Posted: 2/6/2008 8:15 PM
Post subject: Super Mario Bros. 3 Death Counter
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mushroom
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Joined: 12/22/2006
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Location: Flowood, MS
I've made a couple of SMB3 hacks that follow the same general concept as Kaizo Mario World. I discourage the use of savestates while playing, but a finite number of lives presents a problem, as there isn't a save function in SMB3 like there is in SMW. My initial solution was to put a 1-up at the beginning of every stage, but that's a bit contrived and seems kind of sloppy. Then I tried to find out how to include an infinite lives cheat in an ips patch, but then I came up with a more fun idea: infinite lives with a death counter. My idea on how to implement this is to start the player off with 0 lives, and instead of the lives counter decrementing by 1 when the player dies, it increments by 1, effectively acting as a death counter while never allowing for a game over. The problem is that I have no idea how to do this, and I haven't been able to find any resources on any aspect of what I want to do. Here are my hacks: http://thepowerofsneeze.com/marioisdead.html http://thepowerofsneeze.com/marioisstilldead.html If anyone can give me a hand in either implementing this idea or pointing out resources that may help me, I'd really appreciate it.
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Posted: 2/6/2008 10:24 PM
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superjupi
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If an existing SMB3 editor doesn't have these features covered, then I'd say just use a 6502 disassembler on the ROM, and poke around with a corrupter at points of interest to see if you've found the right function call to alter. I'm fairly certain Zophar's still has these sort of utilities available.
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Posted: 2/6/2008 11:42 PM
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HHS
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Change the byte at 3D133 to FE and the byte at 308E1 to 00. You can't have more than 99 lives, however.
Posted: 2/6/2008 11:50 PM
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mushroom
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Just as you replied I figured out that first bit. Tons of thanks for those. The patches have been updated.
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Posted: 2/7/2008 10:53 AM
Post subject: 1,000
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Xkeeper
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This is like what my roommate did a while ago to SMAS; most of the games count upwards, in addition to swapping which controller is read every time the level ends/player dies. (Needless to say, we started making it appear glitched in Lost Levels)
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