Originally posted by HyperHacker

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Yes, there's so much we could do if we knew how to calculate a block's Map16 address and/or coordinates.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually use 2 frames, just flips one back and forth.

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Originally posted by HyperHacker

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BMF made a patch once that only displays the 'Time Up' message if the time limit wasn't 0 to start with. I dunno where though.

Anyway I've thought of this idea a lot, and it's more than feasible but will require a good deal of ASM hacking. The biggest thing is how to, at any point in time, load a specific level... I managed to hack the level loading code so it would always load a certain level, but I couldn't get it to load on demand. However, the 'action register' ($7E0100) can probably be used for this... If you, at any time in the game, write a certain value to it it will load the overworld, a level, the intro etc. The game probably uses this to load the overworld when you die/exit/whatever (in fact, somewhere in my notes, I have written down exactly where you would be able to change it for pause+select). It'd be trivial to hack all instances that the game writes 'load overworld' and change them to 'load level'. The only problem is we need to figure out how to say which level. (IIRC it just loads whatever level you're at on the overworld.)

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Originally posted by Luigi-San

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Bump=No-No

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Originally posted by mvent2

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I have an idea but I don't know if it'll work. I set the layer 2 to level with layer 2 interaction on. I put the block which gives the item on object layer and put the goal block in the same position on layer 2. That way they'll hit both blocks simultaneously, though it'll be at the cost of a good background, which will leave me open to criticism from some people (*looks at people accusingly* )

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Originally posted by Cirvante

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Maybe you should enable side exits. That's what FuSoYa did in DWTLC.

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Originally posted by BrooklynMario

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Does anyone know the address to change what Mario shoots out of his had when he is fire Mario so it's not fire?

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Originally posted by Smallhacker

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It would appear in front of Mario and fall towards the ground. When it touches the ground, it will... (Drumroll) Do nothing!

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Originally posted by Smallhacker

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I'm pretty sure that fireballs aren't (what Lunar Magic calls) a sprite. Fireballs are their own categoty, like Mario. Therefore, it's not as easy as changing byte or two. You have to edit the fireball code to generate a sprite instead of a fireball.

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Originally posted by UnsurpassedDarkness

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You could just set a limit to how many shells you can shoot at once, can

Originally posted by d4s

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Originally posted by DisruptiveIdiot

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Ah yes, that helps very much.

Specifically, I'm planning on adding an ammo object for fireballs and it will be like those blue coins in odyssey and every time you shoot a fireball you lose 1 ammo unit, and you can't use it if you don't have any ammo. I intent for the game to keep track of the ammo because it would be annoying if you lost your ammo every time you reloaded the game.

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you dont have to expand sram for that, that ammo-thingie means just one additional variable per saveslot.

a general advice:
keep in mind that lorom sram resides in banks $70-$7d, $8000-$ffff while
hirom sram is located at banks $20-$3F, $6000-$7FFF.
both have mirrors in the bank $f0(lorom) and bank $a0(hirom) ranges, keep that in mind when checking where the game writes.

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Originally posted by HyperHacker

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Actually, I was screwing around with the fireball code a bit and did manage to remove the limit, but any more than 2 just appear as a white spot in a random place and disappear.

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Originally posted by smwedit

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Originally posted by Darkflight

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I know few people by name who know what a help file is!

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I know what a help file is, am I one of the people you know know what a help file is?

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Originally posted by Smallhacker

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If you're planning on replacing fireballs with hammers, you'd better give up, since there's a sprite amount limit.

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Originally posted by Kario

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The hack looks ok except for the palettes and level layout and graphics.

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