Quick Modding/Hacking Answers Thread

I don't know if this will help me but is it possible to add in additional songs to the game? Is there a pre-existing ASM hack for it or something?

 

I don't know if this will help me but is it possible to add in additional songs to the game? Is there a pre-existing ASM hack for it or something?

Indeed, there is.

 

I dont know much about asm but, looking at what the page says, when I look, the data is in a different place in the exe. I cant find the asm code. What am I doing wrong?

 

Hi everyone,



I'm having a bit of trouble with intre-map doors.



Here's the script I'm using:

#0202

<KEY<SOU0015<HMC<MOV0057:0013<WAI0020<SMC<END



#0203

<KEY<SOU0015<HMC<MOV0058:0025<WAI0020<SMC<END

When moving from door #0202 to #0203, everything works as intended, but when moving back the other way, there is a delay and a stuttering sound before the script runs. To be precise, the sound appears right when Quote faces the door (after pressing down).



Do any of you have any ideas as to what might be causing this? I've tried running the script without <SOU0015, but the buggy sound persists.



Thanks a bundle.

 

Dont know if this will work but I changed the script to be a bit more appealing:



#0202
<PRI<CNP0202:0000:0000
<SOU0011<HMC<MOV0057:0013<WAI0020<CNP0203:0000:0000<SMC<END

#0203
<PRI<CNP0203:0000:0000
<SOU0011<HMC<MOV0058:0025<WAI0020<CNP0202:0000:0000<SMC<END

 

Thanks for the reply (and for moving my post to the appropriate thread).



I copied your code, but I still have the sound issue unfortunately. The sound bug is triggering with other doors as well, including doors meant to move to a new map.



I'll copy the entire script I have and then describe the problem in more detail:

#0200

<SMC<FAI0004<END



#0201

<KEY<CNP0201:0000:0000<SOU0011<HMC<FAO0004<TRA0001:0206:0007:00010<END



#0202

<PRI<CNP0202:0000:0000<SOU0011<HMC<MOV0057:0013

<WAI0020<CNP0203:0000:0000<SMC<END



#0203

<PRI<CNP0203:0000:0000<SOU0011<HMC<MOV0058:0025

<WAI0020<CNP0202:0000:0000<SMC<END



#0204

<KEY<SOU0011<HMC<FAO0004<TRA0016:0202:0037:0004<END

Door #0201 works perfectly fine, but now door #0204 is acting in the same way as door #0203 in that it triggers the earlier described sound bug, and then moves the player to the coordinates (58, 25) on the same map.



Is it possible that I've somehow corrupted the .exe file? I'm pretty new to this business, but I'm having trouble seeing where the problem in my script is.



Thanks again.

 

First of all, you're using SMC and HMC for transport between rooms. This is unneeded.
Also, maybe you could try replacing MOV with TRA. That might work. I would recommend checking HaydenStudios' door tutorial at http://www.cavestory.org/forums/threads/3966/ if you haven't already.

 

First of all, you're using SMC and HMC for transport between rooms. This is unneeded.

That's kinda actually necessary since he means to transport between two doors in the same room.

 

That's kinda actually necessary since he means to transport between two doors in the same room.

If you read what I said, I wasn't talking about the same room, I was talking about different rooms.

 

Yeah, I had to reread the entire thing. My bad! But yeah, are there any events with missing flags that connect to the events you're using for the doors?

EDIT: Actually, you should also see if there are events that don't have 4 numbers in it (as in check if you accidentally put in #XXX instead of #XXXX) and check if the event number isn't mislabeled (like an entity with event 105, and there is no event 105 but the actual event for the entity being event 106).

EDIT 2: Yeah, so far this is what I can find from an old mod of mine, which has that sound glitch in some events.

 

Yeah, I had to reread the entire thing. My bad! But yeah, are there any events with missing flags that connect to the events you're using for the doors?

EDIT: Actually, you should also see if there are events that don't have 4 numbers in it (as in check if you accidentally put in #XXX instead of #XXXX) and check if the event number isn't mislabeled (like an entity with event 105, and there is no event 105 but the actual event for the entity being event 106).

EDIT 2: Yeah, so far this is what I can find from an old mod of mine, which has that sound glitch in some events.

There is one error at event 201.
This:
<TRA0001:0206:0007:00010<END

 

Thanks for the tips and corrections! I'll be more careful about the numbers from now on.

 

Thanks for the tips and corrections! I'll be more careful about the numbers from now on.

I'm going to assume you fixed the sound.

 

Question, is it possible to modify the damage output of the missile launcher through bullet data?

 

Yes.

 

Yes.

I'm asking because damage #s for all of the missile bullets seem to be set to zero. Is there another value I must change?

 

I'm asking because damage #s for all of the missile bullets seem to be set to zero. Is there another value I must change?

Missile launcher coding is weird. You have to modify the bullet data under the "extra missiles" symbol, rather than the missile launcher symbol.

 

Isn't damage also dependent on the size of the explosion hitbox, much like the Lv3 Blade?

 

you mean the nHits field, which determines how many frames of damage the bullet can do before it disappears?

 

I'm using CaveEditor, and I need to know how to expand the color palette, so I can fit more colors. That's pretty much it.