Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Draw order? You mean the number next to their name? Etc. One door says 3, the NPC says 5, and the next door says 7. The NPC goes through door 7. Also, Kazuma's 10 doesn't work.
Also, the ANP text sheet doesn't have Kazuma.

The walking animation should be somewhere in between 1 and 10. 3 might work.

Anyways, yes, Npc's with a lower draw distance number will appear behind Npc's with a higher draw number.

ARIGHT, do <ANP0100:0003:0000
That should make any Kazuma with event #100 do the walking animation to the left.

 

How do I use Misery's lightning?

Pretty sure that's a Npc, don't know which one though...

 

On the draw order issue: there is an option to change draw order for an entity in Booster's Lab, but in Cave Editor the draw order is based on which entities are added first. The first entity will have a lower draw order than every entity added afterwards, and will appear behind entities with a higher draw order.

 

When I open Doukutsu, I get this message:
doukutsu.exe is not a valid windows operation

re-download cave story or replace the exe with a working one

 

But it's my mod. I can't replace my mod. How can I fix it?

Replace the exe, replace any asm you applied. When files get corrupted and you didn't back them up you have to restart all lost progress. files in the fata folder can usually be reused unless they're corrupted as well and in that case you are screwed

 

OHMYCOD! I FOUND A BACKUP IN MY RECYCLE BIN FROM 2 HOURS AGO! I ACCIDENTALLY MADE IT WHILE USING THE RESOURCE HACKER!!! But how do I make the corruption not happen again?

keep back ups. It can happen at any time

 

But why?

the only answer I can think of is "modding isn't perfect". But to be honest, I don't really know. its happened to my mods before and sometimes I didn't have a backup to fix the problems.
In every cave story guide they say to make backup upon backup upon backup to prevent redoing everything. If there is some other solution, its probably much more arduous and much more difficult than just keeping previous versions of your mod on hand in case anything goes wrong

 

Too many maps makes the executable break. I'm not sure what the maximum is, but deleting excess maps until you're under the limit will fix it.

 

Does it have to do with adding maps? Because it happened after I added a map.

adding maps in cave editor creates a bunch of problems from corrupting other maps, to corrupting the game. if you have done this I would advise you to replace the exe with one where you didn't do this. if you want to add a map simply copy another map and clean it of tiles and entities to start with a new slate

 

Try my method before you throw out your executable.

 

Too many maps makes the executable break. I'm not sure what the maximum is, but deleting excess maps until you're under the limit will fix it.

from what I remember, you could have something like over 180 maps with cave editor and like thousands with boosters lab (I remember noxid saying this somewhere, but I can't remember where).

 

My previous mods would say otherwise.

 

I got to 110. But I think I know why it broke the game. Cave Story is just very tricky.

I don't think so dude

My previous mods would say otherwise.

Doors, you ninja

 

CSTSF Mod couldn't go beyond 98 maps. So I guess it really depends on what you did with the mod in the first place.

 

Goerge I was responding to you, not virtual boy :V

 

He was asking if you can't, he didn't actually know. Since you haven't loaded a save file yet, I can't imagine it would work. Skip flags work though.

 

What's the known limit for the size of a map?

 

Well, it's over 128x100, so you shouldn't worry too much about it.

Actually, I plan on using maps of large size, and it's probably gonna have to be larger than that.
(Also, pretty sure that 128x100 isn't even close to the limit considering Sand Zone has a width of 200 iirc)

 

How do you make computer's screens turn on?

If you mean via TSC, then either <ANPxxxx:0000:0000 or <ANPxxxx:0000:0002 works.
xxxx is the event ID of the computer; 0000 switches it off while 0002 switches it on.

Actually, I plan on using maps of large size, and it's probably gonna have to be larger than that.
(Also, pretty sure that 128x100 isn't even close to the limit considering Sand Zone has a width of 200 iirc)

I think it can be larger than 200×200, but I'm not sure if there's a size limit.
However, at a certain height, tiles are also treated as water (regardless of tile type). What that height is, however, I don't know. (I only know about it since I was bored enough to jump off an unfinished map in Lunar Shadow and ended up drowning off-screen.)

In addition, maps that are too large will end up breaking the Map System. (Not sure what the width or height would have to be in order to break it; but if I remember correctly there's one map in Jenka's Nightmare where the Map System doesn't display a map?)

 

Given the size of the game window, the largest a map can be before crashing the Map System may as well be 320x240. But even then the Map System starts off like it won't work, and then it loads the map for you.