ThomasSpeedrunner Help Thread

The 128X128 chunk mappings file.

 

...I tried renaming both the file itself and the reference to it, but still no dice. Again, only happened after I deleted the Special Stage code from my hack.

EDIT: Actually, you know what? Here's the disassembly I am using.

 

You didn't make a back-up, did you?

 

No, I did not.

 

I tried the same thing, and I got that issue too but luckily I made a back up before I did it. Btw Thomas no matter the kind of change always back up your ASM file or disassembly, I do it every time even if it's a tiny change because you never know what could happen. I'm sure you will learn from now on. All you can do now is retrace your steps. Well at least that's all I can think of.

 

Well, looks like I finally learned why back-ups are important, the hard way :U

 

Hitting the ground with your face is the best way to learn how to fly. A broken hard drive is what made me realise the importance of backups, there's nothing better than a bad experience to open your eyes. Good luck for your next attempt!

 

http://sonicresearch.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3430

I'm having a dejá vu here... But it's better to learn things the hard way than not learning it at all.

 

In the Xnowhirl disassembly,  when splitting the art patterns and mappings from EHZ/HTZ to their separate level tables one file will act as if there is nothing to load when accessing HTZ, which Ironically has no self engaged 128 X 128 mapping chunk file. So I had to snipe it from another disassembly to get it working. Whilst running to another issue that resorted to a double reference error, I changed the name of the separate file and continued with my work.

 

Okay, I'm guessing this is an issue with alignment, because I know for damn sure the Mountain Climb Zone art displayed right prior to Special Stage code deletion.

 

I'm sorry, I think I just hit a crack in the universe which caused my post to become invisible to everyone, let's see if we can bring it back into the light.

 

I tried using "even" at several locations (hell, I even tried putting it before each individual art BINCLUDE), but no dice. Any other suggestions?

 

One bit of advice. Start backing up your disassembly. It always seems to be an ass raping situation when it comes to hacking.

 

So...new problem.

I've successfully given DEZ its own collision arrays, except the problem is, Sonic falls one block into the ground, and whenever I move, Sonic is instantly teleported to the end of the level. Any ideas on how this can be fixed?

EDIT: Never mind. Incorrect label branches caused it to skip over the curve and resistance mapping section of some of the routines. That's what I get for rushing through it =P

 

So, new question.

How exactly do I add sprites from another Genesis Sonic game to a character's art?

 

I can't make any binaries. I can barely even work with Genesis stuff (my hack is still very early in production, since I'm still in the process of learning).

And to ensure that I don't post here for this reason alone, I'd like to ask a question.

How do I open the Kosinski-compressed art files in my hack's disassembly? In this particular case, I'm trying to edit Winter Hill Zone (EHZ), but it says, "File cannot be opened" (or something like that) whenever I try to open them. =/

 

What says "File cannot be opened"?

The art files that are Kosinsky compressed need to be decompressed before editing, and then recompressed before use, a few tools out there exist that can decompress and recompress the data, and there's a fair for other tools for editing the data that have support for decompressing and recompressing, but not all do.

So there's a fair few tools that could possibly say "File cannot be opened", we cannot help until we know what tool we're dealing with here.

 

...WHAT THE HELL?

I posted this in the Retro Graphics Toolkit topic for a reason...

 

Shouting at the people trying to help isn't going to do much for you.

Might be an outdated way of doing it, but fuck it, it's tried and tested and has worked for most of us. Search up The Sega Data Compressor to decompress and compress whatever you need done and use SonMapED to export what you want to edit (naturally, import it when you're done). I might absolutely hate SonMapED but it's done the job for me and tons of others too.

 

Posted what in the other topic? I don't understand.