Insane Difficulty: ASM hacking Thread - Insane Difficulty

As you guys may know, it's not an easy task to get introduced to ASM hacking. It is a low-level programming language, where you can't just transfer knowledge from high-level languages like C or C++. I'm trying my best here, but it becomes seriously slow to progress, as I am building my knowledges from absolute scratch.

I can understand the basics now, but still, there's little to no documentation about this game's ROM. So, anyone willing to participate in this project, who knows 65816 ASM is welcome to post it here, to arrange things. I want this project to come out great, and I know that with ASM hacking (as little as fixing bugs I encounter, or as big as to redesign the enemies' location and adding enemies to the levels) I would have the tools to make the ultimate Megaman X: Hard Type.

Until then, I'll keep studying this, and slowly document this game's ROM mapping. I'm always into this (far more than what you know, as I don't post updates much often), and it is the highest priority of all of my projects.

Cheers.

http://www.romhackin.../documents/661/


This is what I read when I began ^^

I'd highly suggest it if you are new to ASM

Thanks man. I've got this one as reference as well.

http://wiki.superfam...65816+Reference

All of those pages as great. I'll be sure to read that .txt, already downloaded.

Hart-Hunt, on 20 October 2013 - 05:29 PM, said:

Fact. This dude puts some mad hours into his project, similar to myself the two weeks leading up to the first beta release of Dragon Trial (I estimate like 70-80 hours in one of those weeks).

Now we're talking. This an excellent document about ASM... in spanish kappa

http://dwx.romhackhi...65816basico.txt

Hart-Hunt, on 24 October 2013 - 06:46 AM, said:

Fixed.

Kappa shouldn't replace everything.

Kaffe Myers, on 24 October 2013 - 01:08 PM, said:

You can't be more right.

So, just fixed a bug when recovering ammo. Basically, it would recover your ammo beyond the Max ammo value set.

Thing is, it required me to set the initial ammo value to the same as the max ammo value. So we're gonna stick with 4 Max (and initial) ammo for now.

Now, if I could get my hands into the cost of each weapon, that would be swell. I need to change each weapon's cost (and I'm pretty sure every weapon has one, not only Sting Needle, Fire Thrower, and Homing Torpedo) so as to make some weapons cost more than others.

The help is still required, and it would be greatly appreciated.

To share some news, while I have the next stage all modded (Launch Octopus), I can't release it just yet, because I'm in the need of an ASM hack that I can't get to work on my own.

In MMX1, when you beat a boss, X walks to center, makes his winning pose, and teleports out of the stage. Meaning, if you put a wall or an obstacle so that he can't get to the center, the animation will never end and it will demand a reset.

The ASM hack I need is one that skips the walking to the center part. As it has been done before, I know it's possible.

Unfortunately, the user from those forums made a hack that includes that ASM hack, but the hack is nowhere to be found. If it was, I'd be able to replicate the ASM hack in my mod.

Again, justin3009. I cannot but say this is a pretty cool guy.

Considering how he has proven to me his knowledge about MMX coding, I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna try his project out:

http://megamanx9.com...30-in-progress/

Next update is gonna include edits in the enemies' HP. Stay tuned, it's gonna be evil.

I'm finally able to edit Storm Eagle's Arena. I know I wouldn't have been able to make this kind of progress without the constant support of you guys, so I want to show you how a pain in the ass it has been to document this (I document everything like this):

This is how Storm Eagle's Arena looks like (with some weird palettes, bear with me):


And this is what I have documented. The offsets there are part of an event, and not modifyable with any editor in the interwebs.


Every offset was tested, there were some patterns here and there but it required hours, even after figuring out how it was.

Let this bring you strength in your weary hours spent searching for knowledge!

Advent, on 21 February 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

Bro post means a lot to me. Much appreciated.

Looks like this update is gonna take a while. I'm one step from editing enemies location. I can already change their ID, so you can, say, fight against multiple jammingers, maybe?



Now I need to document lots of stuff. But the result will be... Everything I ever wanted from this mod.

Advent, on 21 February 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

...What in the world...? Ab, what did you do with Stann's account?

If you have any tutorials or base documents, that'd be helpful to help. I played MMX-Hard a bit... And realize that my controller was broken. My controller actually ragequit from the abuse I was giving it from this game. There needs to be more of this in the world.

Sure thing. But it's all so disorganized that posting it would be a mess. Stop by the chat sometime and I'll be able to explain it better.