Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Okay, I was working and I made a signpost, with the words "hello quote!". When I touch the signpost and hit down, the sound plays but no text appears. The script appeared to be working right, so I made a new one the same way. The exact same thing happened. Any ideas?

 

Post the TSC you've got, perhaps the problem's in there. It's running some kind of event since the thing's making a noise.
@ Story: It's sound 0x2E AKA 46. It gets played a bunch of times in rapid succession to make the sound it does.

 

Nooby question time, what's TSC stand for?

 

I don't actually know. T Script or something. But, it's the stuff that should look like this:

#0187
<KEY<MSGHello Quote!<NOD<END

 

Okay then, here it is:

#0187
<KEY<MSGHello Quote!<NOD<END

Does it matter which map it's in, because this signpost is right next to the door that enters into starting point in first cave.

 

Each map has its own TSC file, so the script should be in the one for the same map that the entity's in. CE handles which one for the most part, so that shouldn't be a concern. Perhaps the entity's event number isn't set correctly? You want the box next to "Event #" to say 187 and the box next to "Flags" to say 2000. Doesn't really matter what's in the other one.

 

Umm, what is entity ID for? I have a zero in that right now, but 187 in the
event # spot.

 

It's mostly used for flags, to determine whether or not to show an entity, and a few other things. Just leave it 0.

If it's still not working, uh.. Ah!
Try putting a space between the event # and the event, like instead of

#0187
<KEY<MSGHello Quote!<NOD<END

put it like

#0187

<KEY<MSGHello Quote!<NOD<END

That's my secret trick for when stuff doesn't work for me.

 

Yesss! It works! I was about to ragequit, thank you so much noxid!

 

You're welcome. I only wish I knew why you have to do that sometimes... >_>

 

My guess would be occasionally the script is just too much for CS, so it needs that enter to try and catch back up to what you are trying to run.

 

You're welcome. I only wish I knew why you have to do that sometimes... >_>

Cmon, you're assembly man


GO IN THERE AND ASSEMBLE IT

 

I believe that TSC stands for "The Scripting Code" seeing as pixel named other things in that manner.

 

Hey, I've been inactive for a REALLY long time.

I am looking into creating a new mod in my free time and I REALLY want to use the Money trick by SeriousFace. (http://www.cavestory.org/forums/threads/1047/)

I've been looking at the scripts, but I think I found a flaw. Say I want to make an item cost 64 gold. If I have the 128 flag set, which would mean I had 128 gold, the script (<PRI<AMJ0002:2606<MSG<TURWant to buy a gun for 64 gold?<YNJ0000<CLR<FLJ0064:2602<CLRNot enough gold.<NOD<END) would reject me, even though I technically had more money than that.

Basically, if anyone knows how to use this, how do I dictate prices and make sure they work?

 

That is so old school. I recommend the TSC Varibles hack. It should be kicking around somewhere...

Anyway, basically what it's doing is binary maths. Check first if you have flag 64 set, and if no then check if flag 128 is set. If no, check if flag 256 is set. If not, check the next higher... etc etc. and then once you get to one that is then set it to zero and set all the ones less than it 1 down to flag 64.
Alternatively, the TSC variable hack will give you the same functionality with a heck of a lot less flag checking.

 

That is so old school. I recommend the TSC Varibles hack. It should be kicking around somewhere...

Anyway, basically what it's doing is binary maths. Check first if you have flag 64 set, and if no then check if flag 128 is set. If no, check if flag 256 is set. If not, check the next higher... etc etc. and then once you get to one that is then set it to zero and set all the ones less than it 1 down to flag 64.
Alternatively, the TSC variable hack will give you the same functionality with a heck of a lot less flag checking.

If I could find the Variable hack I'd use it...I'll keep searching.

Thanks for the help though, but yeah, the Variable hack (which I didn't know existed) should be easier...

 

Guess who made it? Meee!
Also I didn't post it yet.
http://tile44.org/~noxid/TSCHack[13].zip
You need Carrotlord's Autohacker, just put the contents of that folder in the hexdata folder. There's also a text doc called documentsation that says what new commands there are.
The only downside of this is, it uses the Undead Core's code space. sorry.

 

Cave story modding help.

I just have a quick question. When modding cave story, how do you create doors and destinations?

Like making the first cave transfer you...say...to the egg corridor?

I'm a newbie at this, sorry. I looked all over for an answer.

 

It's the TRA command.

<TRAxxxx:yyyy:zzzz:wwww

where X is the number of the map you're trying to go to, Y is the event to run when you get there, and z,w are the coordinates to place your character.

Here's a pretty good page that lists the TSC functions, among other things: http://lotlot.net/misc/doukutsu/tsc.txt

 

It's all explained here.
TSC can be tricky to learn at first, so study that. ;3
And yeah, Jed has it right. <TRAXXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ:WWWW

Also, a complete list of TSC commands can be found here: Linkage
Includes all commands, including detailed usage of the ones unutilized in CS itself.