Sierra's MEGA-HUGE XSE Scripting Tutorial

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Should I risk flags 200+ unless they're listed or should I follow the advice in the XSE guide and use flags above 1000? Which is more accurate?

 

[Pyxal]

Should I risk flags 200+ unless they're listed or should I follow the advice in the XSE guide and use flags above 1000? Which is more accurate?

Flags over 0x1000 are actually used. They are reserved for trainer flags. 200-2FF is preferable.

 

[Anti-HyperLink]

Flags over 0x1000 are actually used. They are reserved for trainer flags. 200-2FF is preferable.

Thanks!

 

[Pyxal]

There seem to be some of the applymovement commands missing in the documentation. They are listed below.
FireRed [source]:

Spoiler:

#raw 0x45 = Walk in place. Direction of walking depends on which way you were facing at time of activation. Loops forever
#raw 0x5A = Look Down
#raw 0x5B = Run in place, downwards. Loops forever. Uses running frames, as opposed to walking frames.
#raw 0x5C = Seemingly Absolutely nothing
#raw 0x5D = Also absolutely nothing
#raw 0x5E = Again, Nothing
#raw 0x5F = Nothing once more.
#raw 0x67 = Nothing.
#raw 0x68 = Face up, and locks movement.
#raw 0x69 = Face up, and locks movement. When used for cut trees and smash rocks, it plays the destruction animation.
#raw 0x6A = Nothing.
#raw 0x6B = Nothing.
#raw 0x6C = Causes person not to flip while moving right, aka Moonwalking.
#raw 0x6D = Nothing.
#raw 0x6E = Walks one tile down, but takes two steps.
#raw 0x6F = Walks one tile down, but takes two steps.
#raw 0x70 = Faces right, then down, very fast.
#raw 0x71 = Faces down, then up, very fast.
#raw 0x72 = Faces up, then left, very fast.
#raw 0x73 = Faces left, then right, very fast.
#raw 0x74 = Runs in place downward, uses running frames, as opposed to normal
walking frames. Loops forever.
#raw 0x75 = Runs in place upward, uses running frames, as opposed to normal
walking frames. Loops forever.
#raw 0x76 = Runs in place left, uses running frames, as opposed to normal
walking frames. Loops forever.
#raw 0x77 = Runs in place right, uses running frames, as opposed to normal walking frames. Loops forever.
#raw 0x78 = Player looks diagonally left and right, twice.
#raw 0x79 = Faces down, Locks movement.
#raw 0x7A = Faces up, and locks movement.
#raw 0x7B = Faces left, locks movement.
#raw 0x7C = Runs and jumps in place, facing down. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x7D = Runs and jumps in place, facing up. Uses running frames
#raw 0x7E = Runs and jumps in place, facing left. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x7F = Runs and jumps in place, facing right. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x80 = Runs and jumps down. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x81 = Runs and jumps up. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x82 = Runs and jumps left. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x83 = Runs and jumps right. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x84 = Runs and jumps down two tiles. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x85 = Runs and jumps up two tiles. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x86 = Runs and jumps left two tiles. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x87 = Runs and jumps right two tiles. uses running frames.
#raw 0x88 = Step on the spot right, then face down.
#raw 0x89 = Step on the spot down, then face up.
#raw 0x8A = Step on the spot up, then face left
#raw 0x8B = Step on the spot left, then face right
#raw 0x8C = Run down. Uses running frames
#raw 0x8D = Run up. Uses running frames
#raw 0x8E = Run left. Uses running frames
#raw 0x8F = Run right. Uses running frames
#raw 0x90 = Slide down, facing right, then faces down.
#raw 0x91 = Slide up, facing down, then faces up.
#raw 0x92 = Slides left, facing up, then faces left.
#raw 0x93 = Slides right, facing left, then faces right.
#raw 0x94 = Spins down. Faces down when completed.
#raw 0x95 = Spins up. Faces up when completed.
#raw 0x96 = Spins left. Faces left when completed.
#raw 0x97 = Spins right. Faces left when completed.
#raw 0x98 = Runs downward, using running frames. Loops forever.
#raw 0x99 = Runs downward in place, and jumps. Repeats once.
#raw 0x9A = Runs downward in place, swaying from side to side slighty. Uses running frames.
#raw 0x9B = Walks downward VERY slowly, taking ten steps to move one tile.
#raw 0x9C = Walks upward VERY slowly.
#raw 0x9D = Walks left VERY slowly.
#raw 0x9E = Walks right VERY slowly.
#raw 0x9F = Looks diagonaly left and right, twice, then faces the same way you started facing.
#raw 0xA0 = Slides down one tile.
#raw 0xA1 = Slides up one tile.
#raw 0xA2 = Slides left one tile.
#raw 0xA3 = Slides right one tile.
#raw 0xA4 = Flies up off the screen, and disappears.
#raw 0xA5 = Flies down from top of screen, and reappears.
#raw 0xA6 = Runs very fast, and jumps down one tile
#raw 0xA7 = Runs very fast, and jumps up one tile
#raw 0xA8 = Runs very fast, and jumps left one tile
#raw 0xA9 = Runs very fast, and jumps right one tile
#raw 0xAA through #raw 0xFD either lock or crash the game.

Emerald [source]:

Spoiler:

#raw 0x4F - Player runs in place, facing down doesn't seem to stop, even with 0xFE after.
#raw 0x50 - #raw 0x53 = Nothing.
#raw 0x5A and 0x5B = player faces up, 0xFE doesn't cancel the effects
#raw 0x5E = After it finishes when you walk right, it uses the walk left sprite.
#raw 0x68 = same as 0x4F
#raw 0x69 = same, but runs facing up instead
#raw 0x6A = same, but runs facing left instead
#raw 0x6B = same, but runs facing right instead
#raw 0x6C = seems to be walking in place, facing down
#raw 0x6D = seems to be walking in place, facing up
#raw 0x6E = seems to be walking in place, facing left
#raw 0x6F = seems to be walking in place, facing right
#raw 0x9B = player starts flying and does something cool https://imgur.com/qhLqOel
#raw 0x5F = cancels the effect of 0x5E

 

[Momoro]

Hi!

I read your entire tutorial on XSE scripting, and now I know the professional basics.

I'm particularly fond of your givepokemon script example (the one that gives you a Charmander), and I have a question about it:

How do I make the Pokemon to be given Shiny? If I were to put some kind of post-game event for a shiny Pokemon, how would I change your givepokemon script to also make the given Pokemon shiny?

That's really the only question I have :D

Thanks for this really, really big tutorial!

 

[Momoro]

Umm, problem with the Charmander givepokemon script?

If the player already has a Pokemon, it just skips to How's my charmander doing?

Can someone help? Thanks :)

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

Umm, problem with the Charmander givepokemon script?

If the player already has a Pokemon, it just skips to How's my charmander doing?

Can someone help? Thanks :)

If the pokemon you have is the charmander it gave you, then that's how the script is supposed to work, to not give you repeat pokemon.

If you want it to give you unlimited charmanders you'd have to remove the flag check and flag set, but that's not that great of a mechanic unless its for a nuzlocke using uncatchable pokemon or something.

 

[Momoro]

If the pokemon you have is the charmander it gave you, then that's how the script is supposed to work, to not give you repeat pokemon.

If you want it to give you unlimited charmanders you'd have to remove the flag check and flag set, but that's not that great of a mechanic unless its for a nuzlocke using uncatchable pokemon or something.

The problem is: if you already have a Pokemon, even if you didn't yet receive the Charmander, the How's my charmander doing? script plays.

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

The problem is: if you already have a Pokemon, even if you didn't yet receive the Charmander, the How's my charmander doing? script plays.

Ok so I haven't seen your code but I'm making 2 assumptions here, 1st that you wrote this script yourself, and 2nd (based on the first) that somehow you used the wrong check flag, and the game is checking the flag that sets the pokemon menu icon, instead of a unique flag for the script.

Luckily I'm working on an ingame trade script that needed to use that flag so I know the number.

The flag for the pokemon menu is 0x828. If that's what you have that's your problem.

But using that flag is a good way of preventing someone from accessing the trade without having a pokemon, not completely necessary depending on where the script npc is, but a good rule of thumb. So using your own discretion you can either delete the checks and ifs involving that flag.

Or you can take a look at how I did mine, to work around it, as your problem could also be the if statement after.


checkflag 0x828
if 0x0 goto 0x871A43E

So here its checking the flag to see if you have received a pokemon. (since the flag gets set when you receive your starter.
then my if statement is says, if the flag isn't set go here. That's how it should be.

Now if you had 0x1 instead of 0x0, in that case if you had pokemon it would skip the rest of your script and go to the pointer message and end.

In the case above it only continues through your script when the if is set to 0x0.


So try those options.

either remove checkflag 0x828, and the if statement below it.

or make sure its used correctly and the below if, is 0x0 and not 0x1.

Hope that does it for you.

 

[Momoro]

Ok so I haven't seen your code but I'm making 2 assumptions here, 1st that you wrote this script yourself, and 2nd (based on the first) that somehow you used the wrong check flag, and the game is checking the flag that sets the pokemon menu icon, instead of a unique flag for the script.

Luckily I'm working on an ingame trade script that needed to use that flag so I know the number.

The flag for the pokemon menu is 0x828. If that's what you have that's your problem.

But using that flag is a good way of preventing someone from accessing the trade without having a pokemon, not completely necessary depending on where the script npc is, but a good rule of thumb. So using your own discretion you can either delete the checks and ifs involving that flag.

Or you can take a look at how I did mine, to work around it, as your problem could also be the if statement after.


checkflag 0x828
if 0x0 goto 0x871A43E

So here its checking the flag to see if you have received a pokemon. (since the flag gets set when you receive your starter.
then my if statement is says, if the flag isn't set go here. That's how it should be.

Now if you had 0x1 instead of 0x0, in that case if you had pokemon it would skip the rest of your script and go to the pointer message and end.

In the case above it only continues through your script when the if is set to 0x0.


So try those options.

either remove checkflag 0x828, and the if statement below it.

or make sure its used correctly and the below if, is 0x0 and not 0x1.

Hope that does it for you.

Thanks! It works now :D I did accidentally use the 0x828 checkflag 😳

Thanks again!

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

Thanks! It works now :D I did accidentally use the 0x828 checkflag 😳

Thanks again!

:D Awesome! glad I was able to help.

 

[Funny name]

Great post! I have some trouble compilating a trainerbattle script...

Do you guys know how to write an script where you repeat a certain battle after beating the elite 4, as if it was a reset?

 

[ChrisPlayGame]

When I use this script on a script tile in Advance map, It freezes my game and the music continues playing:

#dynamic 0x482166

#org @start
lock
msgbox @1 0x6
applymovement 1 @3s
waitmovement 1
pause 0x20
msgbox @2 0x2
applymovement 1 @4s
waitmovement 1
release
end

#org @3s
#raw 0x01
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0x09
#raw 0xFE

#org @4s
#raw 0x00
#raw 0x08
#raw 0x08
#raw 0x0B
#raw 0x0B
#raw 0x0B
#raw 0x0B
#raw 0x0B
#raw 0x09
#raw 0xFE

#org @1
= Hey you!

#org @2
= It doesn't look like you've ever been\n here before\pLet me welcome you\pWelcome to Central Glitch!\pAlso known as Mystery town!\pSay... It doesn't look like you're from\n the glitch dimension at all\pYou must be from the normal world\pHow did you get here?\p...\pHmm... you say you fought a trainer\n named Aub and you got sent here?\pInteresting...\pAub was a citizen of this town.\pOne morning, he was nowhere to be\n found!\pBut who would've ever thought he\n would be in the normal world?\pWhen you are in the glitch dimension,\p You can never go back to the normal\n world.\pThat also goes for people who live\n here.\pThat means you are stuck here in\n this dimension forever!\pDont worry! I'm sure you can find\n a way out like Aub did!\pCome to my house if you need me!

There was a part in the tutorial telling me how to fix it but its blank

 

[firefoxredultra]

Hey first of all I wanted to say THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING GUIDE!! And second, I need a very little help and I can't do anything about it... So basically I want to change the script of our rival fighting us for the first time in Pokemon Firered, but I CAN'T FIND THE EVENT IN ADVANCE MAP WHICH IS LINKED TO HIS FIGHT! I checked everything and there's literally no script in advance map which is for his first ever trainer battle! (In Oak's lab)
I have to change some text of it (of course by creating a new script, I know that much) but I can't even find where to add the new script to because I just can't find where his original trainerbattle script is! Technically it should be on a tile OR on our rival but it's not there!