Adding Abilities/Moves to Emerald (Pokemon Glazed)

I've tried all these tutorials but of course with my zero skill on computer lingo and all that, I couldn't get it to work.

I tried this one h ttp s://w ww.p ok ecom muni ty.com/s howthread .php?t= 290135 but when it came to searching for the 250c04 thing, I couldn't find that in the hex, so i was out only like 6 steps in. Can someone please help me I'm so confused.

I even tried to just edit the existing abilities using Pokemon Game Editor, but when i did that it crashed my game. :( :( :(

I highly recommend downloading the newest version of PGE from Gamer2020's github and using that to add new abilities/moves: the new features make it really convenient to do so.

tudou said:

I highly recommend downloading the newest version of PGE from Gamer2020's github and using that to add new abilities/moves: the new features make it really convenient to do so.

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Ok, thanks. Two questions though.

1. Can you give me an example of how to implement, say Technician or Pixilate into Blazed Glazed using PGE.

2. Does Blazed Glazed have any new abilities?

I am uploading your rom into gen iii hacking suite and it's not working. it's saying index out of range and i can't find a solution.

also, the "new" pge was the same one i already had. and it doesn't even show the new abilities that u added in the game. plus it's saying that u upload abilities via .ini which i have yet to be able to find a tutorial on how to do that.

I see, you're working with Blazed Glazed.

1) The Ability Resource Thread in this forum should point you in the right direction.

2) Blazed Glazed does have new abilities. Not a whole lot, though.

The newest version of PGE should have multiple tabs above the tools. Underneath "Patchers and Expanders" is the attack/ability extension feature.

as for the ini issue, I'm just going to c/p something i wrote in a PM.
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Just go down to the BPEE section of roms .ini file and make these changes:
AbilityNames=1280000
NumberOfAbilities=100

Then a little further down:
AbilityDescriptionTable=1280D10

If you want to, you can copy the roms file that comes with PGE, put the copy in the same folder as your ROM, make sure both are named the same, and make the changes above to the copy. PGE will still recognize the ini and will use it accordingly.
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Keep in mind that if you want to make the rom compatible with G3HS you will have to hunt down the values in the ini and change them accordingly (some of them might be called different things).

This should answer your questions.

tudou said:

I see, you're working with Blazed Glazed.

1) The Ability Resource Thread in this forum should point you in the right direction.

2) Blazed Glazed does have new abilities. Not a whole lot, though.

The newest version of PGE should have multiple tabs above the tools. Underneath "Patchers and Expanders" is the attack/ability extension feature.

as for the ini issue, I'm just going to c/p something i wrote in a PM.
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Just go down to the BPEE section of roms .ini file and make these changes:
AbilityNames=1280000
NumberOfAbilities=100

Then a little further down:
AbilityDescriptionTable=1280D10

If you want to, you can copy the roms file that comes with PGE, put the copy in the same folder as your ROM, make sure both are named the same, and make the changes above to the copy. PGE will still recognize the ini and will use it accordingly.
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Keep in mind that if you want to make the rom compatible with G3HS you will have to hunt down the values in the ini and change them accordingly (some of them might be called different things).

This should answer your questions.

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Doing what you said about PGE doesn't actually make your abilities show up. It's still only 78. And I'm asking for help on that abilities thread, but I already knew about it. It's just very confusing. I have no idea what ASM is and what this is and offsets and any of that.

tudou said:

I see, you're working with Blazed Glazed.

1) The Ability Resource Thread in this forum should point you in the right direction.

2) Blazed Glazed does have new abilities. Not a whole lot, though.

The newest version of PGE should have multiple tabs above the tools. Underneath "Patchers and Expanders" is the attack/ability extension feature.

as for the ini issue, I'm just going to c/p something i wrote in a PM.
-
Just go down to the BPEE section of roms .ini file and make these changes:
AbilityNames=1280000
NumberOfAbilities=100

Then a little further down:
AbilityDescriptionTable=1280D10

If you want to, you can copy the roms file that comes with PGE, put the copy in the same folder as your ROM, make sure both are named the same, and make the changes above to the copy. PGE will still recognize the ini and will use it accordingly.
-

Keep in mind that if you want to make the rom compatible with G3HS you will have to hunt down the values in the ini and change them accordingly (some of them might be called different things).

This should answer your questions.

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also when i add a move to pge it freezes the game

Can you find something like this on your version of PGE? Try clicking the tabs just above the tools.
If not, you might not have the newest version.

I used that. The abilities I add added still show up as ? marks

That's because you've inserted space to add more abilities. You can rename the ????s to whatever you want. It's not until you've inserted asm routines that these abilities will have any effect, though.

Reading the tutorials in the ability resource thread will guide you into the right direction.

I have the same issue. I grabbed a routine for Protean from MrDollSteak's thread with a bunch of ability routines.
It looks like this:

.text
.align 2
.thumb
.thumb_func
.global protean

AbilityBufferUser:
push {r0-r5}
ldr r0, .Bank
ldrb r0, [r0]
mov r1, #0x58
ldr r2, .BattleData
mul r0, r1
add r2, r0, r2
ldrb r0, [r2]
ProteanCheck:
cmp r0, #0xA9
bne Return
BufferType:
ldrb r0, [r2, #0x1]
ldrb r1, [r2, #0x2]
CheckVariableTypeMoves:
ldr r4, .CheckTypeLoc
ldr r4, [r4]
ldrb r4, [r4, #0x13]
mov r5, #0x3F
and r4, r5
cmp r4, #0x0
beq CheckMove
b CheckSameType
CheckMove:
ldr r3, .MoveIndex
ldrh r3, [r3]
cmp r3, #0xA5
beq Return
GetMoveType:
ldr r4, .MoveData
mov r5, #0xC
mul r5, r3
add r4, r4, r5
ldrb r4, [r4, #0x2]
CheckSameType:
cmp r0, r4
bne ChangeType
cmp r1, r4
beq Return
ChangeType:
strb r4, [r2, #0x1]
strb r4, [r2, #0x2]
ldr r3, =0xFF0003FD
lsl r4, #0x10
add r3, r4
ldr r0, .BufferTypeLoc
str r3, [r0]
BufferMessage:
mov r0, #0x49
ldr r1, .Bank
ldrb r1, [r1]
bl DisplayMessage
Return:
pop {r0-r5}
ldrb r1, [r0]
str r2, [sp]
mov r0, #0x2
mov r2, #0x0
ldr r3, .Return
bx r3

DisplayMessage:
ldr r2, .DisplayMessageBL
bx r2

.align 2

.Bank: .word 0x0202420B
.BattleData: .word 0x020240A4
.MoveIndex: .word 0x020241EA
.CheckTypeLoc: .word 0x0202449C
.MoveData: .word 0x831C898
.BufferTypeLoc: .word 0x02022F58
.Return: .word 0x0804607D
.DisplayMessageBL: .word 0x0803F965

*Insert 00 49 08 47 xx xx xx 08 at 46074

My issue is that despite writer saying this is a routine, it's never specified if this is ASM that needs to be altered in some way first before trying to compile it into a BIN, because no matter what I do, I cannot get this routine [protean.asm] file compiled to a .bin file, possibly because there are errors in the code. I followed instructions exactly, from scratch, several times, and neither CMD, the thumb.bat, or an online compiler could do it; windows would say the protean.asm does not exist, (it does, trust me), and the online compiler said there are either errors in the code, dangerous instructions, or too large-(its not too large).

The online Converter also said that I cannot have the period ( . ) in any of the source code. Well wtf all the routines posted in that thread have periods, so that can't be right.