Official release of unofficial Boost Ball item for SM.

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aigamerDS: 2008-09-25 10:35:18 am

2008-09-25 10:23:40 am

Quote from Acheron86:

I was all set to chew you out for this, because it sounds extremely ungrateful, but since you went and made a patch I suppose it's all right. I hope you'll try to sound less entitled in the future, though... Insom did a very rare and nice thing and put something out for the public, and complaining about it in any way is a good way to discourage him from doing so again.

No no, I wasn't trying to be mean or discouraging. Actually, I really do like this patch. That's why I said "Man! You're are freakin genius!" or some stuff like that. I was just giving some advice on how it should improve. I could've put the happy face there so I don't sounded too mean. :P

I'm so gonna use this patch for my hack. Thank you InsomniaDMX for creating this awesome patch!

Cpadolf

2008-09-25 02:35:34 pm

Almost happy

Awesome item/patch/invention =). To bad it doesn't mix with speedballing for massive ultraspeed of doom though...

Bloodsonic

2008-09-25 04:09:50 pm

How can I make it that turning into morph ball doesn't change to screw attack palette one?
I'm not smart enough to look at the asm file and know what to change and what to change the values to..

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-25 09:10:44 pm

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I can't seem to get the boost ball patch to work... would it modify an existing save file? Or would it change the items that you pick up?

Acheron

2008-09-25 09:18:41 pm

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Compile/patch it to a ROM, then go pick up the springball item.

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-25 10:20:01 pm

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I did. I followed the instructions, I also took Acheron's advice, and it's not changing anything in the rom.

KaosuReido

2008-09-25 10:33:10 pm

I don't see why releasing an IPS would be much better than this; it's already been stated that one of the reasons for releasing it in ASM format was due to editing it. It's not just supposed to be for people to slap on a ROM, but for incorporating into hacks.

Cool patch, however. I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure exactly how it'll work, since I'm sort of waiting for Volta or Aegis. I love this ASM stuff, though.

Acheron

2008-09-25 10:56:48 pm

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Quote from Bioniclegenius:

I did. I followed the instructions, I also took Acheron's advice, and it's not changing anything in the rom.

Not sure what to tell you. It works for the rest of us, so you're doing something wrong. Check your ROM, check that you're not softpatching, etc. The Spring Ball item will not show up differently in SMILE, by the way.

Black Falcon

2008-09-26 02:59:54 am

I had the same problem with another patch long time ago.
I edit the rom in smile but the emulator didn't show it. The reason: the emulator has a memory of a rom of the same name in the saves. You must look (if you have Snes9x v1.51) into the folder "Saves". There you find the savestates and the smv file for this rom. This file is the reason. you must delete it (including all savestates of the same name e.g. smhack.smv and smhack.000).The emulator overwrites this memory with another older one which has the same name.Sorry if you don't understand. It's hard to explain. puh...

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-26 10:33:09 am

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Yes! Someone else with the Bunny signature!

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll be back soon to tell the tale of whether or not it works.This info ought to be helpful...

Sigfriedxx

2008-09-26 01:08:31 pm

so, when do we get a video of this patch in action? I'd like to see how it looks

Black Falcon

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Black Falcon: 2008-09-26 03:19:49 pm

2008-09-26 01:13:29 pm

Just look ~~smile help threat~~ hack/fangame screenshots thread.There's a real cool challenge vid by Squishy_ichigo.
I also made a prototype of a halfpipe.

Deep_Space_Observer

2008-09-26 03:06:32 pm

Unfortunately, I don't think the SM engine currently has any code for turning horizontal momentum into vertical momentum. As is the ball would travel up slopes, then when it hits a vertical wall, it would stop because the game doesn't recognize it as having any upward momentum from the slopes. However, a halfpipe is a logical use for boostball, so maybe Insom's already working on that. At any rate, I'm thrilled to see any ASM being put up for public use (And examination).

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-26 03:08:06 pm

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What page was it on?

Black Falcon

2008-09-26 03:18:38 pm

I'm sorry I made a mistake! It's on the hack/fangame screenshots thread not smile help Embarassed

it's on the 32th page!

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-26 03:39:00 pm

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Quote from Bioniclegenius:

Thanks for the info! Hold on, I'm going to go check it out, then come back when I know what I'm supposed to be looking for.

Edit: Ok, I'm back. I got all the items except for the high jump boots and the spring ball, put the save in the same folder as the other rom I'm using to test this out on, renamed the rom to 'SM.smc', same with the save, except to .srm, ran the ms-dos batch file, opened the rom and got the springball and the highjump boots. It still hasn't changed anything.

Black Falcon

2008-09-26 04:00:08 pm

Thats really strange...
I got it when I patched boostball.ips from aigamerDS to an unheadered rom...
If you're done right the springball changes to boostball.

Acheron

2008-09-26 04:03:39 pm

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I can only say it's "user error", sorry. What I would do if I were you:

-Download an entirely new copy of ZSnes/Snes9x and install to a different folder
-Download a new, clean SM ROM
-Patch it
-Play a new file from scratch

And if THAT doesn't work for you, it wasn't meant to be.

ZephyrZx

2008-09-26 04:14:19 pm

I created a short movie of me using the boostball so people who can't get the thing to work can check it out. (I wonder why, it was easy to patch using the explanation at the beginning )

BiggestSchnoz

2008-09-26 04:32:36 pm

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Hello boost ball, good bye mockball.... Ha ha, I couldn't seem to get mockball to work, although I think I know how it's done. Right now, still only a matter of time before I try both methods of boost balling though. This seems like a good way around the mockball, no offense intended at all. By the way, I like the videos. grin new

ZephyrZx

2008-09-26 04:39:05 pm

Any way to mix the code from the blue suit and this to make a complete boost ball? though it would be more like a death ball xd

Bioniclegenius

2008-09-26 05:02:59 pm

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And why has nobody, still nobody, put up a picture or something of the item itself? Does it still look like the springball, or has it changed?

ZephyrZx

2008-09-26 05:10:47 pm

hmm, should had recorded that... it looks like... a sideway springball? xd

Bloodsonic

2008-09-26 05:49:50 pm

Quote from ZephyrZx:

hmm, should had recorded that... it looks like... a sideway springball? xd

oh yes. I lol'd when I saw it.
anyway, this, like everything else that insom makes, is purely amazing. I really hope that he continues to do things like this. extra_smug

ZephyrZx

2008-09-26 05:52:52 pm

When i saw the item i was like... lolwut o.o, then started boosting around like mad, and to ad an extra fun factor, activated the bluesuit code, fun times indeed.