Diamond/Pearl/Platinum hacking

[opearn]

I Found PokeText!!!!
its to edit the games messages!
attaching now

 

[SCV]

??? Arceus

I Found PokeText!!!!
its to edit the games messages!
attaching now

Yes I used that and the information on the event file structures to make this rom: I did not make the video, just gave fenzo a patch.

no i don't mind telling you SCV i'm makeing a modle and texture list for diamond, and i alrready checed out the thread before. any way thanks for the idea i might use it, but i was thinking of makeing some people say some thing different and then walk you around

It cool that you are making those lists it will be a good contribution. As to the walking you around, we can't do that with scripting yet, that I know of. As far as I know the actual structure of the script files has not been figured out. So we can't insert things, like I did with the event file for the Hall Of Origin for the video above, without causing the game to crash.

 

[loadingNOW]

first someone has tio figure out how
map<->event<->script<->textfile
are linked


once that is known the script files should not really be a big deal (besides the fact that there are a lot of commands)

 

[SCV]

first someone has tio figure out how
map<->event<->script<->textfile
are linked


once that is known the script files should not really be a big deal (besides the fact that there are a lot of commands)

Do you mean how they are figured out by the game? Or would a list made by "brute force" be fine.

I have a list for DP of Location <-> Event and put notes that would allow me to make a Location <-> Map <-> Event list.

The way I made it was by going through each event file and guiding myself off of what overworld sprites the event file said were in that place. Also event files are order corresponds very closely to the map order. This also helped, as I was able to use pokesav's Map/coordinate editing and coordinates from the event file to work my way through all of Sinnoh and even find places that I had never been to in the game. Some that did not make it into the game. (Like 3rd and 4th floors of some houses, in one you even get an item from a person laying in a bed.) There seem to be alot more script files but I saw that most of them are pretty empty. For the entries that I have now for Location <-> Script the order is the same as for the Event case. Except the numbers are different because there are so many empty files in between.

I am working on Location <-> Script, thanks to the script handler offset.

Right now I have more entries for the Platinum Location <-> Script, than DP. But I am going back to DP now.

I am not sure if you had this info before. But this morning I identified the structure of the script files. Now its just a matter of looking at individual scripts to try to figure out commands.

So now a video like what Potatomuffin wanted to make is almost possible. (I also have all the necessary movement commands). The telling you something different could be a problem. I have not figured out how to change what people say by linking to a different message. However, I did find out how to edit who said something. Like making the hero or assistant say "What's going on" when you enter lake verity for the first time (instead of the rival saying it).

I am thinking of writing a program that would make it easier for us to play around with editing script files to find out what the commands are. Right now its a hassle to have to repoint everything that need to be repointed withing the script. Then the narc file. I build a small program based on your narcreader class to insert files into any narc. But its very sloppy. I just did it because I wanted to insert something into a script, yesterday. Since I did not know the structure and did not repoint the appropriate things the game crashed. Now I can make a program to repoint within script files. But then we have to use three different programs just to insert something into a script.

 

[loadingNOW]

as a start normal lists would be fine as a start i assume (although you want to be able to change that sometime in the future & collecting data like that is not my cup of tea, i blame my short attention span ;))

Textfile<->Script would also help a LOT since script references help.

For narc reading/writing I use this python class nowdays (basicly ever since i switched to physton for most of my prototyping stuff) it's also the one used in newpoketext

from struct import *
from array import *

class BTAF:
    def __init__(self, rawdata):
        if len(rawdata)>0:           
            self.magic = rawdata[:4]
            self.header = unpack("II", rawdata[4:12])
            if self.magic != "BTAF":
                raise NameError, "BTAF tag not found"
        else:
            self.magic = "BTAF"
            self.header = (12, 0)
            
        self.table = []
        rawdata=rawdata[12:]
        if len(rawdata)>0:
            for i in range(self.getEntryNum()):            
                self.table.append(unpack("II", rawdata[i*8:i*8+8]))      
    def getSize(self):
        return self.header[0]
    def getEntryNum(self):
        return self.header[1]
    def ToFile(self, f, t):
        f.write(self.magic)
        f.write(pack("II", self.header[0],self.header[1]))
        
        for pair in t:            
            f.write(pack("II", pair[0], pair[1]))
    def addFile(self):
        s, e=self.header
        s += 8
        e += 1
        self.header=s, e
        
               
    
 
    
    
class BTNF:
    def __init__(self, rawdata):
        if len(rawdata)>0:
            self.magic = rawdata[:4]
            self.header = unpack("IIHH", rawdata[4:0x10])
            if self.magic != "BTNF":
                raise NameError, "BTNF tag not found"
        else:
            self.magic = "BTNF"
            self.header = (16, 4, 0, 1)
    def ToFile(self, f):
        f.write(self.magic)
        f.write(pack("IIHH", self.header[0],self.header[1],self.header[2],self.header[3]))          
        

 
class GMIF:
    def __init__(self, rawdata, t):
        if len(rawdata)>0:
            self.magic = rawdata[:4]
            self.size = unpack("I", rawdata[4:8])[0]
            if self.magic != "GMIF":
                raise NameError, "GMIF tag not found"         
        else:
            self.magic = "GMIF"
            self.size = 8

        self.files = []
        for ofs in t:
            self.files.append(rawdata[8+ofs[0]:8+ofs[1]])
            
    def appendFile(raw):
        data += raw
        self.header.size += len(raw)
    def ToFile(self, f):
        f.write(self.magic)
        f.write(pack("I", self.size))
        for d in self.files:
            f.write(d)            
    def addFile(self, data, size):
        self.files.append(data)
        self.size += size        
    def buildIndex(self):
        index = []
        c = 0
        for f in self.files:
            l = len(f)
            index.append((c, c+l))
            c=c+l
        return index
    
    
        

class NARC:
    def __init__(self, rawdata):


        if len(rawdata)>0:
            self.magic = rawdata[:4]
            if self.magic != "NARC":
                raise NameError, "NARC tag not found"
            self.header = unpack("IIHH", rawdata[4:16])
        else:
            self.magic = "NARC"
            self.header = (0x0100FFFE, 0x10+12+8 + 0x10, 0x10, 3)

            
        rawdata= rawdata[16:]
        self.btaf = BTAF(rawdata)
        rawdata= rawdata[self.btaf.getSize():]
        self.btnf = BTNF(rawdata)
        rawdata= rawdata[self.btnf.header[0]:]
        #print rawdata[:10]
        self.gmif = GMIF(rawdata, self.btaf.table)

    def ToFile(self, f):
        f.write(self.magic)
        f.write(pack("IIHH", self.header[0],self.header[1],self.header[2],self.header[3]))
        self.btaf.ToFile(f, self.gmif.buildIndex())
        self.btnf.ToFile(f)
        self.gmif.ToFile(f)
    def addFile(self, s):
        size = len(s)
        mark, narcsz, hdrsize, sect = self.header
        narcsz += (size + 8)
        self.header = (mark, narcsz, hdrsize, sect)
        self.btaf.addFile()
        self.gmif.addFile(s, size)
    def replaceFile(self, index, s):
        newmold = len(s) - len(self.gmif.files[index])
        mark, narcsz, hdrsize, sect = self.header
        narcsz += (newmold)
        self.header = (mark, narcsz, hdrsize, sect)
        self.gmif.size += (newmold)
        self.gmif.files[index] = s

 

[Potatomuffin]

Wow this is amazeing,SCV! great job! can you give us those programs?

 

[SCV]

Wow this is amazeing,SCV! great job! can you give us those programs?

Well the one that will make it easier to edit scripts and other stuff has yet to be started. It was in its planning stage, but now I think I am ready to begin writing it. However, I just started school again, so progress in finishing the program might be slow.

I am trying to recruit people to help me study scripts and events (check my signature). I posted a link to a zip file with useful programs, more will be added later. Those programs include Tahaxan Tihaxa by Arcnor, NDS Editor by kiwi.ds, NitroExplorer2 by Treeki and a small program PPNFR, which I made based on what I use in my trainer editor (based on some codes by loadingNOW, me and HackMew) to allow one to reinsert files into a narc files. This is how I was able to insert the pokeball behind arceus into the event narc. You can download that program there. and eventually I will add the link to my sig as well (probably once I get home tonight). Unfortunately, I have no idea when the other one will be done.

When I get some time this week I will publish some information on the structure of the script files for everyone to play around with. But there won't be a program to repoint within script files yet. I will explain what should be done later.

I am also getting some help on making the list of event files that I have presentable enough to be posted and I will post it once it is available. In the mean time I posted some of the list in the thread that is in my sig.

EDIT: I have written a first article on scripts I will post it here as well.

Spoiler:

Scripts are located in \fielddata\script\scr_seq_release.narc

Very little is know about script files. But recently I figured out the general structure.

The first thing to know about script files is that they are store individual scripts. These can be scripts corresponding to things that happen in a particular location or sometimes for things the same type of things but happen in many places. For example, there is one script file which is called whenever a trainer battle is called, no matter where the trainer battle happens. Another script file contains all the scripts for the items that you get from pokeballs on the ground. In the example above with a trainer battle the script is linked by way of the B9 0B. Those two bytes link to the script. For other person events it might have 01 00 or low values such as that. That refers to what script they use from within the script file for that location.


I will give an example, the following is the beginning of script file number 342, it corresponds to lake verity, first visit.

1A000000 46000000 63000000 50060000
7F060000 BA060000 B8060000 13FD 4D01
0040 1100 0040 0000 1C00 010F 0000 0011

The first part of a script file consists of offsets to the scripts that the script file contains. For example, the 1A000000, says that starting from the end of those 4 bytes go 0x0000001A bytes to find the first script. That takes you to the part I bolded. As you will notice if you look at alot of script files. The first 4 bytes always point you to the place right after 13FD. 13FD represents the end of the first part. However this mechanism of linking is also used within scripts, more on that later.

Now the 46000000 tells you that the second script starts at offset 0x8+0x46 in the file.

One of the commands that I have been able to identify is the movement command.

it is the following:

005E AAAA BBBB, Move person AAAA acording to movement at BBBB + offset AAAA=FF00 for hero. (I have not tested whether its BBBBBBBB or just BBBB).

An example from the game is:

5E00 0500 91040000 5E00 FF00 41050000 5F00

The AAAA is the person event ID. The BBBB and offset used like in the first part. What it links to is the movement commands.

They look like this:
0D00 0100 0E00 0100 0D00 0300 0E00 0100 0D00 0600 4500 0100 FE00 0000

Each 4 bytes describe a movement. The first two bytes are the type and the second two are the repetition or waiting. FE00 is the command for end movement. Basically you can keep adding on movement commands to make what ever movement you want, and you end it with FE00.

Movement for more than one person or thing is done adding the movement command for the next person after the previous one. You tell the game that no more simultaneous movements are to be carried out by the game.

Here is the zip I mentioned earlier: https://rapidshare.com/files/179900486/ROMHackingTools.zip and I also added a link to it in my signature.

With the information above about movements and linking, and using PPNFR, you can insert movement sequences into a script by editing the script file and replacing the file you edited with PPNFR then reinserting the narc with NitroExplorer2.

 

[Sceptile Leaf]

How can I change the text entry in Pokemon Platinum?

I want too much change the text entry (where we edit Player's name in Pokemon Platinum) I'll put the sprite text entry in English.
Please Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Potatomuffin]

Hey guys, i'm almost fished with that model list. it turns out i may even make a model editor.also lots of the modles are weird red square thingys.i'll probabaally finish the list tommorow.
and septile leaf, there is already a english key board in the text entery.
also my next vid will be comeing out some time soon.

 

[loadingNOW]

okay so yes i decided to finally relase an official version of thenewpoketext
https://pokeguide.filb.de/dl/thenewpoketext.zip
if you already know the experimental version not much has changed since then
a source relase will also happen but now the bad news i am not going to make a gui version.

 

[D-Trogh]

Ah, finally everyone can enjoy 'thenewpoketext' :)
Very nice loadingNOW!
About the GUI; I don't think it really needs one.. oh well, I don't need one anyway.
Someone else can make one if he/she really wants one :P

 

[sabrina-psychic]

Ok I don't know if this has been resolved or not but I am not sifting through 60+ threads looking for the answer. Could someone tell me if you can use POKETEX to change the main character to a different sprite. Like could I play as a psychic (mystery in poketex) instead of the two main characters they give you. Also, on the listus there's only a male psychic where's the female one? Is it also possible to use sprites from FireRed in Diamond and Pearl? And one last thing...how do I transfer all of these changes to a Nintendo DS Lite? Thanks a million!!!!!!!!

 

[EvilCrazyMonkey]

Please, at least from now on, start reading threads.
I'll still answer the questions, though.

Ok I don't know if this has been resolved or not but I am not sifting through 60+ threads looking for the answer. Could someone tell me if you can use POKETEX to change the main character to a different sprite.

You can.

Like could I play as a psychic (mystery in poketex) instead of the two main characters they give you.

Well, you can change it to whatever, so I suppose.

Also, on the listus there's only a male psychic where's the female one?

I don't know. I haven't used Pokétex; I know how it works, though.

Is it also possible to use sprites from FireRed in Diamond and Pearl?

Pokémon sprites or overworld sprites?
It's possible to use Pokétex for the overworlds; I do not know how to change the Pokémon sprites (I'm quite sure it's possible, though).

And one last thing...how do I transfer all of these changes to a Nintendo DS Lite? Thanks a million!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure of the details (as I haven't done it), but I know you need a flash cartridge. I think you can get them on eBay or something.

 

[sabrina-psychic]

very much appreciated!! THANX

So how would I go about designating the psychic sprite as my main character?

 

[Sceptile Leaf]

But, Potatomuffin, I know, but Don't have to put the name selection box in English like Pokemon Diamond and Pearl English? I don't like name selection box in Japanese, because the player's name is BIG!

But Potatomuffin, I want to put the name selection in English like Pokemon DP English.
Because the player's name is BIG!

and in thenewpoketex, there is a file called patchedintro.xml for what is this file?

Please Help Me!

 

[SCV]

and in thenewpoketex, there is a file called patchedintro.xml for what is this file?

Please Help Me!

You use patchedintro.xml to make thenewpoketext give you a new intro.
Consider it special message from loadingNOW, ;).

 

[Sceptile Leaf]

How can I use thenewpoketex? I never used PokeTex!
Anybody can teach me?

 

[D-Trogh]

How can I use thenewpoketex? I never used PokeTex!
Anybody can teach me?

It's POKETEXT.. It edits TEXT..
Read the ReadMe and the "Help" in the program..

 

[Sceptile Leaf]

But in thenewpoketext don't have the option Help and when I open the program, open the command prompt. Help

 

[SCV]

But in thenewpoketext don't have the option Help and when I open the program, open the command prompt. Help

When you get to the command prompt press "h", then enter.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Well I have finished a first script editor (As part of PPRE). Its mainly a research tool. I basically made it so that its easier for me to identify commands for DPP scripting. But I am releasing it publicly for everyone to play around with.

Here is a video where I inserted some new commands to the script sequence and added new text with newpoketext. Its very minor and more complicated things can be done but they are a bit tedious right now because PPRE does not automatically repoint some things that need to be repointed within the individual script files (i.e., pointers to movement commands)




For PPRE, DO NOT go through the combo boxes on the left or right too fast, this will cause the program to crash. (EDIT: Actually this is an unhanded exception that I don't know how to fix yet. Just press continue and choose something else.)

here is a list of a few script numbers (by pichu2000, damio):
02 Jubilife city
342 Lake Verity
392 Route 201
978 Twinleaf Town
981 Hiro's House 1 floor
982 Hiro's Room
984 Sandgem Town

Look for those numbers on the left. On the right are the individual scripts for that location/script file.
Once we have a more complete script file list I will add it to PPRE.
Also this is to be a DPP Rom editing program but as it is mainly a research tool I am only supporting US DP for now. The research will mostly be the same, so there's no need to worry about adding Platinum support now. I will add platinum support for a particular feature once that feature is out of the research stages.