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DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 1/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
I've read literally everywhere and I'm unfortunately having no luck; I've used Lunar Compress, uncompressed areas located via this http://epicedit.stifu.fr/smk_doc/pack7-podium.htm and have tried all the codecs in Tile Molester, and tried altering the palette several times. But to no avail. Can anyone provide me an example of how this is done? I would greatly appreciate it, thanks! |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 600/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Decompress the data at 737DA twice, and you should be able to see stuff with Tile Molester. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 2/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
Thank you for the super quick reply! But how would I double decompress?
Would I decomp it into a file, and then decomp it again? Explain please. |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 601/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Posted by DXKittyKate That's what you would do with Lunar Compress, yes (first decompress the ROM at 737DA, then decompress the resulting file at 0). But with Epic Edit, it's a bit easier. Just go to the Codec tool, input the address, and check the "Twice" check box. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 3/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
That did the trick! Epic Edit is amazing, you did a great job making it. I thought all it was good for was just editing tracks, I apologize for the bias. I should've tried it earlier on during this whole project.
So it looks like you can re-compress the graphics just as easy? I like this a lot better, so much easier. Thank you so much~! <3 EDIT: Oh I almost forgot to ask, how would I edit the palettes? I've pretty much almost got this down~. :3 EDIT 2: I would also just like to give up my project's secrecy by saying that I'm doing a Princess Daisy over Koopa Troopa hack but I can easily see just by the sprite set I extracted via your instructions that this could cause complications. Should I shorten Peach a little bit or is there a hacky hex way to do all of this? It's starting to seriously go all over my head at this point even more than just hacking the text alone was. I'll possibly change "PEACH" to "TOADSTOOL" at a later time in respect of how she was originally named in North America & Europe before it was changed to Peach commonly. EDIT 3: Moved images to snag.gy from Dropbox, hopefully they'll show up this time. |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 602/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Posted by DXKittyKate You're welcome. I'm currently updating the Overview page on the EE site, to make things like this a bit more discoverable. Posted by DXKittyKate To be sure, you mean podium palettes? I'll have to double check. Posted by DXKittyKate There might be a way to do it by tweaking some of the values on the podium notes you posted in your original post, but I'm not sure how. See what's done for the princess at 5A476? Maybe you can try copying that data (or part of it) around 5A63A, so as to make Koopa taller. I guess you made a save state right before getting to the podium scene, to be able to view it easily after each change, right? PS: the images don't show up here. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 4/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
Well, I'll definitely consider looking over that. Dirtbagd's Super Baldy Kart will probably be a good reference because the character's Shelly and Nisha are recolors of Peach. I'll also get those images up on a different host as soon as possible.
Would it be more convenient to speak on IRC or Skype if possible? I'm paranoid about breaking the rules too be honest, and I'm just trying to work on getting Super Mario Kart hacking to have more documentation out there so people will be able to hack certain aspects of it easier. |
Termingamer2-JD |
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Ropa Banned: repeat sockpuppeting Level: 53 Posts: 217/739 EXP: 1128754 Next: 28365 Since: 08-06-15 From: England Last post: 2647 days Last view: 653 days |
@DXKittyKate I don't think you're going to break the rules. Your posts are good quality and you haven't done anything wrong.
Also, images.allprog.nl is a good image host which is quick and works (you can paste the forum URL after uploading, there's more info on the website though). Enjoy board2 ____________________ Jamie Dignam |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 5/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
Thanks a lot, I'm grateful to know. I've just had bad experiences with forums in the past, am paranoid and am more cautious than ever these days. I'm sure a lot of people have wanted Daisy in Super Mario Kart (without replacing Toadstool) as much as I do.
I'll get to you guys if I discover anything examining Super Baldy Kart ASAP. UPDATE: Yikes, Shelly and Nisha's dresses are shorter than Toadstool's, there isn't much difference here either except maybe Tylor... Since this hack is only replacing sprites, and text, this really would not be the best route as it's not a total conversion like Super Baldy Kart is. EDIT: I also forgot to mention actually that I didn't make a save state to be able to get to the podium screen quickly, as save states would possibly preserve the values in a previous version of the hacked ROM in question. I actually used the Pro Action Replay Debug codes: 04 - Pushing L puts you on the last lap and 10 - Item Debugger I didn't really much need the Item Debugger but it was a part of a combo code I inputted out of admittedly laziness. Hey, no need for doing all the laps and participating in the races in full when all you're doing is testing GP Results, Time Trials, and Podium Screen text modifications, right? |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 603/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Posted by DXKittyKate Well, the advantage of posting about this stuff here is that it may help other people later, and makes all of this searchable. I also appreciate being able to reply whenever I want to. So I'd rather keep discussions here. About Daisy and podium graphics, personally, I guess I'd try to directly reuse Peach's body graphics and apply a different color palette to it. I'd try to copy Peach's body structure data over Koopa's. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 6/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
You're probably right, this in a sense probably is better and it gives us more time to think and such I suppose.
I forgot to mention also about trying your idea, I figured doing that would cause some interesting problems. But you know at this point? It's better to just find out than to not. I mean she has no jumping frames, and that's always good news. Instead she just seems to have a frame where she's holding her hands up to throw the champagne bottle in the air. I don't see why not I mean I can just do what I've been doing and be making backup copies of the ROM I've been modifying after each change because WindHex seems to not want to have an undo function. I just need to get myself together to do the recoloring and pixel altering myself, trying to find a graphics guru of the sorts has never worked out well for me. |
MiniCompute |
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Bubble Level: 66 Posts: 819/981 EXP: 2415861 Next: 45990 Since: 04-25-07 Last post: 461 days Last view: 669 days |
Posted by DXKittyKate http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/204/ Use this instead of winhex, much more comfortable to work in. With some nifty features to save your work in case something goes wrong. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 7/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
This isn't much of an update, I know. I'm going to start going in order from the beginning part of the game, and then I'll get back to the podium stuff. I fully agree for the earlier steps of this hack, that making it just a recolor of Peach is totally fine. How would I go about replacing Koopa's palette though? Is there a good tutorial out there? I was looking at this but I'm probably more lost than I've ever been for the most part in this entire project. http://web.archive.org/web/20080510121437/http://matt.yanos.com/smkpal/ New goal for now I suppose is to redirect all of Peach's sprite coding to Koopa's sprite coding will work, I just need to know how to do that, and how to modify Koopa's palette. I'll keep looking around, but helping pointing me in the right direction and stuff would help out lots. Let's hope something clicks and I figure this out, less work from the community that way. Short-term goals: Implement the ranking sprites I had shown above, I've got a general idea how I'm going to do it but no idea how to replace the palette yet. EDIT: I'm starting to see this could cause an issue with Luigi's colors, as it seems Koopa and Luigi share the same palettes... Damn...! |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 8/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
848E -> 849D Color palette used by each driver
(Altering these won't affect the palettes used when characters are squashed or in the trophy sequence) Which is what? I copied and pasted Peach's sprites over Koopa's in a copy of the current workspace ROM. I don't even know if it's my ROM or what but it seems like 848E -> 849D is changing the driver sprite pointers around on the driver select screen. What could I be doing wrong? |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 608/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
The values from 848E to 849D should be as follows:
For example, if you swap the first 02 with the first 04, then you swap Mario's colors with Luigi's:
If that's not what you see at 848E, then your ROM is probably headered. Check the data at 868E to confirm this. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 9/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
Yeah, that's appearing correctly. Now I need to figure out which is what. I suggest saying which value is which character, and what applies to what, and what have you.
EDIT: Here is what I have concluded so far as to uhhh, which pointer is which: 848D MARIO 848F LUIGI 8491 PRINCESS 8493 YOSHI 8495 BOWSER 8497 DONKEY KONG JR 8499 KOOPA TROOPA 849B TOAD So I can see like I said, Peach and Donkey Kong Jr share a palette. Now I wonder when it comes to changing the colors, her current hair colors on her dress, and then Donkey Kong Jr's fur colors as her hair. This should go a little better than I expected! |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 609/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Posted by DXKittyKate Yes, obviously. The problem is that people are never out of suggestions, but all out of energy to contribute. And so am I, now. |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 10/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
CURRENT ISSUE: The hair seems to be not rendering a color. I have NO idea what I did xD
EDIT: I figured out the problem and fixed it, no idea what caused it but I can fix it. I'll consider opening Peach and Donkey Kong Jr's sprites in GIMP with the right palette stuff set up, and reassigning colors and what have you. I just need to know what could've gone wrong to cause this? This is why I named this copy of the ROM "experimental." Heh. EDIT: I'm feeling so close I can almost taste it, I just remembered something though. Where are the palette pointers for squashed sprites, podium screen, and the final ola? MAJOR UPDATE: I'm going to need someone to edit this sprite sheet, I will find someone hopefully. To do: Rank sprites (Rank palette redirect possibly?) Podium/Final Ola sprites Podium/Final Ola palette redirects BONUS: WITNESS THE HORROR THAT IS KNOWN ONLY AS "DAIPA!" |
DXKittyKate |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 11/12 EXP: 2307 Next: 855 Since: 10-21-15 Last post: 3066 days Last view: 3026 days |
Posted by StifuPosted by DXKittyKate If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have made it this far. I thank you for all of your help, I respect you, and what you've done and all. But I would really appreciate it if you at least helped me finish this. (Extremely close, just a little stumps here and there that I need your help to clear!) When I am through with this project, albeit even so simple, I will be releasing tutorials and all the such to help future hackers with this game. I promise also that I will never ask anything more of you. If you decline, that's completely fine, and I will respect your decision. It's just admittedly a little upsetting that there's nobody else whom is active, or really knows about this game, and hacking it in-depth. So you're pretty much all I've got. Literally I can think of, I just don't know how to do that's left. Extracting and modifying Koopa Troopa's rank icon palette, I have no idea where it is I've been looking through the notes and such and I can't find it. Expanding the ROM a little to add an additional palette that will be used on the Podium screen and Final Ola, that palette will redirect Peach's colors to become Daisy's colors. I'm thinking of (if I can figure out how) to use your advice and use Peach's body structure over Koopa Troopas on the final screens. Less hassle that way. EDIT: I keep forgetting but not this time, I've got to modify the squished sprites for Koopa Troopa as well, and the palette. (Actually no, turns out I got this one on my own, luckily. All I needed to do was just do what I did with the Daisy sprites, just use the red's of the palette for the hair) |
Stifu |
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Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 610/666 EXP: 1358175 Next: 40001 Since: 02-22-07 Last post: 657 days Last view: 279 days |
Okay, let's start with the podium. I'm not sure if the rest (squashed + ola colors) has been documented.
http://epicedit.stifu.fr/smk_doc/pack7-podium.htm Relevant part:
That means you should modify the value at 5A63D (A6) to something else. |
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