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[HackMew]

I have some problems that I need to solve...

1. Undenpending on their data, new overworld characters are for some reason items instead of characters, that even reappears evey item I go one step away. (Example: Instead of saying "CHARACTER X: Hello World!" it says "PLAYER found ITEM X!" and gives me that item.) This is strange as it even happens to character with the exact same data in FR, and pointed to the exact same location in the data.

2. Game freezes. I know that this often happens when entering a new area, but for me, it also happens completly randomly for no reason. And yes, music and other sprites continously plays.

Looks like your ROM got screwed up badly. Did you got any backups?

In Fire-Red, is it possible to:

a) Have different sprites depending upon Gender?
b) Have different evolutions depending upon Gender?

Reason I want to know this is to know whether it would be possible to combine Nidoran Girl and Nidoran Boy into one pokemon (thus freeing up a pokédex spot), whilst maintaining its evolutions.

Yes, using ASM.

Righto, well, thats alright. Leads onto my next question though.

Is it possible to have more than one Pokémon linking to the same Pokédex entry? I'll use an example to demonstrate what I mean.

Say I have an Onix as well as a Crystalix, pretty much an Onix made of Crystal. I replace one of the 25 extra ?? slots (I know its nigh on impossible to add these as new ones to the pokedex) with the Crystalix data and sprites. I would, however, like the game to show Crystalix under the Onix Pokédex entry. So if I catch a Crystalix, the Onix entry appears, same as if I had caught an Onix. Is that possible? If so, it would be a neat way of getting around the ?? limitations, at least for me.

Yes, it's possible however I don't recommend using the extra 25 slots at all. I guess you might want to try repointing the Pokédex data table.

no my hack....I've edited scripts on pallet town,they work fine but when I put the game on my vba it shows a white screen,and I can only play it by using quick load,what to do?

Are you sure you're VBA is set up proprerly? Try some backups and see if the problem still happen.

Ok.
I made new tiles for the outside appearace of the pokemon center/pokemon mart.
But when I enter or exit the pokemon center/pokemon mart, the tile of the door and the tile above it (the lower left part of the pokeball) go back to the old tiles.
When I have entered or exited the pokemon center/pokemon mart, they go back to the tiles I made.

How do I fix this?

That's normal. Door tiles are animated. And you didn't edit the animation, that's it.
The tiles used for the animation are uncompressed so you can use any tile editor and search them.

Hey,can anone tell me whats the ape offset of the battle backgrounds in ruby?please!! i need to know
cause i wanna edit it on my ruby hack.

Why don't you search it yourself? I made a tutorial for something.

Well, this is probably the wrong place to put this, but my question is: how would I go about making an in-game trade event? If someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial, that would be very much appreciated!

Easy. Just read the guide that comes with XSE.

Is it possible to STOP the player from releasing a certain pokemon?
As in say, you cannot release your starter, ever.
I would hope so as the alternative would be to make it that you never get to use a pokemon box >.>

Eventually yes, using ASM. Besides... only releasing would be prevented, right? That is, you would still be able to trade it on another game.

So I'd like to start making a translation patch for Touhoumon's japanese version.

At first I used Advance-Text to get things done but I've had enough of it's limitations and would like to try something with a bit more freedom.

So first things first...what do you guys recommend for changing pokemon names and attacks on the Japanese Fire Red? So far I've played around with Name Editor Advance (although I'm still having trouble locating all the names of all the attacks...and the pokemon name list doesn't even show up) and got some okay results...it's annoying that the attacks have a 8 character limit in the japanese version in all honesty. Whenever you hit 8, sometimes the name overlaps with the attack name right beneath it and suddenly something like MAGNITUD becomes MAGNITUDPSY...It also annoys me to no end in the pokemon names since that limit is 5 characters only.

[...]

I'd like to start with just changing the names and attacks for now. I'll deal with learning how to change the messages later on...

All the tools you mentioned aren't designed to work with Japanese versions. So you better use BPRE instead.
Also, that way you don't need to translate anything.

 

[onyx79]

I have 1.8.0 vba 128k flash type and I don't have backups,so you're trying to say that my hack is screwed up,and I need to start everything all over again? )=

 

[HackMew]

I have 1.8.0 vba 128k flash type and I don't have backups,so you're trying to say that my hack is screwed up,and I need to start everything all over again? )=

Maybe you don't really need to start all over. Try using a clean ROM and repeat the changes you made, one by one checking if the new ROM works. Also, check the ROM header because that could be the white screen problem. Open a hex editor and compare both your hack and a clean ROM byte byte byte and see if there are differences. And do make backups next time.

 

[~Trebuh~]

@Hackmew well i already read yout tut.thanks i finally found out,but everytime i load the .RAW file on N-TME,theres an errormessage that keeps appearing,so i do it on a new .Raw file,after i finished it,i import them on unlz and edit the pallets then heres what happened:

 

[onyx79]

Maybe you don't really need to start all over. Try using a clean ROM and repeat the changes you made, one by one checking if the new ROM works. Also, check the ROM header because that could be the white screen problem. Open a hex editor and compare both your hack and a clean ROM byte byte byte and see if there are differences. And do make backups next time.

use a clean rom and then load the back up on it?

 

[HackMew]

@Hackmew well i already read yout tut.thanks i finally found out,but everytime i load the .RAW file on N-TME,theres an errormessage that keeps appearing,so i do it on a new .Raw file,after i finished it,i import them on unlz and edit the pallets then heres what happened: [...]

Try using Cyclone instead.

use a clean rom and then load the back up on it?

No... (besides, what backup? You don't have any...) first check if the header is the same as the one you can see in a clean ROM. If not, change it so they're both the same, using the clean ROM as source. If the ROM still doesn't work, try repeating all the changes you made on the clean ROM.

 

[~Trebuh~]

@Hackmew:

well it doesnt let me use a tileset that its in .PNG form,i once deicide to make it a bitmap format,but the colors become ugly..

 

[onyx79]

No... (besides, what backup? You don't have any...) first check if the header is the same as the one you can see in a clean ROM. If not, change it so they're both the same, using the clean ROM as source. If the ROM still doesn't work, try repeating all the changes you made on the clean ROM.[/QUOTE]

where to find the header on hex editor?

 

[HackMew]

@Hackmew:

well it doesnt let me use a tileset that its in .PNG form,i once deicide to make it a bitmap format,but the colors become ugly..

That happens because you used Paint to convert it to bitmap. Since you have it, use Photoshop instead. Also, Cyclone support .gif files too.

where to find the header on hex editor?

It's the first thing you see at offset 0x000000.

 

[Aquilae]

Would it be possible to set a trainers' pokemon's level to

Highest level in party (the six pokemon you're holding) + X?

It would make the game harder and more balanced imo. You won't just go back and level up once you meet this leader, or rush through the game using only your starter. You'd actually have to use the correct pokemon for the task, like using Water against the gym leaders' Onix or something like that.

You can't really cheat the system by having all your pokemon at the lowest level possible, because then their stats will be subpar compared to the evolved pokemon of the other trainers, and you don't really have a wide variety of moves to choose from, due to TMs being limited and those which aren't, including HMs aren't very good most of the time.

It would also be nice if the AI could be changed, instead of just using the strongest move, or using other moves when they cannot OHKO (what I think happens in the games), the AI could follow a set sequence (like buff up until their stats are high and sweep), or maybe cheat a little, know the players' team beforehand and use the moves that would do good damage to most of the team, so the player cannot just switch out.

 

[HackMew]

Would it be possible to set a trainers' pokemon's level to

Highest level in party (the six pokemon you're holding) + X?

It would make the game harder and more balanced imo. You won't just go back and level up once you meet this leader, or rush through the game using only your starter. You'd actually have to use the correct pokemon for the task, like using Water against the gym leaders' Onix or something like that.

You can't really cheat the system by having all your pokemon at the lowest level possible, because then their stats will be subpar compared to the evolved pokemon of the other trainers, and you don't really have a wide variety of moves to choose from, due to TMs being limited and those which aren't, including HMs aren't very good most of the time.

It would also be nice if the AI could be changed, instead of just using the strongest move, or using other moves when they cannot OHKO (what I think happens in the games), the AI could follow a set sequence (like buff up until their stats are high and sweep), or maybe cheat a little, know the players' team beforehand and use the moves that would do good damage to most of the team, so the player cannot just switch out.

All that may be nice but requires ASM knowledge.

 

[negative]

Does anyone know the APE offsets of OW sprites except for the Hero/ine?

 

[onyx79]

this is what I found,I haven't touch anything here:

what to do now?

 

[final_agent]

Transfering the data...?

Well I do know that getting access to the music(although I think I only saw a tutorial for emerald of this, there's a tool somewhere in my folders that was supposed to handle it for this version too), sprites + movesets is quite possible and you could simply apply them to the english version.

But what about tile changes and all that? A few of Touhoumon's patches change a few areas and make a few new scripts for characters, wouldn't I need to script those too if I transfered the data over? Not to mention all the trainer data, attack property changes (I think they did something to the move typings in terms of physical and special properties) and animations.

Here's a video example of one of the patches...although since I can't post links yet, you'll have to fill in the blanks...
www-youtube-com/watch?v=wpfc7klSdLo
And here's an example of the newer animations
www-sankakucomplex-com/charts/niconico/player.php?vid=sm6808630

I'm no expert so it kind of looks like it'd be tougher to transfer everything over instead of translating the lines to make the game playable to the common non japanese reading north american.

 

[ZidaneTribal]

I have 3 questions:

1. Give it good Pokemon hacks in german?

2. What is with Pokemon Dragons, the harder version of Pokemon Emerald? I saw it in the "Complete hacks" Thread, but I Found no link.

3. I want to make harder trainers and other wild Pokemon in Emerald. must I make a complete new hack or is that easier?

I hope you can help me.

 

[PaulH]

ASM eh? Oh dear, I've had trouble enough scripting, let alone something that advanced! Maybe something to consider later then..

On the other hand, I have yet another question (yay..). How would you go about adding a new Type into Pokémon Fire-Red? Any tools or tutorials around for this? (I have searched, but it came up empty).

 

[Vednix]

how do i implement a script file into a rom?

 

[derrick 313]

how do put new tiles into a emerald rom? i have the magna train tiles from rom resource and want to replace the boat with it

 

[VGAura]

How do you enable or disable running/using fly/bike for a map?

 

[onyx79]

where can I get a tool to edit the evulotions on platinum?