MrDollSteak said:

Heaps of ways to go about this, just think creatively. FBI's put up a snag ball routine, all you need to do is make the ball only activate on shadow pokemon. That can be done with comparing index numbers through a table etc.

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PurpleOrange said:

i'm not 100% sure if this requires asm, but is there a way to temporarily change what pokemon appear in the wild? i'm thinking something like Mr. Backlot and the trophy garden from Diamond/Pearl/Platinum

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jTaThaAvacola said:

You can use FBI's Swarm routne fo that: http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8535820&bep;postcount=314

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FBI agent said:

I've already done your first request, it's somewhere in this thread. I haven't been updating the first post because I've been putting it off :P

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FBI agent said:

Set static party level

First of all, I need to mention that this routine works off percentage increases and decreases. So if you're planning to go from level 1 to 100 all in one go for 6 Pokemon it will take around 5 seconds to increment about 35 million experience points. The reason for the percentage increase is so that we don't go over. This was a pain to test, as in some occasions the percentage between levels 1-2 would be enough to set negative exp, and sometimes the levels 99 -100 would set exp over 100...it was just a huge pain. It now works off a lookup table and is quite spiffy now :3

How to insert:

Compile and insert into free space the following routine:

Spoiler:

Code:

.text
.align 2
.thumb
.thumb_func

main:
	push {r0-r7, lr}
	mov r7, #0x0

loop:
	ldr r6, =(0x2024029)
	ldrb r6, [r6]
	cmp r7, r6
	beq end
	ldr r0, =(0x2024284)
	mov r1, #0x64
	mul r1, r1, r7
	push {r7}
	add r0, r0, r1@addr
	mov r4, r0

set_level:
	mov r1, #0xB
	push {r4}
	ldr r3, = (0x803FBE8 +1) @get species
	bl linker
	pop {r4}
	mov r2, r0
	ldr r6, =(0x8253AE4)
	ldr r1, =(0x8254784)
	lsl r0, r2, #0x3
	sub r0, r0, r2
	lsl r0, r0, #0x2
	add r1, r1, r0
	ldrb r0, [r1, #0x13]
	mov r5, #0xCA
	lsl r5, r5, #0x1
	mul r0, r0, r5
	add r0, r0, r6
	ldr r1, .VAR
	ldrb r1, [r1]
	mov r3, #0x4
	mul r1, r1, r3
	add r1, r1, r0
	ldr r1, [r1]
	ldr r2, = (0x20370D0)
	str r1, [r2]
	mov r0, r4
	push {r4}
	mov r1, #0x19
	ldr r3, =(0x804037C +1)
	bl linker
	pop {r4}
	mov r0, r4
	ldr r3, =(0x803E47C +1)
	bl linker
		
next:
	pop {r7}
	add r7, r7, #0x1
	b loop	

end:
	pop {r0-r7, pc}
	
linker:
	bx r3
	

.align 2

.VAR:
	.word 0x020270B8 + (0x8000 *2)

Here is a compiled version:

Code:

FF B5 00 27 1A 4E 36 78 B7 42 2D D0 19 48 64 21 79 43 80 B4 40 18 04 1C 0B 21 10 B4 16 4B 00 F0 24 F8 10 BC 02 1C 15 4E 15 49 D0 00 80 1A 80 00 09 18 C8 7C CA 25 6D 00 68 43 80 19 0B 49 09 78 04 23 59 43 09 18 09 68 0E 4A 11 60 20 1C 10 B4 19 21 0D 4B 00 F0 09 F8 10 BC 20 1C 0B 4B 00 F0 04 F8 80 BC 01 37 CD E7 FF BD 18 47 B8 70 03 02 29 40 02 02 84 42 02 02 E9 FB 03 08 E4 3A 25 08 84 47 25 08 D0 70 03 02 7D 03 04 08 7D E4 03 08

Usage:
setvar 0x8000 0x[Level you want Pokemon to be set to (in hex)]
callasm 0x[this routine +1]

That's it. I should mention, you should apply this as often as possible to speed up the computation time for next time.

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FBI agent said:

Roaming Pokemon!

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kearnseyboy6 said:

May I request custom moves for givepokemon. I feel this would really complete the player switching routines :)

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Percy said:

This should help you!
if it doesn't work, sorry!

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FBI agent said:

Wild Pokemon custom moves routine works for give Pokemon too. Actually it works for every Pokemon generated, so it's just poorly named on my part. Should've called it "custom move generator" or something similar :c

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HungLikeATauros said:

I can't seem to get the BattleByMove compiled. I'm getting an error message saying "bad instruction 'main'"at line 6, and also one at line 47 "junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is 0"

Any idea why it would say this?

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HungLikeATauros said:

Yo schmohawk I asked you a question.

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FBI agent said:

Battle Modes!

Battle Routine By Move:

This routine will run, on average four times per turn. Once you select your move, once you use your move, once the opponents uses their move and at the end of the aftermath. This makes the routine a perfect branching place for an Oak-tutorial like battle.

How to insert:
Look at the routine below. The last line .table has an incomplete pointer. It says 0x[pointer to routine table]. Find enough free space (takes 4 byte per routine) in your ROM and set the pointer for .table to that. You do not add +1 to the pointer, nor is it in reverse hex. Once you've fixed the pointer, compile the routine into free space. The last pointer in the routine NEEDS to be 00 00 00 00.

Spoiler:

Code:

.text
.align 2
.thumb
.thumb_func

main:
    push {r0-r4}
    mov r0, #0xBF @flag to check divided by 4
    lsl r0, r0, #0x2
    ldr r1, =(0x806E6D0 +1)
    bl linker
    cmp r0, #0x0
    beq noCrash
    ldr r4, .table

loop:
    ldr r1, [r4]
    cmp r1, #0x0 @check table entry is null
    beq noCrash
    bl linker @call table routine
    add r4, r4, #0x4 @get next table routine
    b loop
    

noCrash:
    pop {r0-r4}
    lsl r0, r0, #0x18
    lsr r0, r0, #0x18
    mov r10, r0
    lsl r1, r1, #0x10
    lsr r1, r1, #0x10
    ldr r2, =(0x2022874)
    ldr r0, =(0x800E2EA +1)
    bx r0

linker:
    bx r1
    
    
.align 2

.table:
    .word 0x[pointer to routine table] @THIS IS FREE SPACE IF IT'S YOUR FIRST TIME USING THIS ROUTINE

Now navigate to 0xE2E0 and insert the byte changes:

Code:

00 4D 28 47 XX  XX XX 08

Where XX XX XX is the reverse hex pointer to your routine +1.



Usage:
The routine is toggled by flag 0x2FC. Activate the flag to toggle routines called by this routine. To add routines into the list of called routines, navigate to the pointer of freespace you made .table point to. Insert into that table pointers in reverse hex +1 to wherever you compiled the addon routines make sure they have the 0x8 prefix. The structure of the table should be: [routine pointer in reverse hex +1 (4 bytes)] for each pointer in the table. I.e if I put the addon at 0x740000, the pointer would read 01 00 74 08.

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azurile13 said:

This thread is pretty amazing, especially the compiled versions for those of us who can't compile! Thanks to everyone who has contributed, in particular FBI Agent for obvious reasons.

I have two ideas for fire red that, although I know are longshots, would be very powerful features.

1) Dynamic trainer battle. In case I'm using that word incorrectly, what I mean is that instead of using the trainer table, there is one special slot in the game for which you can call an asm command that fills that slot with trainer information, you battle them like a normal battle, then that information clears out again. Maybe a variable for things like trainer class and AI. The biggest part, of course, would be six variables that the script uses to read off of a giant table of 80 byte each Pokemon. This single feature, along with semi random calls, would be a huge step in building a Battle Tower from the ground floor up. And even a Battle Factory/Battle Dome for anyone who cares.

2) This is even more of a long shot, but I'm curious. How many places does the game read nature, ability, and gender? Currently, all 3 are linked to personality value, making it tricky to alter one without possibly affecting the others. What if that weren't the case? Say we have a Pokemon with personality value [1234][5678].

What if instead of the current system, the game reads the 567 to determine nature. 16x16x16 = 4096. That isn't perfectly divisible by 25, but you could just make 4 of the 5 useless natures like Hardy/Quirky sliiightly less common and I don't think anyone would lose any sleep.

Gender value can range from 0 to 255, so just take two from the personality value and it works out fine.

Finally, abilities. With one or more of the remaining parts of the personality value, you could get rid of the current even/odd determiner, which would allow for third abilities.

Overall, wild and trainer Pokemon would still be just as random, so nothing would be needed to overhaul their random number calls, but it would be significantly easier to customize Pokemon for events and breeding changes.

There are obviously other features to personality value, ranging from things some people care about like shiny pokemon to things almost no one cares about like the dots on Spinda or Wurmple.

Sooo
1) Dynamic trainers
2) Completely reworking how the game reads personalities, gender, and abilities.
Or am I just in fantasy land? :)

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Touched said:

2) The "useless" natures round out the pairing. There is a nature for each combination of stats. The useless ones are basically the same stat being increased and decreased. I'm not so sure how changing that would affect balance. Currently, all places in the game that read these values are controlled by a single function call. Changing how it reads the personality value to calculate these things shouldn't be too complex, however, making it not read from the PID would be far more complicated. As for abilities, I did at one point make a hack that allowed a third ability. It just overrode the ability bit - I did meaning changing basically all the battle code however, so it conflicted with a large number of ability hacks.

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azurile13 said:

One of us doesn't understand what the other is trying to say. What I was trying to suggest was using three specific hex numbers from the PID to determine nature, rather than the last two in decimal form of the PID, which is harder to control. So you would have 4096 possibilities, but you wouldn't be eliminating a nature by any means. For example, 0x0 to 0xC7 inclusive is Hardy, 0xC8 to 018F inclusive is Lonely, 0x190 to 0x257 inclusive is Brave, all the way up to 0xF37 to 0xFFF inclusive is Quirky. It could be rearranged in a different way, but the point being that four neutral natures aren't done away with. Rather, they appear at a frequency of 199/4096 rather than 200/4096. And this isn't a locked idea. It was just an example of attempting to get rid of the connection that nature has to other things that the PID is used to decide.

As far as the other things, it is great to hear that they may be reasonable, especially the trainer one!

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