New Hacker with some question

[MonkeyFace]

Hi, I'm a new hacker(although i just.... said that...) and I'm trying to start off with something. I can't find any guides to help me though. I'm starting off with just something simple. I'm hacking pokemon blue(so i can play it on my g/f's phone). Any advice or programs or tutorials to help a newb like me?

[Maximum Potion]

Wait, are you saying you want to play pokémon blue on a phone?

Or are you saying you want to make a hack that you will play on a phone?

[MonkeyFace]

I'm tryin to make a hack that i will be playing on the phone. I know that its the same as hacking a rom, then emulating it. I pretty much need help getting started with hacking. the reason that I'm starting with gb games is because i found a emulator(MeBoy or what ever it's called) to play gb games on the phone

[Maximum Potion]

Ok well. There are documents and programs for pokémon RB all over romhacking.net.
Pokémap let's you edit the maps, though it does take a while. As for Trainers, get geigue's guide to hacking pokémon rbygs and get the table file from there. Text search the trainer's name and there should be one byte after that which you shouldn't touch. After that there wil be pkmn lvl pkmn lvl etc.

More importantly, do you know how to use a hex editor?

[MonkeyFace]

I don't know a thing about hexing to be honest, lol. any good tutorial suggestion. thanks for the help you have already given me too

[Maximum Potion]

K well get windhex, the hex editor. It basically shows you the game in hex. Hex is like the 0011001011 only way better. The hex values come in sets of 2 digits. each digit could be 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F instead of just 0-9. So with 2 digits, that's 256 different values rather than just 100. The left sife is the hex, the right side is the text. The text won't make any sense until you get the table file. The basics of using the hex editor are in geigue's guide to hacking pokémon rbygs so just get that and pokémap and windhex and maybe a tile editor (though there is a program to edit the sprites). The graphics for the pokémon and trainers in battle are compressed. This means you have to be ace figure out how to change them. Everything else can be changed.

[MonkeyFace]

ok, thanks. I pretty much new the whole 0123456789abcdef stuff just from doing cheat codes, though i didn't know the rest of that stuff, lol. i am mainly looking to make a hack that just either makes the game a lil easier(masterballs{which i already figured out}, more pokemon{figured out as well}, etc.). mainly i'm looking for a basic cheap hack, thought it would be the easiest thing to figure out, lol

[Maximum Potion]

In the guide, it tells you how to edit the shops.

[MonkeyFace]

well, i found a program that allows me to change the items, but then lets just say i wanted to make it to where i can buy rare candies, i need like 98,000 or 9,800 or something like that. at the moment, that and changing the the text on the title screen or the only problems i'm currently have.(pokemap allowed me to change the wild pokemon i find)

GAH, i was looking through windhex and i was tryin to change the name choices at the beginning and now the choices are all screwed up, any help here would be nice :)

[Maximum Potion]

You have to make sure the old names and the new ones take up the same amount of space because the byte after tells the game to write the next name below the first. Also, the game looks for the names at a specific area in the rom.

[MonkeyFace]

I figured that after, but when I tried to start over(i deleted that rom and copied over another to start fresh) it wouldn't save for some weird reason. Also is there a way to recreate that break or is it just stuck with what the game gives you?

[Maximum Potion]

Did you delete the first rom's save data? I dunno some emulators have serious issues with save data for roms with the same name.
The thing about ''recreating the break'' is this. Firstly the box only has room for 4 letter names. If that doesn't bother you, remember that a players name cannot exceed 7 characters or it will bleed out of the text box.
With all that taken into consideration, you COULD do it.
Just copy the HEX value in between the names in windhex and be sure to insert that inbetwen the new names but, be sure NOT TO WRITE ANYTHING PAST THE LAST LETTER OF THE LAST NAME IN THE LIST OR YOU WILL DESTROY YOUR ROM. (Make backups every day). You'll probably have to make the list have less names than the original to do so.

[MonkeyFace]

Interesting I will have to try that later... unfortunatly I did not have a back up made because i was an idiot, BUT fortunately all i had done was I added some items to veridian city's mart and some pokemon to one of the nearby roads. So not much lost and easily redone with the programs i was using(I think pokemap and a mart editor by swampert). Also when i started hacking i moved it to a seperate folder(i have my emulater set up to save in the same file as the rom), and also i renamed it as well. and when i deleted it I also deleted the .sav file from as well. the emulator i am using on my comp. is vba, if that counts for anything.

[MonkeyFace]

Maximum Potion- thanks for your help with everything. I even got the names to work right(after another failed attempt), with the whole recreating the break thing.

Now all i really need to figure out is the title screen. I got tile layer pro, but i can't seem to find the "Blue Version" any where. found pretty much everything else i wasn't looking for(that was the only thing i was looking for), lol.

Does any one know how to change whats in the comp at the the start of the game? thanks in advance

[Maximum Potion]

Not sure. But If you look at geigue's guide and find the hex value for potion, and hex search it over and over again until you find it all alone, write down what was there before, change it, save, start the game, go in the computer and if it's still a potion change the hex back to what you wrote down and try that over and over again there's like a 97% chance you'll figure it out.

[MonkeyFace]

ok, cool thanks

[MonkeyFace]

ok, so i managed to figure out most of what i was tryin to do on with blue, BUT, now i decided to try my hand at yellow(its kinda cooler than blue because of color and the fact pikachu follows you and not having to hack in all three starters). The problem i have now is that i cannot find a program to change the wild pokemon. Seeing as to how how clueless as to how to find it hexing(i tried and i can't make heads or tails of it). Does any one know of a program that can do it?