Cave Story running while unfocused.

Hey! I'm DbX. I speedrun Cave Story

Sorry if something like this has been posted before. I read the stickies, searched through forums and didn't find anything on this. I'm wondering how to make it so that Cave Story will run in the background. As a speedrunner, it's pretty frustrating to have to lose time to have to click on something else (IRC, Resizing a window, etc) and have the game stop and waste time, and some other people in my community have wondered about this as well. I'm sure it's just a simple hex edit and then boom, done.

Sorry to sort of come out of the blue without any real contribution, but any help on this will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Edit: Just learned the memory address associated with this is 0049E468. When unfocused the byte goes from 1 to 0. Any way to force it to 1 when unfocused? I know it's not as simple as hex edit then go home, but there's definitely a way to do this.

 

0x413316
90 90 90 90 90

Seems to do the trick. Do you know how to apply a patch?

 

Look at that, it is as simple as a hex edit and go home

 

I kind of wonder how you have time to chat on IRC while speedrunning a game tho
*shrug* it's not for me to decide

 

Thanks a lot Noxid! I'm not exactly sure how to patch or anything. But I'll try and figure it out before bothering you guys any more.



A good example of when to unfocus are times like when Jack is walking away from the graveyard, igor taking sue away, boss animations, etc. I think the -biggest- annoyance is browsing around during the credit roll and having it stop. I'm rambling now though.



I really appreciate the help!



Edit. Alright, been unsuccessful on the patching thing. :| the value works of course, but I don't know how to get any further than that. >_<

 

well if you're using a hex editor remove the '4' from the start of the address
or you could open it with Booster's Lab and paste it into the Hex patcher under the Actions menu, then hit the button with the messed up characters, then close the program and save the exe.

 

Officially solved! Thanks a lot Noxid.