Tool: TL's Quick Enhancer (~Making rom hacking faster and easier)

ThomasWinwood said:

While people are correct in saying that the things this tool does are very easy to do by hand in a hex editor, I'd say they're tedious to do that way when you're going to want to do them for every new hack you make if you habitually restart (ahem) so this is a nice thing to have around.

It'd be helpful if your Github repository contained the project file and other resources so that others can clone it and compile it easily. As it is, if I wanted to try out your code I'd have to reconstruct the UI using only the event hooks you've left as clues to what's what.

You should also include a license statement (I'm a fan of the GPL, but there's also BSD with varying numbers of clauses, MIT and others) since as written nobody else is actually legally allowed to contribute (if you don't specify some form of licensing the default is "all rights reserved").

You've also got some blank event handlers in "My code" for clicking on labels which aren't actually needed—if you don't know how to fix that then I can do it for you once you publish the full project rather than just a couple of .cs files.

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The_learner said:

I might not switch to python as i dont know about it, but probably we can share our ideas.. :)

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VeryBestRogue said:

Python's quite easy, I left C as it didn't have OOP capabilities.... Thanks for reply :)

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LykO said:

Good Job!
Looking for future features.

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Trev said:

Hey, nice idea! I actually do kind of support this less so for making it easier but for serving as a reminder of the features that I need to implement. And plus, it is kind of nice to just click a few buttons to add in the features that you wanted. I'd love something like this for when I finish RedChal and move on to another hack.

One issue I have, though, is that some additional features that you could possibly add would take up free space. I assume you're going to have a way to allow the user to put stuff in free space on their own accord, right? I only ask because it seems like you aren't the most experienced tool creator (which isn't a bad thing :p) and doing something like that might be difficult.

Otherwise, nice tool! I might use it when there are more features.

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DizzyEgg said:

It's cool that you're learning programming by making poke-related tools, but I don't think they're really necessary.

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DizzyEgg said:

All it does is change a few bytes and it takes like 5 seconds in a hex editor.
If someone thinks that's too hard, then romhacking isn't for them.

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D3X1K said:

Nothing in life (except food, water, and sleep) is necessary. its the necessities used that make the unnecessary worth creating.



As for using a hex editor, it only takes one wrong move to render the rom unusable. This helps reduce the risk.

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Gegalix said:

Great Job Learner. As someone who works 2 jobs, tools like this really help me out. Without them, my previous and upcoming hacks would not have been possible. Ignore Dizzy Egg; your contributions to the community are appreciated and are what makes this such an awesome community to begin with. I'd put your tools right up there with Mr.Dollsteak's Attack Rombase. ;)

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xRyanp92x said:

nice little tool u got here. i know how to do most of the stuff (including the planned features) but this will make this much quicker for me :p although i didnt know u could cap the evs to 252 so thats news to me haha :D

oh just noticed in the screenshots (not really important tho) but where it says loaded game in the last one it says pokemon emerlad instead of emerald lol... i seen that and was like hmm something seems off haha

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D3X1K said:

Don't forget about .bak files, copies, and other forms of backup. ;)

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DizzyEgg said:

It's cool that you're learning programming by making poke-related tools, but I don't think they're really necessary. All it does is change a few bytes and it takes like 5 seconds in a hex editor.
If someone thinks that's too hard, then romhacking isn't for them.

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LykO said:

Some Natures are the states of both colors (example Relaxed Def and Speed are Red , Timid Atk and Speed are Blue)
I tested on rom patched and rom clean

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Shachar700 said:

Are "catch pokemon gain exp" and "BW repel system" fully working in the latest update? I saw them on the screenshots but not when i read the first post

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Deokishisu said:

I don't see how opening up a hex editor, using goto to go to an offset that is literally given to you in the research post, doing the small byte changes that are literally given to you in the research post, saving the file, and exiting the hex editor is weeks of nitty gritty. I could do this right now faster than downloading, unzipping, and using this program would be.

EDIT: The nitty gritty learning was done for you, by the person who researched these byte changes.

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BadEgg~ said:

I still fail to see why there's something wrong with simplifying the process for those who just do this casually. Instead of replacing a bunch of bytes you can just apply this patch at the start of your hack with all the byte changing and image inserting done for you. It makes it more accessible for beginners, especially those who are younger.

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The_learner said:

The catch pokemon exp gain is available..but only for fire red now!!
But bw repel system is not yet implemented :)

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