Jul -- The Cutting Room Floor: Hey You, Pikachu! Debug Menus

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Posted on 11-05-14 01:08:36 PM

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For the past few weeks or so I've been poking at Hey You, Pikachu! trying to find the debug menus. While I kind of succeeded, nearly every menu is seemingly stripped bare and is empty. Out of them, only three have actual working parts, which are Data Save, Area Select, and world map. On the plus side, Data Save seems to be completely intact and actually works.

It's likely that I'm missing something integral since I have no sort of programming knowledge, so maybe someone with experience can figure out how to restore functionality to them.

For clarity:
"Folder" refers to a menu item that takes you inside a menu.
"Location" refers to the actual inside of the menu.
(I'm sorry, I couldn't think of better names to call them by.)

This code will expand the cursor boundaries inside the Settings menu and add the new menu option in the fourth slot. Replace XX YY with one set of values listed further down.

8012ABD7 0004

8012AB7C 0080

8012AB7D 0012

8012AB7E 00XX

8012AB7F 00YY

I cut out all the garbage and put the more important values on the forefront, sorted according to their hierarchy. I included all of the other various menus for the sake of making it easy to search the memory to find what you're looking for, should anyone want to investigate.

Alternatively, if you want the whole list of the values I picked through, garbage and all, that's here too. Any values skipped over were ones that immediately crashed when I tried to do anything, though that doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing there, merely that nothing was visible to me from the menu.
http://pastebin.com/MfZV2dT9

Alternative alternatively, I also made a video that shows the menus if you're only interested in seeing them, however empty most of them may be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW8mOxHyHD4

Debug menus:

- AA 44 = Data Save (Folder)

-- AA 24 = Save (Location)

--- A9 EC = load 2 + save 1 + save 2 + loadFCB + saveFCB (Option)

--- A9 D0 = save 1 + save 2 + loadFCB + saveFCB (Option)

--- A9 B4 = save 2 + loadFCB + saveFCB (Option)

--- A9 98 = LoadFCB + saveFCB (Option)

--- A9 7C = saveFCB (Option)


- AC 50 = world map (Area select screen)


- AD AC = Area Select [Debug Total] (Folder)

-- AD 64 = Area Select (Location)


- AD D8 = EyeCatch (Folder)

-- AD B8 = EyeCatch (Location)


- AE 3C = Chapter (Folder)

-- AE 1C = Chapter (Location)


- AE 78 = Difficulty (Folder)

-- AE 58 = Difficulty (Location)


- AE 0F = CheckPoint (Folder)

-- AE E4 = CheckPoint (Location)


- AF 40 = DisappearFlag (Folder)

-- AF 20 = DisappearFlag (Location)


- AF 7C = ItemFlag (Folder)

-- AF 5C = ItemFlag (Location)


- AF B8 = Level 1 counts (Folder)

-- AF 98 = Level 1 counts (Location)


- B0 04 = ClearFlag (Folder)

-- AF E4 = ClearFlag (Location)


- B0 40 = Play Music.. (Folder)

-- B0 20 = Play music (Location)


- B3 A0 = Play sounds.. (Folder)

-- B3 80 = Play sounds (Location)


- B3 DC = Extras.. (Folder)

-- B3 BC = Extras (Location)

Regular menus:

-- AC C0 = Menu (Location)


- AC 6C = Settings.. + Go Home.. (Folder)

- AC 88 = Days + Settings.. (Option + Folder)

- AC A4 = Status + Days (Option)


- AB A0 = Sound.. + Volume.. + Control.. (Folder)

- AB 84 = Volume.. + Control.. (Folder)

- AB 68 = Control.. (Folder)


-- AA BC = Settings (Location)


-- AA F0 = Sound (Location)

-- AA 98 = Volume (Location)

-- AB 48 = Control (Location)


--- AA D4 = Stereo + Mono (Option)

--- AA B8 = Mono (Option)


--- AA 7C = Songs + Sounds (Option)

--- AA 60 = Sounds (Option)


--- AB 2C = Reverse + Normal (Option)

--- AB 10 = Normal (Option)


- AC 34 = Go Home.. (Folder)

-- AC 14 = Go Home? (Location)

--- AB F8 = Go home + Never mind (Option)

--- AB DC = Never mind (Option)

For people who want to poke around, you can find a Folder's address by searching for its values, including the preceding 80 12. However, only Folders that currently exist in the menu will pop up, so no debug related Folders will show up. The same method can be used to find any of the Locations, though conversely, debug Locations will show up.

Also, it's worth mentioning that the Location's value seems to be what determines where each Folder actually leads. This might be related as to why so many of the debug menus are empty somewhere down the line.

If you need to get past the whole Discovery Days tutorial where Pikachu becomes the center of your existence and forces you to use the microphone, turn on the code 800AE503 0002 every time you're about to transition outside the house, then turn it off after the transition. On the day where you get the toolbox, leave it on for two transitions instead. Every time the day will end as if you completed it.

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