[ARCHIVE] Simple Questions (SEARCH BEFORE ASKING A QUESTION)

Neti said:

I've been searching for hours now and can't find the answer... Can anyone tell me how I can edit the palette of the world map? I managed to insert mine, but it has the wrong colors. I guess it can be done with APE, but what offset should I use? When exporting the palette from VBA and importing to APE it won't find it...

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gogojjtech said:

I can't exactly remember the offset, but it's lz-77 compressed and in VBA you can find it. That's how I did it.

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Neti said:

Hmm I still can't find it... Do you have any idea where you looked it up?

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gogojjtech said:

Since I'm nice I found it at 083EF3DC
Now that may or may not include the transparency, so check it first

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Neti said:

Hmm I cant enter that into APE, it always changes it to 00FFFFE0

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gogojjtech said:

It's not meant for APE, just go in a hex editor and compare it to VBA

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Neti said:

Neither can I got to that Offset in my Hex-Editor (Cygnus), nor can it find the offset as a string... Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm not very experienced with hex editing

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gogojjtech said:

Go to the offset without the 08 in the front. That just indicates it's in the ROM before 1000000

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Neti said:

Ah ok thank you very much. Now I just have to find out how to edit a palette in hex

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gogojjtech said:

Go in VBA and open the palette viewer and the tile viewer. In the tile viewer click on a tile with the world map and see what pal number it says. 0,1,2.....14,15
Go in the palette editor and in that palette compare it to the numbers at the offset in the hex editor
Then change accordingly

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Retribution said:

I tried to insert a sprite and, well, I got this...:

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If it helps, I expanded the overworld sprites using this method, and this is one of those expanded sprite.

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gogojjtech said:

You didn't repoint the sprite's offset. The old data is not glitched because it's not free space

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Vladmir_Fox said:

I am almost completely new to ROM hacking but I was wondering how do I use unLZ-GBA or a similar program to insert a sprite of the GHOST pokemon that you can see without the silph scope in FR/LG and if possible I'd rather it not just overwrite a preexisting pokemon sprite but instead use one of the blank entries in between Celebi and Treeko? (yes to your unasked questions I'm trying to make a pokemon creepy black hack.)

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gogojjtech said:

Those slots are solely for unown. They're glitch Pokemon. Using them would require ASM. Just replace something like Qwilfish.
Plus use advanced series, not unlz for the sprites

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Vladmir_Fox said:

So are you saying that is impossible to have both all 386 pokemon as well as add in/reuse the GHOST that is already in the FR/LG ROMs? From my looking around on various parts of this website and others I know that yes there are blank spaces in the pokedex for adding in new pokemon I'm just wondering how it is done and what I would need to know to do it.

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gogojjtech said:

The ghost battle is a special command. Just look up its script.
And adding Pokemon is hard work (I'm doing it right now)
You need knowledge of:
ASM
GBA Hardware
The regions in the GBA
Offsets
Limiters
More

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Vladmir_Fox said:

Ok thank you for your help. As an idea to achieve what I want (the GHOST as a usable pokemon) do you think it would be possible to replace maybe the shiny sprite of a pokemon with the GHOSTs needed sprites and then have a givepokemon script so that the player could then get the pokemon because using things like YAPE i can give the pokemon custom moves correct? Or am I just completely in over my head at this point in time?

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