Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

strange sources suggest 117; more logical sources suggest 128; there's a shaky consensus on the latter

 

I've heard you're not even supposed to really add maps with CE's button...

 

Just make a test mod. Have it have 117, then next make one 128, then make one 200. If it works, it works.

 

I've heard you're not even supposed to really add maps with CE's button...

No, but using the copy map feature and redesigning the new map is usually pretty safe, and I think Booster's Lab supports adding maps as well.

 

One of my mods can only handle 99 rooms. And I tried adding the 100th room using both CE and BL. I guess it depends on the size of the mod, really.

 

What can having too many maps do to the .exe?

 

There is a bug in most(all?) versions of CE where adding maps attempts to expand the "Map flag" memory space, which can cause a crash if it overruns something important. I don't remember how many maps it takes for this to happen.

BL used to have a bug where having enough (or not enough) mapdata to roll the .csmap segment over the next 0x1000 block (approximately >123 or <103) would cause it to crash as I missed a updating pointer when moving some segments, but this has been fixed since 0410

Otherwise there is no known limit

 

From what I've done before, if you reach past the max number of rooms, it crashes CE and BL if you try to save the new room.

 

Alright, if this is the case, how can I remove unnecessary maps? Right now I have 105ish and I don't want to hit any kind of limit and screw things up. However, deleting a map screws up TSC. In BL, if you don't want it to screw up TSC, you have to have EVERY MAP after the deleted map's original placing edited or open when the map is deleted.

 

Alright, if this is the case, how can I remove unnecessary maps? Right now I have 105ish and I don't want to hit any kind of limit and screw things up. However, deleting a map screws up TSC. In BL, if you don't want it to screw up TSC, you have to have EVERY MAP after the deleted map's original placing edited or open when the map is deleted.

instead of making new ones, just edit the ones you deem "unnecessary".

 

However, deleting a map screws up TSC.

It does in Cave Editor, but not Booster's Lab.

In BL, if you don't want it to screw up TSC, you have to have EVERY MAP after the deleted map's original placing edited or open when the map is deleted.

If you're experiencing this problem, then you're probably using an older version of Booster's Lab, because last I used it, it automatically adjusted all the <TRAs for me when I deleted unnecessary maps. That, or Noxid somehow broke this function in one of the newer releases.

 

It sometimes does weird stuff if you try to move or delete more than one map at a time

 

How would I make the songs play at the same rate as 143 frames per second?

 

In Orgmaker 2.1.0, there's a BPM (beats per minute, I think you meant to say) count next to the tempo count in the song settings. It's pretty much the lower the tempo, the higher the BPM.
What addresses do I have to change to make the Curly Boss deflect Super Missiles instead of normal Missiles?

 

In Orgmaker 2.1.0, there's a BPM (beats per minute, I think you meant to say) count next to the tempo count in the song settings. It's pretty much the lower the tempo, the higher the BPM.
What addresses do I have to change to make the Curly Boss deflect Super Missiles instead of normal Missiles?

I thought she deflected both?

 

I remembered Kayya telling me that was not the case.

 

I seem to be having a bit of trouble with the statues in the Statue Chamber...



In Lunar Shadow, the statue room is supposed to have shootable statues after a boss is defeated.

However, when the flag is set and the room is entered, the statues seem to glitch.

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That's how the room (currently) looks like before that boss is beaten; everything there's okay.

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However, when the boss is beaten and I return to the room, that's what happens. Destroying them just changes the sprite to the last statue in the first pic, rather than change its sprites...



I have no idea if it might be something to do with the scripting; everything seems okay there, though I'll post it in case it helps.



The room's current script is this:

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#0090
<CMU0005<END
#0091
<CMU0005<END
#0092
<DNP0092
<ANP0200:0000:0040
<ANP0201:0000:0030
<ANP0202:0000:0020
<ANP0203:0000:0010
<ANP0204:0000:0000
<FLJ1800:0095
<CMU0005<END
#0093
<CMU0005<END
#0094
<CMU0005<END
#0095
<ANP0200:0010:0040
<ANP0201:0010:0030
<ANP0202:0010:0020
<ANP0203:0010:0010
<ANP0204:0010:0000
<CMU0005<END

#0100
<KEY<MM0<TRA0067:0090:0082:0009
#0101
<TRA0085:0096:0019:0021

#0200
#0201
#0202
#0203
#0204

#0210
<KEY<FLJ1590:0220<MSG<TUR
[ 1 ]<NOD<END
#0211
<KEY<FLJ1591:0221<MSG<TUR
[ 2 ]<NOD<END
#0212
<KEY<FLJ1592:0222<MSG<TUR
[ 3 ]<NOD<END
#0213
<KEY<FLJ1593:0223<MSG<TUR
[ 4 and 5 ]<NOD<END
#0214
<KEY<FLJ1594:0224<MSG<TUR
[ Alexis ]<NOD<END

#0220
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Last ]<NOD<END
#0221
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ To Add ]<NOD<END
#0222
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Penultimate ]<NOD<END
#0223
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Witches ]<NOD<END
#0224
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Alexis ]<NOD<END
 
#0300
<KEY<MSG...<NOD<END
#0301
<KEY<MSG...?<NOD<END

The original Statue Chamber's script, for comparison, would be:

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#0090
<MNA<CMU0000<FAI0000<END
#0091
<MNA<CMU0000<FAI0001<END
#0092
<MNA
<ANP0200:0000:0040
<ANP0201:0000:0030
<ANP0202:0000:0020
<FLJ1534:0095
<ANP0203:0000:0000
<CMU0000<FAI0002<END
#0093
<MNA<CMU0000<FAI0003<END
#0094
<MNA<CMU0000<FAI0004<END
#0095
<ANP0203:0000:0010<WAI0001
<ANP0200:0010:0040
<ANP0201:0010:0030
<ANP0202:0010:0020
<ANP0203:0010:0010
<FAI0002<END

#0100
<KEY<SOU0011<ANP0100:0000:0002
<FAO0000<FLJ1534:0101
<CMU0024<TRA0084:0090:0019:0021

#0101
<TRA0085:0096:0019:0021

#0200
#0201
#0202
#0203

#0210
<KEY<FLJ1590:0220<MSG<TUR
[ Halda ]<NOD<END
#0211
<KEY<FLJ1591:0221<MSG<TUR
[ Annachponae ]<NOD<END
#0212
<KEY<FLJ1592:0222<MSG<TUR
[ Miakid ]<NOD<END
#0213
<KEY<FLJ1593:0223<MSG<TUR
[ Fuyuhiko Date ]<NOD<END

#0220
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Quote ]<NOD<END
#0221
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Toroko ]<NOD<END
#0222
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ King ]<NOD<END
#0223
<KEY<MSG<TUR
[ Curly Brace ]<NOD<END


#0300
<KEY<MSG.....<NOD<END

Is the cause of the issue something in the code itself, or did I mess up the script and not notice it at all?

 

An old script of mine appears to suggest that that WAI0001 in the original script before activating animation mode 10 is necessary to get them to change properly. If that works but you continue to have problems with entity #204, I would hazard a guess that there is no type-10 animation for direction 0000 (which would have originally been the unfinished Doctor statue). You may need to pick a statue that will just sit there and look pretty

 

What part of Cave Story uses the address 00411390?

 

00411390 - Load Image Resources (Called at Startup)

According to FunctionlistNox.txt.

EDIT: What is in the Nemesis used in Sacred Grounds B3 by Curly (offset 44C220, as I recently uncovered) that stops spam shooting by holding down the fire button that is not in the Machine Gun (the MG version used by Quote) / (depending on where the function or whatever is) what is in the aforementioned Machine Gun that is not in the aforementioned Nemesis that allows rapid firing by holding down the shoot button?
I need to make that version of the Nemesis rapid fire, since I'm transforming parts of it into the Machine Gun, essentially.