Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

@TLincoln:
Oh oops I forgot that sorry

EDIT: Looking at it again, it's the only boss health that doesn't use [ECX+40].
I wonder why.

From the wise words put in this post:

Omegas coding is so wierd

Really though, when I was making CSTSF Mod, I took a guess based on this thread. The offsets didn't really match up, but they were close, and it worked. And I guess I never bothered to mention it at the time.

 

Thank you both very much.
Now I can make Ballos truly impossible.

If you're just gonna give him a shit ton of health, then that doesn't really count.

 

How come when you give the blade ammo, an try to shoot(...?) It, the ammo doesn't deplete?

 

because it wasn't programmed to use ammo

 

because it wasn't programmed to use ammo

Ok then... I mean... every other weapon is apparently programmed to use ammo, except for the blade...?

So another question, is there like, an offset where I could change what type of bullet curly shoots when she's on your back?

 

@zxin:
If you're going to give the booster infinite fuel, just change the 32 in
4157A1: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 for Booster v2.0;
4157B7: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 for Booster v0.8.
Otherwise you could do the <IBF command:

Spoiler

; <IBF Infinite Booster Fuel
; 0002 = infinite fuel
; 0000 = not infinite fuel


offset 0046D5D0 ;replaces npc 352

#define

:variable = 493873

#enddefine

MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[4A5AD8]
ADD EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[4A5AE0]
CMP BYTE [ECX+1],49 ;Check for the letter I
JNE SHORT 00424F33
CMP BYTE [ECX+2],42 ;Check for the letter B
JNE SHORT 00424F33
CMP BYTE [ECX+3],46 ;Check for the letter F
JNE SHORT 00424F33


;---First Argument---


MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[4A5AE0]
ADD EAX,4
PUSH EAX
CALL 00421900
ADD ESP,4 ;Get the argument from the <IBF command, and store it into EAX

CMP EAX,2
JE :infinite_fuel
mov [:variable],0
JMP :END


:infinite_fuel
mov [:variable],2 ; infinite fuel

:end
ADD [4A5AE0],8 ;Fix the script position
JMP 004252A7 ;Jump back to the beginning of the TSC parser


;===============================
;===============================
;===============================




:after_the_fact
ADD BYTE PTR DS:[EAX],AL ;this is just a buffet to keep my sanity

:NONONONONONO ;begining of booster fuel branch
MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8]
CMP [:variable],2 ;Was our variable set in the above code?
JE :end_booster_code
SUB EAX,1
:end_booster_code
MOV [49E6E8],EAX
JMP 00415C64

; jump address 00415C5D

Spoiler

offset 00415C5D


JMP 0046D633
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP
NOP

Spoiler

offset 00424EAF

JMP 0046D5D0

^That's the <IBF command.
EDIT: Also remember to give credit to Bombchu Link for this, otherwise he'll destroy you
@Kenzo ITC:
Curly can only use 2 types of bullet: Polar Star and Machine Gun.
The most I know about Curly AI is that its offset is 0x044B210
EDIT: Oh I thought you meant Curly AI. Yes, you can change the bullets shot by Curly Carried.

 

So another question, is there like, an offset where I could change what type of bullet curly shoots when she's on your back?

You can, and it's hilarious when you do. I changed it once to fire fully charged spur shots and it was great.

I don't remember the offest off the top of my head, but check the AI function for the "curly on your back" entity (it'll be an entity in the top left corner of the hell maps where she appears).

 

I have a question. I was editing some asm stuff and looks like I messed with the wrong offsets, because now my mod crashes whenever I level up any weapon. The crash is an access violation at 0x0040C7A6. Could you guys maybe find the problem?

 

looks fine to me

 

the jet puffs are tied to the amt of fuel it has. So if you keep the fuel a constant #, it will either always or never puff.
The correct way to do it is to make the fuel reset when it hits zero but that's more work.

 

well go make it then I'm not your mom

 

there's more than enough resources available for you to learn

 

You could always just change
4157A1: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 to 7FFFFFF and
4157B7: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 to 7FFFFFF for nearly unlimited fuel.

 

You could always just change
4157A1: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 to 7FFFFFF and
4157B7: MOV DWORD PTR DS:[49E6E8],32 to 7FFFFFF for nearly unlimited fuel.

I'm assuming that he wants to make it toggleable.

 

If you remove all the code in the event then the game doesn't work, if you leave the <WAI9999 then there's still an intro which lasts approx. 3 seconds and consists of nothing. I believe he's asking how to change the time between the <WAI9999 being hit and the cut-scene going to the title screen.

Yup. Exactly what I am asking. Makes me wish I knew how to use assembly.

Also BL (Booster's Lab) is far superior to CE (Cave Editor) at this point, the only thing BL can't do which CE can is change the "starting flags," let you use any file extension you want (not a filetype, you can't use .pngs or anything, but you can use some made-up filetype just as long as they're essentially .bmps) and change the name of the Profile.dat (saved game) files.
You can change the Profile.dat and .pbm/.bmp extensions to whatever you want using Notepad++'s find (and replace) tool, but it's much more convenient to be able to do it with your editor.
Hopefully someday BL can be the IDE of Cave Story modding, being able to resource hack and such.

To be honest, I just like CaveEditor more then BL. It just works out for me better. I do, however, use BL when I need it (which is almost never since I have a bunch of hacking tools already).

0049E638 PlayerFlags [0x01 Inspecting | 0x02 Removed | 0x04 Walking | 0x08 | 0x10 | 0x20 | 0x40 | 0x80 Visible | 0x100 Water]
translation: ###### nothing useful

Thanks. Just seeing if I could do anything cool with those on my mod without wrecking the game.

EDIT: Whoops, double post.

 

Yup. Exactly what I am asking. Makes me wish I knew how to use assembly.



To be honest, I just like CaveEditor more then BL. It just works out for me better. I do, however, use BL when I need it (which is almost never since I have a bunch of hacking tools already).

Hey, would you care to explain to us how you got the infinite booster hack to work for you?

 

Hey, would you care to explain to us how you got the infinite booster hack to work for you?

With CSHacker. Sure, it's in Japanese, but if you just change the "50" value to "99999999" it works fine.

 

With CSHacker. Sure, it's in Japanese, but if you just change the "50" value to "99999999" it works fine.

Oh, I thought you used the command hack. I actually wanted to know how you'd fix it too. Cause I was thinking about having infinite fuel. But I wanted to make it toggleable.

 

Hey guys can someone tell me the function of the addresses 40C7A0 ~ 40C8A8? My mod keeps crashing at 40C7A6

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42853625/FunctionlistNox.txt