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How can I create a cutscene?! I want to ask just for my curiosity.

I used the PK Hack reset button to decompress the Sound Stone graphics, edited them, then inserted them back in with the Reset Button, but when I run the rom, it still shows the original graphics. If I use the reset button to extract them again, it shows the graphics I made. What’s going on?

You’re sure you’re loading the same ROM in the emulator as you are with PK Hack, correct? That’s the only thing I can think of, since you can extract the modified graphics from the ROM again. Either that, or the Sound Stone graphics are stored in multiple places in the ROM, which seems less likely to me.

ahmetone:

Hey thanks NESluver, finally.
Shadow there’s no easy way to do it. You must learn CCScript. It modifies the games code in many ways. Let’s you change dialague,Make new npcs and even display emotions on players heads. Here’s a link to get you started.
Good Luck, and happy hacking. The full command refrence should have what you need.

Thanks but I’m not making a hack, I just wanted to ask from curousitiy.

Anyone know how to run PKMidi? :’(

With the Arrows and and all?

Problems.. :/ Attached images of all of my tries..

My latest try.. Help? I did exactly as you said and renamed my midi file song…

I did drag it.. And my computer wont let me remove anything after that >

First go to the command prompt and type "cd " without quotes, that is cd and a space

Then drag and drop pkmidi.exe

Backspace and take out the pkmidi.exe part

Then press enter

Now put in “pkmidi.exe whatever.mid” without quotes

Your file path will be different then mine though obviously.

Yep, that works too. Instead of using cd to change directory, you can do that. Glad you got it working, sometimes I’m not the best at explaining things.

PK Midi separates the sequences into channels, so you can just copy the notes and paste it into the appropriate channel.

However, PK Midi is honestly not very helpful at all for direct transcribing; maybe it’s good for getting the notes, but generally it’s much more efficient to learn how to sequence MIDIs into the ROM manually. (I don’t think we have a tutorial for the music editor yet, so you’ll need to experiment and look at the other song files in the game and maybe even learn a thing or two about basic music theory)

Ok, this is a bit tricky. Can someone tell me how to add new elements to “char” in CSScipt. By “char” I mean the index of Playable characters. For example:

“@{name(1)}, I now present you with this very significant item.” next
give(1, 206)
“@({name(1)} got the {itemname(206)}.)”

char is the index with 17 characters. Ness, Jeff, Flying Man etc.

{name(1)} returns Ness’ name.

But what I want to do is add a new playable party member. How do I do that?

hmm… I need an expert here. Are all 5 Flying Men’s data saved identically?

Thanks a lot. I’ll use all the empty space now for the Pikmin. Woops Spoilers. You see I’m making a very big hack. I’ll open a new topic soon for it, because It’s gonna take more than one person to finish it. Until then…

motherfan99,
It’s probably your rom. Your rom more than likely needs a header which is required by PK Hack. You can add one to it using a program such as SnesTool, or you can just try to download the rom from somewhere else.

NESLuver has been doing an awesome job maintaining the PK Hack section here. You can also check The Catchall PK Hack Thread, but it hasn’t been updated in awhile.

You should also look into Coilsnake and CCScript. They are the hottest EB hacking tools currently available.

You can check if your rom has a header by looking at the file size in bytes. I know Windows Vista lists this in the File Properties.
an unexpanded Headered rom will end in 240

What you’ll find is you won’t be able to open that edited rom with PK Hack, it won’t work. CoilSnake wasn’t designed to work in conjunction with PK Hack. They hack the rom very differently.

You could use PK Hack to alter a headered base expanded rom to achieve some things if need be. But it’s best to just use CoilSnake and CCScript for all your EB hackery to make sure you don’t run into problems.

Also if I try to edit the stats of enemies and such stuff with PK Hack after I used Coil Snake, it will simply not work, right?

So I can change em in Coil Snake, right?

I downloaded another rom and it still didnt work. I’m going to try to add a header. Does coil snake Need a headered rom?

“Unstable” may be understating it. Since JHack hard-edits things to the ROM, there is a very high chance of something breaking, whether it be because you forgot about something, or JHack itself.

In contrast, CoilSnake takes a bunch of files and compiles them into the rom, re-routing pointers when needed. So, whenever you make changes and re-compile, it takes the clean rom and re-compiles everything, instead of just applying the changes to an already edited rom.

I’m trying to think of a good analogy, but I can’t think of one that would be clear enough.

I’m talking about just more than overall performance, I’m talking about how it works. Like, comparing the different ways they operate.

Let’s see, I think I have a decent one. Think of a folder full of papers. JHack would be like finding a certain piece of paper, taking it out, changing the information on it, and putting it back in. CoilSnake would be like taking that same folder, taking everything out of it, changing some information, making sure everything is organized how it should be, and putting it back into that folder.

That’s the best I can think of for now.

Yeah, maybe that’s better. How about this:

Think of a folder full of papers. JHack would be like finding a certain piece of paper, taking it out, changing the information on it, and putting the paper back in. CoilSnake would be like taking that same folder, taking everything out of it, copying all the information, making changes, replacing the original into its folder, and putting the edited papers into their own folder.

How’s that?