Hex editing(for n00bies)

[skulllink]

Hello people of Glitchkill! Today I have decided to share my knowledge on here, I will update it occasionally, of Hex editing. Today, We'll start off with something n00bish for n00bies. First open the ROM you want to hex edit(preferrably ZELOOTMA.Z64) In your hex editor (For HxD click Here. www.mediafire.com/?ja3s85yiuaz5boc Now that's settled, We're going to change the color of navi.Search<GoTo<00B8D134. Now You'll see FF FF FF FF Which is white, Change them to 00 00 00 FF<Save<Test.

You changed her to black, this is what you should see.

Hello, GlitchKill. Now I'm gonna show you how to change exits, First open you're hex editor, then open ZELOOTMA.Z64, and then spot04_scene.zscene. Everything you do is in the scene until I label different.
Search<Find<Hex Values<13 00 00 00 02.
This is what you should see:

Highlighted is 00 01 B4, 00 0 is Never looked for, ignore that.
Now, Search<GoTo<1B4.
Now you will see the following bytes: 00 EE 00 00, That's as far as we need to go for what we're doing.
00 00 Is the Great Deku Tree.
Replace that with 00 FC(The Sacred Forest Meadow)
Now in ZELOOTMA.Z64 Search<GoTo<0288D000
Back to the spot04, Right click<Select All, Copy, then go back to ZELOOTMA.Z64 and were that offset takes you, Paste write that Dodongo crap in there!
Save and Test!
No screenies since you all can see it clearly if you did it right, I know someone is going to gripe about it so I'll put it simple. YOU HAVE TO GO INTO THE TREE'S MOUTH!!!!!!!

Hello again! This time We're going too let Andrewwws! explain it! Look for his post below.

Next: adding actors.

[Dead]

I feel like adding to this
**Ok so thanks to skullink for letting me do the tunics!**

So first of all start up HxD (or your favourite hex editor!) and load your Zelootma.z64! (Remember to make a backup first!)
ok so now let's cover how to make colors in hex!
colors in hex are in 3 bytes R G B written like this for black 00 00 00
that basically means nothing of either Red Green or Blue in the navi color part that skullink made there is RGB A The A there is for alpha and will not be needed here.

ok now that you know that we can start!
First of all you will want the offsets for the tunics!
We will be making them
Grey
purple
yellow
the kokiri tunics offset is 00B9D1A8
now go to the offset (00B9D1A8) (Search>goto and paste the offset 00B9D1A8)
now what we want to edit is the 3 bytes at 00B9D1A8 now we want to edit it to something In this case I chose 88 88 88 that will be a general grey color if you choose any higher numbers it will start to fade against white and lower numbers will make it fade towards black. Fire up your rom and try it! Links tunic should now be green!
Now let's do the goron tunic!
now we want it purple in this example and I picked a dark purple color! 55 00 55 should do just fine! now apply it the same way that you did for the last tunic and try it!
and finally the zora tunic
we want it yellow, that's one of the harder colors to make!
CC CC 00 will do fine! And by now you should be fammiliar with how to do it, so fire it up when you're done and see how it looks!

now I will cover the color of the hearts!

SPOILER: Click to show

00AEFD42 - beating heart R
00AEFD6A - beating heart G
00AEFD82 - beating heart B
00AEFDDE - beating heart outline R
00AEFE0A - beating heart outline G
00AEFE26 - beating heart outline B
00AEFC0A - normal heart R
00AEFC5E - normal heart G
You should be able to find this one out, it is a rather easy pattern, if not google it- normal heart B
00AF0CEE - hearts per line

Ok now we want to change the colors! since you know how to do that already I will not give details.

What the hecl let's add rupee values too!
Ok

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00B9CC3C - green rupee
00B9CC3E - blue rupee
00B9CC40 - red rupee
00B9CC42 - purple rupee
00B9CC44 - orange rupee

ok we will edit the value of the blue rupee! first go too 00B9CC42
ok this will involve some math! I have already done the math for you! in this example the blue rupee will take the value 999
change the two bytes at 00B9CC42 into 03e7 that will change the value of the blue rupee too 999.

now let's change the item maximums of all stackable objects!

SPOILER: Click to show

00B9E39E - Quivers
00B9E3A6 - Bomb bags
00B9E3BC - Wallet amounts
00B9E3C6 - Deku Seed bags
00B9E3CE - Deku Sticks
00B9E3D6 - Deku Nuts

ok now this is a little tricky, there are 6 bytes that we need to modify 2 bytes for each upgrade!
let's choose the wallet amounts go too 00B9E3BC and skip the 4 first bytes and go to fifth byte and change that byte and the byte after too 03e7 that will put the maximum too 999 any higher will F**K up text in game, the 4 bytes that you skipped can be changed to anything lower than 03e7 (or higher, but that's not any good)

oh and all item maximums like arows shouldn't go higher than 99 **same reason as rupees shouldn't go over 999**


and that covers the basic stuff!

hope it helped

and all offsets are taken from here

[Wishengrad]

Wow, thank you. I posted a few hours ago and I needed a hex editor to edit the rom's title.

[skulllink]

Jan 10, 2011 6:15:56 GMT -5 Wishengrad said:

Wow, thank you. I posted a few hours ago and I needed a hex editor to edit the rom's title.

LOL! Well, apparently that was magic.

[Secant]

Good for understanding the basics of hex editing, doing things to produce a known desirable effect. My two main concerns is that this teaches users to rely only on what's already been done versus what is open for them to do with a hex editor, and on a related note, there's no information as to what exactly you're changing. It may be better to, instead of listing specific bytes and naming them only with numbers or offsets, describe what they do, like Navi's RGBA values or (I think, anyway; it's unclear what the second tutorial is meant to produce) modify the exit table. This way the user thinks of these values less as something that must be changed only to a specific value and more of a general function that can be anything they want.

[skulllink]

Andreawws! is going to do his part soon, I promise.

[Dead]

It is done now, I also covered some more stuff than tunics

And could I do songs?

[skulllink]

Jan 14, 2011 12:21:17 GMT -5 Dead said:

It is done now, I also covered some more stuff than tunics

And could I do songs?

LOL! Sure! Any help is appreciated. I can't modify posts on my iPhone. Just add so double posting would suck. Modify it until I get home is about a few(5) days.

[Dead]

ok! I will do that! And I will give a tutorial om items... later (advanced)
songs will be added later today or tommorrow...... and maybe some other stuff

[Deleted]

If you mean ocarina songs, just use this:
www.glitchkill.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tuts2&action=display&thread=3948

Try not to start duplicating any topics we already have though.

[Dead]

oh that already exists?
Oh wellthen I'll contribute some other way ^^

Edit: checked the topic.... I meant what the songs spawn.

[Deleted]

That's also here...
www.glitchkill.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tuts2&action=display&thread=3548

This list is useful for finding out what's been posted before:
www.glitchkill.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tuts2&action=display&thread=4580

[Dead]

oh ok!

[skulllink]

I wish I could remember how to do this, so I could continue this.

[Jason777]

Jan 2, 2012 13:15:41 GMT -5 skulllink said:

I wish I could remember how to do this, so I could continue this.

You didn't forget much. Everything is pretty much general knowledge in here.