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Posted on 07-19-14, 01:56 pm (rev. 3 by thereturnofdoritosxD on 07-20-14, 07:33 am)


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The hex editor is very useful to make combinations with the various features of the game and change something of the game to offer a better gameplay experience.

Today, for example, I saw skawo's thread, where he said a hex code to make you save everywhere like in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
When I saw it I thought "Whoa. That's a pretty neat feature!", but unfortunately  skawo didn't told in which overlay files those values were(because he wanted to use it in his upcoming NSMB hack ,I guess?) ,so I tried to search and replace myself those values listed in skawo's thread, but there were about 132 files in the overlay9!

And suddendly, a suggestion for the NSMBe came in my mind:
If you click on a folder containing a lot of files, there's a button called "Hex search" that if you click it, a new window will appear where you will have to type the desidered hex string. The results will be a excel-like text box showing the files containing the desidered string.

This could save time for some hackers that like me try to mess up with the hex editor to try to make something different. Isn't this a useful feature?
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:12 pm


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You don't need to know in which overlay it is; even I don't. Just decompress them all and use any hex editor's search function to find the values provided. There's only one instance of each in the ROM.
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:22 pm (rev. 2 by thereturnofdoritosxD on 07-19-14, 02:24 pm)


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Posted by skawo
You don't need to know in which overlay it is; even I don't. Just decompress them all and use any hex editor's search function to find the values provided. There's only one instance of each in the ROM.

Actually I decompressed them. The problem is that the search function provided appears only when you try to hex edit only one file,when instead I need to find in which files the strings that you described are. Or maybe I misunderstood what you said.
And now,I've the feeling that I'm going offtopic.

Either way,the hex search for a folder would anyways save a lot of time.
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:27 pm


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Yeah, don't use the NSMBe hex editor, use some other one which can view the entire rom.
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:30 pm


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Posted by skawo
Yeah, don't use the NSMBe hex editor, use some other one which can view the entire rom.

Guess it's time to use Gericom's one, meanwhile.
I heard it provides good features to do things like this faster.
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:32 pm
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Gericom's? fuck no fuck no

(unless you don't mind the random odds of it corrupting your ROM)
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Posted on 07-19-14, 02:35 pm


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Posted by StapleButter
Gericom's? fuck no fuck no

(unless you don't mind the random odds of it corrupting your ROM)

I don't know which other tool I should use to edit hex...well,Google,I trust in you...
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:46 pm
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Get XVI32 (free) or Hex Workshop (not free but better).

Hex editing is nothing specific to ROM hacking or NSMB.

But yeah, the main point here is that nsmbe's hex editor could be improved. I couldn't agree more
Posted on 07-19-14, 02:48 pm
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The hex editor is mainly a quick way to edit the raw level header blocks, to change things not supported in the main editor (hi background scroll settings).

I don't think it should turn into a full-fledged editor, I'd rather be for minimizing need for it.
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Posted on 07-19-14, 03:12 pm (rev. 2 by thereturnofdoritosxD on 07-19-14, 04:42 pm)


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Posted by StapleButter
The hex editor is mainly a quick way to edit the raw level header blocks, to change things not supported in the main editor (hi background scroll settings).

I don't think it should turn into a full-fledged editor, I'd rather be for minimizing need for it.

I think that the editor for the hex editing of a single file is perfect, so I think that nothing it doesn't need to be changed...the main point of this was just to add a search function to search a hex code desidered in the files of a folder in the main ROM.

A thing like this (or not):
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