Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

While there are far more that are unlisted, here's a few examples on what can happen past Flag 7999.

 

While there are far more that are unlisted, here's a few examples on what can happen past Flag 7999.

wait so its acutally possible to set a flag with letters in it to do weird things???

 

Yes, it can read other ASCII symbols as numbers as well.

Anything before 0 can be read as negative numbers, btw. "~" is the highest ascii symbol, which reads as 78. (<FL+000~ is the same as <FL+0078) It's the highest you can type up on your keyboard.

 

Yes, it can read other ASCII symbols as numbers as well.

Anything before 0 can be read as negative numbers, btw. "~" is the highest ascii symbol, which reads as 78. (<FL+000~ is the same as <FL+0078) It's the highest you can type up on your keyboard.

thats really weird........

how did these flags somehow get assigned to these certain things like move left??

 

So for some reason, even after getting the nemesis and beating hell, CS+ [Steam release] still hasn't given me the nemesis challenge. I looked into the mods.txt, & realized that the nemesis had the weapon No.12, meaning that if I could edit that value to be the weapon No. of a weapon I already have [e.g the spur], the challenge will be unlocked. The only problem is that I don't actually know the weapon No. of the spur, meaning I don't have any way of knowing what weapon I'm actually requiring of myself.

I'm pretty sure since most of you guys here are modders, maybe you can tell me?

 

The sprite order for ArmsImage is in the same order as in the assembly, here's a map for reference, though.

 

I tried that and it still is locked. How do I fix that? I changed the value to R+ as well and nothing.

Edit: I literally gave up on trying & speedran through easy mode just to get the nemesis for this challenge. So, glitch resolved I guess.

 

This might've already been asked, but how do i change the version number and remove Studio Pixel from the title screen?

Spoiler: Example

 

This might've already been asked, but how do i change the version number and remove Studio Pixel from the title screen?

Spoiler: Example

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You change the version number through Resource Hacker, and for removing the Studio Pixel thing from the title screen, there's an option for that in the Title Screen hack in Booster's Lab

 

You change the version number through Resource Hacker, and for removing the Studio Pixel thing from the title screen, there's an option for that in the Title Screen hack in Booster's Lab

Also, how do you remove the "studio pixel presents" from the opening cutscene?

 

Go to the "u" map, and in the mapdata tab, replace "u" with "Deathbear presents" or whatever you'd like to use.

 

I hope this is the last question i ask, but how do you change the descriptions of items? I already checked the weapons section of the hackinator in booster's lab, so if that's where it's supposed to be, i think i have a problem

 

"Edit other TSC file" > ArmsItem.tsc

For if you plan on changing the save, health refill, and death scripts, they're all in Head.tsc (Have a freebie, since they're accessed in the same fashion)

 

Normally, when the error dialogue comes (which isn't a byproduct of the error, it's just ascii displaying what would be Japanese if the language and locale were set to Japanese), an Error.txt file appears in the Cave Story directory. Is there anything pointed out in there?

 

Complications: The build of my mod, upon closing and reopening in Booster's Lab, has mutated so that the most recent room I had been working on became a copy of a previous room. No input had been given consciously to cause this. Oddly enough the TSC file for the room is intact.

This happened to me once I think

In the new room that has become a copy, are the Npcs that you originally put there still there but the tiles different? Because that's what happened to me

 

Thank you for the advice. I have done as Zxin suggested and used the hack to translate error messages, which shows that the error is "Failure to read stage". I had earlier checked for an error log as Serri suggested, but it only appeared after I used the translation hack. The error message reads;
"I:\Test Story\Game Folder\data\stage\Prt.bmp,0
I:\Test Story\Game Folder\data\Npc\Npc.bmp,0
I:\Test Story\Game Folder\data\Npc\Npc.bmp,0"
I haven't found anything particularly useful on these specific issues. I examined the folders and found no such documents, but I do realize that the names are the prefix in the standard formatting use by Pixel when naming files of those natures. I thought that the zero might indicate that the files in question were Prt0 and Npc0, but neither had been modified.
On your question Walrus_guy, both the tiles and NPCs were duplicated.

The problem maybe is happening because the map code name that you're testing in the .exe game is different (more expecificaly, the stage.tbl). This commonly happens when you are testing the same maps with different code names in other executable file.
By example: the start map of the original Cave Story is [013]Start Point (Start). If the mod has other code name, like [013]Start Point (whatever_map_code_name), or so, this probably may happen.
Other reason may be that the map properties is also modified, so the game isn't reading correctly the map.

Try to change the properties, or change the map code name to see if it solve the problem.

 

That bug should be posted in the BL thread so they can try and recreate it.

 

How can you add a background to the title screen?

 

How can you add a background to the title screen?

are you talking about the part where you press new/load or the part where it shows the doctor and misery walking

 

the part with new and load.