Tool: Advanced Series (GBA toolbox)

[timson733333]

Wichu, you might want to fix the sprite editor.

Sometimes when I edit the sprite, the shiny sprite gets messed up, and some of the colors in the sprite become the background color, creating a mess.

 

[Bayonetta]

Wichu, you might want to fix the sprite editor.

Sometimes when I edit the sprite, the shiny sprite gets messed up, and some of the colors in the sprite become the background color, creating a mess.

Your sprite might be the one messed up, or you messed it up when you move the palette, that was a bug from a really old version, 1.1 i think, and it is fixed by now, check the palette of the sprite and see if it doesnt overlap colors.

 

[supersmashbros]

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!
I LOVE THE POKEMON HACKING TOOLS!!!
GREAT JOB ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO MAKE ALL THESE POKEMON HACKING PROGRAMS!!! MODDER NATION!!!! YEAH!!!

 

[Bolens]

These set of tools are the nicest programs ever. It is awesome, it helps so much, thank you.

 

[xGGxToiZ]

Nice!

Worked like a charm!
Thanks man.

 

[ianmichael7]

Is there anyway you could get leaf green in there?

 

[ilikeluigi]

Can you do a Trainer Name and sprite editor?

 

[PeregrineFig]

These are really great tools. I especially love your sprite editor, it's so much easier than using unLZ and repointing data. The autoposition button on the position editor is really nice, too. Great work with these. (even though it was a long time ago now)

 

[Darkest Shade of Light]

Uhm, I think I've found a bug. I'm trying to put Mesprit into a hack, and I directly followed the palette (as in re-making the bitmap from only the colors in palette), but it always says that the colors aren't all from one palette... If it counts for anything, I'm trying to overwrite Articuno in a Ruby ROM...

 

[Full Metal]

did you actually index it with irfanview? try that (i know it's supposed to have non-indexed support; but just try it)

 

[Darkest Shade of Light]

Nevermind, I figured it out. In PDN, I had the transparent background, and there was 1 pixel that had an extremely transparent color (next to blank) and the game wouldn't recognize it... Soo, it's fixed... YAY!

 

[FoggyDoggy]

Nevermind, I figured it out. In PDN, I had the transparent background, and there was 1 pixel that had an extremely transparent color (next to blank) and the game wouldn't recognize it... Soo, it's fixed... YAY!

If you are using Photoshop or GIMP, or any other high-end painting programs, make sure everything is set to eliminate the chance of a transparency.

(Photoshop users can click+Hold on the Paintbrush, and change it to pencil, eliminating some transparency issues, GIMP can just use Pencil tool...)

Erasers too, (Photoshop users, set your Eraser to "Pencil Mode" and GIMP users should set the affected strength of the eraser to MAXIMUM, and that there isn't a transparency channel...)

 

[Shiny Quagsire]

This is the most usefull tool I've used! Thanks!

 

[Darkerm]

Those tools are very usefull for the hacker like me. Btw. Can you make a tool that can edit triners sprite, player Backsprite and battle Background sprite. Anyways Thanks for making such usefull tools.

 

[Blue4]

While attempting to change a palette in a Firered romhack, I got an unhandled exception, caused by arithmetic operation resulting in an overflow, if the error message is to be trusted.

Is this an error caused by trying to edit a romhack, an error caused by my laziness in not updating anything on my computer, or something else entirely? I get the error message when I try to write anything to the rom, whether changing a sprite or changing a single color on a palette.

Details enclosed in spoiler.

Spoiler:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.
at Sprite_Editor.RomFunctions.ConvertStringToByteArray(String& str)
at Sprite_Editor.SpriteData.GetCompressedData(Int32 species)
at Sprite_Editor.Form1.WriteToROMButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

 

[Shubshub]

So Awesome
Now I Just Have To test My Sprite

 

[Vrai]

Those tools are very usefull for the hacker like me. Btw. Can you make a tool that can edit triners sprite, player Backsprite and battle Background sprite. Anyways Thanks for making such usefull tools.

Amazingly enough, there's a tool for that already. It's called unLZ.gba. :>

 

[Darkerm]

Yes, I know that but It is hard to do with Unlz gba. If there is a tool for those thing it would be ease. What do you think?

 

[Full Metal]

Making a tool to make what we do with unlz.gba would be a nightmare. Now that these tools are out, the only thing we really need unlz.gba for (in Pokemon ROM hacks) is to do things with tilemaps. Besides the fact that using unlz.gba isn't hard at all to use. Just because it's not been updated, and doesn't have the nice things that this tool has, doesn't mean it should be eradicated or replaced. In other words: don't be lazy, and learn how to use unlz.gba

 

[timson733333]

It says "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application."