• Just a reminder that providing specifics on, sharing links to, or naming websites where ROMs can be accessed is against the rules. If your post has any of this information it will be removed.
  • Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
  • PokéCommunity's Easter Egg Hunt is now on! If you're interested in looking for some eggs and earning badges, click here!
  • Our weekly protagonist poll is now up! Vote for your favorite Conquest protagonist in the poll by clicking here.
  • Welcome to PokéCommunity! Register now and join one of the best fan communities on the 'net to talk Pokémon and more! We are not affiliated with The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.
    Register

How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)

Team Rocket's Raichu

Bye-Bye!
    • 535
    Posts
    16
    Years
    • Seen Jan 4, 2011
    What is the Pokedex Map?​

    The Pokedex Map is the map that shows the area a Pokemon is at.​

    What programs do I need?​

    You'll need:
    FSF
    Hacked unLZ-GBA
    FR Rom
    Emulator​

    Here is the tutorial.​

    Open up unLZ-GBA and find the world map on 16 color, black and white. My location was at 322, but some have told me that it was 314, 320, 330, etc. It's just somewhere in the area. Then press the + or - button until it looks like this.
    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)


    Save your map somewhere in .png format. Open it in MS Paint, Photoshop, Gimp, just some program. Make your own map using only those colors.
    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)


    Make your map. Here is mine in .jpg, so no theft. It's for a hack that I was helping with, but the author said I could continue after he quit.
    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)


    Press Import, choose your image. Press write to ROM. Press automatically fix pointers. Press ok.

    It might say Compressed Image is to big... or something like that. Remember the number that shows up, and open up your rom on FSF. Type in the numbers in the Hex part.
    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)


    Type what appears in Dec in needed bytes, and press search. Then copy and in unLZ press write to rom, and under image offset remove the number there except for the 0 in the beginning.

    Press Okay, and it will say Pointer Changed...

    It will not show your image if you go back to the image. This is normal.

    What is the end result?

    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)


    I made a little mistake when coloring my map, but it still worked as you can see.
    This doesn't edit the red areas as you can see in this picture from Mitchel1's tutorial.
    [PokeCommunity.com] How to change the Pokedex's Map. (FR Tutorial)
     
    Last edited by a moderator:
    Very good tutorial. It will help many Fire Red Hacker. I am not fond of Fire Red but I have to chose Fire Red for my hack "Shadow of Darkness" because it has many Advantage and It has enough memory for two region. Well thank you for the tutorial.
     
    I'm not working on a hack at the moment, but this will be very useful when I do.
     
    very useful, add this to the exhausting list of things to do before beta release
     
    Does somebody have a download link for the hacked unLZ-GBA program? Because the link on Hackmew's toolfactory is dead and I can't find it anywhere else.
     
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top