How do you obtain .RXL patches?

RXL patches are a bit... Extinct.

Saxman used to have a site that had them on years ago, I think.

 

Wow. I haven't heard about RXL or ChaoSaX in quite literally years...no idea, but nostalgic nonetheless.

 

Years ago people used to use tools that modified the binaries to do that. Now most of them are unused because people started working exclusively with asm hacks, and the remaining ones evolved to work with asm instead of binaries.

But those old tools are still easy to obtain, many of them are available in the wiki. You'll be pretty limited with them, but if you want to start and get the grisp of the limitations you have to deal with and such, or just do a lame hack =P they may be a good way to start *dodges tomatoes*

 

I agree with Sik. Some of that older stuff may actually be useful for beginners to learn about ROM hacking. It gives people a view into what can be done. Gerbil's Sonic HackingWiz Pro was always a good tool to use to do a variety of things. And certainly the RXL patches could be used to do some things, most of mine being used to change some art (and actually, I still have the RXL patches if you still want them.)

But I also agree with the others that generally speaking, these tools are pretty much extinct as far as what people are doing with ROMs these days. I'd recommend some older tools for education purposes, but when you feel ready, you probably want to download the disassembly from this site and use that to make ROM modifications.

 

Just out of Curiosity, what Patches do you have there? I haven't seen RXL patches for YEARS!

 

I have:

Art_stat.rxl - Replace HUD art (Sonic 1)
Icon.rxl - Replace the player icon art (Sonic 2)
Intro.rxl - Replace the "Sonic/Tails In" screen (Sonic 2)
Select.rxl - Replace level select / 2p vs / options screen art (Sonic 2)
Srile.rxl - Sonic ROM Internal Level Editor; dumps object placements in debug to SRAM (Sonic 2)
Srile2.rxl - Same as above, but appears to be updated somehow (Sonic 2)
Title.rxl - Replace title screen art (Sonic 2)

Looking at the dates, the last RXL patch I made was in October of 2002. These things are OLD!

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh boy. I remember these. That takes me waaaaaay back. It's fun to see how we have evolved

 

I thought my memory was fucking with me when I thought I saw these in like 2002-2003, but God damn that's old xD

 

The "Sonic" text for the life icon is compressed art, and unless someone has a suggestion I am not thinking of, my icon RXL patch would probably suite that. Actually, doesn't Nemesis have a tool that can be used for this also?

The title screen "Sonic" text is pretty much the same way -- you'll need the RXL patch, or that thing Nemesis created (again, can someone remind me what it is I'm thinking of?)

The options screen text is easy to change. You can actually use one of the hacking documents online to figure out how to do that.

I want to be of more help, but at this very moment I'm in a hurry because I got a pile of things to do the rest of the day. But hopefully someone will pick up where I left off and fill you in on what you can do to change that stuff.

 

Sorry, I forgot about it completely. Give me a little time -- they're on my old computer, and the only method of transfering them I can take is using a USB flash drive, and the one I have is faulty (sometimes I have to sit there and wiggle it around for a good while before it detects it.)

 

They're like a few kb each. =P

Besides, why are you wanting to use RXL patches anyway? :S

 

Because he does =P

And it's educational.

 

Fixed your post.

Small question, mind posting these onto the forums? I wouldn't mind trying them out sometime for educational purposes.