Hacking the Diploma Screen [FR]

Spherical Ice · Sep 7, 2013

Would it be within the realm of possibility to do this using 256 colours? I don't think it would be, but it'd be interesting to see.

poke529 · Dec 24, 2013

I don't know if it's just me, but could you possibly upload the firered tbl again? Sendspace said Sorry, the file you requested is not available.

Spherical Ice · Feb 1, 2014

poke529 said:
I don't know if it's just me, but could you possibly upload the firered tbl again? Sendspace said Sorry, the file you requested is not available.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4xckrkpf4g6fax8/table.tbl

TheZoroark007 · Oct 9, 2015

Is there a way to use a 256 color palette on the expanded diploma screens?
(I know that there is this : https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/299559 ) but since he never released the source code, I think it can't be used now?
Also (While tryingb to insert the 255 diploma hack), How can I got to Offsets like 0x080F4FC8? The Hexeditor says: Cannot find position!
If I only use 0x080F4FC , the other hex string I have to insert at 0x080F4FE(E) will overwrite parts of the previous!
Edit: I now inserted them at 0x08F4FC and so on but if I now start the script, the screen goes black and the sound gets strange...Then nothing but this happens!

TheZoroark007 · Oct 21, 2015

Can someone please explain me in Detail how I can use the extended diploma screens ? I know that there is another way ( https://www.pokecommunity.com/posts/8961009/ ), but I can?t get that to work too...

Pokemon_XY · Oct 27, 2015

Spherical Ice said:
Hacking the Diploma Screen

I think you should do these byte changes:

Code:

0xF4CE4 - 05 E0

Otherwise it should load the right part of the tilemap if you've completed the National Pokedex. (not tested)

Lance32497 · Nov 27, 2015

Haru~ said:
Well it took me about 2 hours or so doing this and trying to perfect it.

So here it is! The thingy in the spoiler are routines that allow you to have up to 255 diplomas. That's enough maybe even too much in a hack!
Instructions are included in the spoiler.

Spoiler:

I'LL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING AT THE BOTTOM :)

I decided to keep the old special and diploma intact. So this is going to be some work you'll be doing!
Now, if you set 0x8002 to something not equal to 0 before you use the special, it will display alternate diplomas from a table.

The .word 0xFFFFFFFF's are pointers to your own table! Up to 256 pointers. (Note that these routines ignore the pointer at position 0x0 in all of your tables!)
I'll provide the compiled ones at the bottom.

The XX XX XX 08 represents the pointer to where you placed the respective routine (+1).

Tilemap/Tileset Related Routines:

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Tilemap (Raw Image) Replacer*/ main: ldr r0, .VAR_8002 ldrb r0, [r0] cmp r0, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r1, .ORIG_RAW continue: mov r0, #0x1 mov r2, #0x0 mov r3, #0x0 bl func ldr r4, .NEXT_INT bx r4 go_table: ldr r1, .TABLE_RAWS lsl r0, r0, #0x2 add r1, r1, r0 ldr r1, [r1] b continue func: ldr r4, .DO_FNC bx r4 .hword 0x0000 .ORIG_RAW: .word 0x084154E8 .TABLE_RAWS: .word 0xFFFFFFFF /*Change accordingly; word-aligned*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F4CD7 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC .DO_FNC: .word 0x08002041

at 0x080F4CCA, place 00 00 00 4C 20 47 XX XX XX 08 00 00.

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Tileset (Actual Tiles) Replacer*/ main: ldr r0, .VAR_8002 ldrb r0, [r0] cmp r0, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r1, .ORIG_DIPLOMA continue: mov r0, #0x0 str r0, [sp, #0x0] mov r0, #0x1 ldr r4, .NEXT_INT bx r4 go_table: ldr r1, .TABLE_DIPLOMAS lsl r0, r0, #0x2 add r1, r1, r0 ldr r1, [r1] b continue .hword 0x0000 .ORIG_DIPLOMA: .word 0x084147C0 .TABLE_DIPLOMAS: .word 0xFFFFFFFF /*Change accordingly; word-aligned*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F4FD1 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC

at 0x080F4FC8, place 00 4C 20 47 XX XX XX 08.

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Palette Replacer*/ main: ldr r1, .VAR_8002 ldrb r1, [r1] cmp r1, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r0, .ORIG_PAL continue: mov r1, #0x0 mov r2, #0x40 bl func ldr r7, .NEXT_INT bx r7 go_table: ldr r0, .TABLE_PALS lsl r1, r1, #0x2 add r0, r0, r1 ldr r0, [r0] b continue func: ldr r7, .DO_FNC bx r7 .align 2 .ORIG_PAL: .word 0x08415954 .TABLE_PALS: .word 0xFFFFFFFF /*Change accordingly; word-aligned*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F4FF9 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC .DO_FNC: .word 0x080703ED

at 0x080F4FEE, place 01 49 08 47 00 00 XX XX XX 08.

Text Related Routines:

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Header Text Replacer*/ main: ldr r5, .VAR_8002 ldrb r5, [r5] cmp r5, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r1, .ORIG_MSG continue: add r0, sp, #0xC bl func ldr r4, .NEXT_INT bx r4 go_table: ldr r1, .LDPTR_0 ldr r1, [r1] b continue func: ldr r4, .DO_FNC bx r4 .hword 0x0000 .ORIG_MSG: .word 0x0841B60E .LDPTR_0: .word 0x03000F14 /*Loadpointer slot 0x0*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F5061 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC .DO_FNC: .word 0x0813CCC9

at 0x080F5058, place 00 4C 20 47 XX XX XX 08.

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Body Text Replacer*/ main: ldr r1, .VAR_8002 ldrb r1, [r1] cmp r1, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r1, .ORIG_MSG continue: add r0, sp, #0xC bl func ldr r7, .NEXT_INT bx r7 go_table: ldr r1, .LDPTR_1 ldr r1, [r1] b continue func: ldr r7, .DO_FNC bx r7 .hword 0x0000 .ORIG_MSG: .word 0x0841B619 .LDPTR_1: .word 0x03000F18 /*Loadpointer slot 0x1*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F5095 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC .DO_FNC: .word 0x0813CCC9

at 0x080F508C, place 00 4F 38 47 XX XX XX 08.

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Signature Text Replacer*/ main: ldr r0, .VAR_8002 ldrb r0, [r0] cmp r0, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r0, .ORIG_MSG continue: str r0, [sp, #0x8] mov r0, #0x0 mov r1, #0x2 ldr r7, .NEXT_INT bx r7 go_table: ldr r0, .LDPTR_2 ldr r0, [r0] b continue .hword 0x0000 .ORIG_MSG: .word 0x0841B684 .LDPTR_2: .word 0x03000F1C /*Loadpointer slot 0x2*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F50C9 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC

at 0x080F50C0, place 00 4F 38 47 XX XX XX 08.

Code:

.align 2 .thumb /*Text Properties Replacer*/ main: ldr r7, .VAR_8002 ldrb r7, [r7] cmp r7, #0x0 bne go_table ldr r6, .ORIG_DATA continue: str r6, [sp, #0x0] str r5, [sp, #0x4] add r0, sp, #0xC ldr r7, .NEXT_INT bx r7 go_table: ldr r6, .VAR_8000 b continue .align 2 .ORIG_DATA: .word 0x08415A04 .VAR_8000: .word 0x020370B8 /*Var 0x8000 and 0x8001*/ .NEXT_INT: .word 0x080F5081 .VAR_8002: .word 0x020370BC

at 0x080F5078, place 00 4F 38 47 XX XX XX 08.

Finally:
at 0x080F50D8, place 00 4F 70 BD F0 30 00 03.

Now, here's how it goes:
Before you use special 0x108, if you set 0x8002 to another value other than 0, it will use the alternate diplomas (in terms of images, palettes and texts if desired), else it will show the original diploma.

Now for the text parts:
Before you use special 0x108, if you want to display your own text on the "PLAYER: [player]" part, just do:

Code:

loadpointer 0x0 0xYYYYYYYY

If you want to display your own text on the middle part, just do:

Code:

loadpointer 0x1 0xYYYYYYYY

If you want to display your own text on the "GAMEFREAK" part, just do:

Code:

loadpointer 0x2 0xYYYYYYYY

Remember that you must load something onto those locations (even if it's to 0x08FFFFFF) or else it will cause the game to crash.

Finally, you don't need to change the contents of 0x415A04 because they now depend on vars 0x8000 and 0x8001 (if using the alternate diplomas anyway, the original ones still use 0x415A04). So, if you want to use 00 02 03 00, you'll do:

Code:

setvar 0x8000 0x200 setvar 0x8001 0x3

Or 00 01 00 00:

Code:

setvar 0x8000 0x100 setvar 0x8001 0x0

So here's a full example:

Code:

#dynamic 0x700000 #org @start lockall setvar 0x8002 0x1 //Use custom diploma #0 (position 0x1 in table) setvar 0x8000 0x100 //This produces the same effect setvar 0x8001 0x0 //like the one on Spherical Ice's tut. loadpointer 0x0 @HEADER loadpointer 0x1 @BODY loadpointer 0x2 @SIG special 0x108 waitstate releaseall end #org @HEADER = KYORDON #org @BODY = GROUDON and KYOGRE were once best\nbuddies just so you know[.]\n\nBut RAYQUAZA screwed up\neverything[.] Real bad! #org @SIG = BRENDAN

The final result:

Using:

Code:

setvar 0x8000 0x800 setvar 0x8001 0x602

Sorry for the bad quality... Stupid JPEG...

Other things to remember:
Your table can have less than 255 pointers.
Also, setting 0x8002 to 0xF43, for example, is the same as setvar 0x8002 0x43.
The table in the Tilemap (RAW) Replacer routine must contain pointers to the RAW images.
The table in the Tileset (Actual Tiles) Replacer routine must contain pointers to your tileset in compressed form (the ones in unLZ).
The table in the Palette Replacer routine must contain pointers to uncompressed palettes.
Like what Spherical Ice said, you still have little room to work with at the SIG ("GAMEFREAK") location.

Final words:
And that's about it. You can now have up to 255 diplomas + the original to use!
The routines are not fully optimized (the ignoring slot 0x0 thingy), so sorry about that.
If you have any problems or experience any bugs with these routines, please tell me (I just started doing ASM about a month ago). I'll get it fixed as soon as possible.

I would like to thank Spherical Ice for the awesome tutorial and Chaos Rush for the idea of multiple diplomas. :)

any backup of file uploaded by Haru?

Xero3C · Aug 9, 2020

Thank you very much for this tutorial! This is very important for my hack.

I just have a question: Is it possible to write a text that is longer or will I need more diplomas then? F.ex. Your text fits in the screen, but I have way more text. When this happens with text in message boxes, you have to use paragraphs/enters and an arrow appears and the messagebox is filled with another 2 lines of text. Will this also happen with the diploma screen?

Do I need the table-file or can I use the values you used? I'm using the 807 Patch-file from Leon as a base. If not, can you please send me the file, as the download link is broken.

Thank you :)

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