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The 3DS hacking scene is still pretty active. Great form factor devices, fully jailbroken. Guide is pretty easy to follow at 3ds.hacks.guide :) I've got mine as the best form-factor emulation station (for older games) you could imagine :).
Back in the '80s there was a lot of save game file hacking going on. My buddy and I would look at save game files for all the hot fun games in the hex editor and try to figure out what values we could change. Bard's Tale had a fairly simple layout, which we painstakingly figured out by, for example, using one item and seeing which values decremented. BTII or III, can't remember, went to some length to prevent this ea…
These days it's far easier to read/edit the memory of running programs than the serialized data saved to disk in save files.
Asking because I don’t actually know, I’m just recalling a lot of my early ROM hacking, and indeed discoveries in ROMs, by manipulating memory and savestate rather than the ROM itself.
Is there any URL we can switch the top link to, that contains some of this information but doesn't do an automatic file download as https://gbatemp.net/download/gba-and-ds-rom-hacking-guide.33... does? (Those make annoying links for frontpage submissions, even when the content is good.)
Open to hear any good suggestions for PDF hosting.
Is there any URL we can switch the top link to, that contains some of this information but doesn't do an automatic file download as https://gbatemp.net/download/gba-and-ds-rom-hacking-guide.33... does? (Those make annoying links for frontpage submissions, even when the content is good.)
Seems like just taking out the word download after the slash does the trick: https://gbatemp.net/download/gba-and-ds-rom-hacking-guide.33... The info isn't embedded on the page, but the download button for the PDF is unforced but available Edit: Looks like this thread has the info from the PDF embedded: https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentatio...
Is there any URL we can switch the top link to, that contains some of this information but doesn't do an automatic file download as https://gbatemp.net/download/gba-and-ds-rom-hacking-guide.33... does? (Those make annoying links for frontpage submissions, even when the content is good.)
I dislike them myself and actually tried looking for one but the only alternative I found was scribd, which would require a login to download (even more annoying). Open to hear any good suggestions for PDF hosting.
The 3DS hacking scene is still pretty active. Great form factor devices, fully jailbroken. Guide is pretty easy to follow at 3ds.hacks.guide :) I've got mine as the best form-factor emulation station (for older games) you could imagine :).
+1 it's worth it for the NSUI [0] alone. The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! 0, https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui
For me at least, I think the Steam Deck has it beat these days, although I'll admit I miss the smaller form factor sometimes.
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These days it's far easier to read/edit the memory of running programs than the serialized data saved to disk in save files.
Well; isn’t that why a lot of traditional ROM hacks historically (at least in the SEGA Genesis/MD hacking scene I was involved with) used savestates as rudimentary ROM hacks? EG - hasn’t it been easier to manipulate data in runtime memory, eg in a savestate; than within the ROM? Asking because I don’t actually know, I’m just recalling a lot of my early ROM hacking, and indeed discoveries in ROMs, by manipulating memo…
In a general sense, I suspect the latter is more popular because it's not illegal to modify/distribute save state data; ROMs certainly can be.
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+1 it's worth it for the NSUI [0] alone. The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! 0, https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui
> The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! For me at least, I think the Steam Deck has it beat these days, although I'll admit I miss the smaller form factor sometimes.
I have it in my pocket all the time and put has save states, fast forward and low power standby with instant power on.
I can play it in short busts whenever I have a few minutes spare instead of using my phone.
I recently beat Pokémon Emerald for the first time thanks to this and I'm further through dk county than I've ever been
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well; isn’t that why a lot of traditional ROM hacks historically (at least in the SEGA Genesis/MD hacking scene I was involved with) used savestates as rudimentary ROM hacks? EG - hasn’t it been easier to manipulate data in runtime memory, eg in a savestate; than within the ROM? Asking because I don’t actually know, I’m just recalling a lot of my early ROM hacking, and indeed discoveries in ROMs, by manipulating memo…
I couldn't tell you without a specific example, but I would suspect distributing an edited ROM would be much easier than save state hacking. In a general sense, I suspect the latter is more popular because it's not illegal to modify/distribute save state data; ROMs certainly can be.
Back in the '80s there was a lot of save game file hacking going on. My buddy and I would look at save game files for all the hot fun games in the hex editor and try to figure out what values we could change. Bard's Tale had a fairly simple layout, which we painstakingly figured out by, for example, using one item and seeing which values decremented. BTII or III, can't remember, went to some length to prevent this ea…
Granted, the saves are binary blobs but once you find the value you want you can find an entire struct of data along side it. There are tools like imHex which help the process and help you define the structure of the save file. It's become a common project of mine to save hack and then build a save editor when I'm confident my changes work.