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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba                Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| First of all.....HEY THERE! Great to discover that a lot of people are dedicated to something I've only just recently discovered, hacking. By recently discovered, I mean just became interested enough in the subject to try it out for myself, but I have got super stuck already! So I've got a couple of questions to ask y'all!
1. I recently downloaded Luna Magic, and 'attempted' to edit Super Mario World with it.....however it seems that you need to know a lot about programming to use it. I saw the screenshots, and it seemed super easy.....Is there an 'easy faq guide' for it somewhere around? 2. Let's say I try hacking a rom, and become really downhearted, and decide to give up. Do you know of anyone who would be willing to finish the job....i.e. make a modified rom for me, and how much they would charge/how long they would take/etc....? 3. How far along is the snes rom hacking process? Is it possible for me to do virtually anything to a snes rom? By this I mean add any amount of enemies/areas/sprites/backgrounds, increase the rom size, add wavs/mp3's...that sort of thing? Would I have to only use SNES sprites/tiles or music/spc file, or could I use any resource, such as add MegaDrive sprites, or chuck in a background from Metal Slug or something? 4. Would it be possible to add other type of gameplay to the rom? Such as make a 3 in 1....part RPG, part platformer and part shooti em up? Also, do you know of any good guides for editing RPG's/shoot em ups? I'd like to add pre-rendered backgrounds to make an alternate Super Mario RPG.... 5. What's a good place to get hacked roms from? lol if it's a dodgy question, just type Google.com in =) 6. Is this legal, as long as you don't try to sell the modified roms? 7. What's up with those pirate games, such as Super Donkey Kong 99, Somari and Sonic blast 1986? How did those pirates modify those games? The same way you guys do or do they have access to much more capable equipment? (I'm only asking because a lot of pirate games came out aaaaaages ago, and it seems that rom hacking has only took off post millenium...) 8. Is it possible to save the games to CD and make some sort of Autorun file...such as most newer games have? 9. Can you use hacked roms for internet play using snes9x, etc? If so....how come no-one has made an 8 player Super Mario Kart yet? lol 10. Is there an chance of getting a MUCH EASIER rom hacker/level editor in the future? I've used mapmakers, such as Tony Hawks before.....lol. And I'm excellent at the Timesplitters Future Perfect Mapmaker, although it must be said, I usually make Story maps, and use a load of logic....tbh I've wondered about getting an X-box version....the Gamecube one runs out of memory super quick... Those are the sort of mapmakers I'm used to, basic ones where you click what you want and place it where you want, then put in the action you want done or performed on or around it. lol I know it must be hard work making level editors, so surely, someone could design a Super User Friendly one? 11....and finally, what's the best way to edit or make custom sprites? Or are there people who will do them for you if asked nicely? Sorry about the length of the thread, but I just wanted to cover all bases. Thanks you guys! |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| hey mikeyk....what's ur email address? | |||
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba  Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| OK. I have read the guide at SMW Central....however...I still need a lot of questions answered on using Lunar Magic. So maybe you guys can help me out. There are a bit noobish, yeah, but I need them answered. I remember i spent ages trying to use Reason.....until someone answered a very few noobish questions for me!
1. Ok, so off I go. I think to myself, hmm let me start simple. I'll add an extra enemy to the level Yoshis Island 1 (where you are automatically taken upon opening the rom 105). I click on a sprite in the Add sprites window, and click back on the main screen. No enemy appears though...just that box that looks like im trying to drag to select many objects. What am I doing wrong here? Same this applies with adding objects... 2. I try to go to the overworld map.....how do I get there? I can just about naviagte through levels...... 3. I try to add another exit to a level....however a box pops up saying screen number of exit to add/modify ......help? How exactly do you make the action 'key into keyhole' become an exit? 4. Changing backgrounds seems to be done completely through tile editing.....which takes forever (But! I will do it if no other way!) Is there no way to just 'copy and paste' a background image into the editor? 4(b) How the heck do you edit backgrounds anyway? It says open up the 16x16 tile editor......but...jumbled up graphics is all i see! What's the next step? 5. Can you add extra backgrounds (or tiles) in from other games? How exactly do you do this? I know you're going to put something like Change f02 to 67 depending on the X and Y position....lol I have NO idea what this means. Where is this address located? How do you access it from lunar magic? Do you have to save the tiles as images, and then 'put' them into the address? OR do you have to have another rom in order to take the tiles from? Bearing in mind....I do not want to OVERWRITE any existing tiles or sprites...I want to add more to the game. 6. How do you use that Pallette editor thing? I open it up.....and sit there looking at it not knowing what the heck is going on......And what are the 'change index of graphics/change properties in header for? 7. Bypass music and time limit setting? There are some slots below it than say Not in use....is this how you add extra music to the game? By using one of the slots not in use? 8. On level 106....at the top of the screen abover the forest, there are tiles with clouds on and a orange type background. NOW on the original game....there is no way to fly up that high.......how do you reach it? Is there a cutoff point for sprites? This ties in with my next question....how do you make the screen scroll up when you make the level higher? 9. In smw, there are boxes, which when hit reveal hints and stuff. How do you change the text in these? In fact, how do you change the text full stop? Sorry for all these questions. When answering, just assume i have NO KNOWLEDGE OF GAMES OR PROGRAMMING AT ALL. There should be an exact step by step guide, taking you through editing your first level and your first overworld map. Thanks for answering these guys! I really just opened up the editior and just sat there looking at it thinking......where do I begin? Why won't that sprite go from the sprite window to the main screen? What do all those numbers and leters mean by the sprites in the add sprites window.....and so forth.... lol! Cheers, Acmlms board! |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba  Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| Thank you for answering most of my quezzies! That's my Real Noob version of an FAQ! | |||
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| Thanks guys! Ya know, I'll probably be back here in a few days with another exhausting truckload of questions! Right-click.....so simple..
BTW the only read-me file I got with lunar magic is the one that says What's new in this version. It didn't contain info on any of the issues I raised above. Thanks anyway! |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba  Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| Cheers!
I was seriously thinking of offering someone £2000 to make me hack at one point.....lol i didn't know NO-ONE would take me up on it! |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| ???"?""??"?!??!
Ahh that is a hard story! Forcing religion on ya.......not good to have anything FORCED on you tbh. Most people choose to follow a religion. Your father sounds like he had it hard as well. But sometimes people rarely think of the things that they are doing to affect other people as well as themselves. I'm proud of you, able to recover the way you did. BUT! Tell us what are you doing now? How are you coping right now? lol, because even I could just be a junkie using the p.c's in the public library! lol no offence meant. Happy endings are weird. Last year when I stayed in canada for a few weeks, I awoke one morning to feel the rays of the sun on my face, and the smell of a good fry being cooked for me in the kitchen, and I could hear my bro and me mate trying to rap along to 50 cent....and the cars were going by outside and the trees were rustling.......It's hard to explain, but at that point I felt this was the ending for me, and so I lay back on my bed, closed my eyes and fell silently back to sleep. The camera panned out, the screen faded to black, and the credits started to roll. Of course I'm still alive and kicking, and am glad that I'm still alive able to try a new thing out each day, or relive a past memory or etc. I was only 21! I still hadn't completed Final Fantasy 6, or rode The Drop, or grimaced at hearing the name "The Nintendo Wii" yet! No way would I have called that a true 'happy ending', one which I felt completely at ease with, one where I was safe and content in the knowledge that I had 'completed life', brought the T-Shirt and read the whole bok from cover to cover. But that moment felt like a movie moment to me, a moment with which the show could have ended on. You're only 17, you've got your whole life ahead of you. This is the part where people either tell you to assume you're going to live forever, and live each day planning for a big future, or they tell you to live each day like it was your last, the former usually your parents telling you to plan ahead, and the latter usually your friends getting you to try a bit of bud for the first time. I usually ride somewhere between the two......lol most people do! However, hang in there baby.....or dude, and keep your head up. It's been a long road, but you cn still make it! Can you seen the finish line? Don't let anything keep you back! p.s. sorry for the TLDR above. I just wanted to speak to you personally, and plus also respond to the subject matter. |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| I'll reply to this: Gunstar heroes is a good game. Can you make a hacked rom, allowing for all those 'missins' objects to be put in, including the music? | |||
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| There's this kid, this dumb 14 year old girl who lives down the road from me. I know her, because she's my mates little sisters frind, and whenever I go round there to see him, them two are always there. Now she came up to me a few months ago and asked me to give her £20 to pay for some new trainers, and I was like I don't really know you, go away.
Fine. Done. Except......she keeps comming up asking me for money, making a big scene with her friends saying "Where's my money, I thought you was getting me money? You got money to buy those new creps (trainers) but you can't even give me my £20?" etc. etc. It was funny the first few times.....now it's just sad. However, the last two times I've seen her, shes thrown stuff at me. Stuff like bricks and bottles. Now I'm not about to take that from that brat, so the last time I chased her and caught her and said, ya know, what do you think you're playing at and so forth. !!!! But she decided to scream and scream saying "Get off ME! Help! Police!" so I let her go. She then turns to me and says "I could get you locked up you know, easily," and walks off. I'll be honest that scared me, because even if she made accusations, and then they found out she was lying, people wouldn't care. My name would be mud. And the worst thing is, she has a big family. Very big. They wouldn't listen to me if I tried to talk to them, I'd just get stabbed/beaten up. Badly. And they're the type of family that know people as well, and if something big was made up out of it, even if she was found wrong, they'd still hate me for it. My life wouldn't be worth a penny. And NO I cannot go to the police. Like I said, you don't mess with their family. |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba  Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| ????
All these posts and only one picture of a woman? I feel like stealing a pic from some model and chucking it up here, just to even it out. |
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Sonic 3 Micro-Goomba Since: 07-05-06 Last post: 6640 days Last view: 6640 days |
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| Omega, i downloaded that file. When i open the zip file, theres nothing to extract!!!!!! |
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