Get rid of (c) Pixel?

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No you don't.

You have two options:

FIRST OPTION
> Open .exe in hex editor
> Search for "(C)Pixel" string (it's case-sensitive )
> Replace it with blanks
> You're done!

SECOND OPTION
> Open each and every new sprite sheet made by you in hex editor
> Add "(C)Pixel" at the end of each sprite sheet's code
> You're done!

I generally prefer the first option, cause it's less of a hassle. =/

And btw I'm not exactly sure about the second option's steps, as I myself don't use it at all xD.

I'm pretty sure first option won't entirely work, because you're just replacing (C)Pixel with blanks, so you would now be required to put blanks at the end of your *.pbm files instead of (C)Pixel, so you're not really saving any time.

 

naw, it doesn't.
not sure why though.

 

Hmm, I could have SWORN I posted that in the pinned topic... oh well. OOPS!

 

I'm pretty sure first option won't entirely work, because you're just replacing (C)Pixel with blanks, so you would now be required to put blanks at the end of your *.pbm files instead of (C)Pixel, so you're not really saving any time.

Not quite. Obviously this would be true if you replaced it with spaces, but what you actually need to do is replace it with nulls. You can't enter a null in the text column – you need to edit in the hex column and replace it all with 0's.

This works because the null character is used to mark the end of a string. So a string that starts with a null character is interpreted as a string of length 0.

 

Has anybody ever considered just changing the extension the game loads back to BMP, so you can just edit the files directly without all the renaming crap back and forth?

I can see getting rid of the requirement for editing purposes, but actually changing the string to something else...isn't that like you're trying to take credit for all the art, not just the stuff you modified? It seems a bit disrepectful to Pixel.

 

Well, if you created your own tilesets all on your own, that's not really an issue, is it?

 

sshsigi, that won't work, because no matter the filetype, it is still going to check for (C)Pixel.

 

So?? Change that, too. It's well documented how to remove (C)Pixel. The JNZ opcode which jumps if the file has (C)Pixel is located at 40bb02 which maps to 0xBB02 in the executable. Change the 75 to an EB. Piece of cake.

And hey, right above that I noticed a push of the string "%s\\%s.pbm". I didn't actually try it, but I'll betcha just modifying that string to "%s\\%s.bmp" would let you change the extensions.

 

You can Ctrl+F for pbm in the .exe and change it all to bmp.

 

Hasn't this been brought up half a million times before? o.o;;

 

Yes it was, this was all discovered by me a long time ago

Check this thread out:

http://www.cavestory.org/forums/threads/512/