hacking on the Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas GBA game.
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hacking on the Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas GBA game.
I can see a lot of plaintext in the ROM, but some of it is obscured. I think it's some kind of basic compression.
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no, it can't be compression, it takes more bytes. And removing it breaks the textbox.
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whatever. I don't have to understand it to extract the font.
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apparently I do, my injections are inconsistent?
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main slowdown at the current moment: I forgot how to type an Ă
(it's compose, u, shift+A)
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sometimes while editing a font, I get the strangest feeling, it's like I'm being watched
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got the font. Maybe I need to get some backgrounds before I release it.
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@foone what compose key software are you using? For me its compose + A + ( instead
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@thetacola WinCompose
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I think this map alone means this game is technically a Metroidvania
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I got a controller out and I'm playing it again.
Cheat #1: 62E, set to 10, for max health
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oh fuck me there's more than one map
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@foone Wait, you type these injections by hand? You do this so often, I'd figured you would have a "textInjections.txt" file filled with every character you might ever want to extract
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@Canageek I do the injections automatically, but often that gives me the letters in a different order than I expect, so I have to map them back to unicode. thus the typing of special characters
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ugh. this game doesn't seem to have any walkthroughs, I'd have to watch longplays.
and this game is longer than I thought. I might need to cheat flagrantly
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@foone not sure how helpful this is to you, but I found https://web.archive.org/web/20201230132118/http://forum.tnbc.eu/pumpkinking/walkthrough via the GameFAQs boards
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@silentium thanks!
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So @silentium pointed me at an old walkthrough on the wayback machine, so I'm continuing.
I got the next weapon, and it's so crap that I've reached Ghidra O'Clock just to see if I can make this gun better -
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my theory: figure out where enemy health is in ram, set a watch on it, find out what code changes it, then use ghidra to understand that code, then patch the gun to do way more damage
