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[Other] Battle Textbox Palette

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    Hiya, PokeCommunity~
    I've been trying to change the colors of the battle textbox in Pokemon Ruby:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Battle Textbox Palette


    I've already messed with 00D004E5 in APE, but all I could manage to change was the color of the literal text itself:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Battle Textbox Palette


    So my question: Does anyone know how I can change the battle textbox's colors as a whole?
     
    Go to a battle screen in VBA, load up the palette viewer, click on the first colour from that palette's row. If the value is something like 0x1234, write it down on notepad as 34 12. Repeat this for four or five of those squares along the row. Copy the string you have in Notepad and search for it in a hex editor with your ROM loaded. The offset it takes you to is the offset of the palette. Take note of the exact offset of the first value and load your ROM in APE, click "Load from offset" and enter that offset into the offset field, click search, and then edit away.
     
    All right, everything worked out great!
    Thanks for the info~

    Ehem, I know this is a double post, but I would rather have this seperated from my other post. If the mods want these merged, by all means go ahead.

    So here is what I have so far:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Battle Textbox Palette


    I've been playing around for about an hour, just trying to find where the rest of the palette data is located, but I can't find it anywhere. I just need to know where the palette data for the white background and the normal dark-grey text is located in the ROM. Does anybody know the offset(s) where this data is?
     
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    Yeah, I found that one and searched for it in APE. I did find it, but I figured out that that indeed is the text palette. However, it seems that the text that appears in battles is in a different palette than the text that appears in talking boxes, even though the text color is the same.

    Here's the palette that I think I'm looking for:

    [PokeCommunity.com] Battle Textbox Palette


    (It's the four colors to the mid-right - extremely light blue, dark-grey, white, and light-grey).
    I tried to search for these colors in HxD, but I couldn't find them. They're not (by my findings) located right next to each other in the ROM. I dunno if maybe I'm just messing something up, but I'm pretty sure this is the correct palette. The blue shows when you switch the position of your moves during battle, the dark-grey is the regular color of the text, the white is the text background, and the light-grey is the shadow of the text.

    EDIT: I just wanted to say that I figured out that editing the battle text (fight, items, etc) would mess with the rest of the game's messages, so I've decided to just recolor what is necessary. It looks great, so thank you for all of your help!
     
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