Removing Professor Intro in Pokemon Emerald

[DrexNJ]

(I originally posted this in ROM Hacking Help, but with recent discoveries, it seems like Decomp will be the best way to go about this, so I'm reposting it here)

Hello! I only recently discovered the world of creating Pokemon Hacks and Fan Games about 2 days ago, and I've been in the mood to make one myself. With the help of many different video tutorials, I've been learning some great programs!

For the story I'm going for, however, I don't want the professor intro to happen whatsoever. Instead, what I want is a black background with multiple lines of text covering the black screen to tell a short story at the beginning. There's about 3 paragraphs to this mini story opening, which means the user would have to press the A button to read through said text.

How can I go about making this change, and get rid of the Professor intro all together. Thank you!

 

[Anon822]

https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/blob/master/src/main_menu.c#L1063
Replace

gTasks[taskId].func = Task_NewGameBirchSpeech_Init;

with

gTasks[taskId].func = Task_NewGameBirchSpeech_Cleanup;

Doing this will result in the player having no name, so you will have to set it yourself somehow. If you want the name to always be the same, you might add a call to NewGameBirchSpeech_SetDefaultPlayerName in Task_NewGameBirchSpeech_Cleanup.