Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Does it pop up a (garbled) error box or does it just instantly stall?

No text, it just crashes.
Also I don't know, the entities seem regular and it's the same for the events.
There are a ton of entities though.
At this point I am willing to send screenshots if it helps.

 

I'm gonna be honest even if this will make me look very impatient; I want to solve this problem as soon as possible to start working on my MOD again and complete it within a certain time so I want to ask this:
Do any of you have any suggestions? Like, what would you do(and check) if you were me in this situation?

 

Hmm, trying it all out myself, there really doesn't seem to be any problem with the event. Is the entity assigned to its proper event by any chance? It doesn't look like there are any flags used for this whole event either, unless there's one being used by another entity that's completely overlooked.

 

Is the entity assigned to its proper event by any chance?

Yep, they match.

 

Ok so hear this, I copied the mod and deleted some most of the entities in the second map and now it works for some reason that doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
Now I just wanted to thank all of you who tried to help me.

 

Ok so hear this, I copied the mod and deleted some most of the entities in the second map and now it works for some reason that doesn't seem to make any sense at all.

Alright, that sounds like one of the entities was crashing the mod when loading into the level (what I suspected earlier). There's quite a few entities that either won't display or will crash when put into a map normally, usually because they require being spawned by other entities in a specific way. Also, sometimes hacks will just overwrite the code of an entity, though in good practice almost all hacks will tell you what it's replacing.

So yeah, just be careful and do frequent tests when adding those NPCs back into your map.

 

Yeah, now I understand, I had spawned a couple of Polish Babies so now it works works.
The only problem is that it won't allow me to place ANY enemies in the map because it crashes or it does a very weird thing: it starts from the beginning even though I had saved and if I try to press F2 it starts from the save point but the entities I had placed are gone even though I had saved in booster's lab, I'm sure.
What should I do now?

 

I don't know if its my PC or the editors, which it probably isn't since they're solid editors (BoostersLab/CaveEditor), but when changing a Title it says "Cant Find downloads\cavestoryen\cavestory\data\Kings"
and when changing the map name and telling it to appear, my game crashes, and I don't think it has anything to do with the events, I remove all entities, keep all events, then play it then BOOM! Crash, this happens on both editors, no it doesn't have anything to do with loose script or anything of the sort because I delete the animated entity and the script that goes along with it and added my own script that looks like this:

#0100
<KEY<MNA<WAI0050<FAI0000<WAI0160<FAO0000<END
Before Editing:

After Editing:

This is what lead to what we call: A Crash

 

"Cant Find downloads\cavestoryen\cavestory\data\Kings"

I feel like there's something missing here, unless youre using asm to load something I dont see why the game would load anything named Kings in the Data folder (data/stage, homever...), and because i dont see a filetype i can only assume its referring to a folder named Kings which makes even less sense to me.
With these issues I would wonder like, are you sure it may not be your antivirus that's causing issues? I won't tell you to stop using what you're comfy with (Because people will disagree with my choice) but you might wanna consider looking into whitelisting stuff to be sure.

 

Yeah, now I understand, I had spawned a couple of Polish Babies so now it works works.
The only problem is that it won't allow me to place ANY enemies in the map because it crashes or it does a very weird thing: it starts from the beginning even though I had saved and if I try to press F2 it starts from the save point but the entities I had placed are gone even though I had saved in booster's lab, I'm sure.
What should I do now?

Question, you're not using <IMG by any chance, are you? That takes up the parent Polish space in the code

 

Question, you're not using <IMG by any chance, are you? That takes up the parent Polish space in the code

I don't know what <IMG is so I don't think so.

 

I feel like there's something missing here, unless youre using asm to load something I dont see why the game would load anything named Kings in the Data folder (data/stage, homever...)

what is even more weird is that it includes the "downloads/cavestoryen/cavestory" bit, which I really do not know why it would.

@RageRuner unless you've downloaded a weird .exe or your antivirus is doing something funky with the game files, you should not see this error. I doubt this is the issue but maybe try checking the length of the path? weird things happen when the full path to an arbitrary resource is too long (i.e. 255 characters, but certain programs could go even lower than that).

 

The game starts the title screen wont show, I think it refuses to show anything but what it had originally. Kings. It would only let me change it if I had the maximum amount of characters in the box, I could honestly live without a title screen but I really want to get this to work

 

Ohhhh I see what's going on now, you're renaming the filename. I don't think CE automatically changes the memory for them like in BL, so it's recommended to just name it back to Kings

 

Ohhhh I see what's going on now, you're renaming the filename. I don't think CE automatically changes the memory for them like in BL, so it's recommended to just name it back to Kings

Tried that, its still blank, but I can live with that honestly, im just glad it doesn't crash....

 

So I just played Jenkas Nightmare (Amazing Fan Game) and It got me thinking about the Snake in Jenkas nightmare and the Bubble Line and Machine Gun in Cave Story, how do they automatically regain their ammo?

This is question 1000 this week folks!

 

I'm pretty sure all gun properties except ammo are in the executable itself.

 

Question 1001!

I was going through Jenkas nightmare and wondered: "How could I make custom tile sets" so Im asking exactly that!
How to I make custom tile sets

 

Visually you can just edit the .bmps in the data/Stages folder with the program of your choice. The tileset properties can be modified in whatever map editor you're using.

 

You fire up an image editor and do your stuff. Make sure to save your tilesets as 24-bit bmp files starting with "Prt". The width of the bitmap has to be 256 px and the height has to be a multiple of 16, but not greater than 256. Then copy any of the .pxa files in the stage folder and rename it to match your bmp's name.

Afterwards, in BL or CE you can assign states/properties for each 1:1 tile (i.e. solid, breakable, etc.).