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Anyone know any good tutorials about 65c816 assembly programming/hacking? I'm working on a SNES hack and it would be pretty helpful. Cheers m8s.

>>3163976
All the documentation you need to hack the SNES:

1) "Programming the 65816" by David Eyes and Ron Lichty
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/images/7/76/Programmanual.pdf

2) Official SNES dev manual
http://www.romhacking.net/documents/226/

3) Anomie's SNES docs, more accurate hardware details than the dev manual
http://www.romhacking.net/?page=documents&category=&platform=&game=&author=548&perpage=20&level=&title=&desc=&docsearch=Go
All the software you need to start hacking the SNES:

1) Geiger's Snes9x debugging emulator
http://www.zophar.net/snes/geiger-s-snes9x-debugger.html

2) YY-CHR, or some other graphics editing program. More a convenience than absolutely required. Probably better utilities exist.
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/119/

3) Assembler
I'll publish an assembler towards the middle of summer aimed at SNES dev, but for now you're on your won.


If you have any question regarding SNES hacking, ask away.

are there any zelda hacks on the level of extra mario bros that add new mechanics and stuff? Or are they all just the same fucking game with a new level layout? Zelda fans seem a lot less creative than mario fans

Planet Sporespawn

Anyone else excited about sega letting people share rom hacks of genesis games on steam?

>>3164871
It's nice. I hope this doesn't mean it's one step closer to making them paid though.

I wanna play this Mario Is Missing romhack in the OP. Where might I find it?

>>3164871
Not until they open up Sonic the Hedgehog titles, since those are the only Genesis games people hack.

>>3165056
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=13599

>>3165068
Merci, tomodachi.

Is there a hack of Zelda 2 that combines the NES and FDS versions into one? Like, taking the FDS version with its extra sounds effects and slightly better animations, but with all the improvements of the NES version.

>>3164871
How will that work? Can I just upload any genesis romhack under some label?

>>3165196
They'll be on the Steam Workshop.

>>3165215
That doesn't explain much

>>3165219
I think that's all that is known.

How does one git good at working in bin or hex? Any math tricks? Any results from number theory, modern algebra or linear algebra come in handy?

>>3165505
just use the windows calculator

fuck learning that shit by heart

>>3165505
>>3165679
this pretty much
Hex is easy to learn by heart and you can count in binary easily with your fingers - just ignore one finger and you can count a byte with two hands

Are there any MSU-1 games with new music that you actually like?

>>3166270
Like completely new music or re-arrangements?

I liked the Super Metroid one with the score by the synthetic orchestra guy. It's amazing.

Here is some progress on the For the Frog the Bell Tolls DX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIiH07Yfho

>>3166341
Re-arrangements of the original music in CD quality. So far I've only tried MMX and X2. The metroid stuff I listened to sounded a bit too far removed from the original but I haven't played it.

MSU-1 is a neat concept, I wish it was used for more stuff

>>3166506
Really? The Metroid one is almost 1:1 recreations, and the guy who made them didn't even intend for them to be used in the game, so it's kind of a happy accident.

>>3166506
>>3166537
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVophuxZKI
case in point

>>3164336
>first document: 469 pages
>second document: 800+ pages

Holy shit. I was looking more for video tutorials and whatnot, but of course that's some great information to have.

No questions about SNES hacking now; I'll get back to you if anything comes up.

Randomizeranon, did you find any more? Or is the list from the last thread still the master list(minus the additions from the thread, of course)?

Never forget

>>3166990
>non nintendo characters in there

Why

>>3167001
Why not?

>>3167001
>only wants Nintendo characters

For what purpose? It's called Vidyamon not Nintymon.

>>3167001
>enjoying nintendo characters

>(improvement)

>>3167369
>implying it's not an improvement
gender neutral should always be the standard

>>3165068
Anyone else not able to load this hack? None of the retroarch cores I'm trying give me anything more than a black screen.

>>3167381
So you always play as some androgynous blob?

>>3167416
I was assuming it was just a grammatical edit. If that's the case... huh.

>>3167369
I wish whoever screengrabbed that had clicked off the link after they'd visited it so the dotted line border wasn't there.

>>3167369

Hell, I would label it that way just to upset autists like you.

>>3167462
How is he an autist for doubting that making it gender-neutral is an actual improvement?

>>3166990

Professer Mootles

>>3167415
It's entirely possible you've patched the wrong rom.
Maybe the hack requires a headered rom and you have an unheadered one?

>>3167449
Why?

>>3167621
dotted lines are mysognistic

>>3166270
>MSU-1

reminder to report and hide.

>>3167686
report and hide what? this general is pretty good

>>3166990
I made all the shoddy looking ones and contributed Slowpoke

Also he should do something original for Slowpoke, and have Slowpoke be Entei. I'll tell him if he comes back.

>>3167686

>>3167692
>>3167737
derped, sorry. still good advice when dealing with shitters

>>3167714
I'm here. I came back like, a month ago.
I've actually been working on another game (on RPG Maker) since I killed my laptop with all the Vidyamon progress in it. I kinda lost interest you know?

But now I see you lot are still interested in it.

If anyones still willing to help me out again, then I'll definitely start filling up the dex right away. I feel like we should at least finish that before doing the boring bits.

>>3167797
I'd go through post all the backsprites and the alternative Dracula but my computer died while I was also making a game too.

Let's start using backup flash drives.

So can the SNES straight-up run NES code, or is it more complex than that?

>>3167843
I also learned something as well. Shinys are color swaps. Not alternative sprites.

So I guess all of those other cool alternative sprites were for naught.

Anyway, here are all of the backsprites that were complete.

And here's the list.
http://pastebin.com/JRXwwenK

>>3167862
>So I guess all of those other cool alternative sprites were for naught.

>>3167952
Calm down eggman. We could always make another version of the game but with those sprites instead. You know, like how certain Pokemon are available in some games. We can even put new franchises that weren't represented in the first one.

>>3167952
>>3167862
I have no idea what could possibly have given anyone the impression that they were anything BUT palette swaps.

>>3167964
To be fair, there was no evidence for either. It doesn't really matter anyway, since all of the alternate sprites are lost and don't exist anymore.

>>3167952

>>3165162
The FDS has extra hardware sound channels or something so copying the sound from the FDS version is not possiblel.

which zelda2 animations are better on the FDS?

>>3166990
4U

>>3168243
Noice. Let's add it to the collage.

>>3167983
That image

>>3168137
Obviously it'd be the FDS version getting the improvements rather than the other way around.

Only animation I can think of off the top of the head is the water in the overworld. It's animated in FDS but static on NES.

>>3167862
There was a more updated Dedede somewhere
And that's a shame, the other Drac was amazing

Anyone have a link to the Pokémon Crystal Disassembler? Can't find it for some reason.

>>3168578
https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal

>>3168845
Thanks broski

>>3167862
If you're using the Red disassembly, there's no reason they can't be. Would just take some extra ASM.

>>3169369
Or any other Pokemon disassembly, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PyhmEdD7oc

>>3169404
Cool. I'll make a board with nothing except "Rotate the control stick" games.

>>3169404
that's awesome. designing boards really lends itself to a WYSIWYG interface, so hats off to the developer of the program

Last thread someone asked for a Mario Party editor. Someone is in the process of making one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PyhmEdD7oc
https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/PartyPlanner64/wiki/Creating-a-Board

>>3169594
You are just a few hours too late, but it's awesome so I'll give you a pass. >>3169404

Dig Dug, Ecco and Double.

Good enough? This limited pallet is really starting to burn my Poffins.

>>3168556
Posting the backs I made. Is a shame about the shinys, but I suspected they just were pallete swaps too. Nice to see the other Drac getting so much love here.

>>3170412
If you use less colors, you can "hide" sections of a sprite with a palette just by coloring them the same as other portions. Something simple with Scorpion there might be doable if you keep the hood up for example and just had a solid-colored mouth mask on the normal sprite go away to reveal the skull in the shiny.

The problem is obviously that "less colors" is a horrible prospect for 3-color sprite to resort to, so I would not recommend doing it except for very simple cases.

>>3170412
Pretty cool man. I still can't decide which to use though. I'll definitely include the different sprites in the collage anyway.

Yknow, so we don't loose them again.

Should I make a straw poll or something?

>>3170484
Yeah, that is a clever way to use the palletes and can get great results, but the loss of one color in an already very limited colored sprites, just for a rare shiny makes it kinda unappealing to me.
Scorpion would be a easy character to shinify anyway, you can put a green, black or gray palette on him and call it a day, like they did on the original games.

>>3170412
WHAT IS A MON?

>>3170501
Sure, seems like a good idea to me. And imaybe someone else wants to use the ones you don't in another hack or something. That would be great too.

>>3170530
A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF PIXELS.

>>3170530
Fuck, can we have modern-Dracula as an NPC just to deliver this line? And then he uses the old Drac as his Pokemon?

>>3170559
That sounds like a good idea actually. He can be one of the Elite Four perhaps.

But for now, let us decide which will ne used as a Pokémon.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10060439

>>3170559
Maybe old Drac could double as Alucard? In the way he was a discount Dracula under dad's mind control in CV3.

>>3169404
>video made private

Updated. I'll do one for backsprites another time.

Does anyone have any more alternate sprites they happened to have saved?

I have a serious question. Why are there no ROM hacks of Super Castlevania IV?
>inb4 TOO EASY!

>>3171692
Deloris when

>>3166270
what is rock n roll racing for 500

>>3165068
>>3165107
>>3165056
>>3163930
So I tried and beat the demo. It's not nearly as fun as the original SMW. It's not bad, mind you, but just kinda meh. And Castlevania music does not belong in a desert-themed level.

Also, how might I report a glitch to the hack's creator? I found a fairly glaring one.

I've posted this here before, but do you guys know how I could make my game autoload to the main menu instead of playing the intro cutscene? Would it be as finding the code in the ROM that begins the main menu, finding the A, X, and Y values at this point, and then just editing the start of my ROM to load in these A, X, and Y values and jumping to the main menu code? I'm assuming not, but I really don't know; I'm just starting out with ROM hacking. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

>>3166990
how about Klonoa?

>>3172058
Make a sprite, maybe she could be a trainer.

>>3172376
in the thread: http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=83264

or you could do it on IRC, the author's there on occasion

>>3173042
Me? But I can't sprite.

Updated. Memes are optional now. All Vidyamon represent a real video game. Still deciding on what the Charmander line should be. I've been getting some Klanoa requests. If you can find two other video game characters that can evolve into or from Klanoa then I'll put it in. Otherwise I'll just leave him in as one of the optional sprites alone.

Also bump.
http://pastebin.com/JRXwwenK

>>3175414


I love the Prinny, Dood!

>>3169968

Ecco is missing his stars

Other wise good sprites

>>3175414

If your doing more requests

Pino and Josette from the wonder project J games

>>3175414
Solid snake for Lt surge

>>3175496
Already got snake in as one of the mons.

Why the fuck does the front page of Romhacking.net have a hack about AIDS on it?

>>3175515

It's the same edgy retard that keeps making hacks like this. Pic related. I think he probably just gets a kick out of forcing whoever manages the site to upload shit like this.

>>3175507
Miller? They even have similar appearances.

>>3175631
As Surge? Yeah, I guess that can work.

>>3175414
Just a small idea, but Vivian and Yotsuba could work pretty well as trainers.
Also, if I finish some stuff I have to do for work early I probably will do a couple of mons this weekend.

>>3175515
>>3175542
I got into romhacking through I-Mockery back in 2003 or 2004, and the hacks reviewed there were bad and featured "edgy" content. like that. At some point they became some kind of inside jokes for a small part of the romhacking community, and making intentionally bad and edgy hacks, with obligatory cameos of Wilford Brimley, nazis, and AIDS was some sort of rule.
Guess some people still enjoy making and playing that kind of hacks, or maybe some people never understood those hacks were made ironically and didn't represent the romhacking community at all. Either way, seeing them on a comedy website is great, but seeing them in a serious site like Romhacking.net is awfull.

How to edit level titles?

Been working on a Donkey Kong Country 3 hack that plays like an "official" alternate version. Same difficulty, no cheap deaths, but replaces the more gimmicky levels with regular platforming ones, as well as changes the enemies/secrets on the other levels.

I'm using two different editors, but neither have the ability to change level titles. How would I do that? I've read something about using a HEX editor, but not sure which one to go with for ROM hacking nor how to find specific text to replace.

>>3175713
DKC and DKC2 both stored all their text plainly, but DKC3 uses its own custom compression for text and a bunch of other things to save space fit even more stuff in.

There is no easy solution, but most likely approach would be reverse engineering the compression format and writing your own tool for compressing text. I don't know how complex the text compression is, but IIRC it's not as bad as the other two big compression types in the game.

>>3175743
Damn, that's a shame to hear. I have zero programming skills, only know how to use hacking editors and design decent levels. New level names and dialog box text would have added to the experience. Maybe I will reach out to someone once all the levels are done and ready to go. Anyway, thanks for the info!

>>3175542
some of these actually aren't that shitty. They're fucking retarded in concept but they're well made. the Mario Bros. one is the only one that I can say is truly bad.

>>3175414
Hey, I wouldn't mind contributing at all but I can't seem to grasp sprite art. I'm comfortable with my regular drawing skills but does anyone have any advice for programs in sprites, or ways to practice it? Applying what I know about digital art to sprite art hasn't yielded appealing results.

>>3175743
Source?
I could swear that all three DKC games have their text 100% uncompressed

>>3175414
Whoever made that Roothoot sprite, fuck you. The owlfag on /vp/ has been using it as fuel for his spam, you've made things worse.

>>3176017
maybe he made it and he's here right now ;)

>>3167416
Well whether a man or a woman a silent protagonist is a blob, the gender doesn`t matter, it does not affect the story.

For silent protagonists with no personalities it should be standard.

>>3176017
If you want I can remove it. Didn't know it was causing so much trouble.

>>3176403
There's no way this is the source of the shitposting, and it will stop once the starters are revealed anyway.

>>3176403
I'm not actually upset at you, just upset at the situation in general, you don't need to remove it; owlfag has it already anyway so the gesture wouldn't change anything.

>>3176420
I don't give a rats ass about the starters but I was made fully aware of the shitposting yesterday.
Wow, that is one dedicated Timmy. I say Timmy because it's so obviously the same goddamn person with a dynamic ip.

Anyway, I remembered finn the owl from a month ago and wanted to sprite it, alongside other fakemons.

Hope I didn't cause too much trouble.

>>3176447
I don't think it caused trouble, though I wonder how he found it. I mean, I wouldn't expect him to come here. Was it posted in a more popular place?

>>3176453
It was posted in the romhack general there. /vp/ wants to help me as well it seems.

>>3176463
Don't let them.
The worst thing you could possibly do is let them attempt to "help."

>>3176470
What's wrong with /vp/? That's my main board you're talking about, dude.

I know owlposting is rampant but that has nothing to do with the game.

>>3176470
Pls don't bully your little sister hack thread, we have overlap with Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokémon hacking, we look up to you senpai

Except the dirty Essentialsfags but they'd never come here anyway.

>>3175414
Could use some Turrican, Lemmings and Aarbron.

>>3172670
you could try to find the place during the intro where the game checks if you are pressing start and code it so it thinks u always press start , it might be as simple as changing BNE to BEQ or something

or maybe there is a special routine which can be skipped by removing the JSR or put an RTS

Ezio

>>3176490
That whole post is reason enough to "bully."
Stop being a tremendous faggot.

>>3177541
But I just want to spend time with you senpai and share our hacks with each other

Whoops wrong thread. Here, have a Gravelord.

>>3177552
It's okay anon, we're all friends here.

>>3166990
Holy shit what an all-star cast.

>>3166990
what is this

>>3177645
I am 12 and what is this?

>>3177645
Read the thread dude.

What if Vectorman evolves into Halo Man?

>>3177740
Wait forget that, WHERE THE FUCK IS DOOM GUY?

>>3177745
He's planned to be in the game. No one sprited him yet though.

>>3177740
>Vectorman

HOLY SHIT HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT VECTORMAN?

>>3177745
Duke and Doomguy and Gordon Freeman are important parts of gaming history. I'm not even big into shooting games but they shouldn't be neglected just because that's not our own inclination.

Also, Christopher Robin: legendary or champion?

>>3177752
I don't know man. If you were on Genesis and wanted to to run and shoot stuff, you pretty much only knew about Vectorman, Gunstar Red, and Dr. Alan Grant.

>>3177753
Doomguy evolves into Duke. They replace Diglett and Dugtrio.

I think I might squeeze Vectorman in somewhere and change Zombine into Gordon Freeman.

>>3177761
Don't forget Contra Hard Corps.
And that makes me realize there is no Contra relaterd pokemon for this hack.

>>3177945
Oh yeah I guess there isn't, huh? I guess I decided against more guys with guns.

What notable non-human villains did Contra have?

>>3178018
You have a good point there, makes sense to not have too many guys with guns, specially since the main Contra guys are literally generic Rambo and Dutch Schaeffer clones.
Most iconic villians I can think of are the waterfall's boss (pic related) and of course the big bad, Red Falcon, basically looks like a giant heart sorrounded by face huggers.

>>3178069
Added Red Falcon in place of Mewtwo. Thanks anon. I finished Hard Corps but never knew it appeared in the other games as well.

>>3175542
LOVE how they allow that garbage, yet pull simple sprite hacks and threaten to pull mapper hacks

>>3175414
Is there any way I can contribute to this? I wanna add Nikki from Swapnote. Is there a palette for me to follow or what?

>>3178618
The palette is any two colours plus black and white.
But all the 'mons have already been decided, so you'll have to make an argument to the authorguy to replace one, or possibly add Nikki as a trainer.
Take a look at the pastebin, it shows the planned replacements.

>>3178627
Oh there's a pastebin! How did I miss that. I'm way too excited.

I'll settle for trainer, sure. Will get to work on it soon.

>>3178618
Are you sure you don't want to sprite anyone else? If you don't see anyone else then I'm sure I can replace something in favor of Nikki.

>>3178648
I guess I'll do the octoling too. I really only care so much for Nikki 'cuz I like her a lot.

>>3178648
What the hell do we call you, authorguy?

>>3178661
I was thinking "Vidyanon", but I haven't got the chance to call him that yet

>>3178661
Vidyamon anon. I mean I have a trip but I only use it for drawfagging. Should I maybe use it for this project as well?

>>3178660
>>3178648
I'll do Parappa too, why not.

>>3178670
I really appreciate the help, anon.

Also, fix'd Ecco and Double.

>>3167862
Get rid of loss. It was never funny and it's just an annoyance.

>>3178718
lolno

>>3178718
What are you talking about? All I see is a bunch of lines.

You've been hanging out with /v/ too much, friend.

>>3178753

Updated.

Godzilla is too complex for me. I'll finish it some other time.

>>3173324
Thanks, but I hate signing up to use things. I guess I'll get on IRC for the first time in, like... twelve years.

I'm trying to understand why the glitch happens: if you enter the Red Switch with a Yoshi, you can't beat it. It's the oddest thing.

>>3177774
Doomguy should evolve into Quakeguy.

>>3178953
What does Quake guy look like?

>>3178953
Doomguy should evolve into Chief. Makes the most sense aesthetically.

>>3178953
Quake guy is a literal who compared to Doom guy and the Duke.

>>3178885
That Octorok has no business looking that cute

Added KOS-MOS and Uberhero.

Forgot that Ricky Bobby wasn't video games so I decided to remove it. I know it's funny but I'll just make it a trainer or something.

Does anyone know any good characters that may evolve into or from Captain Falcon? Y'know, besides Black Shadow.

>>3179158
samurai goroh?

>>3179185
No, I mean, like are are there any other game characters from other franchises.

>>3179194
First thing that comes to mind is Initial D.

>>3179201
Isn't Initial D a manga/anime?

>>3179208
It's also kind of a well-known arcade game series developed by sega..

>>3179201
>Initial D

Anything else?

>>3179194
I'm trying to think of small helmet-wearers or people who run and just coming up with Commander Keen and shit.

Guys, wouldn't you happen to know of a romhack of, let's say, alex kidd?

>>3179268
Midnation Racer maybe?

Weeb noises

>>3179194
I got you covered.

>>3179158
>Forgot that Ricky Bobby wasn't video games so I decided to remove it.
Cmon, it was a PS3 launch title. It's a funny inclusion.

>>3179558
I know, which is why I had it in the first place. But it still isn't vidya. I mean I have shit like Miku, Scrooge and Godzilla, but those were in videogames.

It's not like I wont make a sprite of Ricky Bobby anyway.

>>3179504
Speaking of which, that's pretty good.

I don't know what I'm doing. How do I do this better?

>>3179526

I got you covered too anon

Tempest X3 (PSX) would be the definitive version of Tempest if the particle laser affected the spikes in Tempest 2000 mode. I feel like moving a couple bytes around is the difference between a gimped port and the comprehensive collection of retro Tempest. And I don't even know where to start.

>>3180396

Reading the I Am Error book really gives me some appreciation of how good we have it coding today compared to assembly language shit

>>3180369
DECIDED

I'll do Mach Rider. That is Mach Rider isn't it?

Ah fuck it I'll do both.

>>3180412

The girl one is from VS Mach Rider

Its just trying to imply it was a girl all along. Kinda like Samus

>>3178964
Like Doomguy, but uglier.

>>3181205
Okay then. Tell you what. Look at the pastebin and see if you can find someone he can replace.

Please don't replace anyone you think is more popular than Quakeguy.

>>3179158
Captain Commando? Sonic Blast Man? Vanquish guy?

>>3179158

I guess either blood falcon, mach rider, or the blue falcon

>>3181892
I'm going with Mach Rider.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I see we're getting low on the board so it wouldn't hurt to bump with some progress; did a couple more music covers for Gen 2 Pokémon hacks.

https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-1/laverre-city-gbc-8-bit

This is from a couple weeks ago, it's from XY.

https://soundcloud.com/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-1/ever-grande-city-gbc-8-bit

And this just got finished tonight, from RSE.

Are they any good? The Laverre cover has a bit of a lull toward its midsection but that's just how the original song is so I chose not to change it.

>>3182903
Vidyanon here. Those are ear sex. Never stop sexing my ear, friend.

Please don't die

>>3183093
l-lewd

I forgot how slow this board is, jesus christ.

>>3184853
better being slow than being bad

>>3184858
>/vr/
>not bad
it's becoming worse every single day

>>3184926
No it's no.

>>3179570
http://www.flashracegames.com/play-talladega-nights-ricky-bobbys-fast-track.html

>>3185028
Seriously?

>>3170584
Is that even a question? C'mon now

>>3185043
You were always good with questions, Drac.

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_2_Time_Attack

Are there any hacks for Sonic 1 and 3&K that give them time attack modes, like the above does for 2?

>>3185306
>Save-State Denial System added. At any point, you can make a save-state. But, if you make a save-state in the middle of the level, you will NOT be able to load it. If you do, the game will instantly lock-up and the "Game Over" jingle will play.
I didn't know this was even possible.
Also, if it ain't at Sonic Retro, it probably doesn't exist.

Would this be possible?

>>3185490
don't see why not

I like romhacks

>>3185501
Cool

>>3185334
>I didn't know this was even possible.
it technically isn't – an ultra-accurate emulator would be able to circumvent this, but such emulator will probably never exist because emulation-wise, it isn't wise to check/write the SRAM file every goddamn frame

>>3185306
>Flash Cart Warning
>Due to the cheats system implemented in the hack to prevent cheating, the game is saving to SRAM every frame. The Everdrive MD flash cart uses FRAM, which allows about 1 Billion writes. EEPROM cartridges allow a mere 100 thousand writes. The excessive writing to SRAM in this hack could shorten your cartridges life. Use at your own risk.

Sounds more like a REPRO cart warning.

Bumping with pie

Anyone here know anything about SNES graphics? I tried filling in the logo here with a solid color, why is it coming out all fucked up?

>>3186638
Need a little more info than that.

What game? How did you go about figuring out what memory to edit? How did you edit the memory? What did you expect?

Perhaps instead of clearing out some letters you fucked the decompression (probably not)? Maybe you changed a pointer and now it's dereferencing junk (more likely)? Maybe the letters weren't on the layer you expected?

Without some clues I can't help.

>>3177774
Why not have Wolfenstein guy (BJ Blazcowitz) evolve into Doomguy?

What software does everyone use to make/plan their sprites? I'm trying to sprite an NES game but YY-CHR will only show 2x2 tiles at a time (16x16 px) and I'm gonna be making a bunch of characters that are 16x24, so it's inconvenient to try and see the whole body.

ELF Files?

Fellas I'm trying to trick Quake 3 Revolution for the Playstation 2 into loading the wrong textures and to do this I'm swapping the offsets for files in the main archive that holds all the relevant data.

I'm going to be swapping things a lot so I don't want to make a new ISO each time I try another swap, so I'd like to just emulate the game from my HDD as a directory and I think that I need to make an ELF to do this.

I can't find a fucking thing about making an ELF.

How do I do what I want to do?

>>3187390
Ah, the SLES / SLUS file is an ELF file, or I managed to run from ISO despite clicking run from ELF and picking it.

It's all rather mysterious.

>>3187410
Seems it was running from the ELF, but also getting data from the ISO. When I set it to No Disc, PCSX2 gives me an error in the log over and over again: Can't load module sio2man

SIO2MAN.IRX is a file on the iso in the MODULES directory, which is also in the MODULES directory in the directory the ELF file is in.

What's the deal with running ELFs?

>>3187062
I already have a wolfenstein character. I want to have as many vidya reps as possible. Exception is Super Mario obviously since I got a Koopa and the man himself.

>>3185490
>>3185529
here's some ms paint fuckery in case someone actually wanted to make this

>>3187543
I just want to point out that sprite tables only bear a passing resemblance to how games actually handle sprites.

>>3187390
>>3187410
>>3187525
Sorry dude you will have to make new ISOs every swap, because PCSX2 can't trick games they're running on CDs just by running the ELF file, and most games are hardcoded into working from CDs, no matter if they look for specific files and not sectors.

>>3187602
Do you know how to properly edit a PS2 ISO?

I just used Magic ISO, loaded the resulting ISO with PCSX2, used Fast Boot, and the swirly ambient lights played in the video and it told me to insert a PS2 disc.

>>3187627
Dunno dude, as long as you don't mess too much with the files you shouldn't have any problems unless there are invisible files not listed in the TOC that get fucked in the remastering in which case you're screwed. I use Ultra ISO and I've modded PS2 games before, althought most were not the finished product so they had less protection schemes.

>>3187578
True, the image is only meant to be a color reference.

>>3187660
UltraISO gave me a disc image that PCSX2 can boot, what a pleasant surprise.

>>3186836
I went into a tile editor and combed it over, filling the tiles in all black, until I found the tiles used in the title. When it was in all black, it worked perfectly, but when I choose a different color, that's what happened. I'm guessing that I fucked up the decompression somehow. 2bh I don't know much about ROM hacking (I'm doing it out of necessity to make my RPG Maker 2 game into a standalone ROM) I just kind of play with it and see what happens.

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>>3172058
Pokemon Clover already claimed her

any tips on sprites? I feel like I could do way better than this.

>>3191850
I don't know what style you're trying to mimic or your limitations, but if you remove the black edge you can influence the shape. Influencing it well is another problem entirely that I'm not 100% on though.

I made the top of her hair expand outward so the left side blended in more, filled the shape out onto the edges in places, and tried to give her more of a hip thrust with a little curl on the bottom of her skirt without making it blunt so I put the edge of the corner on the inside to avoid a perceived thickening of the shape.

>>3166270
I didn't realize people were already doing this with SNES games. This has been my quest, except I wanted to add orchestrated music to one of the Final Fantasy 1 remakes. I always imagined it would be easy to hack the PS1 remake to trick it into playing red book audio, but I haven't found any tips on how to even go about that. >>3187390 seems like he might be on the right track, but that's PS2 anyway.

(here's one of the tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/combe-sound/boss-battle-ff1hd-v2))

>>3191747
I know, I made sprites from Clover and Sage too. Blobbos and the fire baboon thing.

>>3191850
That's pretty good anon! Did you want me to make her a trainer or a Pokémon?

>>3192136
You don't have to take away all of the black outline dude, the first one was better in my opinion.

>>3192872
I feel like I could do a little better. But fuck, I've got something else to do too. Sorry for the wait. I'll deliver the octoling and parappa eventually too.

>>3193024
Take your time.

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Any mods or romhacks for Advance Wars?

>>3163930
Call of Cthulhu. It's a Mario World hack.

I'm probably asking in the wrong place, since I'm doing N64 modding, but does anyone have suggestions for 3d model formats/editing programs that are easy to use? I've used .OBJ files with Google Sketchup before, but the .OBJ format is a little too simplistic, it gets rendered 1-sided in Sketchup rather than double sided. I'm willing to implement something like a .DAE exporter/importer if it will make things easier for me.

>>3195374
>I'm probably asking in the wrong place, since I'm doing N64 modding
I don't see any reason why this would be the wrong place.

>>3190316
Can't w8 top play meme crystal version

>>3195546
I've seen some discussion over whether not N64 is retro enough for /vr/ before. Other than that, I've seen very little discussion on these threads over anything N64, so I don't expect much input on this question.

>>3195606
Is that supposed to be an insult?

>>3195614
Did you even read the sticky bro

>>3191850
In my opinion you already have a good start, but yeah, there is room for some improvement.
Tips I could give you:

Not exactly pixel related:
>You need to get a better grasp on perspective. You have a full front face with 3/4 eyes there. Go for one or the other, but don't mix them. Usually 3/4 is better since a front face can look too simetrical and it looks less interesting.
>Same with her skirt, legs are up, so you probably get to see the bottom or "back" of her skirt.
>More dynamic lines. Use more curves and less straight lines when you make poses like that. Always start with a stick man, but one made with curves, not straight lines.
>Sometimes less is more. Specially on small art, sometimes you have to miss a bit of detail. For example, I ignored the top border of the glasses, but they are still readable. Same with the buttons on her shir, they are small so they probably would go unnoticeable when watching her from too far, so I don't need to draw everything.

Pixel art related:
>Don't be afraid of using a little bit of antialiasing to soften some lines, and don't be afraid to use a little bit of dithering for shadows. Don't abuse too much of them, specially if the colors you are using aren't too similar.

Yous keep doing pixel art, and redo an old work once on a while. It helps a lot to see how you can improve it, and how much you have improved at it too.

>>3171692
doomguy sprite when?

>>3197329
He should be doing this exact pose.

>>3196089
FUCK. THAT'S GOOD. fuuuuuuck. I'm disappointed I couldn't have made it myself. Oh well, I'll apply your advice to the two other sprites I promised to do.

Anon that's doing the hack, you should probably go ahead and use this sprite.

>>3197352
If that is what you want. But I can't at this moment unfortunately because.

>>3196089
Please post the original 56 x 56 sprite. It's too big! I cannot resize either because it will end up distorted.

>>3197529
>I cannot resize either because it will end up distorted.
Yes you can and no it won't

>>3197567
How the fuck

>>3197570
it's probably the program you're using or some setting in it that fucks it up.

>>3197570
>copy past it into ms paint
>select all
>resize
>25x25

>>3197575
>>3197574
But.. I'm using paint. What the fuck man, are you guys wizards?

erm, why did my kaizo webm get deleted? i see no reason for it to be.

>>3197305
>>3197594
anyways, how would you say this looks? ("NO" blocks only let sprites through) this is from my pit hack that i've been working on for quite a while.
>inb4 this gets deleted for no reason as well

Updated.

>>3182903
https://soundcloud.com/deved-music/littleroot-town-gb
Something I found today.

a preview of stage 1 of my new kaizo hack

>>3197584
>paint
there's your problem
paint uses one resize method and one resize method only, resulting in a blurry mess

>>3197735
Not if you select the image first, it doesn't anti-alias then.

>>3197738
I did not know that.

>>3197709
No one likes Kaizo hacks.

>>3197761
Typical of /vr/ to say their opinion is shared by more than 7 billion people.

>>3197761
Also, if noone likes Kaizo hacks, why then is there a subforum dedicated to them on SMWCentral?

>>3197738
God, how did the 64-bit Windows versions get such a HORRIBLE downgrade in Paint? You can't even resize with a quick ctrl+R, you have to menu.

>>3197814
Microsoft, Anon.
Microsoft.

>>3197820
This.

>>3197812
containment board

>>3197869
To contain nobody? What's the point?

>>3197807
I ain't him, but I'm pretty sure Kaizo ain't popular and most normal people would find it obnoxious.

>>3197761
FYI that poster is a notorious troll in the Doom community. Don't attempt to engage him. Let cancers lie.

Anyone have the latest version of chdman from MAME?

I'm on a capped connection right now and can't get the whole MAME download without it failing, but chdman on its own should be small enough to be fine.

>>3198982
nvmd got it

>>3197709
>>3197613
>pit hack

>>3197812
Impossibly hard games, like kaizo and bullet hell, really only seem to be favored by those who're neck deep in the genre with no will to get out

tl;dr- They're neet games for neetest of neets

>>3167449

>>3199579
), fuck off.

>>3197681
So you guys are valuing detail over any kind of size consistency

>>3200717
Pokemon doesn't have size consistency in the first place

>>3200723
It did between evolution lines. That is a huge Medusa head.

>>3173324
hi blm

i find it very interesting how this board can not handle a different type of humour, or immense difficulty without sperging..

>>3200756
>>3200775
>>3200780
What the fuck are you even going on about

>>3200781
i'm just talking about the /vr/ community and how they can't handle anything different from the norm

>>3200784
>most people don't like pit hacks
>most people on /vr/ doesn't like pit hacks as well

GOLLY GEE WHAT A SURPRISE.

>>3200756
>>3200775
>>3200780
I can understand the appeal of Kaizo hacks and why some of the more autistic SMW players enjoy them, but I personally don't like them.
On the other hand, that kind of "humor"...
heh. I didn't know about that stuff. I looked for it and found an entire Youtube channel dedicated to it. MAYBE you could find it funny like the first time, but that's exaggerated. It's like those "memes" you see on Facebook and stuff. If not worse.
But at least it seems like you don't even care about that, so I don't know why it was brought up.

>>3200952
At least most people outside of /vr/ don't whine about them and claim that their authors never leave their mother's basements.

>>3200963
I don't care about whatever you do in your mum's basement, you could be jacking it all day long for what I care. I just showed my disinterest in pit hacks and you could've brushed it off but instead you're acting like a cunt. There's a reason SMWC banned your ass, you know.

>>3200980

Might want to try looping that gif next time sport

>>3200969
>>3200952
>>3199530
>>3198798
>>3197869
>>3197761

>>3200984
What's wrong? Are you mad?

>>3200963
I'm pretty sure he said that as a sort of hyperbole for having a lot of free time. An NEET who lives with their parent probably has nothing at all to do, so if they want they can be autistic about their children games all they want. It's not necessarily bad.

>>3200992
Did you seriously think I was samefagging? I wasn't even trying to hide it.

>>3200996
Stop posting altogether then.

No-one cares about your hack. It's another pit hack, woopeefuckingdoo. What do you want us to say when most people don't care about pit hacks?

Maybe if you weren't such a fucking asshat your projects could have amounted to something but instead you jack it to weebshit in your mom's basement. Good going.

I was just trying to post a WebM of my Kaizo hack, only to have everyone sperg about how they hate it. I don't care if you don't like pit or kaizo that's ok. You just don't have to blow it out of proportion and assume every single person who makes them has no life.

Then again, I did post it onto /vr/.

>>3201003
But you DON'T have a life, Zander. All you do is make shit, whether it be Doom .wads, SMW hacks or GMS projects. For fuck sake you paid for ads on SMWC asking for to be unbanned.

No-one even "sperged" about your hack. They just showed disinterest. Stop being such a faggot and maybe people will give you the light of day.

>>3201024
>>Keep living in denial
oh the ironing

Stop shitposting already, you two.

>>3201063
took you months to make I bet

>>3201086
Yeah, I condensed 3 months work into half an hour. Ain't that amazing, or what?
Also, for those who are too lazy to patch it: https://youtu.be/6ZmYj5F4fh4

>>3201105
Post the rom already patched. And I'm not watching the video since it doesn't work with HTML5 (yet)

>>3201150
I care

http://www.mediafire.com/download/80moqt6nsu6xsoq/The_Hooray%21_Fishing_Season.smc

I made this hack in hopes of making something pleasant to play through.

It's 14 exits and would probably take anyone about an hour to complete.

>>3201549
Rain is nice

>>3186638
>>3188062
Bumping this, hopefully someone can help

>>3201693
I'll try downloading the ROM and investigating it a little.

>>3201721
Awesome, thanks man!

>>3201605
Yeah, it's only in one of the levels.

>>3201875
It's enough.

>>3201886
Yeah. I don't like making level ideas overstay their visit.

>>3200717
Yeah pretty much. Pokémon in Gold/Silver never had size consistency because of the sprite size limit aside from the evolutionary lines obviously. Compare official sprites with eachother and you'll see.

>>3202030
There's nothing wrong with a romhacking thread in /vr/, you dick

>>3201105
whats the point of this hack ?

Hyper Metroid, Redesign, Phazon, or Eris first? I already finished Super Zeromission.

>>3201549
This screenshot conveys a lot of cool design intent. I'm gonna check it out when I get home.

>>3200717
>implying Pokemon games had it
Is not like you will have all of them at the same time in the screen to compare anyway. If we did, we would have to make most characters 10 pixels tall and the smallest ones like Navi and Baby Mario 4 pixels tall at most, to keep the consistency with Godzilla, the spaceships and Moai-kun.

>>3197681
Needs Ristar and Nights. Maybe Earthworm Jim could have a pre-evo without the suit?

>>3202216
Hyper Metroid, hands down.

I'm guessing Saturn hacking is still a shot in the dark? I want to translate some Saturn games.

So did 11.0 fix the exploit? Is downgrading still possible?

>>3203716
sorry I didn't realize I posted this in the wrong thread until now

>>3203789
You're not only in the wrong thread, you're on the wrong board. How'd you pull that off, anon?

>>3204106
Pinned tabs.

>>3204112
Touche.

>>3202509
Awesome! Tell me what you think!

>>3201128
no i'm not posting it already patched otherwise nintendo will send a cease and desist letter to 4chan

>>3204732
Because that's definitely what happens if you do.

>>3202206
>>3204760
Stop responding to Nambona.

>>3204765
I actually wanted to give him a chance since others have been rude with him, but since he was being an idiot the other day I was considering to. Is he always like that? Oh well.

>>3164835
Lel

>>3197709
Awesome

>>3202752

Had a feeling that'd be the one. I've heard great things. But I also considered saving the best for last. In any case, does Hyper require any advanced techniques? I know Redesign will. Super Zeromission called for some tough shit too, but I was having to use a keyboard at the time and gave up out of frustration. So the less advanced stuff the better.

I guess I just want a genuine new Super Metroid with a unique map.

>>3206145
Hyper TECHNICALLY calls for advanced techs, but because it's using the Project Base engine, it's made a lot easier.
For example, you can mockball on demand by just holding run while in morphball mode (after getting spring ball), and you're able to keep a speedboost going under some of the most ridiculous circumstances, just by jumping (movement speed is preserved when landing, including speed booster state, even if you come to a full stop during the jump, so long as you're holding left or right when you land.)

As for Redesign, if you're playing Axiel Edition, the reliance on advanced techs is lessened dramatically.

I've played both on keyboard (I don't even have a PC controller) and got through them just fine, but that's me.

>>3206463
>Axiel Edition
I'm getting flashbacks of Tourian.
The horrors. Oh god the horrors.

>>3206820

That's another thing: I've got about a 50/50 split of people telling me which is better between Redesign and Axeil. Can't decide which one to play.

>>3207560
Axeil is the definitive version of the game according to the author, but there are some who believe the changes he made to make the game easier and more accessible ruined it. I think the changes made it into a better hack.

>Page 9
Not on my watch.

>>3207575
Every time I hear "more accessible" it's almost always "WAAAAHHH THEY CHANGED THIS RETARDED THING", so what did he do to it?

>>3209404
There's really too many changes to list, so here's a pastebin copy of the v1.4 readme. Note that the current version of the hack is v1.52, so there may be even more changes.

http://pastebin.com/TYTBuA5W

>>3209428
I see he polished the controls a lot, some of the finer things were frustrating as fuck to pull off.

>>3209453
Yep. It took him a while, but it's a real solid improvement over the original.

>>3176876
Mah boi. Turrican forever. :)

>>3167369
Improvement is the label assigned to any hack that slightly tweaks the gameplay without actually overhauling the game.

There's no statement being made here.

>>3171718
Are there even any programs for it?

What the fuck is Ted doing in my captcha

>>3185502
The greatest post of all time.

So... is there any flashcart that supports SA-1?

I'm assuming there isn't, considering that it requires at least something that can at least process at a very specific speed on the cartridge itself.

>>3209972
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,21867.0.html

>>3211104
No

>>3211104
>SA-1
Disgusting.

>>3167369

Prepare to get even more triggered, then.

>>3211709

>>3167369

>>3211739

Are there any good SMW hacks that arent in the Mediafire?

Also I think it would be better to move the Mediafire to MEGA, so you can batch-download easily.

>>3211709
I think I'll try this, looks cool.

How does Lunar Magic's overworld editor work?

>>3212840
you're gonna have to be more specific.

Will there ever be an SMW collab which is like the VIP series (for example ASMT and JUMP) except made by the people on /vr/?

>>3213197
I don't think it'd be very good

>>3213197
There was an anon who tried doing just that around two years ago or so, but luckily, it never got anywhere further than a few minor graphical edits. I still remember those Yoshi Coins edited to look like Guy Fawkes masks and Shoop da Whoop Bullet Bills. It was awful.

>>3213110
Where is the best tutorial for the overworld editor?

>>3211709
>implying it isn't better to be looking at a woman than a man

newfag here, how to open *.ips file?

>>3213197
>>3213389
>>3214206
I personally love the idea of a /vr/ collab. All it would take is a project leader who knows when to throw out awful ideas like Guy Fawkes coins and Shoop da Whoop Bullet Bills. I even had this idea for a SMW collab that I think would be really neat and a great showcase of SMW hacking's strenghts, but people would have to be interested first.

>>3214591
The one on the SMWiki is fine for the basics: http://www.smwiki.net/wiki/Tutorial:Basic_Overworld_Editing

Aside from that, I can give you a tip: design an overworld as a whole rather than one world at a time. This does wonders for the overall overworld and makes it feel more cohesive, but also makes it much easier and fun to design. It'll be much easier to adjust things if you need to change something after all, and give you plenty of opportunities to plan out shortcuts like in the original SMW.

>>3215657
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1040/

>>3215681
I could be the spriter. I am experienced in making SMW hacks and can make custom enemy sprites in YYCHR for you. Just come up with idea's whatever the enemies should be. Should we keep the idea for Guy Fawkes coins and the Shoop da Whoop Bullet Bills? Mario could be anon. Pic related.

Any news about Sonic 3 Complete? Are they going to keep updating it?

>>3215836
With what? The only thing the game's lacking is everything Sonic Classic Heroes has holy shit that would be GOAT

>>3215819
I don't think making it Anon-themed would be a good idea at all.

>>3215932
Then what should it actually be?

>>3215942
A Mario game?

>>3215943
What i was talking about is what these collab hacks had custom sprites for Mario, enemies and more. For example, the VIP series mainly used 2ch memes for playables, enemies and some dialogue. It would be nice if we could the same thing, and not make it your ordinary game with the protagonist being Mario.

>>3215963
Anon shit would be embarassing though.

>>3215967
Wouldn't really matter. Both 4chan and 2ch have their own memes. Besides, who are the main people who talk their shit on both boards

>>3215983
I still don't see who'd it appeal to considering 4chan is an alienating place for a lot of people and the people here would reject it for being meme shit.

2ch is foreign so most people aren't familiar with it.

>>3216005
I wholeheartedly agree.

>>3216005
Yeah, I bet 2ch and 2chan actually thinks the VIP hacks are gay as fuck, because the entire thing's just Japanese memes.

>>3217095
The Japanese think Kirito and Kira Yamato are good characters, so I wouldn't trust their opinion for even a frame.

>>3217095

>>3217095
Then why is the sixth one in development for a few years now?

>>3218557
it's probably like a single group doing it

>>3218573
The other games were higher quality because more people were working on it. They currently are bullshitting about the levels in Bowser's Castle and they need someone to work on the bosses, because people such as carol currently don't work on VIP 6 so they can work on their own hacks.

>>3218591
>They currently are bullshitting about the levels in Bowser's Castle and they need someone to work on the bosses, because people such as carol currently don't work on VIP 6 so they can work on their own hacks.

I really hope it will get finished someday. It's one of the best SMW hacks I've played.

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>>3164829
boomstick.

>VIP 4 and 5 will never be translated

>>3221761
>contragulations

Are there any SMW hacks that just have massive interesting levels to explore without time limits? Added or altered mechanics would be nice too.

Just looking for something comfy. Like a metroidvania

>>3223446
Extra Mario Bros is exactly what you're looking for.
Except that it's a hack of Super Mario Bros instead of Super Mario World.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/369/

>>3223462
not the same anon, but this is the only thing i can ever think of which is similar to the question he asked.

>>3223762
I watching watching an LP of some Smw hack that let you choose the level order but you couldn't access too far until you had activated the switch palace. Can't remember it's name

are there any tetris hacks that level off before the game gets fast? sometimes i just want to play tetris and relax without it getting intense.

>>3225549
I bet the speed is one single variable kept in RAM. Find it, the best debugging emulator is a GB one after all.

Does anyone have experience in PS1 text hacking? I desperately want the Shin Megami Tensei games translated so people can play the (arguably definitive) ports.

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>>3211745
>3
>>3211739
>>3211712
>>3211709


why the fuck do you think these are indicitive of the RHDN community? We host the opposite end of the spectrum too. Just recently this hack was front page news:http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2823/

Our front page was

Daily reminder to report and ignore shitposts.

>>3230335
>why the fuck do you think these are indicitive of the RHDN community?
I don't see why you're assuming that.

>We host the opposite end of the spectrum too.
lol

>>3230335
You think that's better? Because it's not. It's 200 times worse.

>>3197681
is this ever coming out?


>>3230385
Get the fuck off this website you disgusting, subhuman
SJW Scumbag

>>3163930
Hello, how can I educate myself to be smart enough to make awesome Super Mario Bros 3 romhacks like DahrkDaiz?
He made
>Mario Adventure
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/63
>Luigi Vs Mario
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/243/hacksterpiece-theatre-mario-adventure-2-preview
>Luigi's Coin Quest
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/147/hacksterpiece-theatre-the-lost-hacks-of-dahrkdaiz-part-3-luigis-coin-quest
as well as a MegaMan 3 romhack where hitting select toggled between the different abilities you got from killing the Robot Masters.

>>3230820
get used to SMB3 hacking, start coding and program new stuff into your game.

>>3230849
>start coding
What languages? I'm pretty goodish at Perl. Kind of shitty at Python. I'm currently studying C, since that's supposed to the big boy's language.

>>3170584
Elite 4 open for choices?

I'd figure if villains were the choice then bowser, eggman, drac, wily would be an easy 4,albeit heavily weighted toward japanese platformers from 20-30 years ago.

Would be neat to see the champion be someone behind game creation, Steve Russell for example.

Also, Civilization Gandhi should be the leader of the Fighting gym.

>>3177740
I would think that Vectorman evolves from Sukapon being that they're both notable ball-people.

God damn banjo dreamie is turning out so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSEDJTEdlI
>mfw we will one day have banjo kazooie hack that is sm64: star road
Should it and banjo kazooie be added to the rom hack list?

>>3202698
Evolve up from a Worms worm?

>>3230857
6502 nes

>>3230987
But Star Road is awful. It's damn near impossible to do something as simple as getting out of water.

>>3231440
...What? Are you kidding?

>>3231759
No, I'm not. The hack is riddled with problems.

>>3232003
Like what? There's no problem with jumping outside of water.