Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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Yes. As a computer-scientist in training I will have to say that while someone else could do it for you, you won't learn anything useful that way. Use what Sukasa said and then a loop through the array to whatever you want to change, change it, and save it.

The rest is just literally making the VB.net code to do that... ...which I wouldn't know how to do anyway, since I do C++ and Java and PHP only :p

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I will learn what the code is and what I can do with it next time =P. But yes I suppose i will try it it out tomorrow and see how it works.

Originally posted by dirbaio

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I'm not exactly sure of what you're asking, but this might be what you want:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hexbox/

It's an already made hex editor control which supports lots of things.
It's used in NSMB Editor and it works perfectly. The only problem is that it doesnt work with Mono.

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It's written in C#.

Originally posted by dirbaio

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But it's a .NET dll
you can use it from any .net language, including VB

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Still doesn't work. I'm tired of trying to get the program to directly patch to rom. If someone is too ignorant to open a extended m64 rom with a hex editor and go to offset and replace next two bytes with the value then They don't deserve to be called a Mario64 hacker. I'm just trying to make the program work both ways.


This code - Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text) - &H245000) is the math for the program. No matter how i put the &H245000 to be in front it always gives me a error. Because I need it to be infront so it can do the same math for addresses that are lower then 24500. I'm going to make another release but not a big one till i can fix this problem.

Originally posted by Rena

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Well I haven't used VB in a while, but I remember that it does treat input as hex if you add &h in front of it. Sounds like he wants to add that in code so the user is only typing a hex number (without any prefix). Otherwise the input would be in Decimal which is a bit silly for such applications.

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Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text) - &H245000)


I need to get &H245000 to the left of Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text) without the error of double "&H" for some reason. I'm starting to think it's impossible and visual basics is just a crappy programming language and Microsoft sucks at everything. I'm tired of this im about to totally delete the entire project files and just let someone else make it like frauber or VLtone who could do it in 2 seconds without any help or problems.

Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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These things with hex stuff and programming are serious computer science topics, Shenox. As I tried to warn you, you're probably in over your head. You're probably better off stopping if you don't understand data structures like arrays, queues, and stacks, and also if you don't understand hex, binary, octal and their relation to decimal... and also object oriented programming.

You're just going to tear your hair out trying to do it otherwise, as it isn't something you just magically type into a box and magically becomes reality. Believe you me, I could potentially make what you're talking about in C++, but it's an undertaking such that Iiiii'm not about to spend hours of my life on that yet, unless I was being paid or something.

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I don't think of C++/C/C# and other programming langues as extreme computer science. I don't know what a Array, queues or stacks are. I understand hex and binary very well, not so much as octal sense I did not ever hear about till a while ago. And I don't really understand binary to decimal. Nor what object oriented programming is. I hate seeing people think that you need a fancy collage degree or a one on one teacher to teach you how to program with many langues. I learned everything I knew in past 4 years and with just the help of notes I found, I never really asked people for much help, but here I see I always get people attempting to help which is very nice. I started hacking N64 roms in 06 when I was 11 years old, at time I just did a hack with Renegrade64 and followed a tut on making gameshark codes step by step and I made one to replace the Goomba's behavior with Bob-ombs. Very basic stuff, I felt around with the stuff I was given and came up with more stuff. Then I started making hacks dealing with ROM and RAM data using hex editor and Nemu64. Just years and years of experience with rom hacking =3. I started making programs in 09 starting with VB, then I did my first hack of a N64 rom using C but when I tried to play it, It would go black screen all the time. So I never messed with C++/C that much till 2010 when I helped okaygo with Mupen64plus and my own hack of Pj64 1.4 to support kaillera.

I know there are people like VLtone or frauber or even you or many other people on these forums who could make this program without any problems or anything. That in my opinion is because yall know more about the programming langue. I could spend hours reading information about programming, but I rather figure it out my self with SOME help.



Also thanks for all the information.
Dim Value as Byte = Byte.Parse("&H" & TextBox2.text)

I'm going to see what I can do with that. This is the entire code I had before for both

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

If Val(Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text)) < &H245000) Then
TextBox4.Text = "Offset: 0x" + Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text) - &H245000) + Environment.NewLine + "Value: " + TextBox3.Text
MessageBox.Show("Finished!", "(Complete)")
End If

If Val(Hex$(CLng("&H" & TextBox2.Text)) > &H245000) Then

This is where I had problems at.

MessageBox.Show("This Gameshark code can NOT be patched!", "(Error)")
TextBox1.Text = ""
TextBox2.Text = ""
TextBox3.Text = ""
End If

End Sub

Originally posted by Sukasa

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Dim Value as Byte = Byte.Parse("&H" & TextBox2.text)

That wasn't so hard. Also, before you go hating on VB and microsoft, you should probably consider that Clng() requires a numeric parameter and you're passing a string (which completely shouldn't work); then, you're subtracting 2379776 from that value before converting it back to a Hexadecimal string!

When Rena said that VB uses "&H" for input, it doesn't mean you still don't have to call the correct parse function.

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Didn't work at all no matter how I tried to use it even with editing it.

Also I'm trying to do 245000 - ADDRESS (or TextBox2.text). not Address - 245000 , It's easy getting address - 245000 now I can't flip it. No matter what I do. I also don't understand DIm as, I thought you could dim any command as anything. I can't do it. Your code keep saying format wrong.