Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Let me have a copy of your .exe and I'll see what I can do.

If I was less acquainted with you, that would have come off as a really shady statement.

 

If I was less acquainted with you, that would have come off as a really shady statement.

Oh, sorry.



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Can I help you with map dilemma then?

 

okay so since autohacker 2 doesn't want to work, i've decided i'm going to add a title screen to my mod the hard way, aka using the assembler (specifically the doukutsu assembler 1.31) because i'm kinda desperate
and just so you know, i don't understand pretty much anything about the assembler so please bear with me and don't call me an idiot or act rude, please. please? thank you.

so there's quite a few things i would like to do, and if some are not do-able then i'm okay with that, just please try to help as much as possible

so i want to put an image behind the new/load options on the title screen of my hack (it can be seen by itself here: http://i.imgur.com/7y2guuM.png ) and, i guess you can say that i want it to replicate the example here ( http://i.imgur.com/jD2TU7L.png ) as much as it can (the blade seen in there is the finger thing from textbox.pbm, which is seen when selecting yes/no)

and also, since i'm new to this, i ask of the one whose going to answer this to, like, specify if it needs to be in a certain thing or not (like text file name or whatever) because i would prefer not to mess things up because i was not informed unu

thank you for your help in advance

and also, could someone help me change the title song to scorching back? (wether it be through assembly or changing the .orgs, i wouldnt mind)

 

could someone help me change the title song to scorching back? (wether it be through assembly or changing the .orgs, i wouldnt mind)

Download these three things:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/95dtx25j45gv5e2/songs.htm
http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/reshack_setup.exe
http://www.cavestory.org/music/all.zip
Change the one that says "Curly" to the scorching back song.

 

If you want an easier solution, I'll look into the code when I get home

That will probably require only one value to change.

Yes. Got it.

40FECA PUSH 18

Change that to

40FECA PUSH 1B

Hack complete.

 

Ohhhhhh shit... Do I need to add the 2x res hack to my mod even If I just wanted to change the loading screen?

Because It just shows a tiny part of it.

 

No, you just have to hack the framerects for the loading screen image

 

jesus h christ it's even called "TITLE SCREEN HACKS" in the list of tutorials thread

 

Iz sowwy Noxid-san ;-;

Edit: owhoawhoawhoa What am I supposed to use for these? I thought this was gonna be ASM...

 

It IS ASM

 

Then how do I even import the data?


Another question,

How come there isn't a NPC data table for Omega and Monster X? I need to change their health values.

 

Another question,

How come there isn't a NPC data table for Omega and Monster X? I need to change their health values.

It's considered a special boss.

You need to ASM hack it.

[MENTAL NOTE:]

Make that darned special Bosses HP chart already!

 

Then how do I even import the data?

You don't have to, it's already in the exe. Those code segments you see in the thread Noxid linked to are simplifications of the actual code. For example, this:

40f9d5		frame[-0x0114] = { 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x000000a0, 0x00000010 }		//	000 000  160 016: Studio Pixel

Represents this:

0040F9D5  |.  C785 ECFEFFFF MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-114],0
0040F9DF  |.  C785 F0FEFFFF MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-110],0
0040F9E9  |.  C785 F4FEFFFF MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-10C],0A0
0040F9F3  |.  C785 F8FEFFFF MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-108],10

It's just that Runelancer simplified it for easier reading. If you don't find Runelancer's formatting to be intuitive, then I suggest you learn the basics of a text-based programming language.

 

At what address do I change the X/Y location of Quote on the Title screen.

I can't find it anywhere...

 

If you want an easier solution, I'll look into the code when I get home

That will probably require only one value to change.

Yes. Got it.

40FECA PUSH 18

Change that to

40FECA PUSH 1B

Hack complete.

I want to do the same thing, only change it to labyrinth fight.

 

Then you have to check which # is that song, convert it to hexadecimal and put it in the place of second value.

 

Wait, yell at me if I'm an idiot, but where's the NPC Curly's .pbm file?Found it!

EDIT: and why can't I edit -EDIT: ANYTHING- in Paint without CS crashing?

 

EDIT: and why can't I edit -EDIT: ANYTHING- in Paint without CS crashing?

First, have you selected the folder you are modding, go into properties, and uncheck "read only".

Second, and probably your actual problem: If you open up the .exe in Cave Editor, select "Game settings", and then check the "Remove (C)Pixel" that appears along the bottom of the screen, and then Save the settings. That should allow you to edit the image files.

 

sounds like someone hasn't read the guides / tutorials / watched the videos / done any research on their own

 

It now doesn't crash, but...

...Curly now uses Quote's palette.