help with tools

[lothar]

hi, i want to make my own pokemon crystal hack but i can't find tool for renaming trainers, town names and attack names......so.....please make it .................sorry my english...i am only learning

[~Red]

Your going to need a Hex Editor and a table file as not many tools are out for Pokemon Crystal. Although, you could ask Miksy since he makes only Crystal hacks.

If you can't find a table file, I have one for Crystal English Version.

(Also, I'm not sure this is the correct section but I don't see a help section so...)

[Miksy91]

Go and check that CrystalText I made.
You can use it to edit town names.

However I've no idea where to look for names of trainers so it doesn't have that feature.
You can change names of attacks and pokemon by using hex editor and crystal table file.

[empoleom]

how change town names, i searching crystal text but can`t find it

[BeNjaMMiN]

i lol'd ;D
You cant look it up in a text editor. You're going to have to manually download a hex editor (I prefer Hexpose) and press F6 to search text. For example search Violet City and it will come up with the town name and you can change it to whatever.

[~Red]

Jan 21, 2010 18:12:50 GMT -5 BeNjaMMiN said:

i lol'd ;D
You cant look it up in a text editor. You're going to have to manually download a hex editor (I prefer Hexpose) and press F6 to search text. For example search Violet City and it will come up with the town name and you can change it to whatever.

Not all hexadecimal editors allow you to just jump straight into text editing. You need a table file to be loaded. The hex editor I use (which has a wider range of tools and easier navigation) requires you to manually choose a table file.

I haven't researched much about table files except that I know what they do, they change the characters in the text column to the Hexadecimal equivalent of that game.

[BeNjaMMiN]

Hmmm... Hexpose changes the entire rom to a table file for text so random letters pop up and i have to search for it. What hex editor do u use?

[~Red]

I use XVI32.

[Cinaed]

Jan 23, 2010 4:13:05 GMT -5 ~Red said:

I use XVI32.

Would you recommend it? I use Translhextion.

[iimarckus]

Jan 22, 2010 3:08:41 GMT -5 ~Red said:

Jan 21, 2010 18:12:50 GMT -5 BeNjaMMiN said:

i lol'd ;D
You cant look it up in a text editor. You're going to have to manually download a hex editor (I prefer Hexpose) and press F6 to search text. For example search Violet City and it will come up with the town name and you can change it to whatever.

Not all hexadecimal editors allow you to just jump straight into text editing. You need a table file to be loaded. The hex editor I use (which has a wider range of tools and easier navigation) requires you to manually choose a table file.

I haven't researched much about table files except that I know what they do, they change the characters in the text column to the Hexadecimal equivalent of that game.

A table file is a simple format: just a text file that looks like this:
80=A
81=B
82=C
...
and so forth. This works because in most Game Boy games a character is represented by one byte, and consistently the same byte.

Some hex editors allow table files where a byte represents more than one character:
54=POKé

Hex editors typically use the ASCII character encoding by default. This is the same encoding used by your text files (from, say, Notepad), and some games like Link's Awakening. Here is a table of ASCII characters:
    00 nul   01 soh   02 stx   03 etx   04 eot   05 enq   06 ack   07 bel
    08 bs    09 ht    0a nl    0b vt    0c np    0d cr    0e so    0f si
    10 dle   11 dc1   12 dc2   13 dc3   14 dc4   15 nak   16 syn   17 etb
    18 can   19 em    1a sub   1b esc   1c fs    1d gs    1e rs    1f us
    20 sp    21  !    22  "    23  #    24  $    25  %    26  &    27  '
    28  (    29  )    2a  *    2b  +    2c  ,    2d  -    2e  .    2f  /
    30  0    31  1    32  2    33  3    34  4    35  5    36  6    37  7
    38  8    39  9    3a  :    3b  ;    3c  <    3d  =    3e  >    3f  ?
    40  @    41  A    42  B    43  C    44  D    45  E    46  F    47  G
    48  H    49  I    4a  J    4b  K    4c  L    4d  M    4e  N    4f  O
    50  P    51  Q    52  R    53  S    54  T    55  U    56  V    57  W
    58  X    59  Y    5a  Z    5b  [    5c  \    5d  ]    5e  ^    5f  _
    60  `    61  a    62  b    63  c    64  d    65  e    66  f    67  g
    68  h    69  i    6a  j    6b  k    6c  l    6d  m    6e  n    6f  o
    70  p    71  q    72  r    73  s    74  t    75  u    76  v    77  w
    78  x    79  y    7a  z    7b  {    7c  |    7d  }    7e  ~    7f del

Jan 23, 2010 5:11:23 GMT -5 Cinaed said:

Jan 23, 2010 4:13:05 GMT -5 ~Red said:

I use XVI32.

Would you recommend it? I use Translhextion.

I don't like Translhextion because it misbehaves with large files. I personally use Windhex on Windows.

[~Red]

Yeah, I had a lot of problems with Translhextion. I edited the music, and only the music with that program but for some reason when you pick a starter pokemon it returns unknown opcode.

[Mateo]

Translhextion is often strange. I've never had it do anything odd when purely hex editing, but with table files. It will load the table, but behave strangely when trying to edit text with it.