Originally posted by JaSp

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Originally posted by Stifu

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I think you should make night colors more blue... It would look much better, in my opinion.

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This would require some more programming; either change the whole palette, or find a way with layer or DMA writes...I'll probably take a look at it once the system is fully fixed.

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Originally posted by JaSp

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What do you mean by ASM patch ? Anyway, if it is as it sounds it can't be bad, so yeah, feel free to do it!

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Originally posted by Reshaper256 @ http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?pid=123017

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For general hacking (finding data, editing gfx, using someone else's editor to create new levels, etc...) it's often more convenient to use only headered ROMs, to avoid having to switch back and forth between them. Many editing programs don't support 'headerless' ROMs, such as zcompress. While this is true in most cases, there are a few exceptions, usually when you draw nearer to ASM hacking - Geiger's SNES9x Debugger requires that your ROM be headerless before loading it.

Generally, the more ASM work you do the more you like headerless ROMs, as you don't have to subtract the x200 byte header when converting from ROM addresses to CPU addresses. I generally release my patches for 'headerless' ROMs, because it's fairly easy to figure out how to make it work for a headered ROM, and my patches are usually specialized and for people with enough intelligence to do that.

When releasing a completed hack to the general community, however, I would be sure to release a patch for a headered ROM, as many people who I would expect to play the hack are generally not ROM hackers who would understand the difference.

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Originally posted by GameMakr24

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I was motivated to write this update because I'm hoping someone can help me find the blue soldier's palette. I have a technique for finding monster palettes in Hyrule Magic really fast, but I've decided this one isn't listed at all. I've already searched the ROM itself for three of the colors used. Does anyone know if this data is hard-coded or formatted in an unusual way?

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Originally posted by Jigglysaint

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After about a half hour of rom corruption, I found the boss drop data, but there are some complications. First of all, the heart container is not a sprite on the sprite index. Instead it is composed of a graphic, and a what I call a "live chest". This means the data for the heart is actually treasure chest data, not a sprite. This is good in a way because if hacked, it could be possible to have certain monsters drop more than just heart containers. The heart container that the boss drops is called "muteheart" and is inded 62, or 3E in hex.

However, there are 2 other problems not including finding the heart graphic. The first is that you can only use treasure chest values, and heart pieces do not have an entry. It could be corrected if the treasure chest assembler is found. Second, the heart container contains code that further introduces the pendant/crystal. Any other item causes the game to hang. For this to be corrected, the code that makes the game continue would have to be edited to the item that's desired, or the item data would need to be copied to entry 3E. Either way it will take some more work to make it work.

This is my initial finding. If I find anything else, I'll post it.

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Originally posted by Jigglysaint

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Rom corrupting is a talent and a skill. Things are difficult when you have to locate data you have no clue how it is stored. The trick, is that you need to imagine all the possible ways somthing could be coded in. In this case, I got inspired and looked for a treasure chest entry that fit the bill, and the rest was just searching. For the Turtle Rock event and stuff like that, it's going to be a bit harder. I'll look, but only if it hasn't been found yet. LTTP is not one of the roms I am intimatly familiar with(unlike LA and OOS in which I am king there).

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