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Delmaru
Posted on 11-05-07 03:57 AM Link | Quote | ID: 69189


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ive seen a few hacks that when you pause it, the screen is dark. how do i do this?

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If the emulator doesn't have any grave flaws in its emulation, not at all.

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Delmaru
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Posted by blackhole89
If the emulator doesn't have any grave flaws in its emulation, not at all.


WTF? that didnt answer my question. i need help with this. its an effect, not a flaw.

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blackhole89
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If the emulator doesn't implement its pause function in a crappy manner, the ROM code has no way of detecting the process of the game being paused and resumed. I do challenge you to disprove this by pointing me to a hack that is supposed to do that though.

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Smallhacker
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Last view: 5187 days 		He's talking about the in-game pause feature activated by pressing Start.

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ghettoyouth
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blackhole89
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Oh yeah, sorry. It never occured to me you could have meant the "soft pause" function (as I never use it)

Either way, you should use a tracer to find any piece of code the game loops through while in pause mode. Depending on whether the code that copies SMW's mirror registers into the corresponding PPU ones every frame is called within the pause loop, you should make your hook code either write into one of SMW's mirror registers (the one ghettoyouth suggested is probably right, though I can't seem to find it in the addresses thread) or directly to INIDISP ($2100), setting it to 0 to make the screen fully black. In case you can go for the direct write to INIDISP variant, you can also count on the present code resetting INIDISP to its previous value as soon as the pause loop code isn't called anymore.

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Posted by Delmaru
Posted by blackhole89
If the emulator doesn't have any grave flaws in its emulation, not at all.


WTF? that didnt answer my question. i need help with this. its an effect, not a flaw.
For some reason I found that quite funny.

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nevermind, i got this. this can be closed now.

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