Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

I don't mean to sound rude and I really hope I don't come across as such because I'm not trying to offend you or anyone, but have you -ever- written anything code-related before? Like, even HTML? It's just, it's almost like you don't quite understand the flow of the script. And uh, well if you don't know the basics, trying to skip 'chapter 1' and go straight to 'chapter 3' is going to leave you hanging. I know TSC isn't really HTML, but HTML is probably the -closest- thing I can think of. I believe you need to research beginner's programming guides online, and do some reading. Try languages such as Java or C++, not that I am suggesting you learn any, only that you read up to get the gist of some programming basics under wrap. Many problems one can experience, especially many that you have been describing, are as clear as a typo when you understand that an event needs a beginning, a body, an end, and understand the importance of the placement and order of all the components.

You know, I'm clueless with visual studio programming, and I've never touched java, but I'm pretty decent with TSC. I do think that HTML is as close to TSC as you're gonna get. They both are tag based programming languages after all.
Also, what does TSC even stand for?

 

They both are tag based programming languages after all.

Wat.


On your question, I don't know if anybody on the forums knows. Correct me if I'm wrong, GIR or someone else who knows japanese.

 

Wat you mean wat?!

I know minimal japanese, but it sounds like you'd need to know kanji to figure out what it means.

 

unless I am horribly, horribly insane, tsc is not tag based.

 

Really?
Oh noes, I have been embarrassed!
...Not really. Everyone makes mistakes.
Including YOU, random guest who nobody knows.
...Speaking of insignificant, I better get working on misery story.

 

Lol maybe it stands for [T]he [C]ript, I don't know but it's a guess lol

 

Really?
Oh noes, I have been embarrassed!
...Not really. Everyone makes mistakes.

Well obviously. My intent was not to embarrass you, but rather to make sure that you/others didn't believe that was the truth. The purpose of this thread is to help people who need help with relatively simple things, so a quantity of correct information is helpful. Conversely, spreading misinformation, voluntarily or not, harms both those who want to learn and those who want to help. Ergo, it is a good thing to point out mistakes.

Including YOU, random guest who nobody knows.

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Lol maybe it stands for [T]he [C]ript, I don't know but it's a guess lol

Haha that'd be nice wouldn't? Alas I don't think that's the way it works. Japanese and all that

 

lol i forgot the game was japanese!

 

Well obviously. My intent was not to embarrass you, but rather to make sure that you/others didn't believe that was the truth. The purpose of this thread is to help people who need help with relatively simple things, so a quantity of correct information is helpful. Conversely, spreading misinformation, voluntarily or not, harms both those who want to learn and those who want to help. Ergo, it is a good thing to point out mistakes.

Of course. Just joking around, my feelings are intact.

lol i forgot the game was japanese!

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Also, in response to your sig, Reaper:
I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Give the lemons back! Get mad! I DON'T WANT YOUR LEMONS! Demand to speak to life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'm the guy who's gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

EDIT:
Can anyone help? This ASM code should check if the weapon is polar star lv 3, and if so, keep going. Then it checks if current HP is less than max HP. If so, it sets current HP to max HP. It seems to crash at about address 48B916.

CPU Disasm
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
0048B904      C3            RETN
0048B905      8B0D 9C9C4900 MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[499C9C]
0048B90B      83F9 06       CMP ECX,6
0048B90E    ^ 75 F4         JNE SHORT 0048B904
0048B910      A1 D0E64900   MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[49E6D0]
0048B915      90            NOP
0048B916      3905 CCE64900 CMP DWORD PTR DS:[49E6CC],EAX
0048B91C    ^ 74 E6         JE SHORT 0048B904
0048B91E      A3 CCE64900   MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6CC],EAX
0048B923      90            NOP
0048B924      59            POP ECX
0048B925      58            POP EAX
0048B926      C3            RETN

I know there's random NOPs in there, but I'm too lazy to take them out.

 

Of course. Just joking around, my feelings are intact.


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Also, in response to your sig, Reaper:
I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Give the lemons back! Get mad! I DON'T WANT YOUR LEMONS! Demand to speak to life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'm the guy who's gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

Damn you for steeling my reference Lunarsoul! Damn you to hell!

 

@Lune:
Did you push eax and ecx before this blob you showed? If not, I believe that's what the error is.

Try this:

cmp [499c9c],6
jne B
push eax
mov eax,[49e6d0]
mov [49e6cc],eax
pop eax
B ret

or, if the preservation of eax is not ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL (which is what I strongly suspect) then just do:

cmp [499c9c],6
jne B
mov eax,[49e6d0]
mov [49e6cc],eax
B ret

 

Damn you for steeling my reference Lunarsoul! Damn you to hell!

Ah! Ah haha! I didn't even see that in your sig! Sorry, matt. X3

@Lune:
Did you push eax and ecx before this blob you showed? If not, I believe that's what the error is.

Try this:

cmp [499c9c],6
jne B
push eax
mov eax,[49e6d0]
mov [49e6cc],eax
pop eax
B ret

or, if the preservation of eax is not ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL (which is what I strongly suspect) then just do:

cmp [499c9c],6
jne B
mov eax,[49e6d0]
mov [49e6cc],eax
B ret

Uh, push [register] puts it on top of the stack, right?
If so, that makes sense. Thanks!

EDIT: Wait, so you don't even need to pop the register?

EDIT2:

Just call the TSC event through assembly

00421990 - Call TSC Event [08_ScriptID]

Are you sure this is ZAM? Whenever I try to use the weapon, it just says "empty".

 

unless I am horribly, horribly insane, tsc is not tag based.

I'd consider TSC to be 'pseudo tag-based', as there are no end-tags and because of that the scope of the script never changes, whereas tag-based scripts have a flexible scope. I suppose a *better* synonym to TSC would be BBCode.

EDIT2:

Are you sure this is ZAM? Whenever I try to use the weapon, it just says "empty".

What exactly are you trying to do, anyways?

 

What exactly are you trying to do, anyways?

Making a weapon that restores life, then resets exp of that weapon.

 

Pineapples!

Making a weapon that restores life, then resets exp of that weapon.

Ok that's cool! where'd you get thet idea?

 

Not sure! I thought of it when I was first making misery story.
It occurred to me that I could make the weapon need ridiculous exp gain to level up to 3, then just add 1 HP.
BTW, thanks for all the help guys!

 

cool!
Misery story? Lol, let me guess it's about misery.

 

Yep! Press the button in my sig. =3

Take a look at this too!

 

Cool! I'm looking forward to playing it

 

Uh, push [register] puts it on top of the stack, right?
If so, that makes sense.

yes.

EDIT: Wait, so you don't even need to pop the register?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. One does not pop a register - one pops to a register. Popping merely removes the top of the stack and puts it into a variable.

EDIT2:Are you sure this is ZAM? Whenever I try to use the weapon, it just says "empty".

That isn't ZAM in particular - it's the code to call any tsc event. What you want to do is put an event in head.tsc, and then push that event #, call that code give, and then add to esp.