Originally posted by jp

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The technique, which I apparently (and appropiately) had named DMArio, consists of extracting Mario's sprites from a ZSNES savestate, storing them somewhere in the ROM, and setting up a Blocktool block to trigger a DMA transfer of the stored sprites in the ROM, into the snes's GFX memory. If it sounds technical, it is , but to put it simple it's just a 'copy and paste'.

Some notes:

* Anything you write to the ROM has to be protected by a RATS tag, so that Lunar Magic knows it must not be overwritten, otherwise it might get corrupted!

* The code of my block to trigger the DMA transfer was:

A9 05 8D FC 1D A9 00 8D 02 43 A9 90 8D 03 43 A9 22 8D 04 43 A9 FF 8D 05 43 A9 5F 8D 06 43 A9 00 8D 81 21 A9 20 8D 82 21 A9 7E 8D 83 21 A9 80 8D 01 43 A9 00 8D 00 43 A9 01 8D 0B 42 60

However keep in mind that it uses a fixed source address which I don't remember right now (I feel like my IQ dropped 20 points since I'm not hacking SMW anymore! ) I think it was a little after &H111111, I'll look into it later. The number is in the hex code anyway, if you feel like looking for it

I also had a small Basic program for automatically extracting sprites from a ZSNES savestate, I can provide that too if needed.

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Originally posted by jp

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I can't test it right now but I'm pretty sure that the Overworld Mario sprites in the top left corner are the same, so if you change them in a level they'll reflect it in the OW.

In fact, I doubt the sprites get updated ever, once the ROM is loaded.

About the small OW mario sprites, I never tried to change them, but there's no reason why they couldn't be changed with DMA transfers.

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Originally posted by ghettoyouth

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my brand new zelda OW! now mario will travel through hyrule


[edit]
xkeeper please fix this damn "disable layout" button, it doesn't work

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Originally posted by Bio

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why not just locate the code for when the screen turn black on the OW and put the DMA code here, after all, its the only time you go from mario to luigi(If you don't use character changing block)

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Originally posted by peter_ac

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Nice work, Bio!

Does this fix Iggy's room?

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Originally posted by Bio

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Really?I have tested and Iggy throw ball like usual, the battle should be back to normal(exept for the graphic, because I like the boat)

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Originally posted by Link2006

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Originally posted by Sickness

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If used right, you can use the 2P Game for an alternate character to use in a hack. If only there was a patch that forces you to use Luigi only when you select a 2P game (rather than the old take Mario lives then kill him to use Luigi method).

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Or even better:

>MARIO GAME
LUIGI GAME
2 PLAYERS

Or even even better:

>1 PLAYER GAME
2 PLAYER GAME
3 PLAYER GAME
4 PLAYER GAME
5 PLAYER GAME

By the way, Smallhacker, I'm definitely using this patch. Any chances on different sprites for Fire and Cape as well?

Originally posted by HyperMackerel

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You should find that comic someone drew where Mario kicked a baby Yoshi toward a Big Boo and it exploded (as it does in SMW). Mario's facial expression was completely changed by editing two pixels.

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Originally posted by HyperMackerel

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@ the Toads

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Originally posted by Yoster

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P.S. Just a tip, if you want to edit the mario and luigi graphics, sometimes it's a bit confusing because you can't see who is Mario and who is Luigi. Maybe there could be some sort of way to make it a little more clear.

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