Posted: 7/31/2018 12:10 AM
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kann
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BizHawk Questions: Electric Boogaloo Is there something in BizHawk to show hitboxes (if yes for what consoles/specific games)? If not, this is a request for a addition to BizHawk in the next update.
Posted: 7/31/2018 12:20 AM
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Yeah it's called creating a lua script to show the hitboxes. http://tasvideos.org/LuaScripting.html http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/LuaFunctions.html
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Posted: 8/6/2018 3:36 AM
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In other words, there's no built-in feature in BizHawk that shows hitboxes. You have to: 1) Figure out how the hitboxes for the game work, by using the RAM Search or Trace Logging to find the addresses or routines related to hitboxes. Each game has its own hitbox system, so you're on yourself in this research. 2) With the addresses in hand, you need to make a lua script to read the values and print a proper hitbox. You need to know Lua, I recommend trying to print basic info for the game to learn the basics of Lua and the BizHawk Lua API. This is not trivial at all, you need to understand how the game works and have Lua skills.
Games are basically math with a visual representation of this math, that's why I make the scripts, to re-see games as math. My things: YouTube, GitHub, Pastebin, Twitter