hacking on the Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas GBA game.
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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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STOP HAVING MORE MAPS
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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
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My final problem with this generator could be solved by just shutting up and beating the game manually, but unfortunately, my brain thinks reverse engineering GBA games is more fun than playing them
