, Feb 14: Okay, that makes more sense, I imported it to pallet town and it has the map 4 bank 4, I can show pics later but what specifically would help?

4 137

Started by papascoops

gen 4 hacking?

Hexx17, Feb 13: is the version of ppre int he resources thread the most up to date? or have other/ better tools been made since then? asking because that tool seems to be unfinished/limited

0 93

Started by Hexx17

Help with Pedometer / Step-Counter Script

Xero3C, Feb 13: Hi, 0x203B7C4 doesn't rise. A friend of mine is now working on a Timer-Script based on your idea, but it would still be great if we could solve that issue to also make such a Pedometer-Script. I can imagine an application of this script for a...

4 215

Started by Xero3C

Other

Adding Gen IV Pokémon/Abilities/Items/Moves

NotRushed, Feb 13: Alright, that’s really helpful, thanks :)

9 270

Started by NotRushed

Other

SDSME Wild Pokémon Editor

Buffel Saft, Feb 12: Are you using the version in the SDSME thread's first post? If so, that version is broken and will never save fishing encounters correctly; IIRC it also corrupts the surfing encounters when it tries. You can try the version of it linked in my...

1 122

Started by PokéArt

How easy is it to copy and paste maps?

staticskai, Feb 12: Hello, so I am completely new to rom hacking and I am looking for some tips. Apologies if this is an extremely obvious question. I want to make a Platinum/HGSS hack using the HGSS engine purely for following Pokemon. Basically I want the game...

0 59

Started by staticskai

Other

6 IV ditto pokemon unbound

Enriek, Feb 12: Hey, can anyone help me find the 6 IV ditto in pokemon unbound?

0 226

Started by Enriek

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Looking to remove EV yields from all Pokemon in Black2/White2, what program would I need?

Help with saving progress in Prime Dialga's DNS Tool

Messed with OW pallets, now name selection screen is messed up

Can someone make a battle script tutorial

Different Type Effectiveness in Hacks

Animation Color Change

Item won't show up.

How to add items on Platinum maps

(Concept) Changing the cap on EVs and IVs.

How to edit when the player is defeated on a battle without messing up the entire rom

New Game Problem

How to edit incomplete roms? it's possible?

Changes won't appear in my game

I'm having issues with Dynamic Pokemon Expansion

I want to edit stats of pokemons in an existing rom hack (Radical Red)

[Emerald] A trainer battle is occurring twice when there's no clear indication in the script of a repeated battle.

Keep running into an error with sprites

Need an npc to stop the player from moving

Change OAK's movement firered

[Leon's ROM Base] Shedinja Evolution

Issue with Tiles scripting

Gen 6 Exp All/Share In Platinum - Help please!

I want to create a Pokemon NDS Rom Hack of my hometown and I need some help as a beginner

Is there a hack which can restore the original lighting effects from Red/Green to RBY?

Glitchy Music Insertion

[Yellow] Reclaiming ROM0 space

Pokemon Emerald Level Scaling By Badge

Pokemon Paradox

Pokemon Game Editor- Emerald Pokemon Expansion Cry Issues

need help with sappy

Battle Script Commands.

How to learn hexadecimal.

(Fire Red) Increasing the EV gain from Vitamins

Noob needs help, either removing features or adding them to existing IPS file.

510 EV cap on CFRU based ROMs

About the RTC

Shiny Hack Maker V2

help fix error expected statement/identifier

[XD] EV Cap

Status on HUD issue

[gen 1] How do I fix PokeEditGB getting Runtime Error 75?

Does anyone have a mirror for Shufflejoy's Psy/Spec/Status patch?

Pokemon Sage Sprites

Advanced Map issues

gen 4 hacking?

Help with Pedometer / Step-Counter Script

Adding Gen IV Pokémon/Abilities/Items/Moves

SDSME Wild Pokémon Editor

How easy is it to copy and paste maps?

6 IV ditto pokemon unbound