New to programming Help!

Shdwmarth · Post by **Shdwmarth** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:46 pm

Is the zsnes for programming your own snes games as roms or is it something else?

zoink · Post by **zoink** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:01 pm

for runing ROM images, not making

Shdwmarth · Post by **Shdwmarth** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:06 pm

What does it take to actually mod an existing snes game or make your own and how difficult is it?

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:31 pm

Learn the way 213507 assembler works, and then you will be a romhacking god among romhacking gods.

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:33 pm

Modifying an existing game (rom image) by hacking it is between relatively easy and relatively hard, depending on what you know about rom hacking (and since you made this topic, I'm assuming that you don't know much).

Creating a game from scratch is very difficult.

Shdwmarth · Post by **Shdwmarth** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:44 pm

I have no programming experience yet but I do plan on buying books and downloading some basic programs to learn on soon. Also how hard is it to change something in a game? Like could I hack a Mortal Kombat rom for snes then change the characters to look like someone else from another game or show?
And How much time consumption does it take to just hack and change a few things like I mentioned above?

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:05 pm

Graphics hacks are pretty easy unless they're encrypted of compressed. If they're just regular SNES tiles, there are graphics editors. Although, if you want completely new graphics, you may need to edit the palette which could be harder.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:26 am

Shdwmarth wrote:I have no programming experience yet but I do plan on buying books and downloading some basic programs to learn on soon. Also how hard is it to change something in a game? Like could I hack a Mortal Kombat rom for snes then change the characters to look like someone else from another game or show?
And How much time consumption does it take to just hack and change a few things like I mentioned above?

You don't necessarily need books. Try the archives at zophar.net, especially [snes] and [65816]. Use Google as well.
If you 'just' want to hack games, try sites and [boards] that deal with that.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:37 pm

http://www.romhacking.com

They have plenty of tutorials and programs to help get you started there.

As far as time consumption.. Well.. some hacks can be done in a few hours. Other more complex hacks or language translations can take several years. So.. definitely variable in the time department and what your goals are in changing the game.

You could do a Mortal Kombat graphical hack, assuming the graphics are uncompressed, in a few hours or less. Being a noob though, it will take you longer because you will probaly take awhile just to locate the offset of the graphics you need and not understand how to use the utilities right away and what 1bp,2bp graphics are and such.