Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

didn't make faces for them yet. only Suwako so far.

 

Alright let me give you an example of how to correctly use a skipflag

#0100
<SKJ0001:0101
<MSGHere is some dialogue
that you only want
to display once.<NOD<CLO<SK+0001<EVE0101

#0101
<MSGHere is some dialogue
that you want to
display every time.<NOD<CLO<END

By default, the skipflag 0001 is clear, so the <SKJ command does nothing. However, once #0100 runs once, the skipflag 0001 is set, so the next time #0100 runs, the <SKJ jumps directly to #0101, so the first bit of dialogue is not displayed.

 

how do you make a section of a wall or floor disappear after a boss battle or something?

 

The <CMP command. There's a certain <SOU that usually accompanies it as well (0012, IIRC).

 

I don't exactly know why, but Balrog drops automatically when I enter the room he's in. This is most likely because I am trying to have him appear after I land and everything, but I need to fix something that I don't know yet

 

ok, another problem. whenever I set the background from Alice's House on, the background is completely blue even though I set it to a different background.

 

ok, another problem. whenever I set the background from Alice's House on, the background is completely blue even though I set it to a different background.

Set the background type to something like "0 - fixed" or "1 - move slow" but don't make it 3, 4, or 8. "Hide" just makes it render a dark blue in the background.

 

the background type is 5, that's the problem. and on Alice's House its fixed. o_O;

 

Try with other background types and tell us if the same thing happens for all of those.
Also: are you using the most recent version of cave editor?

 

I've already tried, besides Fog and Green I also tried Gray. they're the same. hmm, how can I tell? ...wait, ah I see now. 0.95f, what's the latest version?

edit: nvm, found it, lets see if it makes a difference...

 

afaik, .99d.
You may have a version of CE that still suffers from the background glitch.
Here's a link.

 

tried it, still didn't work. what's going on?!

 

If your mapdata is already corrupt, I don't think the new version of CE automatically salvages them
they will need manual fixing.

 

manual fixing? you mean use a hex editor?

 

Well, that's one way. Or, you could get a clean copy of Cave Story, copy all necessary files to this clean copy, then use the good version of CE to edit the mapdata.

edit: or better yet, just copy the clean Doukutsu.exe into your current mod folder, and then use CE to edit the mapdata

 

it might've worked, but now the maps are off the list.

 

Oh, so you had previously renamed the map files or something? You should be able to just rename them back to something that exists in Cave Story.

 

oh, I see what you mean. no, I didn't rename them, I added new map files before I cleaned the doukutsu file.

 

Would you be willing to upload your mod for us to look at?
We'll be able to fix it much faster that way.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?5z345sdpvcyvs3f yes I would be willing. :3

there were 4 maps, map names from first to currently last are Haku, FOM, AliH and FOM2. (weird, I thought there were 5.)