Originally posted by VL-Tone

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Originally posted by proffessor_gad

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Originally posted by creaothceann

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Originally posted by VL-Tone

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Also, I made a routine that pre-loads all textures when you open a ROM. The bad news are that it takes up to 25 seconds to load 850 textures found in the game. I'm working on improving that before continuing the rewrite.

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Can't you save the result to a file, and load that when the program starts? (I'm assuming that the decoding takes the most time.)

If not... well, at least a progress bar would be nice.

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I thought about saving the textures to disk beforehand, and this is how I used my editor before, but here is the problem: what if you open a ROM with textures already edited? The textures would have to be loaded anyway.

Maybe I could put a checkbox option that reads "Load custom textures" in the editor. Another thing I could do is write a small table in the ROM that keeps tracks of which textures have been edited so it only loads them. A completely edited ROM would still take as much time though.

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Maybe some kind of "source code file format" could be designed... along with a compiler that would generate a valid ROM from that. Storing this kind of data in the ROM is not very extensible...

But then I don't have any idea how such a file format would have to look like to keep _itself_ extensible, so meh.

Originally posted by proffessor_gad

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So you say that editing textures will be possible... But will editing models be possible with your editor?

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3AC2: 00 11 <--- High 16-bits from start pointer (+1)

3AC4: 3C 06  

3AC6: 00 11 <--- High 16-bits from end pointer 

3AC8: 24 C6 

3ACA: 47 50 <--- Low 16-bits from end pointer 

3ACC: 24 A5 

3ACE: 8A 40 <--- Low 16-bits from start pointer 

3AC2: 00 80 <--- High 16-bits from start pointer 

3AC4: 3C 06  

3AC6: 00 82 <--- High 16-bits from end pointer  (+1)

3AC8: 24 C6 

3ACA: BB 62 <--- Low 16-bits from end pointer 

3ACC: 24 A5 

3ACE: 00 00 <--- Low 16-bits from start pointer 

Originally posted by BGNG

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I just got done playing through The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time - Master Quest and I find it rather peciuliar. Most if not all of the geometry data for the levels is the same. The only differences are the objects and actors in any given room.

You can definitely make one tough Zelda game using the exact same level geometry as another one, so... I see no reason we can't have a Super Mario 64 - Master Quest. I mean, who wouldn't love to see Bullies on the floating islands in Whomp's Fortress as you attempt to catch the rabbit for a star?

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Originally posted by supa_mario

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Where can I get MIO0?

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