Originally posted by mikeyk

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smwedit: I've made some great progress on the SMB3 pipes, the turns are definitely included. There are a couple of things about the pipes that I want to redo and I have some bugs to work out, but it wont be long until they're done. I'm at my dad's house for until few days after father's day, and unfortunately I don't have any hacking stuff on his computer, but I'll resume work as soon as I can

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Originally posted by Glyph Phoenix

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You might not even need to trace it - Mario World Reconfigurer can tell you where each sprite's ASM pointer is. I think. I still haven't figured out how to translate the pointer into a hex offset.

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Originally posted by Luigi-San

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I had the same problem

http://upload4free.com/files/13410.PNG

Maybe that'll help

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Originally posted by Smallhacker

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"CRC32:B19ED489", then the ROM is a real, unmodified SMW ROM.

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Ok, I'm assuming that you're confused with the size part (the "SSSSSSSS ssssssss" and "CCCCCCCC cccccccc").

First of all, when he says "Size-1", he means "the length in bytes of the enclosed tag minus 1". Therefore, 1 byte of RATS-protected data would have (Size-1) = 0.

As I'm sure you know, 16 and higher bit numbers can be represented in either little-endian or big-endian format. Big-endian is how we normally write numbers (e.g. in 1000, "1" is the "big end" of the number) -- little-endian just flips that, so the "big end" is at the end. For 16 bit numbers, you can simply flip the order of the two bytes that comprise it to convert a big-endian number to little-endian or vice versa. So, in summary, write out the number as you normally would in hex, then flip the two bytes and you're good.

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what the "inverse" of the size is. It could either be the bitwise inverse (in which case you'd flip every bit: 1 becomes 0, 0 becomes 1, etc.), or it could be the maximum size, 0x10000, minus the size (and then minus one, in keeping with the format). In any case, the inverse size is probably there just as a check to ensure that this is indeed a RATS tag.

Remember to terminate your RATS sequence with an FF, and good luck!

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