Tool: HexManiacAdvance: A New Hex Editor for Gen 3 Hacking

[jirachiwishmaker]

The same problem was occurred in the Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit version with .NET Framework 4.8.

 

[Superleaf03]

I was happy to finally find a tool, that would give me access to add more Pokémon to Battle Frontier trainers' rosters in Emerald (PGE only lets you to edit trainers' current roster but not add/remove them). However I found soon a problem (see the screenshot):
HMA seems to only show first 100 trainers (all "pre-evolution" ones) in "data.battlefrontier.trainers" section and there are supposed to be 300 trainers in total. Where and how I can find the rest of the trainers?

 

[Mason Shu]

I was happy to finally find a tool, that would give me access to add more Pokémon to Battle Frontier trainers' rosters in Emerald (PGE only lets you to edit trainers' current roster but not add/remove them). However I found soon a problem (see the screenshot):
HMA seems to only show first 100 trainers (all "pre-evolution" ones) in "data.battlefrontier.trainers" section and there are supposed to be 300 trainers in total. Where and how I can find the rest of the trainers?

After it generates the toml file, open it in a text editor and edit the values.
[[NamedAnchors]]
Name = '''data.battlefrontier.trainers'''
Address = 0x5D5ACC
Format = '''[facilityclass::data.battlefrontier.trainerclass trainername""8 before1:|h before2:|h before3:|h before4:|h before5:|h before6:|h win1:|h win2:|h win3:|h win4:|h win5:|h win6:|h lose1:|h lose2:|h lose3:|h lose4:|h lose5:|h lose6:|h teamoptions<[pokemon:data.battlefrontier.pokemon]!FFFF>]100'''
At the end before ''' change 100

 

[Mason Shu]

How do you use the "Update" Function, it's greyed out.
How do you edit shiny odds with this?
Really like the image editor. Is there a grid view function in the image editor? (If not pls add one)

Can u also add a starter editor? I know. Just change those bytes. But it's annoying to do all those stuff because I am lazy.
Overall, AWESOME Tool!!!

 

[Superleaf03]

After it generates the toml file, open it in a text editor and edit the values.
[[NamedAnchors]]
Name = '''data.battlefrontier.trainers'''
Address = 0x5D5ACC
Format = '''[facilityclass::data.battlefrontier.trainerclass trainername""8 before1:|h before2:|h before3:|h before4:|h before5:|h before6:|h win1:|h win2:|h win3:|h win4:|h win5:|h win6:|h lose1:|h lose2:|h lose3:|h lose4:|h lose5:|h lose6:|h teamoptions<[pokemon:data.battlefrontier.pokemon]!FFFF>]100'''
At the end before ''' change 100

Thank you. Text editor made its magic and I can now finally edit other Frontier trainers properly. Before this, I was trying to copy and paste pointer values of the rosters from PGE to HMA for editing, which didn't work (it should be working now). PGE even crashed and made Frontier data unreadable, when I tried to copy and paste new pointer values to it from HMA (luckily I had backup). At least I have written up all original 300 pointer values in case I need them. It took me several hours, but it was worth it.

Anyway, I'm going to have fun with improving Battle Frontier. I even have made very own "must-do list" for it:

Spoiler:

- More varied and unique rosters with different type combinations (such as Grass/Fire/Water) and gimmick teams with certain abilities/moves (such as Intimidate team from Battle Maison). "Fairy" type is also involved in some form.
- Ponyta, Porygon and Wailmer along with certain other mons from Group2 such as Sableye, Roselia, Plusle/Minun and Volbeat/Illumise will now also appear in Group1 teams like they did in Gen 4 Battle Frontier. Chansey and Scyther will still remain in Group2 for obvious reason.
- Some Group3 mons will now also appear in Group2 like in Gen 4, such as Misdreavus, Electabuzz and Magmar.
- Unown is now included in the rosters.
- Certain mons that didn't get many appearances in different rosters are now more common to add more variety. Notable examples include cocoons (only 1 trainer for each in original), Dragonair (only 3 trainers with exact same roster in original, 2 with Set1 and the third with Set2), Tangela (4 trainers, 2 rosters), Jumpluff/Sunflora (6 trainers, 3 rosters), Slugma/Nuzleaf/Growlithe (13 trainers, 2 rosters), Caterpie/Weedle/Wurmple (13 trainers, 4 "different" rosters) etc.
- If certain mon was missing in type specific team in original, it will be now included. For example Rich Boy/Lady/Guitarist in Round 1, which had Poochyena/Houndour (Dark types), but not Carvanha/Nuzleaf (also Dark types) in the roster. Or 2 Triathletes in Round 2 with Normal/Fighting/Flying types, but didn't include Masquerain/Jumpluff/Poliwrath in the roster for some reason.
- Some minor moveset changes are considered like Detect to Protect, Minimize to Double Team etc. Items may stay untouched. While stuff like Vulpix/Growlithe/Ponyta with Rawst Berry or Tentacool with Pecha Berry seem weird, items are likely meant to be stolen with Thief/Covet/Trick, especially in Pyramid.

 

[Mason Shu]

I have Visual Studio Community 2015 installed, I don't know how to proceed.

Open the solution (sln) in visual studio goto build>build solution, after a successful build go to artifacts>hexmaniacadvance>bin>debug>Hexmaniacadvance.exe

(After building it said the version is 0.3.8.2?)

 

[Dreamaker]

Open the solution (sln) in visual studio goto build>build solution, after a successful build go to artifacts>hexmaniacadvance>bin>debug>Hexmaniacadvance.exe

(After building it said the version is 0.3.8.2?)

Never compiles ¬¬

https://streamable.com/cqi9s0

 

[Mason Shu]

@Lyko It never happens to me. I have 4.8 framework as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPQcsnWBqKcjt15lUhujKOhCWg_Cx4d7/view?usp=sharing

 

[Dreamaker]

@Lyko It never happens to me. I have 4.8 framework as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nPQcsnWBqKcjt15lUhujKOhCWg_Cx4d7/view?usp=sharing

VS 2015 does not compile.
I finally installed Visual Studio 2019, and to my surprise compiled it.
But it still doesn't work on Window$ 7 T_T

 

[Marrinara_Sauce]

Does this editor have a "find and replace" feature yet? I can't seem to find it if it does.

 

[Mason Shu]

Does this editor have a "find and replace" feature yet? I can't seem to find it if it does.

Ur right I don't know if there is

 

[haven1433]

@LyKo @Neon Skylar @jirachiwishmaker
Thanks to help from LkKo, I was able to figure out what the Windows 7 issue was and fix it :) Version 0.3.9 should be released soon and be able to run on Windows 7.

@Superleaf03
Thanks for finding the issue with the emerald battle frontier trainers! I'll update it to correctly show all 300 by default in the next version.

@MASON SHU
Update function: The update function is grayed out unless there is a new update on the main website. If it's greyed out, that means you probably have the latest version.
Editing shiny odds: Edit -> Goto -> scripts.shiny.odds. This will show you all the places where the game uses the constant. If you change any of them, the others will update automatically.
Starter Editor: I may add a starter editor for Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald, since it's kind of a special thing in those games. But I don't want to add one in FR/LG since it's handled by scripts, and such an editor would be needlessly limiting to people who want to change how the oak encounter works.

@Marrinara_Sauce
There is a 'find' feature, but not a find and replace. Can you give me an example of how you would use a 'find and replace' feature in the context of rom hacking?

 

[Mason Shu]

Version 0.3.9 should be released soon and be able to run on Windows 7.

Good luck!

 

[vityd]

How can i change the shiny odds?
Edit: in this case, wich variable should i change to increase the odds to find a shiny?

 

[haven1433]

Vityd, you can change the shiny odds by changing the value of scripts.shiny.odds. An easy way to find it would be to type "shiny odds" into the goto control when the app opens. If you raise the number up to 250 or so, you will have about a 1/1000 chance of hitting a shiny.

 

[Mason Shu]

[Tool] Hex Maniac Advance

Author: haven1433
Current release: v0.3.8

You should update the main post.

 

[Megax Rocker]

So I'm trying to use the dex reorder feature nd the UI only shows up to dewgong, I'm using an expanded rom, vanilla works fine.
is there something I need to edit? if so, what and how please?

Using PGE to reorder would take hours, I was planning on doing it with this UI because it's more dynamic.

 

[Mason Shu]

So I'm trying to use the dex reorder feature nd the UI only shows up to dewgong, I'm using an expanded rom, vanilla works fine.
is there something I need to edit? if so, what and how please?

Using PGE to reorder would take hours, I was planning on doing it with this UI because it's more dynamic.

When you go to data.pokemon.names does it also show up to dewgong only?

 

[Megax Rocker]

No, it reads up to Venusaur in that.

My rom works fine BTW, so does all the pokemon, so this a case of incompatibility with the editor's preset offsets because everything is repointed in my rom.

 

[Mason Shu]

No, it reads up to Venusaur in that.

My rom works fine BTW, so does all the pokemon, so this a case of incompatibility with the editor's preset offsets because everything is repointed in my rom.

It should generate toml file when opening the rom. Opeb it in a text editor and edit the values.