Posts by Treeki

Well, I decided to get back to SMB hacking, and found all my old stuff like IPS patches and editors. I've tried using a TSA editor, but the problem is, I need more. Is there any way I can get more TSA slots, without removing old ones?
I want to use ATA's Landform patch, which allows for SMW-style ground with edges, but it requires one TSA slot for each edge. (I've already figured out how to use it

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edit: I also need to know if there's any way to change the palettes each TSA slot uses..

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Posted by interdpth
http://www.datacrystal.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.

Hope that helps

Page is blank: possible vandalism?
Would be useful, since I remember it having palette info, which I need.. :X

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Posted by Celice
Posted by Treeki
Would be useful, since I remember it having palette info, which I need.. :X

Palletes are universal between games on the NES, so there's nothing that really needs explaining, other than someone giving you the address :/

Yeah, that's what I wanted. (I'm a little rusty on my hacking- haven't done it in over a year! Maybe I should go see if I can dig up my old hack's thread on Archive3.)

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Anyone know where I can find a copy of DahrkDaiz's SMB hack, Mario Seasons? (Sometimes called 'Mario Season'.)
I used to have a copy, but I have lost it, and I really want to play it. Anyone have a copy they can post, or know where to find one? (please don't think this is a ROM request, an IPS patch is perfectly fine.)

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I found a topic about Mario Seasons, and him remaking it with a complete new level format and tile hit detection for SMB, but all the screenshots were broken and no downloads.

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Posted by Googie
e-mail me & I'll send it to you, I have that hack on me.

There, sent.

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Yeah, I need one. I want to hack the NSMB level format; possibly make an editor, but someone (Raccoon Sam?) told me they were LZ compressed, and I can't find any way to decompress them.
Some code I stole from EliteMap simply returns an empty array, UnLZGBA can't find them, and Tahaxan does not ask me if I want to decompress them when I extract, so they -may- not be LZ compressed. Before you link me here, already gone through that. Nothing of use.

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Hmm.. I have tried one of the LZ decompressors I managed to find on romhacking.net - but it does not seem to work on the course files (it does however work on some graphics files I know are LZ compressed). So probably they are not LZ compressed. But what format? I can't seem to find anything useful in them. I will see if I can try and figure it out..

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^{[citation needed]}

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Add my NSMB level editor, please: http://acmlm.no-ip.org/board/thread.php?id=1976

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Posted by Dr. Mario
So you'll have to send me that patch so I can look at it... mainly because I want to use it, AND I can see what I can do with it for you.

http://smbarchives.run.buttobi.net
Go to Lab File, then pick number 168. It has most of the SMB mod patches in that folder, with documentation (just Google translate them).
The one you want is in the "landform0.70" (I think- it's landform something) folder.

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Posted by Squash Monster
This sounds quite awesome. However, I personally won't be able to test it until about a month from now (tears of sadness).

Out of curiosity, however, what kind of format does it use? One of those x/y/ID/size object deals?

(Yay, someone replied!)
It's simple. Basically, 10 bytes for each object.
2 = Tile type
2 = X
2 = Y
2 = Width
2 = Height
They're encoded as in "(second byte * 256) + first byte".

One thing I have yet to figure out is tilesets. I do know that tiles with 16 as the second byte are part of the level-specific tileset that changes for every level. Once I manage to figure out the normal level file format, I will probably be able to change what tileset a level uses.

NSMB is surprisingly stable- I have only managed to crash it twice, and that was by editing two bytes in A01_1.bin. (The first time, I changed an 01 to 02 and got No$GBA to crash upon entering 1-1. The second time, the level did not appear after the "World 1-1" sign faded out.) I have managed to get some weird glitches like the timer starting at a very low number and glitched BG's, or disappearing tiles that Mario can walk through, but otherwise..

Right now I'm working on a new version which features a more descriptive help window, a better UI, a Zoom function and scrolling.
Whenever I figure out how to determine what tileset a level uses and what tiles correspond to what, I will probably add support for loading tilesets from a PNG file. Since we are quite far off from easy graphics editing in DS games (especially NSMB with its convoluted graphics) I doubt this will be much of a problem.

Just curious, but why can't you try it for about a month?

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Posted by ArBeWhy
Can anyone upload it to somewhere other than sendspace? I'm using it to download Harry Potter 5 xD

Suggest somewhere I can and I will.

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Posted by ArBeWhy
http://rapidshare.com/ =D

http://rapidshare.com/files/43429341/nsmb-level-editor.zip.html

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Posted by Smallhacker
Hey, I can program too!
Screenshot

Yes, it's a real program, based on the information given in this thread and Treeki's program.

Don't expect any more progress from me on this.

Something like that is planned (but in VB) using my NSMB tile rips. I can't do it yet, because I have no way of telling what tileset a level uses.

BTW: Sprite/enemy editing is coming along well. It will probably be in the next update

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Posted by GuyPerfect
Somewhere buried deep in the confines of my endless data archives, I have the information on the NDS ROM file format, complete with checksum algorithm and FAT specification.

What would be neat is if you would implement a file reader in order to view files directly given the ROM. I'd be willing to help out with that.

I'd be more interested in some information of this stupid level data format. It is seemingly impossible to figure out. I have managed to display some enemies.. but nothing more, and the offset for them must be hardcoded (I need to find an algorithm to get the offset easily)

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Posted by Squash Monster
Posted by Treeki
(Yay, someone replied!)
It's simple. Basically, 10 bytes for each object.
2 = Tile type
2 = X
2 = Y
2 = Width
2 = Height
They're encoded as in "(second byte * 256) + first byte".
Yay, it's like an easier version of Yoshi's Island. In YI you had that same thing in 5 bytes for some objects and 4 for others. You could tell by object ID, but someone still had to go through and figure out which each ID was. Also, object 0 was a 4 byte object that used its width/height byte as a secondary type byte instead. So object 0 was actually 255 different objects that only had one size. I bet you'll run into something like it.

Posted by Treeki
One thing I have yet to figure out is tilesets. I do know that tiles with 16 as the second byte are part of the level-specific tileset that changes for every level. Once I manage to figure out the normal level file format, I will probably be able to change what tileset a level uses.
Traditionally, there is a level header in front of level that tells it things like what music and tileset to use. With this file-based system, however, it might either be the first few bytes of the file or something in a completely different file. Judging by the filename, it's probably the later. I'll go take a look inside the ROM in a bit though.

Posted by Treeki
Just curious, but why can't you try it for about a month?
Last I checked, there weren't any working DS emulators, so the only way to do this is with a flash cart. I personally don't have one, but when I move into my apartment one of my roommates will. And I know she'll be interested in this enough to let me borrow it.

There weren't any working DS emulators? What rock have you been living under for so long?
No$GBA has been able to run NSMB for ages. Recently, support for it has improved much. I don't have a flashcart, which is why I must use an emulator.
The graphics are almost perfect, with only a few missing things like the background on the map screen and the rainbow texture on Star Mario (he looks white).
I do know level headers and such are stored in the A_##_#.bin files. (The background data this editor uses is stored in A_##_#_bgdat.bin files.) I have enemy displaying working, but right now, the offset for each level must be manually entered, which is why I haven't released it yet. (The format is not too complicated for each enemy/sprite/etc - 12 bytes. First 2 are type, next 2 are X, next 2 are Y. Haven't figured out what the rest do; likely specific data for some which require more info.)
There seem to be some objects with weird positions, though (control objects, possibly?) The level time limits are also in the same 2-byte format, at offset 0x74 in the file.
I actually managed to do this by making a few values in A_01_1.bin the same as in A_02_1.bin:

The thing is that NSMB's level header format is rather weird.
From an MSN conversation describing it:

(15:18:33) Treek: The really weird thing is that some of these seem to follow a pattern, so I may be on to something
(15:28:47) Treek: Near the start of the file, I start seeing a pattern
(15:29:38) Treek: Every 4 bytes are a number (the second 2 always seem to be 00 though).
(15:30:16) Treek: Every 8 bytes are two of those. The first is a number (let's call it A), the second is another (let's call it B). A + B = A in the next 8-byte string. And so on it goes, for some time.
(15:32:09) Treek: You can see different strings of this pattern in every level I could find
(15:33:33) Treek: Here's an example from one of the unused levels:
112 + 32 144 + 24 168 + 20 188 + 20 208 + 20 228 + 80 308 + 508 816 + 32 848 + 12 860 + 16 876 + 0 876 + 64 940 + 0 940 + 16
(15:33:51) Treek: Then it changes to 256 + 500 6 + 6 and so on

There are also a metric ton of FF's littered in random lengths around the file.

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Posted by Dwedit
I fail to see what that nintendo DS game has to do with bike theft.

Is this supposed to be a joke post? Because I do not see where your comment about "bike theft" is coming from.

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Posted by Ailure
Nigga Stoly My Bike. A internet fad, based on the NES game Punch out.

Usually shortened as NSMB.

Oh.. I've never seen it before.

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Posted an update! Some new features, a new UI, and more.

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