Development: The Ruins of Alph Puzzles

Sierraffinity · Mar 22, 2017

Nisarg said:
Can anyone tell how to implement it?
When I type that code in cmd in root folder, shows error,
Here is what I did:
Copied my rom in root, then copied 3 files from bin folder of gnumake, then open cmd here, and typed the following:
make bpre fname="test" offset=800000
My rom name was test, obviously...

You're meant to use devkitPro and its toolkit in order to build this. Also, you need to also give the file extension in the fname parameter.

Sierraffinity · Apr 24, 2017

Nisarg said:
Can anyone provide me a bin file insead?
Problems compiling,
Offset > 0xAA0000

What issues are you having? It would be best to fix those problems instead of someone providing you a binary.

Sierraffinity · Apr 25, 2017

Nisarg said:
That's true, Do i need any software for this?
I have make and devkitpro installed and added to patch variables...
Also have java runtime.
Plz guide me, thanks

Well what's your actual issue? When you try to build it, what happens?

Bloody-Red · Apr 26, 2017

Nisarg said:
I copied 3 files from bin folder of GnuMake and pasted them in repo, created a new empty folder called build, shift+right click and open cmd here, typed make and enter...
Giving error,

Actually sharing error screenshot can be really helpful to help you out ;)

mbcn10ww · Apr 26, 2017

Nisarg said:
I copied 3 files from bin folder of GnuMake and pasted them in repo, created a new empty folder called build, shift+right click and open cmd here, typed make and enter...
Giving error,

Have you paid attention in Diego's thread? It's not a simple "make":

Code:

make (ROM code) fname="(ROM name.gba)" offset=(free space offset)

Example:

Code:

make bpre fname="BPRE0.gba" offset=0x9E0000

mbcn10ww · Apr 26, 2017

Nisarg said:
Do we have to edit linker.sc?

I don't know because I never tried to compile it, but I will take a look when I get a chance.

Diegoisawesome said:
Spoiler:

Summary:
Well, it's been done. Three years after making this thread, many advancements in the Ruins of Alph have been accomplished; shiny quagsire obtained the original source code from Mastermind_X and put it up on GitHub, mwksoul took that code and made it almost work in Emerald, and finally, I took that code and made it completely compatible with existing in-game systems, getting rid of any bugs and incompatibilities and adding in things like fading. More recently, shiny quagsire ported my code over to FireRed, allowing for much more hacks to use it than before.

Screenshot:

Source:
https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/M_X-RuinsofAlph
Released under GPLv3, anyone is free to take this code and use it in their own hack as-is, or modify it and release the source code as well. Any forks from the code are free to be discussed in this thread.

Q/A:
Q: What engines does this work in?
A: Emerald and FireRed only.

Q: Will you be porting this to [Ruby, Sapphire, LeafGreen]?
A: Sorry, but no. Feel free to port the code over if you want to, though! shiny quagsire made this process extremely simple!

Q: How do you put this into a hack?
A: Get devkitARM from http://sourceforge.net/projects/devkitpro/. Drop your ROM of choice in the project folder. Compile the source into your ROM with

Code:

make (ROM code) fname="(ROM name.gba)" offset=(free space offset)

without parentheses.
The ROM code is either bpre for FireRed or bpee for Emerald.
Then all that's left is a callasm to your free space offset +1.

Q: Who did what in this?
A: Mastermind_X made the original standalone ROM (of course), shiny quagsire obtained the source and uploaded it to GitHub, mwksoul did the initial hard work (cleaning up the original, making it not a standalone), while I made it fully compatible with Emerald's callback system, sprite loading system, etc. shiny quagsire then ported that code over to FireRed, making it fully compatible with that engine.

Credits: (if you want to use this, then make sure to credit all of us)
Mastermind_X: The original
shiny quagsire: The obtaining of the source, the port to FireRed
mwksoul: The initial port and cleanup
diegoisawesome: The compatibility and customization

ORIGINAL POST FROM THREE YEARS AGO:
We all know the Ruins of Alph puzzle made by Mastermind_X, right?
http://sfc.pokefans.net/lesson.php?id=21
Well, it was made for Fire Red, and when I wanted it in my Emerald hack, I tried to port it over. I changed the LASTRESULT address and tried it in-game.

As you can see, the result was less than satisfactory, and although it did work, it did have some glitches. As you can see here, the strange coloration is one part, and the other part is that after exiting it, pressing start would give you a weirdly formatted start menu, at the botom of the screen. Exiting it and trying again would bring up the normal Start menu, except exiting this one would remove all of the tiles on the top layer of the map.

So my question is this: How can Mastermind_X's brilliant puzzle be taken over to Emerald?

It will only show one picture? If I want to make all pictures from GSC I need to compile it many times? If the puzzle is solved, there is a flag/var that checks it for future uses?

Sierraffinity · Apr 26, 2017

Nisarg said:
I copied 3 files from bin folder of GnuMake and pasted them in repo, created a new empty folder called build, shift+right click and open cmd here, typed make and enter...
Giving error,

Why are you copying anything from GnuMake? Either the devkitPro tools should already be in your PATH or you should be executing this from within the environment installed by devkitPro (called msys). You also shouldn't be creating a build folder, you should be executing this inside the root of the repo.

mbcn10ww said:
It will only show one picture? If I want to make all pictures from GSC I need to compile it many times? If the puzzle is solved, there is a flag/var that checks it for future uses?

Just realized I left out some important parts to the actual in-game script from the instructions. I've added them in now, so check the first post in this thread for your answer.

mbcn10ww · Apr 26, 2017

Diegoisawesome said:
Just realized I left out some important parts to the actual in-game script from the instructions. I've added them in now, so check the first post in this thread for your answer.

Awesome (obviously ^^).

One thing, this source supports additional puzzles? (because I want to add puzzles for all Fossil Pokémon)

Sierraffinity · Apr 27, 2017

mbcn10ww said:
Awesome (obviously ^^).

One thing, this source supports additional puzzles? (because I want to add puzzles for all Fossil Pokémon)

Well it's just code. As long as you understand how it all works together, you can do anything you want to it.

mbcn10ww · Apr 27, 2017

Diegoisawesome said:
Well it's just code. As long as you understand how it all works together, you can do anything you want to it.

Ok thanks, I will try my best. ^^

eMMe97 · Apr 28, 2017

If you want a hg/ss style graphics I created this

now a question: after the callasm if I resolved the puzzle or not the script finish...

my script for fire red (U) 1.0

Code:

'---------------
#dynamic 0x800000
#org @start
lockall
msgbox @mess1 0x6
setvar 0x8004 0x0
fadescreen 0x1
callasm 0x8A00001
waitstate
compare LASTRESULT 0x1
if 0x1 goto @success
msgbox @mess3 0x6
releaseall
end

'---------------
#org @success
msgbox @mess2 0x6
releaseall
end


'---------
' Strings
'---------
#org @mess1
= Wow! A puzzle!

#org @mess3
= Bad News...

#org @mess2
= Good Job!

The messages "Good Job!" and "Bad News" don't appear in any case...the script finish before...

Sierraffinity · Apr 28, 2017

eMMe97 said:
The messages "Good Job!" and "Bad News" don't appear in any case...the script finish before...

It seems the FireRed port was buggy and didn't correctly return to the overworld. Pull the latest commit and try building it again.

eMMe97 · May 2, 2017

Nisarg said:
So to use that hgss style I just replace the file from folder?
Does it use same pallete?

If you want to use this new background you must re-edit the file in M_X-RuinsofAlph/img_bins/background.h with the byte of this background or you can change the pointer offset (tiles and map) after.
The palette is not the same, but I just index it.

Sierraffinity · May 2, 2017

Nisarg said:
Gettin errors, diego.
I dropped my rom named BPRE0 in root, edited xxxxxx to 990000 in linker file, and in cmd typed
make bpre fname=BPRE0.gba offset=990000
Xactly tgat, sam cases as I typed above, no quotes too in fname...
Is that right?

You shouldn't need to edit the linker file at all; the whole point of the offset argument is that it automatically generates a proper linker file and inserts itself at that offset.

Noodlewhiz · Aug 3, 2017

I'm having trouble compiling this. Every time I try, I get the error:

Spoiler:

Any suggestions of what I could be doing wrong?

Sierraffinity · Aug 4, 2017

Noodlewhiz said:
I'm having trouble compiling this. Every time I try, I get the error:

Spoiler:

D:\Rom Hacking\Roms\Game\Source Code\M_X-RuinsofAlph-master>make BPRE fname="BPRE0.gba" offset=8A6D10
'printf' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
sed 's/^ rom : ORIGIN = 0x08XXXXXX, LENGTH = 32M$/ rom : ORIGIN = 0x088A6D10, LENGTH = 32M/' linker_base.lsc > linker.lsc
'sed' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
make: *** [BPRE] Error 1

Any suggestions of what I could be doing wrong?

That's really interesting.. You've installed devkitARM, right? And your Windows "Path" environment variable points to it too?

Noodlewhiz · Aug 4, 2017

Diegoisawesome said:
That's really interesting.. You've installed devkitARM, right? And your Windows "Path" environment variable points to it too?

Yup. I installed msys also and was able to get the error down to this:

Spoiler:

How do I get the compiler to recognize the command "sed"?

Noodlewhiz · Aug 4, 2017

Nisarg said:
Your Path does not have Devkiarm there, also GNUmake bin fodler.

They do. Both my user variables and environment variables have a path to the DevkitARM bin folder, the GNUmake bin folder, and the msys bin folder.

Z-nogyroP · Aug 14, 2017

having some trouble trying to change the images used in compilation. i tried to rasterize the new background in grit, but whenever i go to test it ingame the background is completely black.

https://pastebin.com/4eqkNb18 this is the output file i'm using

this is the image of the background

dannyboy941 · Oct 3, 2017

I need an help with this

Spoiler:

i use Windows Google is todays now useless search it and i sorry if this an old Thread.

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