[Other] rom hacking help?

[halo kitty]

ok so im recently pretty new to rom hacking but i cant seem to figure out something like inserting tiles into a rom and things like that.....im finding it all pretty difficult to try and teach myself so if anyone would be willing to help me, my kik is katbubblz(this is the only thing i hand out socially to avoid issues with people) i need someone to walk me through it and maybe help me make my own pokemon game :D so if you specialize in anything specific and you wanna smack me wit some knowledge just hit me with it lol........all help is appreciated

~p.s~
message me on kik as im not usually on this 24/7 but ill try my best to check the replies.....sorry for the major read :P

 

[Auros]

You can find a tutorial here.
Just a note: before using TileHelperAdvance, you have to decrease the number of colors to 16. In order to do it you can use programs such as Irfanview (there's a specific option called "decrease color depth").

 

[halo kitty]

ok iv gotten that far i think where im using the irfanview thing but everytime i insert a tileset into my rom it either a) shows up without any color or texture at all or b) it replaces something and messes up the map....thats kinda why i put my kik up....so i had someone to talk to and send pictures to, to figure out my issues and what im doing wrong

so many views but only one person wants to help :p cmon guys ik u know more then me....share some knowledge

 

[Auros]

ok iv gotten that far i think where im using the irfanview thing but everytime i insert a tileset into my rom it either a) shows up without any color or texture at all or b) it replaces something and messes up the map....thats kinda why i put my kik up....so i had someone to talk to and send pictures to, to figure out my issues and what im doing wrong

so many views but only one person wants to help :p cmon guys ik u know more then me....share some knowledge

The steps are these:
1) Save your tiles as .png, open it with irfanview, decrease the color depth to 16 colors and save it.
2) Go to palette, modify palette and swap the first color with the one you want to use as transparent color. To swap them simply write down the RGB value of the colors and change them. Save the new file with a different name.
3) Open the first and the second file, copy the first one and paste it in the second one, then save.
4) Use TileHelperAdvance, load the image, convert it, then save both the new image as .png and the palette as Advance Map 1.92-palette (or 1.95 depending on the version of Advance Map you're using).
5) On Advance Map, decide which old palette you want to replace and load the new one onto it.
6) In your new palette save tileset 0 (if you want to modify the first part of tileset) or tileset 1 (if you want to modify the second part of tileset).
7) Open the tileset with Paint for example and copy/paste the tile you saved with TileHelperAdvance.
8) Save and load the new tileset, then just create new blocks.

Palettes from 0 to 5 are related to the first tileset. Palettes from 6 to 11 are related to the second tileset.
Palette 12 doesn't work so don't use them.

 

[halo kitty]

so i think iv gotten it so far :D iv got my entire pokemon fire red re done with tiles....they look like hg/ss tiles but im not 100% sure but i like them :) what should my next step be?