[Archive] Simple Questions

[XD375]

What's the newest version of PokéMap? Is it 1.2?

Okay, I know it's 1.5. Does anyone know where I can get it?

 

[Ryudonizard]

Help with Goldmap

Hey people I'm using gold map for my hack of gold version, Pokemon Retribution. But i am having problems, I dont know how to change town names or if you can change town names and how to start new maps and delete old ones. Also how to know what to do with warps to places and how to put your own sprites for the main character on also can someone send me a back sprite of the ash off of Gold Version. And also how to put night and day in. Please post or pm me.

 

[XD375]

Hey people I'm using gold map for my hack of gold version, Pokemon Retribution. But i am having problems, I dont know how to change town names or if you can change town names and how to start new maps and delete old ones. Also how to know what to do with warps to places and how to put your own sprites for the main character on also can someone send me a back sprite of the ash off of Gold Version. And also how to put night and day in. Please post or pm me.

You can't do any of these things, except the sprite of Red. Yes, Red. Ash is the cartoon character. Red is the game character. I suggest Pokémon Gold Sprite Editor or Tile Layer Pro, which can both be found on Zophar's Domain. I usually do the same thing, with the Red sprites. You'll need Tile Layer Pro if you want the bike sprite, but it's harder to use for beginners.

 

[Ryudonizard]

Thnkz it helped a lil but what about all the other positions of ash like 1st foot forward and second foot forward, and sideways?

 

[XD375]

The arrows under the sprite if your using PGSE, and they're with the others in TLP.

 

[RKO1125]

Suggestions?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to be posting this, but I have a question. Can anybody give me a suggestion as to what patch I should get? The only thing I want is a patch with Lucario, Munchlax, etc. I have Pokemon Orange in the English version, but not all of it is translated and the parts that are translated are translated poorly. I read that Orange has these Pokemon, but I can hardly understand it....plus the addition of fake Pokemon is pretty lame. Is there a patch where the only addition is those new Pokemon? Or a patch that even has these would be nice. (and in English of course). thanks in advance everyone.

 

[tharding6]

Anyone know how to make it in FR/LG so you get the national dex sooner?

yeah i was hoping a more advanced hacker could help me out here... i can catch all the pokemon from the other versions in my new hack. but they cant evolve because there not on the pokedex, so i need a national dex... anything you can do to help would be appreciated.. thnx

 

[SilentNinja]

The best way to find offsets

What is the best way to find Pokemon Emerald offsets for pokeroms.ini? Pokemon Emerald is missing quite a few offsets, and I can't seem to find them out there, so I'm thinking about looking for them myself. What is the best way to go about this?

 

[Liquinn]

Hmm...

Hey Guys.

It's me who is making the TEAM ROCKET G/S/C hack... I was wondering how I can do the following things: I want a reply with as much detail as possible.
1.) On some roms, I have seen extra added maps. For example. Mt. Moon has 3 maps, I found a rom with 6 maps of MT.Moon...

How can I add more maps to the place? (I.e Saffron City)?

2.) How can I edit trainers Pokemon?

3.) How can I make the main rival in G/S/C to appear and battle me in the lab? Instead od in the next city?

Thanks,

Liquinn.

 

[Green Charizard]

yeah i was hoping a more advanced hacker could help me out here... i can catch all the pokemon from the other versions in my new hack. but they cant evolve because there not on the pokedex, so i need a national dex... anything you can do to help would be appreciated.. thnx

Alot of people seem to be looking for that, although your best bet is to do as Serg!o did in his hack, add a message saying to add the code in the Visual Boy Advance cheats menu. I don't thing the flag or whatever the code is has yet been found.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to be posting this, but I have a question. Can anybody give me a suggestion as to what patch I should get? The only thing I want is a patch with Lucario, Munchlax, etc. I have Pokemon Orange in the English version, but not all of it is translated and the parts that are translated are translated poorly. I read that Orange has these Pokemon, but I can hardly understand it....plus the addition of fake Pokemon is pretty lame. Is there a patch where the only addition is those new Pokemon? Or a patch that even has these would be nice. (and in English of course). thanks in advance everyone.

I don't think there is any, Mewthree Inc. was planning to do a Lucario patch, but of course that no longer exists.

Hope I helped

 

[w_rink_ly]

ok why is it that when i try to use an item like potion or superpotion that i get from a script which i have made and inserted into the rom myself, does the game freeze? Here is the script (i don't/didn't think there is/was anything wrong with it):

#org 0x708700
copyvarifnotzero 0x8000 0x00D
copyvarifnotzero 0x8001 0x1
callstd 0x1
end

 

[doom18769]

Anyone know the offsets to put in the ini folder for PA if you want to use emerald US? I saw them on here somewhere once, but I can't seem to find them now, I have been using search for the last hour and I still can't find it, so I'm asking now. Just so we're all clear PA=Pokemon Amplifier

 

[Pazuzu]

Time to pick up some unanswered questions.
A multi quote plugin would be really helpful here. XD

I was wondering if it is possible, or if there is already a tool available, that would allow you to renumber the Pokedex in the

Advance games. I'm currently working on a Sapphire Hack, and was just curious whether this is possible or not...

Nope, there are no tools to re-arrange the Pokédex yet.
However, you can easily re-arrange them with a Hex-Editor, by searching for the list of Pokémon Values like they appear in the Pokédex. Then you

can easily arrange the numbers around to your liking.

I am making a trainer, but whenever i change the script to a trainer and compile it, it says it compiled correctly, but when

i look at the code its just:

nop
#raw 0x5B
end

No matter what i do it comes to that. and if I do try and battle it, my screen goes, not black or white, but RED!? Can someone please help me

with this.

ScriptED has problems with the trainerbattle commands, there's nothing you can do about it, but inserting the trainerbattle command by either

#raw commands, or by inserting it with a Hex-Editor.

I need one helps very great. the problem is that meti script in the emerald of give pokemon everything comes out well but in

the emerald I realized that stops to activate the MENU_PARTY in the emerald not sirbe setflag 0x800 as is? I need that aid as rapidly as

possible

The Party flag for Emerald is not &H800, but &H860, so your command has to look like this:
setflag 0x860

I attempted to read through all of this but 43 pages is to much so I'd like to know:

How do you change gym leaders Pokemon in advance map. If you can't use that or if there is a simpler way, what is it, and how do I do it.

Quite simple, you can't.
You have to use a trainer editor, like PET or TrainerBattleCustomizer XP.
You can find links to those programs in the Hacking Tools Reference in the Tools Showcase.

Now, I managed to find a pointer-calculation program for TCG, however I cannot turn offsets into pointers because I don't even

know what a pointer is.

Are there anyone who can explain it more clearly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer

A pointer simply is a string of bytes, that points to a specific offset in a ROM.
Pointers can use a different algorythm in each game.
For example, the Pokémon Advance games use the "swap algorythm", which simple swaps the first and last bytes of an offset, and adds a 08 at the

end.

123456 <-> 56341208

Euhm...

sorry, i'm kind of a n00b can you please make it more euhm.. easy :P

There is a modified German version of Xeon's Overworld Sprite Editor going around, that includes an Import/Export feature.
The export Sprites with it, open your ROM, load the Sprite of your choice, and click the "Datei->Bitmap exportieren" button.

You can download it here.

The search isn't working, so if this has already been answered somewhere, I'm sorry.

(Silver Version)Whats the easiest way to edit the Gym Leaders/E4?

The easiest way would be to use Trainer Battle Customizer, developed by Glurak.
Your can find a link to it in the Hacking Tools Reference.
However, the more efficient way would be to edit them by Hex-Editor.

Hey guys, it's good to be back here. My question was whether anyone else has the same error with the trainer editing program PET

as I do. Upon changing the Gym Leader's Pokemon's attacks in Pokemon Sapphire, the in-game version of their Pokemon have some very strange

attacks, not the ones I set. If anyone knows what is up with it, I would appreciate an assist.
BTW: I have searched the forums pretty well for this topic and my results were inconclusive at best. I was unable to obtain a sufficient amount

of information to help me.

Thanks!!!

It's been known for quite some time now that PET has problems editing attacks of Pokémon.
The safer and more efficient way to edit them would be by Hex-Editor.
A how-to has been posted in this thread.

hi, i`m new to this board, i do have some expiriance in hacking pokemon games (not much, mostly advance map etc) and i was

wondering if there are any Hacking tools for Megaman battle network?

thanks in advance

There are currently no Tools for Megaman Battle Network, other than a Hex-Editor, TLP/TM, or unLZ-GBA.

FR help:
how to change the header that appear when you walk into the map? when i use advanced map to change the header of pallet town, it changes viridian

city's. when i change viridian city's, it changes cerulean city's... also
how to change the shape of the badge? and how to change the effects of the badge? eg. when you take the 4th badge, all pokemon will obey you (as

in the last badge) something like this.
blue version help:
how to edit the maps? i can't find any good tools.

Headers: Exactly by the method you used above.
Try editing it in a different, clean, ROM and see if that error still occurs.
If so, describe your problem better.

Badge editing: Tile Layer Pro + unLZ-GBA.

Badge effects: By editing the scripts of the gym leaders and change the part when you receive the badge.
The said effects are activated by setting variables.

Blue Map editor: PokéMAP. It can be found on a site mentioned in the Hacking Tools Reference.

anyone knows how to change rules of battle in firered? like each trainer can only use 2 pokemon in a gym battle?

That is currently not possible.

Hi, i'm trying to compile a trainer script to my Ruby ROM using Scripted, but i'm having a few problems.

first problem was a RTE 6 error i had, which stopped me from compiling. But i fixed that by adding a extra 0x0 between the Trainer ID bytes and

the Battle intro pointer.
The problem now is that when i compile my script (which looks fine to me) and then assign the script to a trainer on elitemap, i approach the

trainer, who spots me and walks towards me, but then all he does is come up with a load of never ending text which looks like:

AIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAIAI, with ^'s over the top of the text.

I'm really stumped, the script looks fine to me, is there anyone who knows what could be the problem, heres the exact script:

Your script is fine. However, ScriptED has some problems with the trainerbattle command.
The best and easiest way to get around it, is to insert it with either aHex-Editor, or using the #raw commands.

How do you... (Fire Red!)

-Remove girl gender choice
-Remove hero and rival name choice (the names are set)

Both can be done by ASM hacking.
However, it is really hard to do that, also nothing about the intro routine is currently known.

I need to learn how to re-point a text which is extremely important for me.
All I need to know is that very basic and simple thing. I also have a pointer-calculation program for this.

I'm very desperate at this moment and need an immediate answer. Any attemp to help will be appreciated.

Well, we need to know the game you want to repoint texts in.

For the GBA games, a tutorial has been posted in the Documents forum.

Anyone have any tools or a place where I can get savegames for the "yellow" game? Thanks!

https://www.gamefaqs.com

iight i do apologize but someone please help before this thread is closed but i really need a ruby english tbl file and ive

searched the forums, went to the sticky about this ( i downloaded 3 files out of the message board and all of them said 0 kb and came up with

error when i tried extracting it ) and pokedrome keeps bringing up as cannot find server and thats the only place i know that has the tbl files.

Does anyone know another place to get them without these problems ^^^^^^. Plz help before you close the thread man i really need this file

.......

https://www.romhackersworld.de.vu

anyone have em? I really need them

Xeon's Overworld Sprite Editor offers support for Emerald, aswell as some neat other functions.
You should use that if you don't have the Spred offsets for Emerald.

Hello, I have a questoin regarding scripting... You know when you want to end an event you put:

#raw 53
#raw (index of event in hex)
#raw 00

into script editor (or at least that's what i do), well I think it only works with people events and not script events or signpost events and

stuff. Anyone know what to put into script editor to end events other than people?

setvar 0x[event id] 0x[value]

Event ID - Shown in the "Check label" of a trigger event in Elitemap.
Value - 2 = active ; 3 = inactive

This has been happening to me too! Did someone PM you an anwser? If so please tell me or if someone else can help.



I think I saw a list in the Documents/Tutorials. If not sorry.



If anyone can still anwser this it'd be appreciated. This actually ties in with the first quote in this.

See my answers to the several other questions mentioning these problems.

Hi, I am having a bit of trouble with a script. The part of the game in Ruby when you talk to Steven just outside of Fortree

Town and you fight the Keckleon, I need to change the script so that you fight a Bayleaf but i dont know how. I've been sucessful in changing

its cry but that's it. Here is the script:

The script is hardcoded, you can not change the Pokémon in battle.

Excuse me everybody,

Can I get some help with scripts? I believe it could be hard but I'm willing to learn. ;)

All I want to know is how can you change people's movements? I.E. Professor Oak rescueing you from the grass? If too long to explain is there a

tutorial. I've been searching for this for quite a while.

Sorry to bug you ;)

By editing the script.
If you load the Script triggers Script with ScriptED, you will see an "applymovement" command, followed by an offset.
At that offset, the movement bytes are stored. These are used to determine where a event walks on the screen.
Now, you can edit those bytes either with ScriptED, or by going to that offset in a Hex-Editor and changing the values.

I'd just like to ask a few questions concerning Pokemon Ruby ...

1. Can someone please inform me of how to start a wild pokemon battle the way it is started for (most) legendaries.

OK I know that this question (or a similar one) has been answered before, but I'm finding it difficult to find the answer, so can

someone please either repost the answer or give me directions to it. Thanks.

2. On some of the routes in Advance Map I get an error message saying:

Example:

Invalid Map-Footer Pointer...

Can someone please tell what's going on. I have added a new map and repointed more than enough

times, so maybe that has something to do with it.

3. When I go to Wild Pokemon View in Advance Map, it says "Sorry, no wild pokemon were found on this map", and it gives me the option to

create new pokemon. And I know that this is inccorrect cause the maps are routes.

NOTE: If possible, can the answers relate to Advance Map? If you wanna explain it in script though, go ahead, but can you put it in layman's

terms. Thanks.

1. Was already answered, so I'll skip it.

2. Something most likely went wrong while you inserted your new map. YOu should start from your backup copy.

3. There is the possibility that even routes do not have Wild Pokémon.
Another reason could be that either your ROM is corrupt, or that the offsets in your INI file were changed.

Hello! I'm french Héhé..!

My problem is when I use Advance Map, I modify the wild Pokémon. And when I used the old rod, I just want Pokémon at level 5 to 10 but the

Pokémon who want to battle have level 20 to 25.

How I ajust the level of Pokémon depending the Rod?
Thx!

There is no way of adjusting Pokémon and levels depending on the rod.
The theoretical reason for that is, that the game automatically picks them.

Hello all!
I don't know if this has been answered before, I've searched and not found anything on it.
I need to know how to do Headbutt in the overworld in FR/LG. Like in GSC?
Use Headbutt from the Pokemon menu, a Pokemon falls out and you battle it.

That event was no implemented in FR/LG.
And re-creating it would be too complicated and time consuming, as you would have to add a script to each of the trees you put there.

Okay, I know it's 1.5. Does anyone know where I can get it?

See the Hacking Tools Reference in the Tools Showcase.
If these sites don't offser it for download, Google is your source.

Thnkz it helped a lil but what about all the other positions of ash like 1st foot forward and second foot forward, and

sideways?

Your can edit the overworld sprites by using TLP or Tile Molester.

yeah i was hoping a more advanced hacker could help me out here... i can catch all the pokemon from the other versions in my new

hack. but they cant evolve because there not on the pokedex, so i need a national dex... anything you can do to help would be appreciated..

thnx

You have to activate the Nationaldex, by adding a command to your script.
Take a look at the script where you get the Dex, and copy the needed parts. (Like the receiving of the upgrade.)
Then insert them in your Script and modify them to your needs.

What is the best way to find Pokemon Emerald offsets for pokeroms.ini? Pokemon Emerald is missing quite a few offsets, and I

can't seem to find them out there, so I'm thinking about looking for them myself. What is the best way to go about this?

Open a supported ROM in a Hex-Editor, go the the offset of the needed data, copy a few bytes, and search those bytes in your Emerald ROM.
When you find them, just write down the offset in the INI file.

Hey Guys.

It's me who is making the TEAM ROCKET G/S/C hack... I was wondering how I can do the following things: I want a reply with as much detail as

possible.
1.) On some roms, I have seen extra added maps. For example. Mt. Moon has 3 maps, I found a rom with 6 maps of MT.Moon...

How can I add more maps to the place? (I.e Saffron City)?

2.) How can I edit trainers Pokemon?

3.) How can I make the main rival in G/S/C to appear and battle me in the lab? Instead od in the next city?

Thanks,

Liquinn.

1. By adding new Warp events, warping you to those new places. As all Mt. Moon does when you enter a ladder is Warp you to a different Warp of a

Map. (Some Maps only contain those "rooms", and are sorounded by black, so they look like different Maps for each room.)

2. Trainer Battle Customizer. Available on the sites mentioned in the Hacking Tools Reference.

3. By changing the scripts of the game.

I'm sorry if this has already been said but I didn't know how to word the search. Ok here is my problem:
When I compile the file with script ed it does not save it to the gba file which in this case is fire red, instead it makes a new gba file and

puts it on that. The only problem is that the new gba it created is seperate from the old one and it only has what i put into it on it. I don't

know if I worded this correctly. But if you understand please help me.

Here is what I mean, this is the folder for the game i'm making:

Make sure that you selected the correct file when compiling, and clicked "Yes" when it asked you to overwrite the file.
Also make sure that the correct extension has been added to the path.
It most likely created the new file because of a missing extension, and therefore, didn't overwrite the original ROM file, like it should.

ok why is it that when i try to use an item like potion or superpotion that i get from a script which i have made and inserted

into the rom myself, does the game freeze? Here is the script (i don't/didn't think there is/was anything wrong with it):

#org 0x708700
copyvarifnotzero 0x8000 0x00D
copyvarifnotzero 0x8001 0x1
callstd 0x1
end

The value for Super Potion is 0x16, so your script has to look like this:

#org 0x708700
copyvarifnotzero 0x8000 0x16
copyvarifnotzero 0x8001 0x1
callstd 0x1
end

I tested it and it works fine.

 

[w_rink_ly]

The value for Super Potion is 0x16, so your script has to look like this:

#org 0x708700
copyvarifnotzero 0x8000 0x16
copyvarifnotzero 0x8001 0x1
callstd 0x1
end

I tested it and it works fine.

Thank you for your answers to my other two questions (especially the event ending one). Regarding the third question, I know that 0x16 is superpotion as 0xD is potion, but my problem is that regardless of potion or super potion, i cannot use the item. When i press "A" next to the pokeball item i obtain it without a problem, but when i go to the item menu and try to heal one of my pokemon with the obtained item, the game freezes. Perhaps this has made my problem more clear now... A solution would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cy-Chan]

How do I repoint in Gold/Silver? I can change the location a bit... but without changing the address (which I can't do without repointing all the events on the map), I can't figure out a way to get to a place in the rom with blank space (000000...).

Can anyone tell me what I need to do?

Also, in Gold/Silver again, how do you change what items you get from berry trees?

 

[Pazuzu]

Thank you for your answers to my other two questions (especially the event ending one). Regarding the third question, I know that 0x16 is superpotion as 0xD is potion, but my problem is that regardless of potion or super potion, i cannot use the item. When i press "A" next to the pokeball item i obtain it without a problem, but when i go to the item menu and try to heal one of my pokemon with the obtained item, the game freezes. Perhaps this has made my problem more clear now... A solution would be greatly appreciated.

There is an error in your ROM then, I just tried it and it is working fine for me.
You should go back to a working backup copy and continue editing from there.

How do I repoint in Gold/Silver? I can change the location a bit... but without changing the address (which I can't do without repointing all the events on the map), I can't figure out a way to get to a place in the rom with blank space (000000...).

Can anyone tell me what I need to do?

Also, in Gold/Silver again, how do you change what items you get from berry trees?

You can repoint data in G/S/C the same way as in R/S.
Download *image removed*, calculate the pointer for the old offset and new offset, search the old pointer in the ROM with a Hex-Editor, and replace it with the new one.
That simple.
To get to blank space, simply search for aplace with lots of 00-bytes with your Hex-Editor, and write down the offset.

To change the items you get from Berry trees, you have to edit the Script of the specific tree, and change the current Item value to the value of the new item you want to place in it.

 

[Dragon Leader-Shadow]

Help with elitemap

First I don't know if this is allowed but can I atleast get one quiestion answered then you can close this

In Elitemap, under the toolbelt, everything (except the ScriptEd) is the non-clickable faded grey color how do i make them work so I can use them?

 

[Cy-Chan]

You can repoint data in G/S/C the same way as in R/S.
Download *image removed*, calculate the pointer for the old offset and new offset, search the old pointer in the ROM with a Hex-Editor, and replace it with the new one.
That simple.
To get to blank space, simply search for aplace with lots of 00-bytes with your Hex-Editor, and write down the offset.

To change the items you get from Berry trees, you have to edit the Script of the specific tree, and change the current Item value to the value of the new item you want to place in it.

Thanks, that does help... but one more thing. Is there anyway to locate scripts within the hex?

 

[Hiroki]

G/S Hacking Questions:

1. How do I change the player sprite?
2. How do I put my custom overworld sprite in the game?
3. How do I put my in-game battle sprite in the game?
4. What tool do I use to edit the person in the opening? (The whole Pokemon opening where you enter your name etc.)
5. When I open Trianer battle cutomizer, i get an error as soon as it loads. What's wrong here?
6. When I use PokeText to edit text, it doesn't end up in the rom.

 

[w_rink_ly]

There is an error in your ROM then, I just tried it and it is working fine for me.
You should go back to a working backup copy and continue editing from there.

I did precisely that and have found a backup version of my hack without this irritating error. Thanks for the help.