Editing the intro battle FR/LG

[azoula]

The Sprites are made by JoshR691
Programs:
Unlz
NTME
APE
Sphere Editor
FreeSpaceFinder
IrfanView

Lets start

Nidorino

Spoiler:

navigate to 234, save it as png and open it with paint, now replace it with the pokemon you want to, for this tutorial i will use vulpix.

Open the "vulpix" in irfanview , click image, decrease color depth, 16 colors, ok and save the image, make sure the first color of your pallete is the background color

click image, palette. export palette and save it *this will be used for alla the vulpix sprites

now go back to unlz, import the image, click write to rom and hit ok, if you get an error use the FreeSaceFinder

Now open your backsprite

in irfanview click image, palette, import palette import the palette you saved erlier
and save it *Actually do this in all the ''vulpix'' sprites
Open your Backsprite in NTME, in the tilemap dimensions click size FRLG TS and height+ twice
in the palette map cover your image in 6
and save the tilemap as .raw file

now go to unlz go to 227, import the image, click write to rom and hit ok, if you get an error use the FreeSaceFinder
then go to 228 click file load raw and load the file the click write to rom and hit ok

in unlz navigate to 237, save it as png and open it with paint, now replace it with the pokemon

Now open your image in irfanview click image, palette, import palette import the palette you saved erlier
and save it
now go back to unlz, import the image, click write to rom and hit ok, if you get an error use the FreeSaceFinder

Now the only thing left is the Palette edit
open APE and the offsets you need are 004096AC and 00406634

Gengar

Spoiler:

navigate to 233, save it as png and open it with paint, now replace it with the pokemon you want to, for this tutorial i will use Ursaring.

Open the "Ursaring" in irfanview , click image, decrease color depth, 16 colors, ok and save the image, make sure the first color of your pallete is the background color
click image, palette. export palette and save it *this will be used for all the ursaring sprites
now go back to unlz, import the image, click write to rom and hit ok, if you get an error use the FreeSaceFinder

navigate to 236, save it as png and open it with paint, now replace it like this

Now open your backsprite in irfanview click image, palette, import palette import the palette you saved erlier
and save it *Actually do this in all the ''ursaring'' sprites
now go back to unlz, import the image, click write to rom and hit ok, if you get an error use the FreeSaceFinder

Now open your rom in VBA and wat until the scene with the orange background shows up
then hit tools, map viewer, BG2 and save it as png

open it with paint and replace the gengar with "ursaring"

Now we have to make a tileset
Open sphere editor, click file import, image to map chose the image then it will show you to save it as rmp file save it chose as tile dimensions 8x8 and open the rmp file with spehere editor again then using the printscreen key save the image it will look like this

open the tilemap in NTME then click file, open tilemap, from sphere RMP file and chose the RMP file you saved earlier
in the palette map cover your sprite in 5 and save it as a .raw file
Open UNLZ go to 225 import the tilemap and save it click next and go to 226 then click file, load raw, load the raw you saved and write it to rom
Now again open your rom in VBA and wat until the scene with the two pokemon atacking shows up
then hit tools, map viewer, BG0 and save it as png

open it with paint and replace the gengar with "ursaring"

do excactly what you did before
Open sphere editor, click file import, image to map chose the image then it will show you to save it as rmp file save it chose as tile dimensions 8x8 and open the rmp file with spehere editor again

open the tilemap in NTME then click file, open tilemap, from sphere RMP file and chose the RMP file you saved earlier
in the palette map cover your sprite in 5 and save it as a .raw file
Open UNLZ go to 231 import the tilemap and save it click next and go to 232 then click file, load raw, load the raw you saved and write it to rom

Now the only thing left is the Palette edit
open APE and edit offset 00405DA4

Background

Spoiler:

open your rom in VBA and wat until the scene before the orange background shows up
then hit tools, map viewer, BG1 and save it as png

open it with paint and replace with yours background

Now we have to make a tileset
Open sphere editor, click file import, image to map chose the image then it will show you to save it as rmp file save it chose as tile dimensions 8x8 and open the rmp file with spehere editor again then using the printscreen key save the image
open the tilemap in NTME then click file, open tilemap, from sphere RMP file and chose the RMP file you saved earlier
in the palette map cover your sprite in 2 and save it as a .raw file
open UNLZ navigate to 221 and replace the image with yours then click next and go to 222 then click file load raw and load the raw file

open your rom in VBA again and wait until the scene after the orange background shows up
then hit tools, map viewer, BG1 and save it as png

open it with paint and replace with yours background
Now we have to make a tilemap
Open sphere editor, click file import, image to map chose the image then it will show you to save it as rmp file save it chose as tile dimensions 8x8 and open the rmp file with spehere editor again then using the printscreen key save the image
open the tilemap in NTME then click file, open tilemap, from sphere RMP file and chose the RMP file you saved earlier
in the palette map cover your sprite in 1 and save it as a .raw file
open UNLZ navigate to 229 and replace the image with yours then click next and go to 230 then click file load raw and load the raw file

Now the only thing left is the Palette edit
open APE and edit offset 004053D4 and 00407430

to change the grass open your rom in VBA again and wait until the scene before the orange background shows up
then hit tools, map viewer, BG1 and save it as png

once again replace the grass with whatever

make a tileset with sphere and then open ntme open the tileset load the rmp and in the palettemap cover it with 1
the open unlz go to 223 isert the tileset and in 224 the .raw file as before
APE oofest is 004053B4
the bush that shows up is no 235 in UNLZ and its palette offset is 00409A1C

End Result

Spoiler:

 

[~SAGE]

No replies? what the hell? this is amazing!!!
we'll can finally edit the intro
is this a dream? :D

PD: Do u know the offset and how to edit the forest background of the intro?

 

[azoula]

No replies? what the hell? this is amazing!!!
we'll can finally edit the intro
is this a dream? :D

PD: Do u know the offset and how to edit the forest background of the intro?

Lol I forgot :P, I have added it.

 

[Joexv]

Dude this job on this! Glad someone finally documented everything on this.

 

[Infinitum]

Dude! This is one of the most useful and understandable tutorials around! Should have been stickied!

 

[Kostas]

Excellent job man.
It is easy to understand.

P.S. GO PAOKARA!! hahah

 

[esperance]

It's nice to see someone finally documenting this aspect of FireRed! :) You do a decent job of explaining things too.

Do you think it would be possible for you to create a simple list of relevant offsets/palettes needed, so advanced users don't need to go digging through the tutorial to find them?

 

[LilBueno]

I'm having trouble learning how to use some of these tools. If someone can explain it to me in detail to a poor beginner, that'll help.

I located the Nidorino sprite (at 229, not 234. Not sure if that's a tutorial error or difference in roms?), opened it in paint and pasted the sprite I wanted to use over it in the same dimensions.
Then I opened the same png file -now with the new sprite- in irfanview and decreased color, saved palette, etc.
Then I opened unLZ again, opened the rom, and imported the png file, and clicked Write to Rom.
The Rom export Options are as follows
[x]Export Image [x]Auto abort if new data is bigger
[ ]Export Palette [ ]Automatically fix pointers
Image Offset: [004096CC]
Palette Offset: [0041EEA4]
Exporting in 16 color mode

The error I get is that Compressed size is 5E4.

So I'm using FreeSpaceFinder. I'm still learning about offsets and, but how do I do know how many bytes I need? FSF looks for 256 in FF, with a Skip Interval of 256. Offset 161C00 comes up, but when I change the Image Offset in unLZ from 004096CC to 00161C00 and click OK, literally nothing happens. The Export Options dialog box just disappears and nothing changes.