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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - ROM Hacking - GBA Pokemon technical documentation? |
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torne Newcomer                  Since: 01-08-07 From: London, UK Last post: 6312 days Last view: 6289 days |
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| I've experimented with the various tools for editing the GBA Pokemon games, and while I'm impressed by the amount of work that must've gone into understanding the games in sufficient depth to make AdvanceMap, EliteMap and so on, I can't help but feel that editing the ROM image directly with every separate tool is not the nicest way it could be done. :-)
To this end, I'm working on a new tool to deconstruct the ROM into its individual components - tilesets, maps, tables of stats, and so on - and reassemble them. The process then becomes more like editing source code, with a 'compile' step to produce a full ROM. This would dispense completely with editing offsets and having to relocate things to free space to enlarge them, as the various components can be assembled and the correct offsets for each component inserted by the tool with no human intervention. I'm likely to use text-based formats editable by both humans and computers for the components, as this lends itself nicely to being stored in a source control system such as CVS for easy cooperation between several people working on the same hack project. The source code for EliteMap, the advanced header views in AdvanceMap, and my ongoing IDA disassembly of the Pokemon code itself are serving me reasonably well in this, but I have yet to Google up any actual documents describing the data formats - do any such documents exist? As a programmer my number one motivation is to not duplicate effort - computers are supposed to save work, not create more - so any references anyone can give, no matter how detailed the information therein, would be much appreciated and will hopefully benefit anyone interested in hacking these games in the long run :-) |
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Kyoufu Kawa Intends to keep Rom Hacking in one piece until the end     Since: 11-18-05 From: Catgirl Central Station Last post: 6279 days Last view: 6279 days |
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| I have documents. I'm working on a cover-all doc myself, and would like to link you to Bulbapedia for starters.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category  tructures
Arf hell, smileys don't like wikis. "Category : Structures" sans spaces. (edited by Kyoufu Kawa on 01-11-07 02:12 PM) |
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torne Newcomer Since: 01-08-07 From: London, UK Last post: 6312 days Last view: 6289 days |
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| Thanks for that; that's some good docs for pokemon/item data. | |||
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Kyoufu Kawa Intends to keep Rom Hacking in one piece until the end Since: 11-18-05 From: Catgirl Central Station Last post: 6279 days Last view: 6279 days |
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| Available now: the biggest part of the doc I'm writing in Wiki format → Booyah!
Covers most of the interesting things in Bulbapedia and some from Germany. Soon it'll have correct attack data, including effect values. |
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torne Newcomer Since: 01-08-07 From: London, UK Last post: 6312 days Last view: 6289 days |
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Ooh, thanks a second time.  |
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