If it is too large then you may mess up our ISO. Most of the game files are compressed and archived in. This is how we get them out and decompress them in order to be able to edit them. Some files haven't been archived and don't require decompression but most of the useful and interesting ones do. Of course, once the files have finished being edited they must be recompressed so we can put them back in. Once the files have been recompressed they now need to be put back precisely where they were found in the archive so that they game can load our new edited data.
Posted June 2, Just a quick update. I found the recompression script I've been using on a forum somewhere like a year ago and it's been really tedious to use. I just did some research on quickBMS scripts and I've amended the script to be a little easier to use. This new script automatically calculates the file size so you don't need to update the script every time you want to compress a different file.
This also means that multiple files can be compressed on one run of quickBMS. Posted August 27, So this comment isn't a contribution, but hopefully I will be able to in the future. I have wanted to do this for so long and now I have the materials to do so. I've looked for gamecube hacking materials in the past but digging through forums has not exactly been my forte. Luckily I stumbled upon yours while researching how to hack Gen V games. If I am somehow able to contribute information or findings I absolutely will, but compared to the terminology I'm seeing right now I may be lost in the dust.
Posted August 28, That makes me very happy to hear. Once you understand how hex works then everything else will be really easy. Trust me, gamecube hacking is many times easier than hacking gen V. If you have any questions feel free to pm me. I check the forums everyday. Good luck! Posted August 24, Finally getting started bro, also please make a tutorial for GCBanner 'cuz I'm not getting any also can you link me to your repository for quickBMS scripts? Posted August 25, I haven't used gcbanner in a while and I'm not sure if I still have a link to the tutorial I used.
I'll see if I can figure it out though. Please do remind me if I forget though. The quickBMS scripts are in the first post, I'll move them to the top so they're more obvious. Is that actually the first hack for explorers of sky? I thought the mystery dungeon hacking scene was pretty far along. That's really impressive. I actually haven't played mystery dungeon since mystery dungeon red though and I'll definitely be going back to that series eventually.
I'd love to play this once I've finished the originals though. Sorry, I'm not really allowed to do that. Hello, are you looking forward to make youtube videos on your hack?
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Followers 0. Before I get into the details of the hacking I have some hints and tips that you should read. Things you'll need - Download Gamecube rebuilder or similar program. Download QuickBMS. Any hexadecimal converter or you can do it all in your head if you prefer.
Any free online converter is enough. You may also want a binary converter for XD. No tools as of the time of writing except my iOS apps which won't be released for the reasons explained in part III Check out my git hub repository and download the quickBMS scripts.
I won't be explaining it here but there are tutorials somewhere online. An emulator will be very useful for testing. Dolphin is really good these days. It plays Colosseum perfectly with the right settings but does have a few glitches with XD.
It is convenient having the emulator on the computer you're hacking on because once you build the ISO you can test right then and there. However, computers can rarely produce good emulation speeds. I recently started using Nintendon't on my Wii U and it is brilliant. If you have a Wii or Wii U I recommend finding a tutorial online on installing Nintendon't as the consoles have built in GameCube emulation made by Nintendo themselves and so runs the games perfectly at full speed.
Useful knowledge - Learn basic hexadecimal to decimal conversion. As long as you understand what it is a hex converter will do the rest. I will not be covering this myself as there are many tutorials already.
A very tiny bit of binary also comes up in XD. If you understand hex you probably get binary too and there are many converters online. Experience hacking other gen III games is very valuable. Hacking other gen games will also be of slight use but gen III does have it's quirks. My git hub repo also has some useful files for looking things up like the ids of each Pokemon so download those files also.
I haven't put it up yet but will do soon Less importantly, since the game was originally coded by the Japanese, a lot of the file names are transliterations of the Japanese names.
I happen to speak Japanese and I've found it really useful because it allows me to more easily figure out what is inside a file. Sometimes the name makes it very obvious. I know this means surprise in Japanese so I was able to make the assumption that this file contains data for when an NPC trainer spots you and the little surprise animation pops up above their head.
There are no Japanese characters anywhere so just understanding a bit of the language phonetically helps. Those used to hacking on other platforms will be used to reversing bytes but there is no need for that at any time on the GameCube. The downside is that this makes opening files on "little endian" computers as far as I know that's about every computer in common use a bit trickier. Programs may need to byte-swap when reading and writing values longer than 1 byte in length.
The amount of time spent compressing and recompressing files not to mention the difficulty of emulating GameCube games means testing can be a long and tedious process so not everything has been tested fully. Also I'll be teaching you 'safe' techniques.
I haven't reached the level of repointing to expand the size of data regions. Hopefully when more automated tools are available more possibilities will open up. The preparation section isn't very exciting but is necessary so pay attention. You may find yourself repeating these steps many times before programs are available.
In order to minimize repeating tedious steps, try to edit the files as much as possible all in one go before recompressing. Don't forget to be conscious of increasing the file size as I'll mention in the preparation section. All of my tools are iPad apps which I can't release because I doubt it'll be allowed.
The programming was all done in a rush and the UI is pretty poor but I will be releasing the source code for everything so hopefully someone else will make some better tools. Do check out my YouTube videos. They're a bit long but I do go into more depth about many of the concepts and techniques introduced in these tutorials.
I especially recommend the fsys and compression video because that is a bit tricky to describe. Since there are few automated processes and it is very easy to make mistakes, make sure you keep backups of your files.
Changing just one byte incorrectly can ruin your files. The two most interesting files are the Start. These two files contain a lot of the important data. They are loaded into the game's ram when the game is loaded which means that anything that can be done in those files can, in theory, also be achieved through Action Replay codes or if you prefer you could do a ram dump, edit the ram directly and then load the edited ram.
This includes editing pokemon stats, move data, TMs list, a little bit of text, starter pokemon and gift pokemon and trainer teams colo only. It's only used for shadow moves though. I would really like to find a way to incorporate it into all the moves. I'm really hoping someone can crack this. I'm hacking the US versions of the two games. There may be differences if you're using a different region.
File extraction - This is how we get individual game files out of the ISO. This is another example of how this is good, but with a bit more work it could have been great. I know that this may seem like an overly negative review, but this is not a bad game at all. Browse games Game Portals.
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game. Game review Downloads Screenshots Overall rating: 7. Pokemon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire.
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