Expanding CS modding with .DLL and .INI files

hey guy's,am mario from la la land,i came here to say i love this game and would like to give an idea of how to expand/improve it's modding style.
so first off,if for example the game had a logic to read files from an ini,then it would be easier for everyone to change thing's,like the player's speed,weapon data,NPC's etc,an example for this is:

[ObjectList]
1=quote
2=curly
3=critter
4=bat
etc..

and then every one of them has a section like:

hspeed=
vspeed=
hp=
etc...

and about dll's,well,i got this idea from another game's modding (yuri's revenge) which had been hacked through ASM by a bunch of guy's,and then they are using a DLL to enhance the games function's.
i know these are hard to do and all but it's a good idea don't you think?.

 

Well, it's certainly possible. It'd also be insanely difficult. If you really need to expand the Cave Story engine that much, it'd probably be less effort to write your own engine from scratch.

I'm not sure you totally understand what you're talking about here...

 

And I don't really see the advantage of this over using one of the editors (CaveEdit or Sue's Workshop).

 

...(yuri's revenge) which had been hacked...by a bunch of guy's

lol.

On-topic,

I'm not sure it would be that beneficial to modding, it seems like a lot of effort for not that much improvement.

But hey, if you want to, then feel free.

 

that's fine by me,but i only know C++ and no assembly at all,if possible,i could write the code and compile it,and a one of you guys would patch CS with it,that's where it become's easy to you.
and the good stuff about this is that you don't have to go ASM haxing just to add some NPC,and you can make some new AI's for the NPC's,now what do you think?.

 

I have as much programming experience as a badger, but I'll say this - it would be too hard.

 

Noxid proved that it's completely possible to link dll's to the exe with the pxtone.dll.

I'd say this might be a bit useful, but it would be hard since things like the "entity" object have a lot of fields (x-pos, y-pos,....) that would need to be accounted for in the dll. It might not be worth the effort.

 

http://nxengine.sourceforge.net/

Why does no one know about this?

 

We do...?

I don't see how that relates to the conversation, except for that someone could make a CS "mod" with that engine rewrite (which infact would be a lot easier than hacking the exe to run off of a dll).

 

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that's fine by me,but i only know C++

That is an OpenSource C++ Engine that is like Cave Story.
It reads the CS Data.

Go ahaed and make it read DLLs and Stuff.
Huge success.