What are your favorite ROM hacking tools?

Let's talk about nice ROM hacking tools! Tell everyone here why you like these tools.

For example, I really like PGE, as it's a nice all in one game editor.

What do you prefer?

I love Gen3 Tools! It's the easiest way to edit Trainers and Moves in one place.

God bless Advance Map. Does so much and an integral friend to any hack

Even though I'm not using it anymore I'll always have fond memories of XSE. Learning how to script was the thing that gave me the confidence that I could make my own ROM hack instead of being just a mapper or spriter.

Advance Map, XSE, G3T, PGE, G3HS, and karatekid's compiler.

So far I've greatly enjoyed Advance Map, PKSV, XSE, and PGE (though i get LOTS of issues with it, but it gets the job down best, imo)

Though i've noticed i cant use A-Map with PGE.

Palette Editor, for sure!

Hey everyone im new here and im working with Pokemon essentials and I have something that makes me wonder, is there a fast way to insert the gen.3 attack animations?

I just think they're all bad, but I still use them because I can't do anything else

ALM5252 said:

Though i've noticed i cant use A-Map with PGE.

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That's probably because A-Map generates .ini files with the same name as the rom, which PGE tries to read. (PGE needs an ini file if you have expanded pokemon, moves, etc.) If you delete the ones A-Map generates you should be fine, since they don't do anything AFAIK.

masterquestmq said:

God bless Advance Map. Does so much and an integral friend to any hack

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Hey buddy, I have made my own Pokemon Emerald hack from Advance Map and I have saved it.
But when I tried to open it it stops but background music is running please help me.

My favorite are the gen 3 tools, so well developed and easy to make a totally new Pokemon game. You can even make a Fakemon game possible through gen 3 hacking tools.

Advance Map 1.92 & 1.95 for maps more
Advanced Series for making positioning spites so easy (a one click all button would be nice)
Advanced Offset for finding offsets of couse.
Gen 3 Tools (G3T) for doing almost everything I want for editing Pokemon, Trainers, Moves, and more all safely and smoothly.
Pokemon Game Editor (PGE) for doing even more of what G3T does plus extra like editing Pokedex entries and more (even if it errors out a lot)
TL's Quick Enhancer for getting nice stuff right away

PK3DS by Kaphotics, for sure!

I dont think there's any single "favorite" tool because each tool is important in its own way.
But hey i love G3T