Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

How do I trigger the boss battle with the core ?

You would first go into settings and change the boss ID to the Core since he's one of the bosses that has to be set to the room as well:

Then in the script set the boss to load his animation, starting the fight basically:
<BOA0200<BSL0000
Since the Core's a boss that has to set in the settings of the map, all you have to do is do BOA0200 to initiate his animations because 200 is his starting animation. And for BSL that simply starts his boss fight with the hp bar since he doesn't need a sprite to be loaded in the game, the engine does that for him.
The same can be implied for a boss such as Omega in the Sand Zone, a boss where the engine loads his placement and sprite and such.

 

I see...Welp I'll be trying
Thanks for the reply !

 

I see...Welp I'll be trying
Thanks for the reply !

Have you figured it out? You could always just use the code from vanilla, either as a learning tool or to directly copy it x)

 

Have you figured it out? You could always just use the code from vanilla, either as a learning tool or to directly copy it x)

bosses are weird

but i think its neat you can make bosses out of anything like power critters or bats even
(not a power critter, but critter)
(not a bat, but big bat)

 

I'm using the <VAR command from TSC+ to substitute for the Infinite Mimiga Mask hack and ran into the problem where the Quote NPCs (NPC0150, the teleporter NPCs, etc) default to the first character set. Someone on the Modding Discord server suggested using the fix that was originally created for the IMM Hack but that was unsuccessful. Any ideas on how to remedy this?

 

How hard would it be to prevent the Spur from firing Lv3 Polar Star bullets and force the player to charge the laser to fire at all?

 

How hard would it be to prevent the Spur from firing Lv3 Polar Star bullets and force the player to charge the laser to fire at all?

I have an xml for Booster's Lab that can customize the bullets.

It's just waiting for the next version of BL to be released, though I recall someone already giving you a patch in the discord server.

 

I have an xml for Booster's Lab that can customize the bullets.

It's just waiting for the next version of BL to be released, though I recall someone already giving you a patch in the discord server.

Yes indeed, I posted here first then remembered the Discord existed.

This can be put into Booster's Lab's hex patcher to do it:

0x41FB40
C7 45 FC 00

 

I need some pointers on how to modify NPC health with ASM hacks. I'm trying to change the health value for NPC 267 (among other NPCs), which has the offset 459D80 according to this list. I'm pretty new to assembly, but from what I could gather it seems there's mostly just AI instructions under that offset. This seems to be the case for the other NPCs I looked at as well, which makes me think I'm looking in the wrong place. Is there a better way I could be going about this? I should also note that NPC 267 is a boss, however I don't think that matters for this NPC specifically since it's not one of those special map dependent bosses (like Ballos) or whatever.

Additionally, I was able to find a few instances of E_X+40 under offset 459D80, as in some reference to the NPC's health event thing, although I didn't clearly see any values nearby to modify for my desired result.

 

You typically use the npc.tbl editor in boosters lab to modify enemy base health

 

I mostly use Cave Editor and wasn't aware that was a feature in BL.
Worked great, though. Thanks

 

I mostly use Cave Editor and wasn't aware that was a feature in BL.
Worked great, though. Thanks

It's in CE as well, but let's be honest, BL has way more to offer.

 

How would I display a custom texture for wind tiles? They don't display the tileset textures by default. Would I have to make an entity with the texture and just put it where the wind tile is?

 

How would I display a custom texture for wind tiles? They don't display the tileset textures by default. Would I have to make an entity with the texture and just put it where the wind tile is?

im pretty sure to edit those things you need to do either the thing you said or really fancy modding stuffs

 

really fancy modding stuffs

It's that. Or in layman terms, you need to look in the assembly to edit the code for the wind.

 

How 2 midi to org

 

How 2 midi to org

don't bother.

 

How 2 midi to org

Well, you open up a program with a Piano roll, open up Org Maker as well, as you'll be doing the transcribing there. Then, you need to check on which of the WAVE100 waves sound like the instruments from the MIDI you wish to transcribe off of. The last part is that you need to plug the notes in Org Maker by looking back and forth between the two piano rolls, and after some time full of dedication and hard work, you should be able to have an org version of the midi you wanted to transcribe!

There is no easy way past this process.

 

Well, you open up a program with a Piano roll, open up Org Maker as well, as you'll be doing the transcribing there. Then, you need to check on which of the WAVE100 waves sound like the instruments from the MIDI you wish to transcribe off of. The last part is that you need to plug the notes in Org Maker by looking back and forth between the two piano rolls, and after some time full of dedication and hard work, you should be able to have an org version of the midi you wanted to transcribe!

There is no easy way past this process.

TL;DR open the midi in a midi editor and try to replicate it into an org using the midi as refrence.

 

Well, you open up a program with a Piano roll, open up Org Maker as well, as you'll be doing the transcribing there. Then, you need to check on which of the WAVE100 waves sound like the instruments from the MIDI you wish to transcribe off of. The last part is that you need to plug the notes in Org Maker by looking back and forth between the two piano rolls, and after some time full of dedication and hard work, you should be able to have an org version of the midi you wanted to transcribe!

There is no easy way past this process.

It was meant as a joke at first, but now I'm honestlay intriqued