Maybe if I get ahead on things I'll finish the Chaotix Disassembly to a buildable state. I've just been so busy with everything it's been on my todo list.
For anyone curious btw, here's an idea of what Mania Knuckles looks like with Chaotix Knuckles' palette (and a few edits to add rings): Not bad. A bit awkward but still a lot nicer looking than the original sprites, at least IMO. I may make it slightly less pink if I'm able to edit the palette. Also if I end up going through with this and replace Mighty with Sonic, I might give Knuckles a red closer to Mighty's since there won't be a need to distinguish two red characters anymore.
Greetings I'm facing an issue when editing the sprite sheet for the DD Wrecker mini-boss in Green Hill Zone. It seems whenever I do anything at all to the sheet when modifying it, it just messes up how it looks in game. For example When I apply this incomplete sprite sheet It gives this result Anyone have an idea how to fix it?
I'm pretty sure this is caused by the sprite sheet itself. That might be fixable if the sheet is the same resolution and has the same file extension, but I'm not too sure. Also, did anyone see my question? Not trying to be rude, just wondering.
YES! Thank you for your help! This problem was such a pain since I had no idea what I was doing, due to it not being clear where there was space and where there wasn't. Seriously, I really appreciate it, I've been stuck with this problem for quite a while. (I only had to puzzle a bit because I was using the GitHub disassembly, but that doesn't matter :specialed http://sonicresearch.org/community/index.php?threads/sonic-1-dynamic-palletes-in-s1.48/
Hey, sorry if this question is stupid, but how do you add letters that are never used to Sonic 1's Title Card letter set? Like how the letters W, J, and Q are never used in zone names, and thus do not exist in the game's files. I'm planning on making a joke hack with a Jade Hill zone, and as the letter J is not in the files I cannot use that name.
The sprite sheet was already the same file extension (which is .gif) and the resolution was the original thanks for trying though man!
Thank you! That gave me another idea though. Maybe its the amount of colors in the picture which might not be the same amount as the palette ingame? I also had another question, this time with SFX. Does anyone know how to rip SFX from SCD? I knida want to use the jump and bumper sounds. Thanks!
It's been a while since I touched SCD, but IIRC the 'normal' SFX are embedded within the SMPS Z80 driver itself, which is stored in MDINIT.MMD. I can't remember if it's compressed though. That driver just handles FM SFX, though. I'm not sure if the bumper SFX is an FM sound, or actually a PCM sample, in which case it's played by one of the SMPS-PCM drivers, which are in 'SNCBNKnB.bin' files.
How long are the sound effects? I'm not sure where to start and where to stop the data when I move it to a separate file.
You see I tried messing around with that where I tried giving it 2, 1 or 3 amount of color. (The original has way more then the changed sprites). But no matter what I do to it, it messes up how it looks although it does a little different depending on what color I use. Again thanks for trying!
Hey guys, what is the math for locking an enemy on a single part of the screen while it's attacking in a ROM hack of Sonic 1? (e.g. the Hotaru enemy from Sonic CD/Mania)
There are two ways to go about this. Just before the "attack", you take the object's X and Y position, and subtract the screen's X and Y position from it (this will get you the relative X and Y distance from the screen's top left corner), you then store these distances: Code (Text): move.w $08(a0),d0 ; load X position sub.w ($FFFFF700).w,d0 ; subtract screen's X position (getting distance) move.w d0,$3C(a0) ; store the X distance move.w $0C(a0),d0 ; load Y position sub.w ($FFFFF704).w,d0 ; subtract screen's Y position (getting distance) move.w d0,$3E(a0) ; store the Y distance Then you continuously load the distances, add the screen's X and Y positions to it, and saving that back to the object's X and Y position: Code (Text): move.w ($FFFFF700).w,d0 ; load screen's X position add.w $3C(a0),d0 ; add the X distance that was stored move.w d0,$08(a0) ; update X position move.w ($FFFFF704).w,d0 ; load screen's Y position add.w $3E(a0),d0 ; add the Y distance that was stored move.w d0,$0C(a0) ; update Y position This will keep the object in the exact place on screen in which you froze it at. Another method, is to change the screen mode of the object, so it's treated like a HUD: Code (Text): moveq.l #$FFFFFF80,d1 ; prepare 80 adjustment move.w $08(a0),d0 ; load X position move.w ($FFFFF700).w,d0 ; get distance on screen's X sub.w d1,d0 ; add 80 (due to offscreen void space) move.w d0,$08(a0) ; save X position move.w $0C(a0),d0 ; load Y position move.w ($FFFFF704).w,d0 ; get distance on screen's Y sub.w d1,d0 ; add 80 (due to offscreen void space) move.w d0,$0C(a0) ; save Y position andi.b #%00111111,$01(a0) ; set screen mode to 0 (HUD style) This one might be preferable to you, since you only need to do this once, and don't need to keep updating the X and Y positions to keep the object in place.
Thanks, this code will go to good use. EDIT: Can you make a version of the code for use with the git disassembly? It's what i use most of the time.
Just throwing ideas. Have no experience modding any Sonic game but: Maybe the program has to be Photoshop, not Paint.net otherwise it will mess things up? Make sure the image is not compressed when over-riding it?
I use GIMP 2.0 for all of the sprites and none have a result like the miniboss, and the sprite sheet is the original size provided from the ripped Data.rdsk file. Thanks for suggesting something though I appreciate the effort!
No problem. I'm afraid I'm not diverse with the GIT version enough to know the equate names off by heart. But nevertheless, the code will be compatible so long as you haven't changed any of the equate addresses. Howevere, I'm sure someone else here who knows the equate names, would kindly apply it to my code for you.
Just an extra question, but how would one make an extra shield (e.g. the elemental shields from Sonic 3) in a Sonic 1 ROM hack? EDIT: Not the abilities with shields, but literally another shield.
