 Register - Login |
||
 |
Main - Memberlist - Active users - Calendar - Wiki - IRC Chat - Online users Ranks - Rules/FAQ - JCS - Stats - Latest Posts - Color Chart - Smilies |
|
Register - Login |
||
|
Main - Memberlist - Active users - Calendar - Wiki - IRC Chat - Online users Ranks - Rules/FAQ - JCS - Stats - Latest Posts - Color Chart - Smilies |
|
| Jul - SM64 Hacking - Help/Questions about Toad's Tool 64 and SM64 hacking |  -  -  |
| Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ... 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 | Next newer thread | Next older thread |
| Joe Common spammer Where's Tama? Level: 97      Posts: 1778/3166 EXP: 9141784 For next: 175541 Since: 08-02-07 From: Pororoca Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 21 hours |
|
||
Originally posted by vinnyboilerThose are command-line programs. A typical command might look like: export "Extended ROM.z64" "Graphic.bmp" 0x1234 16 32 That extracts the data at 0x1234 into a 16x32 bitmap image. Then to put it back in, the command would look like: import "Extended ROM.z64" "Edited graphic.bmp" 0x1234 -------------------- |
| RDX Level: 28 Posts: 156/198 EXP: 126798 For next: 4540 Since: 02-14-09 Since last post: 1202 days Last activity: 1072 days |
|
||
| the #texture error is something that has long haunted me in toads tool. Whenever i reach some point in the creation of a level, when I try to open it in Toads Tool I'll get the #texture error and the level won't load at all. Why is that? --------------------  |
| Me-me 340    Level: 37  Posts: 310/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
| Can't say I've gotten exacly that error, but it is similar in nature. Whenever I open one of my ROMs, there's a few levels that generates a script error if you try to access them. It says e.g. Draw: Bob-ombs Battlegfield, but never finishes loading and instead causes a script error (Index out of range). The only special about the ROM is that it's manually Hex-edited by me in some places. |
| Meltfire User Level: 10  Posts: 4/23 EXP: 4088 For next: 326 Since: 01-12-11 Since last post: 972 days Last activity: 705 days |
|
||
| Hi i'm back and thanks everyone for helping me earlier but now i'm again with a very noobish problem. I completed my second level and I decide to add music with MusicXML Importer instead of using MML file. And It work. But there no sound sfx coming from the game. I try again with a much simpler midi file that only have three channels but still no sound. Thanks again. |
| Me-me 340 Level: 37 Posts: 311/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
| I assume you only overwrite one sequence (not choosing "-all") in the importer. Also, specific channels are used for sfx, (I think channel 9 or 10 is reserved) so overwriting them might put off the sound effects. If you have another sequence imported, check it's length too. Now I don't know anything more about this, I'll leave it to someone else. And hope it works out for you. |
| DeathBasket Random nobody Level: 4 Posts: 3/3 EXP: 194 For next: 85 Since: 12-12-10 From: Aberystwyth University Since last post: 1367 days Last activity: 794 days |
|
||
Originally posted by Meltfire Do you mean that there is no sound at all or just no sound effects? The error you're having sounds like there's a problem with the imported sequence file. It may sound obvious but you are converting your MIDI file into a MusicXML file before trying to use the importer, right? If you are then check your file for things that may cause errors before having it converted. I don't know what settings are implemented in the MusicXML format or this converter so I can't help you there, sorry. |
| messiaen Catgirl Level: 61 Posts: 956/1085 EXP: 1795124 For next: 81472 Since: 11-20-07 Since last post: 197 days Last activity: 183 days |
|
||
Originally posted by RDX I think it's a TT64 issue with too many textures being used. Try to import your level without using the textures from the material file and see if the level can now be opened in TT64. Originally posted by Me-me Are you sure the importer caused this? Did this problem happen with the last two versions (v12 and v13) ? If so, can you send me the ROM and tell me which levels so I can take a look? Originally posted by Meltfire Is the file bigger than 13k (the size of the biggest sequence in the game)? If so, that may be the problem (though I'm not sure about it, I need to test this more). |
| Me-me 340 Level: 37 Posts: 312/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
Originally posted by messiaen Sorry for the misleading post, the errors appeared before using your importer actually. Funny, the importer fixed the errors, and now I can continue hacking o.o It seems like some stuff I did in the hex editor prevented original levels from loading... or I might be way off  Edit: This maybe isn't where I should post this, but lets say I want to find something particular in a ROM from a hex editor. Where should I start? For example the coin colour. Where should I look to find the bytes that determines their colour? If it requires a long explanation, just say so and I'll try to find out by myself. -------------------- HAHAH! Signature? I don't think so. |
| Meltfire User Level: 10 Posts: 5/23 EXP: 4088 For next: 326 Since: 01-12-11 Since last post: 972 days Last activity: 705 days |
|
||
Originally posted by Me-me I follow Me-me advice by decreasing the length of the midis using 3MLE midi editer. Since most midis loop twice. Also when I imported into the game to test out the music I now choose a sequence number instead of choosing "-all" and that helped alot. Thanks later I post a short video of my hack progress in a another thread. |
| Joe Common spammer Where's Tama? Level: 97 Posts: 1789/3166 EXP: 9141784 For next: 175541 Since: 08-02-07 From: Pororoca Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 21 hours |
|
||
Originally posted by Me-meFirst, find out if somebody else knows where it is. That alone will save you a lot of time. If nobody knows where it is, you need to figure out what numbers represent the data you're looking for. In the case of coins, they are a grayscale image with a color tint applied, so you're most likely looking for a 15-bit RGB value. You need to now what this value is in order to find it. With coins, it's fairly simple to replace the texture with solid white and take a screenshot of the game, then pick out the color and convert it appropriately. Once you have numbers, it's a matter of finding and replacing (and keeping a backup in case something important is represented with the same numbers). If you need to know more than that, I'd be glad to explain in detail.  -------------------- |
| messiaen Catgirl Level: 61 Posts: 958/1085 EXP: 1795124 For next: 81472 Since: 11-20-07 Since last post: 197 days Last activity: 183 days |
|
||
| YoshiElectron has done some codes to modify the coins colour, you can see what it modifies in RAM and search that in the ROM. Never looked at the grayscale textures, but the colours are probably part of the vertex data (will dig up some information on that later). |
| Me-me 340 Level: 37 Posts: 316/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
Originally posted by Joe Well, since you willingly said so yourself, I'd really want to hear more about this  Also, thanks for telling me Messiaen, I went to his page and found the codes. I will try using them to search tomorrow. I also really want to know where Mario's voice pitch value is stored. I saw some strange gameshark code about it on some site but it didn't work (Maybe it was for PAL) But my prioroty right now is to learn how to find this stuff myself, because I don't like asking people to take of their time to do stuff for me. It makes me feel lazy -------------------- HAHAH! Signature? I don't think so. |
| Joe Common spammer Where's Tama? Level: 97 Posts: 1790/3166 EXP: 9141784 For next: 175541 Since: 08-02-07 From: Pororoca Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 21 hours |
|
||
|
Don't worry about it, I'm doing this for fun.
I'm not familiar enough with Super Mario 64 to give you any advice specific to the game, but I can explain how to search for colors. --- First, you need an RGB color value. How about this: (156, 255, 57) That's a nice bright green. Now, you'll need to know about hexadecimal and binary to do anything with that. I'm not going to explain it here, there are plenty of places to go learn. That in hexadecimal is 9C FF 39. You could try searching for that, or try searching with R and B reversed (it happens, though it's uncommon). Hold on though, that's 24 bits long. In MIPS III assembly, you can either load data indirectly with pointers, or directly as part of the opcode. It's common to load constants directly. However, you can't load more than 16 bits at a time directly; it has to be split up between opcodes. So, you may need to search for just G and one of the other two colors to find it; the color value you didn't search for will typically be no more than four bytes away if you've found it. Hmm, but what about that 16-bit color mode I mentioned in one of my earlier posts? That's also pretty common on the N64. Well, for that you'll need to work in binary. Like so: 10011100 11111111 00111001 Then, chop off the last three bits of each value. Those three bits usually either match the first three or are zeros. So then you'll have this: 10011 11111 00111 That's only 15 bits. There's one missing! Fortunately, that's intentional. The missing bit is usually a 0, and it usually goes at the beginning. (Just like sometimes R and B change places, sometimes that bit is at the other end or is a 1. It's also possible for G to be 6 bits instead of 5. Since none of those formats are easy to work with on the N64, it's very unlikely any games use them.) So, taking the most popular format's example, rearrange the bits so you can convert back to hexadecimal like so: 0 10011 11111 00111 0100 1111 1110 0111 4F E3 And there you have it, a 16-bit color ready for searching. --- Once you find a value that looks promising, deal with it hacker-style: replace it with random garbage, and see what changed. I hope this helps, it's quite a bit longer than I originally intended.  -------------------- |
| Me-me 340 Level: 37 Posts: 317/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
| Hmm, while I did understand how to convert the colour RGB code and all that, I can't figure out how to use the values to search. Should I search for them as 16 bit Integer numbers? Sorry, I actually find them, but WAY too many other places uses these values too Also, unfortunately, and according to YoshiElectron's notes the game uses four different colour values for each corner of the coin texture. While he DID give the addresses to them in RAM, I'm having trouble with searching the ROM using them  If thinking of using your method to find the colour of the Bowser keys, since they don't use textures (and probably just have one RGB colour code). -------------------- HAHAH! Signature? I don't think so. |
| Joe Common spammer Where's Tama? Level: 97 Posts: 1793/3166 EXP: 9141784 For next: 175541 Since: 08-02-07 From: Pororoca Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 21 hours |
|
||
Originally posted by Me-meYou have the addresses in RAM, so try copying a section of RAM from around those addresses (10 to 20 bytes ought to be plenty) and search for it in ROM. I don't know if the coin colors are 15-bit or 24-bit. You'll be able to tell by how many bytes each color value is. Also, sadly, my method of searching for colors doesn't work without exact color values. The Bowser keys are affected by light, so unless your emulator can disable those effects (or doesn't support them ), you'll have to find some other way.-------------------- |
| messiaen Catgirl Level: 61 Posts: 959/1085 EXP: 1795124 For next: 81472 Since: 11-20-07 Since last post: 197 days Last activity: 183 days |
|
||
| N64 textures often use the 16-bit RGBA 5551 format Joe described, however polygon colors are actually 24-bit, so it's actually easier to modify. Here's a guide how to find and modify any color using Toad's Tool script dumper. Warning: this will only work on grayscale textures and colored polygons (such as those used in Mario body parts, Goomba's, etc). 1 - Go to Preferences -> Script Dumps to start the script dumper. 2 - Go to Polygons and choose the object (in this example, the Red Coin). 3 - Find all 0x04 commands, which are used to load the vertex data: 00AB9D64 / 03007958 [ 04 30 00 40 03 00 57 40 ]Since they are the same, our work will be simple. 4 - The relevant part is the last four bytes: [03] [00 57 40]. The first byte (0x03) is the bank number and the last three bytes (0x5740) the offset. 5 - There is actually just one Bank 3, a huge bank which contains objects shared by all levels. We know that its ROM location is 0xAB240C (either by finding a level which contains that object/bank or by looking at VL-Tone docs) 6 - Now we add 0x5740 to 0xAB240C to find where that vertex data is on the ROM. Before we proceed, let's look back at that 0x04 command above: 04 [30] 00 40 03 00 57 40 This second byte (0x30) tells how many vertexes are loaded. Rule: Sum up 0x10 bytes to that value. 7 - Now open your hex editor, go to 0xAB7B4C (0xAB240C + 0x5740) and look at the next 0x40 bytes of data: FFDD 0000 0000 0000 0000 07C0 [FF00 00FF] (vertex 1) 0023 0000 0000 0000 07C0 07C0 [FF00 00FF] (vertex 2) 0023 0046 0000 0000 07C0 0000 [FF00 00FF] (vertex 3) FFDD 0046 0000 0000 0000 0000 [FF00 00FF] (vertex 4) Each vertex entry is 0x10 long. The last 4 bytes are what you are looking for: 3 bytes for the RGB value and another one for alpha. |
| Me-me 340 Level: 37 Posts: 318/341 EXP: 322941 For next: 15312 Since: 08-05-07 Since last post: 799 days Last activity: 211 days |
|
||
| This helped a lot, and now I've successfully changed the colours of all coins While greyscale textures uses the same 0x04 command lines, 3D objects have different ones, like the bowser key (offset 0xAB240C): 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [56 F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [57 F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [58 F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [59 F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [5A F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [5B F8] 04 D0 00 E0 03 01 [5C F8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [5D D8] 04 F0 01 00 03 01 [5E D8] 04 D0 00 E0 03 01 [5F D8] Well... what do I do? There are multiple references. -------------------- HAHAH! Signature? I don't think so. |
| messiaen Catgirl Level: 61 Posts: 960/1085 EXP: 1795124 For next: 81472 Since: 11-20-07 Since last post: 197 days Last activity: 183 days |
|
||
Originally posted by Me-me You'll have to experiment changing each one. There are more references because the polygonal structure of the key is much more complex (the coin is a simple square, the texture combined with transparency gives the illusion of a highly detailed object). A reminder: the offset is actually 3 bytes, not 2: 04 F0 01 00 03 [01 56 F8] (0x156F8) |
| openm64 Random nobody Level: 2 Posts: 1/1 EXP: 36 For next: 10 Since: 01-22-11 Since last post: 1363 days Last activity: 1351 days |
|
||
| Hey, I've been thinking for some time about making a Mario 64 editing library. My idea is to make it able to work freely with the data, e.g. change the size of stuff, move banks around, add new stuff, etc. Anyway, I just want to ask you some questions: - Where can I get the most updated documentation (or code)? As a test and for learning, I used VL-Tone level layout script documentation to load level layout scripts, and about half the commands weren't documented, plus there are some errors in it. - How would I go about reorganizing banks (the stuff loaded with 0x00, 0x01, 0x17, 0x1A, etc.) internally (changing the size of their components)? I think it gets a bit hard, because I need to modify every single offset that refers to them. I know the are referred from level layout, geometry layout and polygon drawing scripts, but where else are they referred from? Is this a crazy idea? (I could also do a dirty trick and just append the modified stuff at the end of the bank, therefore keeping the unmodified offsets valid, but this wastes precious space). I think I have more, but that's enough for now, and I'll be very grateful if you answer them ^^. |
| RDX Level: 28 Posts: 157/198 EXP: 126798 For next: 4540 Since: 02-14-09 Since last post: 1202 days Last activity: 1072 days |
|
||
| Are there any programs that export the level models from the game? I'm pretty sure there are, and I'm pretty sure one of them mentioned was Mupen (Which I'm downloading right now). But I thought I'd ask anyway, in case I'm wrong/there's a better program. -------------------- |
| Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ... 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 | Next newer thread | Next older thread |
| Jul - SM64 Hacking - Help/Questions about Toad's Tool 64 and SM64 hacking | - - |
 |
Acmlmboard - 07/23/2013 b378.03 ©2000-2013 Acmlm, Xkeeper, Inuyasha, et al. |
| Query execution time: | 0.695403 seconds |
| Script execution time: | 0.100713 seconds |
| Total render time: | 0.796116 seconds |