Issues with re-installing Pokeemerald

[The Ferydra]

Greetings.

So, here's the thing, I want to make a Pokemon Emerald romhack whose main appeal is giving new evolutions to Pokemon desperate for them. Long ago, I installed Pokeemerald and Pokeemerald-expansion to do this, but I did that back before they added certain Pokemon I wanted to be in the hack (more specifically, Farigiraf and Annihilape). I didn't felt like continuing it due some issues with work and put the game on stand-by. Now, I want to retake the project even if it means working bit by bit every day instead of progressing as fast as possible, but for that, I decided to re-install Pokeemerald and eventually the expansion to, on top of adding those two mons, adding things like moves added in G9 aas well as fixing a bug in my previous build that made Rare Candies not work for any reason.

Thing is, I followed Team Aqua's Hideout guide step-by-step (outside the parts that included installing things I already installed), and reached the point where he uses the Compare command to test the rom is working properly, but when I tried to do the same, I got an issue that said:

"make: *** No rule to make target 'compare'. Stop."

And I wanted to see how could I fix this.

Thank you in advance, best regards.

 

[Lunos]

Greetings.

So, here's the thing, I want to make a Pokemon Emerald romhack whose main appeal is giving new evolutions to Pokemon desperate for them. Long ago, I installed Pokeemerald and Pokeemerald-expansion to do this, but I did that back before they added certain Pokemon I wanted to be in the hack (more specifically, Farigiraf and Annihilape). I didn't felt like continuing it due some issues with work and put the game on stand-by. Now, I want to retake the project even if it means working bit by bit every day instead of progressing as fast as possible, but for that, I decided to re-install Pokeemerald and eventually the expansion to, on top of adding those two mons, adding things like moves added in G9 aas well as fixing a bug in my previous build that made Rare Candies not work for any reason.

Thing is, I followed Team Aqua's Hideout guide step-by-step (outside the parts that included installing things I already installed), and reached the point where he uses the Compare command to test the rom is working properly, but when I tried to do the same, I got an issue that said:

"make: *** No rule to make target 'compare'. Stop."

And I wanted to see how could I fix this.

Thank you in advance, best regards.

make compare is a command that builds a ROM and checks if the SHA-1 of the ROM generaed matches the SHA-1 of the ROM Game Freak created.
It was removed from the Pokeemerald-expansion because it was worthless; the SHA-1 of the ROM generated by the expansion was never going to match the SHA-1 of a vanilla ROM.
You simply have to use make + whatever optional parameters you want, such as -j.

 

[The Ferydra]

make compare is a command that builds a ROM and checks if the SHA-1 of the ROM generaed matches the SHA-1 of the ROM Game Freak created.
It was removed from the Pokeemerald-expansion because it was worthless; the SHA-1 of the ROM generated by the expansion was never going to match the SHA-1 of a vanilla ROM.
You simply have to use make + whatever optional parameters you want, such as -j.

Oh I see. I hadn't quite got what the point of comparing the roms was. Thanks!