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Blue Antoid Newcomer Level: 4  Posts: 1/4 EXP: 195 For next: 84 Since: 03-16-04 From: Arvada, Colorado, USA Since last post: 95 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Greetings, all. I, as should be somewhat plainly displayed at left, am Blue Antoid, whom you may or may not know from the PK Hack forum over at starmen.net. I come here on behalf of our little community as a whole; For those of you who aren't aware, we specialize in the SNES game EarthBound, and for most purposes, we've hit bedrock in terms of digging up hackable data in the game. However, as is often the case, we've saved the fun stuff for last.  Of course, I speak to you of the wonders of the game's music. Oh, sure, we can mix and match tracks to be played in battles, in different areas and scenes, but the data itself remains a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest. And of course, the few people we had around with both the knowlege and the drive to even attempt cracking the music compression left us some time ago... Which leaves us in a somewhat difficult position, to say the least. Now, occasionally, some of us have lurked our way over here in the past, and I've got to say, we've been impressed with a lot of what we've seen. It's obvious that talent exists here in scads... So, what it really boils down to is we're looking for someone to help us in cracking EarthBound's music, both the compression and the formatting. I hate to leave it at that; as a forum mod myself, I know how annoying topics like this can be ("Oh plz help meh I don knwo wha I's doin lololololo1~" ), not to mention ones that advertise fairly heavily. The last thing I want to do is lame up somebody else's board... But simply put, without securing outside talent, we're pretty much at a loss. I totally understand if there's no interest (though I can't imagine it'd keep you all up at night...  ); however, any assistance whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. If nothing else, thanks for slogging through this giant rambling post as far as you have.  If someone happens to be interested, however, please feel free to join us in our IRC channel, #pkhax, on DynastyNet, or just reply here, whichever's easier for you... |
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Blue Antoid Newcomer Level: 4 Posts: 2/4 EXP: 195 For next: 84 Since: 03-16-04 From: Arvada, Colorado, USA Since last post: 95 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Just curious. Has the text parsing routine been located? It'd be nice to be able to jam in extra functionality for printing the names of party members in standard dialogue, which I'd have to imagine would be fairly feasible with a modest amount of ASM knowledge. (Of course, maybe that wouldn't be a good idea, considering I'd just feel it neccessary to keep implementing stuff I don't have the talent for, like extra conditional pointers and whatnot. I swear, EarthBound has spoiled me like none other. There are over 200 unique control bytes in the primary text format alone... ) |
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Blue Antoid Newcomer Level: 4 Posts: 3/4 EXP: 195 For next: 84 Since: 03-16-04 From: Arvada, Colorado, USA Since last post: 95 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Specifically, I believe some of the enemy stats were changed to make it less ridiculously difficult, but I'm not sure off the top of my head. If I see Tomato around I'll ask him. Also, there were some ASM hacks done for the battle scenes, so certain enemies have a background with 'stars' that scroll across the screen rather than just the regular solid black. If I recall correctly, they were done by Xodnizel (programmer of FCE Ultra). The hack can be found at: http://www.starmen.net/mother1/miscinfo/eb0hack.zip (edited by Blue Antoid on 02-06-05 02:18 PM) |
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Blue Antoid Newcomer Level: 4 Posts: 4/4 EXP: 195 For next: 84 Since: 03-16-04 From: Arvada, Colorado, USA Since last post: 95 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble. In five years, though, we've pretty much got things covered...  The site hasn't been updated in quite some time, so most recent information (plus the most recent releases of EB-specific programs) can be found at the equally haphazard forum...http://pkhack.fobby.net/range.php http://forum.starmen.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=16 |
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