Super Metroid/SMILE Help Thread

Bolognab

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Bolognab: 2008-08-03 02:44:55 pm

2008-08-03 01:49:09 pm

dangit I double posted

Bolognab

2008-08-03 02:44:30 pm

These necessary kihunters are very problematic. Anyways, I got them to work (as in get killed), but they either appear with only wings or only the body, :-s. Sometimes when you shoot at them they flash for a while their entire body, wings and all.

Anyone know the issue? I triple-checked, and the wings and body have respectively: special-2C00 speed-0020 and special-2800 speed-0050.

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-03 04:59:54 pm

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How do you make an energy tank plm give you more than one energy tank?

Bolognab

2008-08-03 05:07:38 pm

plm values option...didn't you just ask the same thing for missiles?

Bioniclegenius

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Bioniclegenius: 2008-08-03 05:42:49 pm

2008-08-03 05:13:54 pm

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Yeah, but that started at 5, which is how many missiles it gives you, so it was obvious. What value do I change this by? It starts at something like 64.

Bolognab

2008-08-03 05:16:06 pm

Everything in this game is in hexadecimal you know?

Xaggoth

2008-08-03 06:01:05 pm

Quote from Bolognab:

Everything in this game is in hexadecimal you know?

No you don't understand, the missiles were in base ten. Very Happy

I'm looking for spore spawn in TLP, anyone have an offset?

Bolognab

2008-08-03 06:06:37 pm

0005 is the same in hex and base ten >_>

0064 is 100 in hex

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-03 11:02:09 pm

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Yeah, but that's the energy tank number. How do I make it more than one energy tank?

Cardweaver

2008-08-03 11:32:54 pm

You add to that number. That number represents how much energy is added to your total when you get the item. To get an Etank that is all 14 energy tanks, you do some hex-multiplication.

$0064 * 14 = $0578

ChozunSDA

2008-08-04 03:47:51 am

I think i just screwed up pretty bad... I'm not using a (J) ROM to hack.

Which version is the problem child?

I'm using (E)

Crys

2008-08-04 04:00:50 am

Green-Kirby, ROAR!

Quote from ChozunSDA:

I think i just screwed up pretty bad... I'm not using a (J) ROM to hack.

Which version is the problem child?

I'm using (E)

The one your using. :D
Type (E)

ChozunSDA

2008-08-04 04:12:16 am

Meh only got a little bit done.

http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=landingsiteed9.png

Good that I caught it early, thanks.

Deep_Space_Observer

2008-08-04 05:51:10 am

I'm having trouble with getting my edited CRE GFX to work. All the tiles I changed show up as changed in SMILE, and I can place everything and it looks right... but when I save everything and go to play it, in-game all those tiles appear as the original CRE graphics instead of my edited tiles.

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-04 09:28:26 am

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Thanks guys.

Bolognab

2008-08-04 09:52:42 am

Quote from Crys:

The one your using. :D
Type (E)

Hey...what's a lunamon? :3

Deep_Space_Observer

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Deep_Space_Observer: 2008-08-04 02:11:39 pm

2008-08-04 02:08:06 pm

Does anyone know the offset for psuedo screw attack and speed booster palettes?

Edit: Nvm, just found it.

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-04 02:11:54 pm

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No, but if you use SMILE, they're already in there. You don't need the offsets, b/c they're in the beauty salon. Also, does anybody know how to post (or even find) a video taken by the zsnes? I made a couple of videos, and I'd like to put them up somewhere.

Acheron

2008-08-04 02:17:41 pm

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Quote from Deep_Space_Observer:

I'm having trouble with getting my edited CRE GFX to work. All the tiles I changed show up as changed in SMILE, and I can place everything and it looks right... but when I save everything and go to play it, in-game all those tiles appear as the original CRE graphics instead of my edited tiles.

Don't load from a save state, or walk out of the room and back in.

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-04 02:28:36 pm

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Yeah, you'll need to reload the game, then play back up to that point. Helps if you're in a room that you saved in, like the ship room.

Deep_Space_Observer

2008-08-04 03:06:02 pm

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Quote from Deep_Space_Observer:

I'm having trouble with getting my edited CRE GFX to work. All the tiles I changed show up as changed in SMILE, and I can place everything and it looks right... but when I save everything and go to play it, in-game all those tiles appear as the original CRE graphics instead of my edited tiles.

Don't load from a save state, or walk out of the room and back in.

I load from a state a couple of rooms away and walk inside, and the result is a bunch of eye monster parts instead of platforms.

One question about TLP. TLP's palette editor only has two rows, instead of the six or so that the in-game palette has for regular tilesets. Does that mean that if I make any changes and reinsert the changed graphics, that tileset will now only be able to use two rows of color instead of the full six?

Bioniclegenius

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Bioniclegenius: 2008-08-04 03:35:55 pm

2008-08-04 03:09:56 pm

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No, that's the TLP palette. I use TLP and SMILE, too. Changing the palette in TLP doesn't do anything but change what you're looking at. It doesn't actually affect the games graphics there. I found that out. The only thing that would affect the game's graphics would be actually changing some of the tiles, not just the palette, or using SMILE to do something like that.

Btw, with SMILE, I was trying to change what caused the second state of Kraid's room. I changed it to an event based thing, but when I hit ok, it didn't change. How do I fix this?

Deep_Space_Observer

2008-08-04 03:39:53 pm

Yes, but I can only create tiles using those 2 rows in the TLP palette, therefore any custom tiles will only end up using two rows in SMILE's palette, thus severely limiting color diversity amoungst custom tiles.

Bioniclegenius

2008-08-04 04:06:41 pm

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Oh, that's your problem... Well, look at a bunch of the tiles. Aren't they all made from those same colors? I didn't see any that weren't made from them.

Kejardon

2008-08-04 04:35:51 pm

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SNES graphics have tiles and palettes separate, generally. Tiles can come in 2bpp or 4bpp (I don't think 1bpp is ever used in Super Metroid). What that means is that each pixel has either 2 or 4 bits assigned to it; it can be one of 4 or one of 16 colors. TLP only shows 16 colors at a time for SNES 4bpp because of that. Since the palettes and tiles are separate, nothing ever has the right colors if you look in TLP unless you do some work to set it up. The game decides while it's running what palette to assign to a particular tile.