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I dont hack roms, but I'd download xvi editor (its an hex editor) and learn its search tool. learn about rom structure for the console you want to tackle. Then maybe the work is already done for the game too, so search datacrystal, romhacking.net, etc.
Then somehow you find out where is the data you want and how it is stored (you can disassemble the code, do that plus debug the code (with breakpoints and stuff), plain guess, or whatever your creativity and knowledge allows).
Finding stuff in RAM doesn't mean it is stored the same on the ROM, but with data lists that may be the case. then you get lucky and the data is not stored compressed, split, or encrypted.
Finally once you know everything you want to make a level editor, a tool, thats another world.
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title is misleading, but I recalled I had this account: http://gia257.deviantart.com/ seems empty though, I had more stuff from my teen years, bleh probably better bet those suck now
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Warp wrote:
The question was whether runs which have been bested by a regular speedrun should be removed.
Dont know, if a speedrun beats a tas I somehow doubt its due to better play rather than using new tricks. It wouldnt be a "shame" for tasvideos to keep such movies. However you would be correct to say that if submitted under "fastest time" the tases would have been obsoleted (and an obsoleted movie isn't removed, its obsoleted).
As long as the new record is clearly pointed then obsoleting the tas wouldn't be bad I guess. That would probably require some minor changes in code, a viewer seeing the run obsoleted by this submission that isn't specific about the reasons of obsoletion and then not knowing where the "current record" movie is wouldn't probably be the best solution. If the changes are too difficult for some reason the good compromise for this specific case would be an "Obsoleted by unassisted speedrun, please check forum thread." submission.
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have a thread or page with the list of games that are up for a new pass, like was done with famtasia, unless you dont want "tagging" to happen even on the forums.
As for the special cases I dont know the drama behind them, but if they were accepted legit or if the runs arent of really bad quality and they can be obsoleted through "legit" means nowadays I would personally prefer that path to be sought instead of taking the easy route, wouldnt most of you?
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no, your idea is good, but im against unpublishing published movies. If you want to get rid of top gear announce that you are willing to accept a tas of the full game :P
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family feud has nothing superhuman to it yet it seems to be a favorite, and you dont have to share the sense of humor of everyone else, I think it would be interesting, although the one that nach says about completely dominating the ai without losing pieces sounds the most interesting
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The current way the site is presented is not compatible with just taking whatever you can find and post it as yours (because that's how it would look like). But if you added another "section" where you list a "mirror" of input files (links would be better instead of making local copies) that have no match on published movies, then give incentive to the authors to submit or to others to improve such files and make submissions based on those works maybe that could be seen differently.
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When you come here i think you assume the movies were luck manipulated though. More interesting would be extreme cases of luck manipulation (labeled properly, "manipulates luck" denotes the average movie), and those cases that do not have an rng you can label them as well I guess. Extreme manipulation makes me think of disassembling the rng, the whole movie being about its manipulation, many really hard manipulations, or perhaps overwriting the rng with the values you want.
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I would save the poor plants :( Also many current games I haven't bought because of their DRM as well. That's what you morally do to music labels if you want to protest against them, not pirate the music :P
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You were sold the right the play the game, you weren't sold the game or a distributor license for the game (which costs quite a lot more than what you paid). So I agree that trying to prohibit you from giving away your game to someone else is stupid, but making a copy and also keeping the original for yourself might be pushing it.
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@Warp
* If the tasvideos staff was stupid enough to allow that version and not update their rules I guess. Reading I got the following idea: SRAM corruption is wrong because using inputs other than the standard controllers is wrong, in that case you don't ban SRAM corruption but all those other inputs, that's stupid, there are games that use those.
* It does, on the next power on :P If they detected it it follows the error correction path, if they didn't it follows an unexpected one.
* No, the programmers didn't create their game for the Game Genie, they did for the Super Nintendo, the game genie is an external device and I don't know of games that advertised support for it. They hopefully knew the Super Nintendo had these big three "buttons" on the console that were there to be pushed at whatever time the kids wanted.
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The reset button is recorded on the tas movies, so as long as it is an input on an accepted emulator then the possible code execution paths the movies can have include this button.
The programmers did a program for a specific hardware, and this abuses the hardware PLUS the programmers' logic. On the pokemon case, they didn't protect their game from turning off their target hardware while saving, newer pokemon games do have that protection.
SDA allows sram corruption now, or at least that's what I was told by their judge long ago.
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it's not about changing the pokemon but checking the data, and if you were to do it alone then you'd be forced to just try all the possibilites, like you are doing, but you have to get a ditto first, haha. That's where the save manager would have let you finish ages ago :P how long has it been, a year? it won't be over 30$.
if you continue not wanting to buy one then test with different setups, you can't fight a wild ditto because it's at cinnabar right? if you got a gameshark hack the wild kadabra to have the required ivs, remember not to fight anyone or get any item you won't be getting in your actual run because they modify your variables...
Have to tried healing before reaching the pc? if you are crashing due to poison that could help (or the game will crash as soon as you start healing, or teleport to a "glitch city" :P). Yellow has a one byte offset and p4wn3r was using red so try modifying the amount of pokemon you have in your party, in fact by doing this you don't have to heal, if it doesn't crash it doesn't crash, assured. I recall having to deposit Pikachu, did you deposit it?
In the worst worst case you need FF as part of your pokemon data to prevent the crash. I didn't use dugtrio, I used the charmander, and maybe I got lucky and the FF was his (in that time I didn't know about this FF). BUT before you redo, it's easier to check your data with a save manager and find out for sure if you are stuck or not.
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big discount sales (like 75%), because 40-60$ for just one game hurts my soul too much even if I have the money to spare.
Only games I have bought at release: Goldeneye, OOT, Pokemon Blue, Yellow, Silver, Sapphire, HL2 (for the SDK), Ecclesia.
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post the full error here next time on your first post, that's the method with less steps to getting your issue solved :P, not necessary now of course
klmz, if maximus doesn't reply once you think its all done and good I can upload the changes i guess, I can make a release if it's enough for that
adelikat wanted once to host this on google code but since the tastools project doesn't list it I'm gonna guess maximus hasn't returned since.
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just tried and no error, most likely you had the movie opened in your emulator or whatever other program than this. I recall it used to crash on that instance (cant save file locked by other program, ie. playing on emu), and I don't recall if I got to put a pretty error message instead of that crash.
or you missed important data like movie format, i tried with vbm
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hmm i might have told you this already, or maybe not, but why dont you dump your save file, the device will cost you about 30$, if you give me the save I can check the required steps given your save. ie if your game crashes then you can solve it by having less items on you (if you check the posts above p4wn3r explained it).
I did not understand what step fails given your post though. Kadabra is supposed to be required to get a Ditto, is that the step that fails or have you got it already? Hopefully that isn't wrong. You can skip kadabra by meeting any wild ditto that uses transform on your 254 special pkmn. Gameshark one if you must (turn it off before doing the glitch just in case though).
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no one is working on a tas zzazz run afaik, thomaz was working on a yellow zzazz speedrun long ago, I think he stopped at the last step, which needs a lot of luck.
