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[Dark_Trainer96]

Your tileset needs to have a certain size. It depends on a few other factors. As for the rest of your queries, I urge you to take a look at these tutorials (assuming you're using a Firered rom):


Completely Hacking the Fire Red Title Screen by DawnRyder
256/240 color Titlescreen (Firered)


They're a good start to things.

I think you failed to read "WORLD MAP"

Yeah, they sort of helped, but I don't know if all the values and steps in those resources apply to inserting a World Map, or if there are special steps needed.

Anyways, as of right now I have a fully coloured map at the size of 240x160 px.

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[Morfium]

Hi,

I'm currently working on an Emerald Hack that expands the story after beating the Elite Four.
Now I face three problems.

First: Check for Elite Four victory

Spoiler:

I added some new areas to the game and now want an NPC to block the way to these areas only until the Elite Four are beaten.

The point where I fail is, when it comes to the check if the player has been victorious.
Is there a flag set when the E4 are beaten?
I know that 0x86E is the Flag for the 8th badge.
I searched through the levelscripts of the champions chamber but I am not sure for what reason the flags there are set.
Or is there any other flag set only after the E4 are beaten like the national pokédex? Thought the national pokédex wouldn't be a good thing to check since in the final version of my hack the national pokédex will be rewarded right after getting the regional. It's also not a flag but a special that sets the national dex. :\

Second: Trainerclasses

Spoiler:

Is it possible to add completly new trainerclasses to the game without overwriting existing ones?
I want to add some new rivals with unique look as well as some new gym leaders and for that reason i need ~ 20 new trainers.
It would be very nice to give all of them a unique trainer sprite instead of "PKMN Trainer" for example.
If it is possible, could you give me a hint on where to look for any tutorials, since i couldn't find any.

Third: Using the rtc in scripts

Spoiler:

Is there a way to check for time (or steps) a player did after doing something?
E.g. I want to create an item: Mining Pick that's used to mine in caves for stones/fossils etc.
But I don't want the player to be able to mine a node and leave the map, to return and mine it again. I want the node to reappear after a certain number of time/steps.
I looked into the berry script to find a way to check the time but I have yet to find one. :)

Thanks in advance for any helpful answer or push in the right direction! :3

 

[Regeneration]

Hi,

I'm currently working on an Emerald Hack that expands the story after beating the Elite Four.
Now I face three problems.

First: Check for Elite Four victory

Spoiler:

I added some new areas to the game and now want an NPC to block the way to these areas only until the Elite Four are beaten.

The point where I fail is, when it comes to the check if the player has been victorious.
Is there a flag set when the E4 are beaten?
I know that 0x86E is the Flag for the 8th badge.
I searched through the levelscripts of the champions chamber but I am not sure for what reason the flags there are set.
Or is there any other flag set only after the E4 are beaten like the national pokédex? Thought the national pokédex wouldn't be a good thing to check since in the final version of my hack the national pokédex will be rewarded right after getting the regional. It's also not a flag but a special that sets the national dex. :\

Thanks in advance for any helpful answer or push in the right direction! :3

I'll answer the first part of your question.
There is a flag for controlling the difficulty of the Champion which you can very well use. 0x0844 is the one.

 

[Morfium]

Wow, that was fast! Thank you, that helps me a lot! :)

 

[BlueMew]

iight so I have a question that has caused me near endless pain over the last 3 day's. How do I make it night time 24/7 in pokemon fire red?? I've tried useing the day and night tool but i couldn't get it to work(might have used it wrong maybe?). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Regeneration]

Wow, that was fast! Thank you, that helps me a lot! :)

Glad to know that mate! ^_^

iight so I have a question that has caused me near endless pain over the last 3 day's. How do I make it night time 24/7 in pokemon fire red?? I've tried useing the day and night tool but i couldn't get it to work(might have used it wrong maybe?). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a bit confused about what you exactly mean.. Are you trying to create night all the time?
In that case, I can't remember exactly what must be done, but try setting 'Night' timings to 5:00 - 4:59 and the others as 5:59- 5:59, so on and so forth. That is, keep all the rest of the timings to the same value for 'From' to 'To'. I hope you understood what I meant. ^^;

 

[arcanine11]

HELP!

hey guys! Please help me out. I am a beginner hacker and i completely SUCK at hacking! please tell me how to insert sprites into a pokemon diamond rom!
I don't have a a program like unLZgba for gba games. I just need a program like that for NDS romz. It's just like that other rom eh.... oh yeah, bloody platinum. The trainer sprites are different. HELP A BROTHER OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kevin]

hey guys! Please help me out. I am a beginner hacker and i completely SUCK at hacking! please tell me how to insert sprites into a pokemon diamond rom!
I don't have a a program like unLZgba for gba games. I just need a program like that for NDS romz. It's just like that other rom eh.... oh yeah, bloody platinum. The trainer sprites are different. HELP A BROTHER OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa there calm down. Haha, anyways, GBA hacking is far much easier than NDS hacking if you're a beginner... Although if you still want to NDS hack, then there are some guides in the Tutorials forum... Here is one for overworlds. Here's one for sprites into D/P/Pt.

 

[BlueMew]

Thanks Regeneration! yes I'm trying to make it night all the time. I tried that yesterday but it was still day time in vba. :-(
I'll try it again and see what happens.https://www.pokecommunity.com/members/242729

Sorry for double post but I got to say thanks again Regeneration it worked this time! Not sure what I did wrong before but your help was most appreciated.

 

[shadowdorothy]

Is there an easy way to index sprites? I'm having trouble with the tuts on this one.

 

[1UpedAngel]

Hi guys, umm, anyone know how to hack mugshots in the 4th gen games like Pt and HGSS?

 

[Mr. Six]

Hye guys. Im a new hacker so i started things off simple by taking Pokémon Emerald and just adding pokemon, i also 4 or 5 map layouts and created 3 of my own which i inserted into the game. Felling pretty good with myself I started playing and it was going well till route 102. Any time i fight a wild pokemon, after the battle is over i become either :

A). become the Bug Catcher in that same route,

or

B). the Bug Catching becomes a negative coloured sprite of the player which you then control.

Why is this happening and will it happen in every map?

Anyway, I know its a total newbie hack. Like i said, I've only changed 5-6 maps, inserted 3 of my own (Small cave at Mt. Chimney, add on to Rusturf Tunnel and "Deep Forset") and edited the encounter list for every map so you can now catch nearly every pokémon (apart from about 10 + the legendaries you couldn't acquire anyway) but if someone wants to play through it, just to see what its like then it would be cool.

Thanks guys, and i hope you can tell me how to fix my problem :)

P.S - Just to add to the fail, I walked into the wild grass for the first time, Level 3 Sentret. It crit hit on the first turn dealing 10 dmg. (Fudge me, i thought, right i'll keep fighting, and when im down to around 4 hp i'll use the potion). Next turn, it crits again for 10 damage knocking my Torchic out ¬_¬

Haha, got to love it XD

 

[Kevin]

Is there an easy way to index sprites? I'm having trouble with the tuts on this one.

In Irfanview open your image. Then go to at the top Image > Decrease Color Depth > Select 16 colors and click OK. There, it's indexed to 16 colors. ;) And make sure the color background is the first color in the palette.

 

[Crimson Stardust]

In Irfanview open your image. Then go to at the top Image > Decrease Color Depth > Select 16 colors and click OK. There, it's indexed to 16 colors. ;) And make sure the color background is the first color in the palette.

since this has something to do with my question here it is,
how do i make the first colour my background if it is not after indexing?

 

[Equin]

Er, ASM is short for "assembly", not "advanced scripting method". It's a low level programming language that a high level language (like C) is compiled to and it's what we, as hackers, have to view the game's code in.

And yes, it would require ASM.

This made me LOL

Err, okay, this was embarassing...at least I got the ASM part right!

since this has something to do with my question here it is,
how do i make the first colour my background if it is not after indexing?

Let's see...if I got your question right, you need to change your background color's RGB to the first one on the list and change the first one on the list to the block where your background colour was. It's basically some kind of 'swapping'.

 

[Kevin]

since this has something to do with my question here it is,
how do i make the first colour my background if it is not after indexing?

Hm... I was looking around Irfanview. I think you go to Image > Decrease Color Depth > 256 Colors. And then edit your palette that way. If you don't want to do that I think you use Adobe Photoshop.

Err, okay, this was embarassing...at least I got the ASM part right!
Let's see...if I got your question right, you need to change your background color's RGB to the first one on the list and change the first one on the list to the block where your background colour was. It's basically some kind of 'swapping'.

Yes although you'd still need to index it to a certain number to edit the palette if I'm right.

 

[Johto_legend]

Hey does anyone know if its possible to skip the whole mini movie thing at the beginning of firered,with gengar and nidorino. Or is there anyway to hack it? cuz if i cant change it i just dont want it at all. thx.

 

[Equin]

Hey does anyone know if its possible to skip the whole mini movie thing at the beginning of firered, or is there anyway to hack it? cuz if i cant change it i just dont want it at all. thx.

Hello there. Well, of course there is a way to completely remove it, but it's as tricky as trying to feed nuts to an ape and bananas to an elephant. It requires knowledge of Advanced Scripting Method Assembly language, ASM in short, which clearly is out of the subject if you're just starting out.

If you do want to learn, though, here's a tutorial for you to begin.

 

[Kevin]

Hey does anyone know if its possible to skip the whole mini movie thing at the beginning of firered,with gengar and nidorino. Or is there anyway to hack it? cuz if i cant change it i just dont want it at all. thx.

You press a button during VBA. XD;

I know I remember going through unlz-GBA and found the Gengar and Nidorino sprites somewhere near the beginning... I think. But I know it's possible as I saw people hacked it before.

Or just remove it if you want with ASM like Equin said, if anyhow possible.

 

[DrFuji]

Let's see...if I got your question right, you need to change your background color's RGB to the first one on the list and change the first one on the list to the block where your background colour was. It's basically some kind of 'swapping'.

That is only half of how to swap palettes in IrfanView - The palettes in the picture are literally swapped, so while the image might have the background colour in its correct place in the palette, you can see that it and another have been swapped in the picture making it look nothing like what it should.

Once you swap the palette, make sure that you save your work as something other than the original file name so you should have the original image which is indexed but has the wrong background palette and the new image which has the correct background palette, but its colours are messed up. Open the original image in Paint or a variation of the program (Apparently the newest Paint doesn't support indexed images) and press Ctrl+C. Open your newest image and paste the old image in - It should be the exact same of the original image, but now you have the transparent colour in its correct position.

Hm... I was looking around Irfanview. I think you go to Image > Decrease Color Depth > 256 Colors. And then edit your palette that way. If you don't want to do that I think you use Adobe Photoshop.

Yes although you'd still need to index it to a certain number to edit the palette if I'm right.

That has nothing to do with editing the position of the background colour within a palette.