RESOLVED [pokered] I need help, I ran out of space in Pictures when replacing Original sprites with Gen 2 Sprites

[LordOfOtatops]

I've been replacing the original Pokemon Red Sprites with modified Pokemon Silver sprites. The colors are proper, the modifications I had made were making them greyscale. I use cygwin to compile the rom, and up until doing back sprites its worked perfectly fine. Now after finishing replacing all the back sprites, I get these errors. I've already followed a tutorial to modify the sprite system so it doesn't scale back sprites up. What should I do?

 

[AdolescentSeagull]

Try redefining the sections in gfx/pics.asm so that you respect the 0x4000 size limit.

Your first attempt could be to move around the .pic files to another section. For example you could move
TangelaPicFront:: INCBIN "gfx/pokemon/front/tangela.pic" TangelaPicBack:: INCBIN "gfx/pokemon/back/tangelab.pic"
to underneath
SECTION "Pics 5", ROMX

And if you can't fit all your sprites in all the sections in gfx/pics.asm, try defining a new section e.g. after the Elite Four sprites, you can make SECTION "Pics 7", ROMX with your new .pic files.

 

[LordOfOtatops]

Alright, I'll try that

 

[LordOfOtatops]

Try redefining the sections in gfx/pics.asm so that you respect the 0x4000 size limit.

Your first attempt could be to move around the .pic files to another section. For example you could move
TangelaPicFront:: INCBIN "gfx/pokemon/front/tangela.pic" TangelaPicBack:: INCBIN "gfx/pokemon/back/tangelab.pic"
to underneath
SECTION "Pics 5", ROMX

And if you can't fit all your sprites in all the sections in gfx/pics.asm, try defining a new section e.g. after the Elite Four sprites, you can make SECTION "Pics 7", ROMX with your new .pic files.

After moving the pic files to their own section I get this error now

 

[LordOfOtatops]

Tried re-arranging some of what I moved, this is the error now

 

[AdolescentSeagull]

Alright the best step may be to introduce a new section named "Pics 7" or something else of your liking, include some sprite pic files there and then update layout.link so that you have a new ROM bank.
Edit: Remove suggestion that doesn't work

 

[LordOfOtatops]

I think maybe the problem is each Section takes up too much space to be with the battle engines in layout.link. I don't know what to do to change that, maybe by moving the engines into their own sections in layout.link?

 

[LordOfOtatops]

I tried the fix you mentioned and it did nothing to change the error

 

[AdolescentSeagull]

What error do you get exactly? is it still the "but then it would overflow ROMX" error?
Yeah sorry for that suggestion. It wouldn't work because it requires changing the logic in home/pics.asm

 

[LordOfOtatops]

This screenshot is the exact error I'm getting whenever I use "make" in Cygwin. It was caused after I moved several pokemon out of the different Picture sections because there was originally an error saying there wasn't enough space in each Section.

 

[AdolescentSeagull]

Like you said it seems like since the Pics banks are bigger now, they can't be put with the Battle Engine banks.
What if you try moving Pics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 like so? I think this may do the trick.

Spoiler:

 

[LordOfOtatops]

I actually figured it out, I moved Pokemon out of the Pics Banks that were with the engines into a Pics 8 folder, and it compiled correctly.