Skeetendo

The tilesets are compressed but they just use the compression command that precedes literal data. The longest a single command can account for is 1024 bytes (64 tiles). So when you hit the 65th tile, you need another command to keep going. In this case the command is 2 bytes long so you have to shift 2 bytes ahead to see the rest properly.

Same goes for the first set, so you have to shift 2 bytes ahead at the beginning too.

Last edited by comet (2013-01-09 06:51:55)

If you're just wanting them to look right in TLP so you can edit them, you would just use the + and - keys at the top of your keyboard to shift the data forward or backward so it looks right in the editor.

No problem mate

I'm having troubles with Megamap.
I resized all my maps in JohtoMap and they loaded just fine in Megamap to edit,
but somewhere along the line when I was switching between editing blocks and the map and whatnot,

I received a the message:
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"Run-time Error 9"

Subscript Out of Range
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Now every time I try to open the edited Route 29, Megamap just crashes, although my edited New Bark Town works just fine.

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+ I did edit the dimensions for both New Bark Town and Route 29
+ I did mess around with the Map Connections so I could edit the map

Any idea how I can fix this? Or what the issue is specifically? I've spent quite some time on this, and I can seem to find where I went wrong.
thanks!

That was exactly it!
Thank you :]

So after dozens of hours of experimenting, i'm finally starting to get the hang of this (if only roughly).

But I'm having a major issue with my Route 29 (13x28). Megamap refuses to load if I try a making the map connections south based at all (as in changing the byte to 04 from 00). It crashes every time.

Is there any remedy you guys can think of for this issue?

Also, idk what/how to figure out the value of x/y movement of connection strip. is there any definition that made it make sense to you?

Thanks ya'll, for all your help

Last edited by Chemtrails (2013-02-10 17:11:11)

So I finally got it to work.
After ~50 hours of work and trying to figure it out, Map Connections finally make sense to me.

Now my task is setting different maps to always be one time. That way I can make certain areas load with different palettes.
I disabled setting the time in the intro, and it made it always midnight as it should have.

Do the lighting bytes in the Primary Map Header determine what time the maps run on? I can seem to find any information of what the different values in the lighting section of the Primary Map Header do at all.

If anybody can help me figure this out, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Also, note that you should only connect maps that belong to the same Map Bank (because if you don't, the sprites that the two don't have in common, won't be displayed properly in the game).

You can switch the Map Bank and Map Number of two existing maps with one another by changing their Primary Header datas around.

Considering the primary and secondary map headers are really well-documented all over the web, you'll need to increase your googlefu a bit...

See for instance my translation of the German documentation on this forum: http://hax.iimarck.us/post/12507/#p12507

That's correct. However, some map banks are compatible - for instance MB 24 and MB 26 New Bark Town to Rosalia doesn't use a route house for instance. Mind you, since the tile table in WRAM is not being recomputed, all overlapping sprites will continue to work just as expected. So you can theoretically use a subset of the available sprites for "inter region" maps.

cYa,

Tauwasser