I wish you the best of luck. But in all honesty, do you really think it's time to learn assembly? It's fantastic that you're going to, but have you perfected the use of TSC yet? It seemed like just yesterday you posted the demo for [not a]MOD!
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Just coming up for air. Phew.
Minor progress report here! After about an hour of finagling, I finally managed to get OllyDbg working, since I hadn't understood about the whole "0x=00" and "always add a 4" thing. Strangely enough, I had no problems copying to executable and saving to file.
In the test mod, I managed to change the title screen color using RuneLancer's guide! For some reason, however, Paint. NET's definition of the hex values had to be flipped in order to work right in OllyDbg. Nevertheless, the lighter gray I was going for turned out fine...
Which is when I realized that it wasn't the final colour anyway and changed it to neon blue. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':p' />
Anyway, I also messed around with the hacks featured in the "Mysterious Hacks" game by using the Booster's Lab Hex Patcher. They were really fun to mess around with. :3
My ultimate goal, at the moment, is to get the Loading screen to work without help from MagicDoors. I'm also planning on adding the edited Missile Launcher code from Dooey's Weapon Hax mod, for...reasons.
...Really, I'm quite surprised that I haven't broken anything, considering I'm pretty much attempting the impossible goal of doing some meaningful and useful ASM hacking, when I'm not even very experienced as a basic modder, and with absolutely no prior experience with coding.
...I guess I can thank all of the resources here for that. ^_^
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Tpcool"><p>I wish you the best of luck. But in all honesty, do you really think it's time to learn assembly? It's fantastic that you're going to, but have you perfected the use of TSC yet? It seemed like just yesterday you posted the demo for [not a]MOD!</p></blockquote> No, it isn't time. I'm not really trying to learn Assembly, silly. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
You see, one of the main purposes of [not a]MOD is as practice. I started it because I wanted to get my feet wet in Modding.
Since then, I've gotten really good at TSC. The only things I'm not really accomplished in is <ANP cutscenes and Boss Battles. And I've dabbled in all of the other components of a good mod:editing graphics, storyline, little touches(I've got that one down as one of my main strengths), and even music editing(though that was done behind scenes, and I don't want to share the somewhat terrible results. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':p' />)
And since I've also generally started trying even more new things, I decided it was time to dabble in the field of Assembly Hacking.
Really, I've come so far and done so much since I joined these forums, I'm surprising MYSELF. And that's a wonderful feeling. :3
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Shane"><p>Good luck with this!
You'll definitely need it...</p></blockquote>
Thanks, Shane! Though it turns out it wasn't all luck after all, eh? <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
Anyway, I'm diving back in soon. Bye! <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/grin2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
Minor progress report here! After about an hour of finagling, I finally managed to get OllyDbg working, since I hadn't understood about the whole "0x=00" and "always add a 4" thing. Strangely enough, I had no problems copying to executable and saving to file.
In the test mod, I managed to change the title screen color using RuneLancer's guide! For some reason, however, Paint. NET's definition of the hex values had to be flipped in order to work right in OllyDbg. Nevertheless, the lighter gray I was going for turned out fine...
Which is when I realized that it wasn't the final colour anyway and changed it to neon blue. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':p' />
Anyway, I also messed around with the hacks featured in the "Mysterious Hacks" game by using the Booster's Lab Hex Patcher. They were really fun to mess around with. :3
My ultimate goal, at the moment, is to get the Loading screen to work without help from MagicDoors. I'm also planning on adding the edited Missile Launcher code from Dooey's Weapon Hax mod, for...reasons.
...Really, I'm quite surprised that I haven't broken anything, considering I'm pretty much attempting the impossible goal of doing some meaningful and useful ASM hacking, when I'm not even very experienced as a basic modder, and with absolutely no prior experience with coding.
...I guess I can thank all of the resources here for that. ^_^
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Tpcool"><p>I wish you the best of luck. But in all honesty, do you really think it's time to learn assembly? It's fantastic that you're going to, but have you perfected the use of TSC yet? It seemed like just yesterday you posted the demo for [not a]MOD!</p></blockquote> No, it isn't time. I'm not really trying to learn Assembly, silly. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
You see, one of the main purposes of [not a]MOD is as practice. I started it because I wanted to get my feet wet in Modding.
Since then, I've gotten really good at TSC. The only things I'm not really accomplished in is <ANP cutscenes and Boss Battles. And I've dabbled in all of the other components of a good mod:editing graphics, storyline, little touches(I've got that one down as one of my main strengths), and even music editing(though that was done behind scenes, and I don't want to share the somewhat terrible results. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':p' />)
And since I've also generally started trying even more new things, I decided it was time to dabble in the field of Assembly Hacking.
Really, I've come so far and done so much since I joined these forums, I'm surprising MYSELF. And that's a wonderful feeling. :3
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Shane"><p>Good luck with this!
You'll definitely need it...</p></blockquote>
Thanks, Shane! Though it turns out it wasn't all luck after all, eh? <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
Anyway, I'm diving back in soon. Bye! <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/grin2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
Still...I'm about to dive into the code. If I don't come back out within 24 hours...assume I'm dead and mourn me I guess?
Okay, the time has come. Goodbye!