Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

I'm guessing that the error lies in your <TRA command. I actually tried running your script segment, and it worked okay for me. My guess is that somehow event #94 that gets executed when you transition to map #11 either doesn't exist, or has some error with it. Either that, or in that event or code that gets executed, it's trying to load some image that's corrupted or run some command that's corrupted. Maybe it would help if you share with us your script from room #11 in your mod, especially event #94.

I fixed the problem, apparently the tileset I was using was corrupted, so I resaved the file and it fixed it.

 

In case you come across similar messages, I recommend using the Errors hack in the Hackinator, it helps translate the error messages to English. Disregard this if it was already suggested, however.

 

How exactly do you get the Curly AI to follow you around like in the Labyrinth?

 

How exactly do you get the Curly AI to follow you around like in the Labyrinth?

Looking in the vanilla TSC, looks like you can just give it an event number and use <ANPXXXX:0020:0000.

 

How do you change the font in cave story?

 

How do you change the font in cave story?

The font is stored in "Config.dat".

The quickest way to change the font is to directly open up Config.dat in a hex editor, and change "Courier New" to whatever font you want. Some fonts seem to work, and others don't seem to work for me, for reasons I don't fully understand. Might have to do with my local system settings and what fonts are embedded in my OS. "Arial" and "Papyrus" are working fine for me, but for some reason, "Comic Sans" doesn't seem to work. If you want a quicker solution, you can use FontConfigEdit, by Mint. Just place the exe in the same folder as your Cave Story game, run it, and type in the name of the font you want to use.

Ultimately, the best solution is to change the font in DouConfig.exe. The reason for this is that every time you click "OK" in DouConfig, it regenerates the "Config.dat" file, and by default it's only going to set the font to Courier New. So for a better solution, open up DouConfig with a hex editor, and change "Courier New" to your desired font at offset 0xBCE0. This will make it always save the settings with your desired font.

Another thing I should note is that even if you get the custom font showing up, it might look a little wonky. The Cave Story typer was originally designed for a font more like Courier New, so anything with characters that look much different in shape may be warped. Papyrus, for example, looks pretty bad in the game, even though it technically works.

 

How do you change the Sounds? Not music.

 

The main program you'll be using to edit sounds in Cave Story is SeaTone. Most of the documentation should be in the download, and it should be pretty self-explanatory.

 

Last but not least @EnlightenedOne How do you get music in your mods that's uh... not an org. Like in your Tower mod? Or anyone else know?
@HaydenStudios ?

 

Last but not least @EnlightenedOne How do you get music in your mods that's uh... not an org. Like in your Tower mod? Or anyone else know?
@HaydenStudios ?

Clownacy's Mod Loader is what they used. It pretty much gives you the benefits of CSE2, but you're still working with the vanilla executable.

 

How do you get the music in though? What is the number? @Serri I DONT GET IT!
Look i have them in the cave story folder.

 

Okay, first off, let me give you a tip on using Windows. You appear to have a factory default setting that is hiding some file extensions. In your Windows Explorer window, click on "File" -> "Change folder and search options" and select the "View" tab. Un-check the checkbox that says "Hide extensions for known file types". And click "Apply".

Once you've done this, this should make that file "mod_loader" now appear as "mod_loader.dll," which is the file that appears to be missing from the "mods" folder. So try putting that "mod_loader.dll" file into the "mods" folder, and see if it behaves any better.

 

Really thought Clown's tutorial on the Mod Loader thread was pretty self-explanatory, ngl. Even with this showing how the layout should work (each indent is based on the subfolder you go in, sorta like how various file browsers work).

 

But how do I get it to play? When I type 42 it doesn't play in-game, But I have it. @Serri @HaydenStudios @Clownacy
Hayden?

 

You should probably stop attaching images to your post and just upload them to sites like Imgur or smth. So inside the "Cave Story 3D (Remastered)" folder, there should be a file in there called "playlist.txt", and there should be the org names in there. They're in the same order as how the music is sorted in-game. At the very bottom there should be a line that says "Ogg11/WHITE". Then you can start putting in the name of the file of the new ogg you put in, something like this "Ogg11/TESTMUSIC1".

Do not put any spaces on the ogg's file name, tho. That will mess things up. Should you need something like a space to separate the words, at least use "-" or "_".

 

So inside the "Cave Story 3D (Remastered)" folder, there should be a file in there called "playlist.txt", and there should be the org names in there. They're in the same order as how the music is sorted in-game. At the very bottom there should be a line that says "Ogg11/WHITE". Then you can start putting in the name of the file of the new ogg you put in, something like this "Ogg11/TESTMUSIC1".

Do not put any spaces on the ogg's file name, tho. That will mess things up. Should you need something like a space to separate the words, at least use "-" or "_".

It just plays white @Serri pls

 

You can add more after White.

EDIT: Hmmm, did that get patched? Cuz I remember Mod Loader not abiding to the 41 song limit, especially when I was making adding orgs much easier a few years back. I may need to look at something...

EDIT 2: Wow, I think it definitely got patched. Because I thought of trying the method I did for adding more orgs via assembly to be sure if it's meant to work that way instead, but for even that still didn't play anything. Do you even need the rest of the Cave Story soundtrack? Because you can just put TESTMUSIC1 in place of Wanpaku and do <CMU0001.

 

Ok let me know when your ready.

 

EDIT 2: Wow, I think it definitely got patched. Because I thought of trying the method I did for adding more orgs via assembly to be sure if it's meant to work that way instead, but for even that still didn't play anything. Do you even need the rest of the Cave Story soundtrack? Because you can just put TESTMUSIC1 in place of Wanpaku and do <CMU0001.

Yeahhhhh, this may be a bit of an issue. What makes things worse is that Mod Loader was deprecated in favor for CS: Tweaked too, and I am not skilled in using the C language to do anything, really. You may need to hop on Discord and ask Clown, or even ask the developers of ModCS or Doukutsu-RS if they have means to bypass it with their engines. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Your "mods/alternate_music/settings.ini" file needs to look something like this:

; This is the name of the folder containing the soundtrack's playlist.txt.
playlist = name-of-folder

; If this is true, all song files are loaded into memory when the game starts.
; This eliminates disk accesses when a new song starts, possibly reducing stutter,
; however, this comes at a cost of RAM.
preload_songs = true

; If true, song files are decoded entirely when they're loaded.
; Combined with preload_songs, this possibly reduces stuttering further, but
; at a massive cost of RAM and startup time.
predecode_songs = false

; If this is true, then when a song resumes, it gradually fades in, instead of just
; instantly playing at full volume.
fade_in_previous_song = false

; If this is true, the music will pause when the player clicks out of the window,
; which is what vanilla Cave Story does.
; (This settings does not affect org music)
pause_when_focus_lost = true

; Controls the global volume of the music (does not affect org music).
; This ranges from 0-100. Volume is applied logarithmically.
volume = 100

The "name-of-folder" there is the name of the folder that your custom soundtrack is in. The folder should be in the same directory as the settings.ini file. In your scenario, it would be "Remastered (Cave Story 3D)" (I would change the name).

Then, your "playlist.txt" file should look something like this:

Ogg11/Test Music 1.ogg, loop

The "Ogg11/Test Music 1.ogg" is the path to your .ogg file. "loop" specifies that you want it to loop, as opposed to play once and then stop until another <CMU. The other options are "org", which ignores the file, and the lack of an argument implies that you don't want it to loop.
Spaces in the filename shouldn't matter, but if it's not working then you should remove them from both the filename and the playlist.txt just to be sure.

At this point, when you use <CMU, you should be using the numbers to refer to the files in "playlist.txt" sequentially; that is, "Ogg11/Test Music 1.ogg, loop" should be <CMU0001. Any after it (with line breaks between) should be 0002, 0003, etc.. <CMU0000 is reserved for silence.

Assuming your file is valid, this should work.

Demo zip included.