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blackhole89 LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47  Posts: 726/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Well, what should I say... besides the new thread/new reply buttons, it really is the best theme for Acmlmboard I have seen so far.  ; |
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 730/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Russian (native, suck at grammar though, as I left Russia at the age of 6 and hardly did improve afterwards) |
German (I was going to German school for 9 years now, which were enough to give me near-perfect writing skills - I am better in written German than most of my classmates - also having this "language cop" tick Smallhacker mentioned) English (Aeons ahead of what we learn at school, but judge yourself~) French (fairly poor, but enough for understanding newspapers and being able to survive as a tourist) Latin (being quite good at both reading and writing, as for speaking... dunno, never met anybody whom I could speak with in Latin ^^)
blackhole89 |
LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 731/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Zophars' SPCs are mostly tagged badly / not at all and incomplete. I recommend using snesmusic.org instead. |
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 732/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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I made a new lockup method for my own hack (SMW:ALttP, if anybody remembers). It encrypts the master level pointer table and the overworld pointers in a special way (good enough not to be cracked by a random smwedit-type guy). I considered releasing a program to the public, but then again, it would make it more probable one of the more skilled hackers makes a program that decodes it... the problem about that is, there can't be an ideal lockup method for level etc. data in SMW ROMs. After all, the game itself needs to contain anything required to decode the data (or else it wouldn't be able to load anything itself, of course), and the only thing an intruder has to do is finding the corresponding pieces of code/key data. |
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 733/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Pointless and witnessing of absolute lack of any programming knowledge whatsoever. |
Closed. btw, your code snippet wouldn't even work. There is nothing behind that #include tag.
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 734/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Diamond is not only the hardest natural mineral on earth, it's also chemically identical to graphite (the stuff they made pencils from a century ago... quite fragile, as you probably can imagine) - they only differ in how the crystal grid is built up. |
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 735/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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2. Cutest guy - Colleen 3. Cutest girl - Yoshi Dude 4. Cutest Couple - RR and Colleen. *evil* 5. Funniest - Ziff, Cymoro 8. Evilest - Ziff 9. Most fun to talk to - Acmlm 10. Craziest/Most insane - knuck 12. Kinkiest/Most perverted - knuck 16. Hopeless - smwedit 17. Most unique - Acmlm 18. Most serious - Emuz 21. Best at advice - HyperHacker 22. Best writer (poetry and otherwise) 23. Most creative (all-around) - DahrkDaiz, Tarale 24. Most changed - Kitten Yiffer 27. Best local mod - HyperHacker, BMF54123 28. Best male regular member - Kyouji Craw, Ziff, Dogan 29. Best female regular member - KawaiiImoto-e, Tarale 30. Best newbie - Dei* 31. Best veteran - Smallhacker 33. Most likely to be banned member - RR 34. Best post layout - Kwan, Acmlm 36. Best nickname - Legion 37. Best custom title - Cymoro 41. Most helpful - DJ Bouche (yeah, I know he is hardly active anymore. I still vote him because anyone else who would fit for this category already received three votes from me) 42. Best ROM Hacker - d4s 43. Best SMW Hacker - BMF54123 45. Most likely to never appear on staff - RR 46. Most >8( - Nad-Gob 47. Most emo - knuck 49. Most furry - Kitten Yiffer of course. Who else?  50. Most likely to be hit by a parked car - RR 51. Most likely to be driving the car - Colleen 52. Most likely to be the parked car - 53. Best Overall (The Wootest) Male - BMF54123 54. Best Overall (The Wootest) Female - Yoshi Dude 55. Most likely to get together - (edited by blackhole89 on 06-26-05 04:18 PM) (edited by blackhole89 on 06-26-05 04:21 PM) (edited by blackhole89 on 06-27-05 09:46 AM) (edited by blackhole89 on 07-04-05 08:36 AM)
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 736/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Well, I thought it was about time someone posted a thread similar to the countless FAQ threads in SMW hacking here. Feel free to reply any additions if you think I missed anything (I am confident I missed a lot, but... the basics are here, heh). |
This is what you basically will need to do some actual hacking (which, as opposed to editing, involves some actual work and a moderate amount of spare time): A hex(adecimal) editor. This is the most basic and powerful weapon of any ROM hacker. It allows you to directly view the ROM's (or any file's) bytes as hexadecimal numbers and changing them. I suggest using XVI32, as it is stable and is capable everything you will need without being too bulky. A (dis)assembler. Assembler is a more "human-readable" variant of machine code. If you want to read the actual code of a game, you will most probably favor it against raw hex(adecimal) op(eration)codes. A disassembler basically translates a ROM to this easier-to-read version. For the SNES (65c816), I recommend using the SNES ASM development kit.. Although it is quite buggy, it is great for doing edits and stuff. If you want a more or less bug-free one, I suggest D816. A NES disassembler would be NESDIS. (NES is not my area of expertise, so tell me if you know a better one) A tracer. Tracing is a very important and powerful technique to figure out the deepest secrets of a ROM. Tracing means logging the executed assembler instructions during runtime. You can either log everything that happens, or (considering yolitically neutral" vour disassembler has this feature) wait for a certain ROM location/command to be executed. The main point of tracing is figuring out what piece of code is responsible for a visible process like message boxes popping up or *insert a jump'n'run hero character name here* jumping. As is FCEUXD(copy'n'paste link) for the NES, Evil Peer's Snes9x tracer mark 8 is the yet-to-be-beaten tracer for the SNES. Although mark 9 has even more features, it forces you to remove your ROM's header (thus making it incompatible with many other specialized hacking tools out there), so I decided to post the "persion here instead. For Game Boy, use No$GMB (Credit for link goes to HyperHacker). A graphics editor/viewer. Extremely useful for finding/modifying graphics and, in some cases, also level data. YY-CHR (Copy'n'paste link) has proven capable of everything you would need. For converting whatever graphics to the SNES format (output files of this can either be included by hand or imported with programmes like Lunar Magic), I recommend GIF2SOPT (note: only works with uncommented 16 or 256 colour GIFs. Programmes like Corel Photopaint automatically set the comment field, therefore I recommend The GIMP for conversion). Its twin brother, PCX2SOPT, was originally bundled with the package, but as I know of no modern software to output PCX files PCX2SOPT accepts, I just leaved it out. As I said above, feel free to add~ blackhole89. (edited by blackhole89 on 06-23-05 09:27 AM) (edited by blackhole89 on 06-23-05 09:37 AM) (edited by blackhole89 on 06-24-05 08:14 AM) (edited by blackhole89 on 06-24-05 08:15 AM)
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 737/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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   Y HELO THAR
blackhole89 |
LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 738/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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Originally posted by dark ludwig They are. Assembler code is machine, not game specific. It's just like, it's extremely improbable SMAS uses the same locations for sprite tables in RAM, helper routines, or even the same parametrization for the sprite handler codes. You sure could try to port it, but you'd need to change all calls/LDAs and STAs to work with SMW.
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 739/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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this made me remember... back when I was four years old, I wanted to become a professional book writer (lol). I was planning on writing a really really awesome story and sending it to a publishing house. =o I actually started writing that story... and I still remember what, up to now, remains my absolutely favourite passage of it. "The little birdie entered the forest. It consisted out of 11735 pines and 8741 spruces." ~ blackhole89 (who wants to remain anonymous not to harm his rl reputation with this), 1992. Back in 1996, I had the nerdy obsession of drawing levels for Yoshi's Island on paper... 
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LOLSEALS Moderator of ROM hacking EmuNET IRC network admin Head GM of TwilightRO Level: 47 Posts: 740/971 EXP: 739208 For next: 26995 Since: 03-15-04 From: Dresden/Germany Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 12 hours
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DARTH NOOB OF PH34R LOLZ was my backup account during the big ban (similar to Elarat for Tarale). Before I could get hold of Emuz, I was trying to find a leak to unban the mods by myself (y'know, I already found one of them once). Nothing suspicious about it, I'm also going to delete it. |
Emuz put me in charge temporarily to restore the staff to its former Also, this thread is spammy, awkward and full of flaming. Closed and unstickied. Kthxbye~
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I don't think about child protection as a good thing... I watched 16+ horror/spook/thriller movies ever since I came to Germany (that was when I was 6), and I neither was traumatized, nor did I kill anybody up to now... same thing as with the shooter game youth bans. The kids who shoot down their fellow students surely don't do so because they excessively played Doom 3/Unreal Tournament/LIERO. They rather excessively play these games because the bloodshed that is subject of them turns them on. (Unlike the "normal" players, who mainly play because of boredom and/or competitiveness) |
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