Jun 29, 2010 at 2:59 AM
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Re: Beginner's Guide to Cavestory Assembly
Appreciation is never too late.
(sorry if this is late )
Appreciation is never too late.
(sorry if this is late )
HyMyNameIsMatt said:I am glad to be learning this, I don't know if you've included enough info on how to make things like original boss fights, but I should know this stuff any way.
Thank you.
carrotlord said:There are a couple of bare-bones lessons on NPC hacking, so you should have enough there to set up a custom NPC (and just use a <BSL on that entity).
If you really want to get into NPC/Boss design, I suggest looking at other people's custom entity code (which they've made public) or analyze Pixel's original NPC codes.
HyMyNameIsMatt said:Why are none of these helpful guides just text or word documents? "my computer spends quite a lot of time away from the internet.
Pigaro said:Uh, Carrotlord, how big is the 1.04 download? The space left on my computer is kinda small.
Carrotlord said:Guide version 1.04b is 1.34 megabytes, which is smaller than a zipped version of Cave Story.
Are you sure you have no space left? Have you tried erasing your Internet history? If you don't clean it at all, it can reach upwards of 1 GB.
Lace said:Out of curiosity, how much free space does your computer have!?
bobbyis said:ASM hurts my brain, but if I wanna get anywhere on my mod without bugging Noxid to hack in stuff for me, I guess I'm gonna have to go back through this and attempt to learn it. Most of what I want to do with my mod requires a moderate amount of ASM hacking
EDIT: Oh bloody hell, I don't have any coding experience AT ALL. This is gonna drive me over the edge.
GIRakaCHEEZER said:[...] I kind of had to force myself at the beginning. I remember back in the day looking at it all and just thinking "oh god OH GOD what is that how can anyone understand that?", since it really looks ugly compared to higher level languages. But eventually it all became easy enough after making a couple of things and such (Like the portal gun, which was basically my first hack. If you go and look at the code, well it's just very sloppy).
It's kind of how I felt about japanese before, except that assembly was easier to learn since there's simply less to learn.
Basically what I'm saying is it seems like a mountain at first, but you learn to love it (kind of).
Lace said:Assembly is not some tool for you to abuse, it is a way of life. Look at noxid, look at gir, at dooey, at rune. These people breathe assembly, they drink assembly, eat assembly, and snort assembly. They're all damned good hackers, and its not because they force themselves to trudge through assembly -- they look forward to it, they love it. You see, it's the process, not the result, that matters. If you're just using tsc and assembly to get to a finished mod, and for no other reason, you need to find a different hobby.