Recent content by IIMarckus

Actually, you can’t! Stuff is frequently defined in header files but anything you define can be clobbered by another header. #include <a.h> #include <b.h> is not necessarily the same thing as #include <b.h> #include <a.h> The preprocessor (specifically the combination of #include and #define)...

Well, it beats spending my time making snarky remarks on message boards.

I started ROM hacking in 2006, and taught myself assembly in about a year. Around the same time I got into web programming and SQL, then did a lot of C. In college I moved back down to different assembly languages and VHDL, a language for designing digital circuits like microprocessors. I’ve...

Providing a GUI editor is fine, but please provide at least a basic command‐line option for people who like to use other text editors like vi. Also, making it open source would be a great idea.

When I first learned ASM, I had a sudden realization: “I can do anything! Think of all the possibilities!” Frankly, even if you never do anything all that special with it, I think it’s worth learning ASM just to experience that feeling.

I do mostly ASM these days. My hacking focus has never been creation so much as documentation—I like figuring out how the games work.

I’m not the one to ask about efficiency here. The GBA is not really my forte, and I’ve never worked with Mode 7, so I really can’t provide any details. Try reading up on it. Do it! ASM isn’t nearly as hard as people make it out to be, and it’s a lot of fun.

There are no additional sprites—the GBA itself can rotate and scale sprites. It’s just a graphical effect done by the hardware.

Shadow of the Colossus: GRnIRjV1-Ow Age of Empires: 3bQ-WsquMwE

Mode 7 can be done on the GBA. It’s kind of limited because you can only manipulate two planes this way (essentially, a floor and a ceiling)—walls and such have to be sprites. Since they can’t be scaled in the same way, you have to create separate sprites for various distances, and switch...

I suggest that the reason most progress is in third gen is because people do care about it, and don’t care enough about higher gens to do more stuff. In the meantime, hacking for older gens continues at a steady pace. Two programs for picture compression in RBY were released just recently. I...

Then look at it; it has been dumped and is publicly available. I have heard that it is basically the final version.

And sure enough, it is happening. Barely a year after he translated it, too. Can you imagine how long it would have taken if he hadn’t released his doc? My hacking time has been epsilon for many months now, but since I released much of my work while I was working on it, it has been able to help...

If you release the source code, maybe someone else will port it to C for you ;)

It is just there for sorting purposes. Say you have a line of code like this:ld a,1 nop ld hl,$1234 jr z,−5If you’re partially or fully emulating the processor, you probably won’t be diassembling from beginning to end, but rather following jumps, so you need some way to sort the text file...