Need help with making an game editor.

Ksara · Post by **Ksara** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:09 am

hi guys, me and my friend are planning to make an editor for a snes ROM file game. But I don't know how to begin with making one. We want to program one with c#.

Can anyone give tips were to begin with?

thx Ksara.

THON · Post by **THON** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:08 am

Do you want to edit and existing ROM or make your own...?

Or do you want to make a program to edit ROMS?

I don't quite understand your post...

Ksara · Post by **Ksara** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:44 am

THON wrote:Do you want to edit and existing ROM or make your own...?

Or do you want to make a program to edit ROMS?

I don't quite understand your post...

I want to edit an existing ROM.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:03 am

Well then you really just need assembly and a hexeditor.

Ksara · Post by **Ksara** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:31 pm

Kyo wrote:Well then you really just need assembly and a hexeditor.

What is a hexeditor?

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:48 pm

Ksara wrote:
Kyo wrote:Well then you really just need assembly and a hexeditor.

What is a hexeditor?

Then you shouldn't be writing a ROM editor. Get yourself a 65c816 assembler/disassembler, and a hex editor. Use google, it is your friend. Your best bet is to start reading and then decide if you still want to do this or not.

Ksara · Post by **Ksara** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:01 am

marshallh wrote:
Ksara wrote:
Kyo wrote:Well then you really just need assembly and a hexeditor.

What is a hexeditor?
Then you shouldn't be writing a ROM editor. Get yourself a 65c816 assembler/disassembler, and a hex editor. Use google, it is your friend. Your best bet is to start reading and then decide if you still want to do this or not.

Is still want to do this, the problem is that you can't find so much info on the internet about 65c816 assembler/disassembler, and a hex editor. Or the info that is given is either vague or incomplete.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:30 am

you can't find anything on hex editors?

Well, you fail at using the internet then.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:26 am

Ksara, if you can't even find anything on the internet about HEX Editors then don't even bother. You are too much of a noob, your one of those people that has no idea what your talking about and how hard something actually is.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:38 am

wow, you really ARE harsh

Ksara · Post by **Ksara** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:39 am

Well call me a noob Harshboy. I don't even care.

Instead of helping out here, but nooooo stay immature.
I have been searching hours and hours on the internet and like I said I have found info about assembly and hex editor BUT the problem is some bunch of guys that call themselfs pro(like for example you) don't even explain properly how exactly some kind of program languages work because they think that when they explain little or limited about it, that me a NOOB( yes and I admit)understands it.

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:54 am

You have to learn Hex before you can use a hex-editor, I used to use it to change around the text in a few old Gameboy games.

Theres a few here;
http://www.zophar.net/utilities/hexutil.html

I'd suggest Hex workshop.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:02 pm

Ok, for starters, what game are you editing, and what exactly are you trying to do? There's already a lot of tools out there that may do what you want. (No sense in reinventing the wheel, right?)

Take a look around http://www.zophar.net ; they have a lot of tools, including tile editors, hex editors, and specialty tools designed specifically for one game. I recommend you start with Tile Layer Pro for editing sprites, and Thingy32 and Hexposure for hex editing. You can do a lot with just these tools.

I recommend starting off with a NES or black and white Gameboy game if you've never done this before. They're easier to work with.

If you're starting from square one, here's a rater dated but still useful guide. (It talks about DOS utilities, but the basic idea can be applied to graphical programs.

<a href="http://www.nesplayer.com/database/info/ ... html">link [size=0]he come to town[/size]</a>

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:47 pm

Ksara wrote:Instead of helping out here, but nooooo stay immature.

Sounds like something a toddler would say.

http://zophar.net

EDIT: Oh, bic got that.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:14 pm

Kyo wrote:wow, you really ARE harsh

he has a point though...