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[dooey100]

Edit by Noxid:
So you want to mod Cave Story? Don't know where to start? Well you've come to the right place!
This thread is an index of all the knowledge this forum has to offer, presented in what we hope to be an easily accessible format. If there's anything you can't find, chances are it isn't very easy to do, or downright impractical! Or nobody got around to explaining it!
 
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This is the recommended beginner's course of learning the fundamentals of CS modding. And I'm not just recommending my own guides because I'm full of myself. Or maybe I am.

• Noxid's Modding Video Guide: This short two-part video tutorial is meant to give a quick rundown of the most basic aspects of modding - setting up the modding environment, writing your first scripts, and editing a map. The video focuses on use of Cave Editor.
• After finishing the videos I recommend reading over Noxid's text-based modding guide. Some of the information is redundant with the videos, but seeing it both ways may help you link it in your mind, and the text is easier to keep up with. It also has a fairly detailed section on TSC commands
• Check out ANP.txt if you haven't gotten it yet; this is necessary for animating entities and doing cutscenes.
• If you've checked all the tutorials, tried everything you can think of, and are still having issues, then visit the Quick Modding/Hacking answers thread to ask for help. Please dont' make a new thread for a question.

If you think you've got the basics under control, and want to try something REALLY advanced, then check out Carrotlord's Assembly Guide. Be warned, assembly is REALLY HARD and you have to be REALLY SMART and good with computers to do it. You may also want to visit Noxid's Modding/Hacking resources for lists of memory offsets.
 
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Basics of Editing Cave Story
Quick Modding/Hacking answers
Noxid's Guide
How to edit Cave Story's Images
Adding new music to Cave Story
Modding Reference Sheets
.bmp Template
MicroTutorials (New!)
Modding Video Guide (New!)

Editing T-Scripts (TSC)
TSC Command descriptions
ANP notes
Adding Teleporter Options
Example Scripts

Useful programs
Cave Editor
Sue's Workshop (new version not done)
Sue's Workshop hacked
Booster's Lab (in dev) (not ready for use)
Noxid's standalone TSC Editor (New!)
NPC.tbl editor
Doukutsu Trainer
OllyDbg, Assembly Editor and Debugger (External Link)
Cheat Finder (External Link)
Resource Hacker (External Link)
PC/MAC save converter

Assembly Hacking Threads
How to Hex edit
Misc. Hex Edits
Beginner's Guide to Cavestory Assembly (very good) (New!)
Un-Advanced Assembly Hacking
Advanced Assembly Hacking
Noxid's Modding/Hacking resources
Special Effects Hacking
NPC Hacking
Title Screen Hacks
Example Assembly Hacks
Adding more org songs than the game normally holds
'open source' hacks by noxid

Miscellaneous Useful Threads
How to fix NPC dancing problem
How to fix NPC death sounds disappearing
 
If you have a thread/link you think should be added, post it in here.

Edit by DT: I do not have boots

Edit by S. P. Gardebiter: Since dooey is no longer active, the Administrators and Moderators will edit this post to add things to the list.

Edited by Noxid, 09 March 2013 - 08:35 PM.

[Uncy Dave]

This is some good initiative you've taken.
Hopefully there won't be so many questions now

[Metalogz]

STICKY THIS ABOVE ALL!

... if that's even possible :x

[jcys810]

Make it an announcement lol.

[Wedge of Cheese]

This thread = win

Also, maybe some of the dead stickies should be unstickied?

[Wedge of Cheese]

You should also put a link to Garde's FTP, because I can never remember the URL.

[Lace]

for useful programs, I would add ollydbg, cheat finder, and gameshock.
rune had another misc hacks thing which has some veerrry commonly asked for hacks like infinite booster.*
(and I would suggest some of my own threads, but they really aren't that usefu, so they don't belong here. I don't espect anyone to use tsc hacks in their mod.)
(expect spelled wrong on porpoise)
(that was too)

*Speaking of which, there's another really easy technique to do this, and it doesn't result in the weird graphics clog. It took me about 5 secs to fuind, so rune musthave known about it. I just don't know why he posted the other** way....

** Well, one of them at least, there are at least four different ways that I see to make an infinite booster.

[Celtic Minstrel]

You seem to have missed my useful program.

[Orangedawg]

you should definitely add resource hacker

[VoidMage_Lowell]

Oh hey, while we're adding programs, might I recommend Translhextion?

It's a pretty awesome Hex editor, even allowing you to compare two files hex-wise.
{That part was really helpful on figuring out what offsets were getting screwed up by the Table editors, earlier...}
Though I haven't used another Hex Editor yet, so I can't really compare anything, it's only because I've yet to have a need that Translhextion hasn't filled

{And is Cave Editor up there? I don't see it o.o;}