Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

I don't know what I was doing to try to save my changes, but it was definitely not that. Now that I've actually saved it it works as intended. Thanks.

 

Maybe this is not the correct place to post this question, but I didn’t want to make a new thread:

Why did people start modding/porting Cave Story? If it was open source like DooM, then I guess I’d see why, but I can’t imagine why someone circa 2004 (or whenever CS modding begun) thought to themselves “hey, I wanna disassemble Cave Story and see if I can make new levels”.

 

I feel you really should've just checked the op first, this is really just a howto thread on making mods

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Sometimes it's easier to make the new thread instead

 

I feel you really should've just checked the op first, this is really just a howto thread on making mods

Sometimes it's easier to make the new thread instead

Fair enough! Guess I’ll make a new thread. Thank you for telling me!

 

I`m totally new to modding in general, and I have no clue how to even install a mod. I have a "data" folder that I got from a randomizer mod, and a "Profile.dat" which I can`t open. How do I smack those two together in order to make the mod work?

 

Open up the data folder created by the randomizer and copy/paste the Stage folder in the data folder for the game, it should ask you to merge the folders together, just select yes and you'll be good. Profile.dat is your save file, btw

 

i forget if i asked this before but does anyone know how to remove health
like max health is 50 make it go to 45 max health

 

i forget if i asked this before but does anyone know how to remove health
like max health is 50 make it go to 45 max health

<ML+000+ should do the trick. Mayhaps we should include the ASCII Negative Values in the new modding guide as well...

 

i forget if i asked this before but does anyone know how to remove health
like max health is 50 make it go to 45 max health

In Booster's Lab go to help and then go to the negative arguments page in the TSC folder, you'll find everything you need there.

 

In Booster's Lab go to help and then go to the negative arguments page in the TSC folder, you'll find everything you need there.

thanks

 

How do I change the speed at which sand zone beetles fly at? Is it a value I need to adjust in the ASM?

 

How would I get the maps to be visible, I'm adding new maps but the screen just stays that purplish blue color and doesn't show anything. (I haven't modded CS in quite awhile so I forgot.)

 

How would I get the maps to be visible, I'm adding new maps but the screen just stays that purplish blue color and doesn't show anything. (I haven't modded CS in quite awhile so I forgot.)

Booster's Lab and Cave Editor both have descriptions for the commands in their script editors. Use <FAI btw.

 

How would I get the maps to be visible, I'm adding new maps but the screen just stays that purplish blue color and doesn't show anything. (I haven't modded CS in quite awhile so I forgot.)

If I recall correctly you should do this:
<MNA<CMU00..(you use CMU to choose whatever song you want to hear, for example cemetery is 0012)<FAI0000<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0001<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0002<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0003<END
<MNA<CMU00..<FAI0004<END
Hope this might help ya.

 

<MNA and <CMU aren't exactly necessary, but they are complimentary.

 

Put a <WAI between them then.

put a wai between what?
(I started working on my mod again, I now vaguely understand the entire thing so no more noob question spamming for me)

 

put a wai between what?
(I started working on my mod again, I now vaguely understand the entire thing so no more noob question spamming for me)

Ah whoops i never answered this did I.
IIRC you wanted to spawn multiple smoke entities but don't want them to all do their animation at once right? Just put a <WAI command between the two commands you use to spawn these (or between all of them if it's more than one). You still have to put down a number for <WAI but something between like 10 or 25 might work for you, hard to say without context.

 

Just put a <WAI command between the two commands you use to spawn these

How does one use commands to spawn an entity?

 

How does one use commands to spawn an entity?

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ

W - Entity number
X - X position
Y - Y position
Z - Direction it's facing (0, 2, and 4 can really only work for most of them)

And then with what Mint's describing, just do this repetitively until you're satisfied with the amount that's being spawned.

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ<WAIXXXX

 

<SNPWWWW:XXXX:YYYY:ZZZZ<WAIXXXX

Is there a command for a while loop too?