Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

Can someone help with my old post?

For some reason I keep falling through the map!
I'm using the River tileset, and the arrows are still showing up as arrows (I know they're supposed to be the flowing things, but it's acting like it's a background rather than blocks)

 

The skeleton head is a new entity so you can't <DNP it. However, you can do an <DNA for the skeleton head entity (deletes all instances of a certain type of entity), but this would delete ALL the skeleton heads in the area.

There could be several problems with your map. The tileset could be too large (anything after 256 pixels (iirc) is terribly glitched), or the tileset might not have any of the tile types set (somehow)...

I think that's it..
I made my map 260 tiles
DARN i deleted my old one because I thought the map was glitched forever

edit: I changed it to 50x50 but it still doesn't work
Any other solutions?
by the way what is iirc?

 

I think that's it..
I made my map 260 tiles
DARN i deleted my old one because I thought the map was glitched forever

edit: I changed it to 50x50 but it still doesn't work
Any other solutions?
by the way what is iirc?

50x50 is incorrect it should be 16x16px per tile at 16x16 tile per sheet. If you have 2x, it is 32x32px per tile at 16x16 tiles per sheet. Try resizing to 16x16px. 50 is not a multiple of 16. I may be misunderstanding your comment tho so don't hesitate to correct me.

If that doesn't work
The PXA file format isn't corruptible. So I think that you may have screwed up the PXM. Open up your map in a hex editor and resize the character view so it matches your map. Check that the hex view looks like your map. If it looks nothing a like, try resizing the character view. If it still doesn't work, reply to this.

 

The PXA file format isn't corruptible.

I actually know what happened here since it used to happen to me all he time, the PXA did "corrupt" in a sense.

Basically, really old versions of Booster's Lab (found in old Deluxe packages or whatever, Walrus_Guy said he used multiple old editors all on the same file) would sometimes on accident completely wipe the pxa, setting everything to 00 (background) and causing the issues he had.

In a profile post I told him to grab river.pxa from vanilla and replace it, and he said everything was working again.

But yeah, you're right in that the tilesheet should be no bigger than 256x256 pixels, preferably 256 wide in all cases and in a height dividable by 16.

 

So after using the new river thing, most work but some still seem a little odd and I'm not sure if it's supposed to
What are the ME blocks supposed to do? They just look like blocks that you can shoot through, stop movement, but won't break

also the two squares on the tile set the 2v2 ones with the little finished look on the top and bottom both act like you fall through them
everything else works though
just curious is this supposed to happen?

 

If it is in the vanilla PXA then it is.

 

So after using the new river thing, most work but some still seem a little odd and I'm not sure if it's supposed to
What are the ME blocks supposed to do? They just look like blocks that you can shoot through, stop movement, but won't break

also the two squares on the tile set the 2v2 ones with the little finished look on the top and bottom both act like you fall through them
everything else works though
just curious is this supposed to happen?

In Booster's Lab, right click on a tile in the tile editor in order to change its behavior.

 

I need help. Since about an hour ago, I'm searching EVERYWHERE on the internet for "how the **** do you create an entity in booster's lab" and haven't found ANYTHING to help me. Please, could someone help me ?

(What I do is just copy another entity and do what I want with... but then what will I do with an empty map ?)




Another thing I don't know is why Cave Story in general (all copies and mods) is super slow... (don't have this issue with other games)

 

you press i for insert

 

I need help. Since about an hour ago, I'm searching EVERYWHERE on the internet for "how the **** do you create an entity in booster's lab" and haven't found ANYTHING to help me. Please, could someone help me ?

(What I do is just copy another entity and do what I want with... but then what will I do with an empty map ?)




Another thing I don't know is why Cave Story in general (all copies and mods) is super slow... (don't have this issue with other games)

i think theres somethings someplaces to speed it up
i think even in boosters lab if you use the hacking tool you can change the fps to 60 instead of 50

yeah don't worry i forgot about the i for insert thing to

maybe you'll ask all the questions i asked 2 weeks ago! i asked a lot because im not very good at this stuff

 

What I meant was that Cave Story is now about 2 times slower as it was 3 days ago on the same PC. (Who has a GTX 960, so I'm pretty sure it's not my PC that's slow)

 

well i'm pretty sure cave story hasn't changed in the last 3 days

 

And now... After 3 Restarts of my PC... It works ! For no good reason (It was as slow after the first 2 restarts) It works !

 

And now... After 3 Restarts of my PC... It works ! For no good reason (It was as slow after the first 2 restarts) It works !

yeah cave story does seem to have a lot of small glitches i don't know why
I've found out how to fix a lot of them (or ways around them) though mainly with help from others

I HOEP YOU SHARE YOUR MOD if its good im going to see if I can figure out how to share mine
mines "decent" but I don't think it's super good or anything
It functions properly at least

 

@GabrielRavier Do you have any programs running in the background that can potentially slow down your pc? Sometimes, Cave Story can slow down if there are other active programs that use a lot of CPU.

 

The two other times it was just after the reboot and the third time exactly the same but the results were different...

 

And now... After 3 Restarts of my PC... It works ! For no good reason (It was as slow after the first 2 restarts) It works !

I would blame Windows or your Computer. I can run cave story along with my text editor, I mean, texteditor, web browser, PDF Viewer, terminal and file manager with little slow down on a chromebook.

 

How do I add lightning?
I want everytime I press down on a door lightning to appear. Is this possible? I can get it to do it once, but after that it stops

 

<SNP0146:XXXX:YYYY:0000

X and Y are for the door's position.

 

<SNP0146:XXXX:YYYY:0000

X and Y are for the door's position.

OHH... i was looking for the command to create an entity! I was stuck on CNP (Create NPc) or NNP(New NPc)
The second one didn't even exist...
thanks!