Expanding the Pokédex into Emerald

[Artemis64]

Thanks a lot for that info. My expanded Pokémon don't seem to have that issue, did you repoint the animation timing table at 309AAC? After repointing the table, you need to change the pointer to a different one. For instance, use Swalot's-the Pokémon only changes frame this way: Frame 0->Frame 1 (hold)->Frame 0.

 

[PurpleOrange]

Thanks a lot for that info. My expanded Pokémon don't seem to have that issue, did you repoint the animation timing table at 309AAC? After repointing the table, you need to change the pointer to a different one. For instance, use Swalot's-the Pokémon only changes frame this way: Frame 0->Frame 1 (hold)->Frame 0.

found something interesting, you actually need to repoint 0x674 (1652) bytes at x309AAC, this seems to account for the egg animation. (what are the following 0x6C (108) bytes after that though? they seem to be animation pointers but don't actually seem to effect anything ~_~)

so at the end of the table is this

C4 99 30 08 CC 90 30 08

C4 99 30 08 is used for Chimecho so it must be included in the reopint

CC 99 30 08 seems to be used for the egg animation (although changing it to a different animation pointer doesn't seem to change anything, but making it a random pointer resets the game when viewing the eggs summary screen)

Does that mean there's some sort of limiter somewhere that needs to be altered so that the expanded mon can all have different pointers?

 

[Artemis64]

found something interesting, you actually need to repoint 0x674 (1652) bytes at x309AAC, this seems to account for the egg animation. (what are the following 0x6C (108) bytes after that though? they seem to be animation pointers but don't actually seem to effect anything ~_~)

so at the end of the table is this

C4 99 30 08 CC 90 30 08

C4 99 30 08 doesn't seem to be used for any other pokemon, however it seems to be used with all the expanded mon, so changing it to swalots animation would make all expanded mon use swalots animation regardless. (which fixes my problem but only by fluke)

CC 99 30 08 seems to be used for the egg animation (although changing it to a different animation pointer doesn't seem to change anything, but making it a random pointer resets the game when viewing the eggs summary screen)

Does that mean there's some sort of limiter somewhere that needs to be altered so that the expanded mon can all have different pointers?

Well, I haven't had any problems whatsoever with the animation timing table, and the extra 0x6C bytes seem to be for the Alt-Unowns. Try my version of the table instead:

Spoiler:

BC 8C 30 08 C4 8C 30 08 CC 8C 30 08 D4 8C 30 08 DC 8C 30 08 E4 8C 30 08 EC 8C 30 08 F4 8C 30 08 FC 8C 30 08 04 8D 30 08 0C 8D 30 08 14 8D 30 08 1C 8D 30 08 24 8D 30 08 2C 8D 30 08 34 8D 30 08 3C 8D 30 08 44 8D 30 08 4C 8D 30 08 54 8D 30 08 5C 8D 30 08 BC 8C 30 08 6C 8D 30 08 74 8D 30 08 7C 8D 30 08 84 8D 30 08 90 96 30 08 40 98 30 08 A8 8D 30 08 B4 8D 30 08 BC 8D 30 08 C4 8D 30 08 CC 8D 30 08 D4 8D 30 08 DC 8D 30 08 E4 8D 30 08 EC 8D 30 08 F4 8D 30 08 00 8E 30 08 0C 8E 30 08 18 8E 30 08 24 8E 30 08 2C 8E 30 08 34 8E 30 08 3C 8E 30 08 44 8E 30 08 4C 8E 30 08 54 8E 30 08 5C 8E 30 08 64 8E 30 08 6C 8E 30 08 74 8E 30 08 7C 8E 30 08 84 8E 30 08 8C 8E 30 08 98 8E 30 08 A4 8E 30 08 AC 8E 30 08 B4 8E 30 08 BC 8E 30 08 C4 8E 30 08 CC 8E 30 08 D4 8E 30 08 DC 8E 30 08 E4 8E 30 08 EC 8E 30 08 40 98 30 08 FC 8E 30 08 48 95 30 08 0C 8F 30 08 14 8F 30 08 1C 8F 30 08 24 8F 30 08 2C 8F 30 08 34 8F 30 08 3C 8F 30 08 44 8F 30 08 4C 8F 30 08 54 8F 30 08 5C 8F 30 08 64 8F 30 08 6C 8F 30 08 74 8F 30 08 7C 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As you can see, it works perfecly fine after I repoint all the tables. It could be that you might not have followed Chaos Rush's tutorial properly and dealt with all the limiters.

 

[manofchess5]

Greetings,
I am making a hack and I am trying to add pokemon from every gen according to the tutorial by Chaos Dragon, but this is my first time working on a hex editor so I don't understand much. Can someone help me out? I appreciate any help. Thank you.

 

[Fun Size]

Greetings,
I am making a hack and I am trying to add pokemon from every gen according to the tutorial by Chaos Dragon, but this is my first time working on a hex editor so I don't understand much. Can someone help me out? I appreciate any help. Thank you.

Well here's a tutorial to help you understand how to work with one:
http://mail.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=329049&highlight=let's+talk+hex

 

[PurpleOrange]

As you can see, it works perfecly fine after I repoint all the tables. It could be that you might not have followed Chaos Rush's tutorial properly and dealt with all the limiters.

nope, even using your table all the new animations use C4993008 (which turns out is used for chimecho), i've checked all my limiters and they're fine. so even if i extend the table, all the new mons always use chimecho's frame control pointer regardless of what the new table says

 

[Xencleamas]

regarding the animations, there seems to be a table at 0x329B87, this seems to control how much time passes before it plays the pokemon animation on the summary screen.

Also it switches between the frames too many times on the summary screen for the expanded mon, i've tried finding out why, but i haven't been able to come up with anything

So, I've been doing testing on my expanded animations, and there appears to be some sort of limiter causing some of the Pokémon's animation timings (see Step 3) in certain slots to bug out and use a completely wrong animation timing (while some do use Chimecho's, others don't). It doesn't seem to affect certain Pokémon in certain slots, which I haven't confirmed yet.
So, since I have very little knowledge of ASM and finding limiters, I am just posting a request to the ASM/limiter maestros out there: can somebody help me find the limiter (or whatever it is) that is causing this bug?
Edit: Here's some extra info: after some additional testing, it's obvious that the pointers after 0x6E0 bytes are being ignored- i.e. there is a limiter blocking the loading of those pointers. So, can someone help me find the limiter, or can someone who understands these things explain to me how the limiters work (e.g. why 07 E0 at 0x346D6?)

I'm pretty sure that the switching frames motion has also something to do on the 2 bytes at the 0x4-0x5 area (or after the pointer) of the Normal Palette Data and the Shiny Palette Data:

Normal Palette Data (per slot):
E0 0B C0 08 "00 00" 00 00

Shiny Palette Data (per slot):
F8 0B C0 08 "F4 01" 00 00

Recognize those? They have purposes though. Again those parts have something to do on the switching frames motion (such as Beautifly's motion). I don't know how it works but this needs a further research. Noted that the normal only having 0x000 to 0x1B7 while the shiny only having 0x1F4 to 0x3AB (shiny starts are 0x1F4. I dunno if it can be moved or expandable). Good thing that each digit can be repeated again even if you apply those on expanded Pokemon. I set 0x124 (Beautifly's motion) on Hydreigon's normal while I also set 0x318 on its shiny. What it looks like that Hydreigon's motion switches the frames rapidly three times (overview of Beautifly's motion).

 

[Artemis64]

I'm not sure if this has been posted somewhere else, but...
To those people who want to expand the number of Pokémon on Emerald while retaining the animations:
Step 1:

Spoiler:

You need to repoint the table that indexes all of the Pokémon front sprite animations. Open up a hex editor, go to 3299EC, copy 0x1B8 or 411 bytes of data into free space. You need to add as many 00s as there are new Pokémon after the end of the table. Repoint the table to your new location. There should be 4 pointers to repoint.

Step 2:

Spoiler:

Next, you need to repoint the table that indexes all of the Pokémon back sprite animations. Go to 60A8C8, copy 0x1B8 bytes into free space, then add the 00s again. Repoint the table. There should only be one pointer at 17F488

Step 3:

Spoiler:

Now, you need to repoint the table that controls the timing of the Pokémon frame switching. Go to 309AAC, select 0x6E0 bytes of data, and then copy into free space. Repoint it, there should be 5 pointers to the table. Now, how the table works is that it has pointers to certain strings of data that control the timing. Thus, we need to add pointers to the end to prevent glitches. The timing parameters that you should use vary between Pokémon and different versions of said Pokémon's sprite. For instance, Swalot's timing pointer is well-used for jumping frames and so on. Since there is no known index for the timing, the method I use is to observe different Pokémon animations in Emerald then choose from there. Also, when you repoint the normal palette table (the one at 0x303678), you have to index every palette properly. What I mean by this is that, for every entry of a Pokémon's palette:
70 6E C3 08 0B 00 00 00
You have to add 0x1 and write the bolded bytes in little endian form, as the front sprite animation routine uses this to determine which front sprite switching offset is to be used.
So for example, for Pokémon 0x1E9 (#489):
XX YY ZZ 08 E9 01 00 00
where ZZ YY XX is the offset where the palette is stored.
Credits to PurpleOrange for spotting the bug and Sky High for fixing it.

Step 4:

Spoiler:

So, there is one final table we need to repoint. This table controls the amount of time that passes before the animation of the Pokémon is executed (thanks PurpleOrange). Go to 329B87, select 0x1B8 bytes of data (one for every Pokémon), then copy into free space. Now add as many 00s on the end as there are Pokémon. You can change this later to a higher number to delay the amount of time before the animation takes place. Repoint the table, there should be 2 pointers to it.

Step 5:

Spoiler:

Finally, the limiters. In your hex editor, go to 0x34BFE and overwrite it with 07 E0 (for the sprites), and then go to 0xA5FEE and overwrite that with 03 E0. That's it!

For the front sprite and back sprite animations index, Chaos Rush has an excellent index here on Pokécommunity. Now the only issue will be the creation of 2-frame sprites for Gen IV to Gen VI. Personally, knowing that Flora Sky has sprites for Gen IV to Gen V, I think that if Sky were to let us use and resize his sprites we could come up with a pretty good repository soon. Another method would be to use the Sugimori palettes DS-style sprite repository that MrDollSteak has come up with, which covers Gen I to V.

 

[Xencleamas]

Hope the first post will gonna be updated soon adding stuff that people were helping to improve the expansion. :/

 

[Chaos Rush]

Hope the first post will gonna be updated soon adding stuff that people were helping to improve the expansion. :/

Ask a mod to transfer thread ownership. I don't ROM hack anymore and it would be more sensible for an actual ROM hacker to maintain the thread.

 

[Xencleamas]

Ask a mod to transfer thread ownership. I don't ROM hack anymore and it would be more sensible for an actual ROM hacker to maintain the thread.

All right. I'd like to handle this thread to update stuff and all 'cause people keep asking about help to me and since I've gotten the expansion clear. Gonna ask a mod.

 

[Spherical Ice]

All right. I'd like to handle this thread to update stuff and all 'cause people keep asking about help to me and since I've gotten the expansion clear. Gonna ask a mod.

There you go, ownership transferred.

 

[Xencleamas]

There you go, ownership transferred.

Thanks! Alright! As the new owner, I'm going to oh and actually now rewrite the tutorial in a clean and clearer way and of course including the improvements, fixes, optional tutorials done by people around (such as Artemis64's animation expansion and Purple Orange's Held Item fix).

 

[kleenexfeu]

Do you think you could provide a patch for the change that are tedious and always the same ? I think about step 8, 9 and 10 among other, because right now no tool supports the extension.
And thanks to take over the thread

 

[Joexv]

Do you think you could provide a patch for the change that are tedious and always the same ? I think about step 8, 9 and 10 among other, because right now no tool supports the extension.
And thanks to take over the thread

I can make a tool to do that, probably wont do the full expansion, but it may help out quite a bit.

 

[Xencleamas]

Do you think you could provide a patch for the change that are tedious and always the same ? I think about step 8, 9 and 10 among other, because right now no tool supports the extension.
And thanks to take over the thread

Sure, I will also provide patches for those parts for those who are kinda bit lazy... like me LOL.

I'm still rewriting the tutorial. I have to look back on how one certain thing works (like aux cry) to include notes about it of course. It will take a couple of days so, bear with it.

 

[Chaos Rush]

Sure, I will also provide patches for those parts for those who are kinda bit lazy... like me LOL.

I'm still rewriting the tutorial. I have to look back on how one certain thing works (like aux cry) to include notes about it of course. It will take a couple of days so, bear with it.

Also, if it helps, the "fix this one glitch" step in the tutorial deals with a glitch where Ivysaur would appear where Luxray (I think) was supposed to be in the dex. Had something to do with some missing RAM calculation offset. Apologies for not mentioning that in the tutorial.

 

[Xencleamas]

Also, if it helps, the "fix this one glitch" step in the tutorial deals with a glitch where Ivysaur would appear where Luxray (I think) was supposed to be in the dex. Had something to do with some missing RAM calculation offset. Apologies for not mentioning that in the tutorial.

Added that on that part.

Alright! I have done rewriting the tutorial in a clearer and cleaner way. If not, free to judge me.

 

[kleenexfeu]

Well done Sky! One more thing : it would be better to precise that you've done a patch for step 8, 9, 10 before rather than after them, it's the whole point of this patch

 

[MarinoKadame]

I got a question not really related to the pokedex expansion. Is there a way to expand the amount of abilities of a pokemon ?

Some pokemons now got 3 abilities since the hidden ability update, for example Clefairy has Cute Charm and Magic Guard for his 2 normal abilities and has Friend Guard as it's Hidden Ability, it's pretty much the only thing left I require.