[Help request] Dig&Spike Volleyball hack

Hello,At the begining I would like to say that we have our own dig&spike league, and we decided to make some changes in rom to refresh it;)

We started with changing the players names..the thing is that they can't be longer than 6 letters, and the pointers won't help here.
The most important thing is to change the players parameters ( each players has 5 unique parameters: serve, spike. block, jump and receive) The problem is that we have no clue where to find them.
If anybody can find any solution please post here!
We will appreciate it very much
Regards from Poland
October 20, 2009, 05:14:51 PM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)Sorry for double post, but:
I'm new to this forum and i don't know if that topic is:

a) so easy that no one wants to help with that because im such a noob
b) it's to to difficult to make
c) you don't want to help because i wrote sth bad..

so which one is it?

Hi,

sorry for not replying to the PM, forgot all about it. Anyway, most of these things can be found via debugging. However, some consoles don't have debuggers and sometimes the user does not have the experience to debug. The question in the thread Best/ Easiest to use hex editor/corrupter? aims for this. People use rom corrupters to corrupt parts of the rom and see if it changes some stats they want to see changed.
I personally believe that you should get over the inner laziness and just try debugging, but if you need a means to an end, than do try corrupting your way through the rom and see if it brings up anything interesting. The problem here is the many false hits you will provoke, where you hit code that is used on the map or in code your save state is using, so your rom crashes. Anyway, check that thread out and have a go at it.

cYa,

Tauwasser

I'll do the easy part of your request for you 

Fixed (or starting) stats are often a cinch to find using just a hex editor.

Code: [Select]

Stat Order = Serve Spike Block Jump Receive

DESPA   6  7  6  7  6
2DCE1  0B 0D 0A 0D 0B

VALDE   5  6  5  6  6
2DCF1  09 0A 09 0A 0A

ERNANI  6  6  6  7  5
2DD01  0A 0A 0A 0D 08

Appears to follow same order as player names

Stat values
00=1
01=1
02=2
03=2
04=3
05=3
06=4
07=4
08=5
09=5
0A=6
0B=6
0C=7
0D=7
0E=8
0F=8

I used a headerless ROM. Add 200 hex to those addresses (2DCE1 to 2DEE1) if your ROM has a header. It looks like there might be some other 'hidden' stats in there too. I don't really know anything about the game so you'll have to play around with them and see what they do.

Thank you both for replying, especially Dragoon ZERO. Thx to you we were able to change every player in the game. We appreciate this very much!

One more thing.

When playing 1p vs cpu or 1p v 2p (online) we are forced to play on a kind of "training field
But in single player mode there is a world cup mode, where you can see a proffesional field made especially and only for this mode.
My question is:

Is there any way to switch those fields, so we could play the world cup field during the 1p vs 2p play? We have no clue at the moment where to find them, and still if we would find them i don't think that swaping their code would help. It would include heavy-hacking and mass changing of 1/2 of our ROM ? ;p

Thank you all for reply, and for help
Wolfret & Polish D&S team
October 27, 2009, 03:19:58 PM - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)Ok, new post to refresh topic:)
I think that changing those fields is heavy assembly with pretty much work..so i don't think there would be a volunteer ;p

The stat hack was the most important thing, but we need to change one more ( i think simple ) thing:

Number of ingame substitutions.
In every match you can make 6 substitutions. This aprameter is held at 2A19A ( without header).
There is a string C9 06. When i change 06 to 03 the max number of substitutions changes to 3. But when i change it to >6 nothing happens. So wha'ts the problem?
Is there any other parameter that controls it?
And when I used the cheat function in snes9x/zsnes i found the RAM address and blocked it so i could make 12 substitutions/match.
So i think it's possible to hack it for a 12 substitution value.
Tell me...what's wrong?

Time to refresh our topic..
The situation is:

a) The player's names problem is SOLVED.
b) The player's stats problem is SOLVED.
c) The substitutions problem is SOLVED.

We can almost public our patch, but there is one other thing that is a must be:)
So..
d) In the main menu when you choose a team (between 8 existing) you can highlight algerian or japanese flag and press a secret combination down+L+R+X+A to play with a special hidden team. The problem is you can activate that code only using joypad. The code won't work on keyboard ( too many buttons pressed at once i think). So the thing we want to do is to decrease the amount of buttons needed to activate that code.
For example only L+R etc.
The input controller is held at $4218-$4219 ?
Is there an easy way to do that?
Thx for help everyone !

Time to refresh our topic..
The situation is:

a) The player's names problem is SOLVED.
b) The player's stats problem is SOLVED.
c) The substitutions problem is SOLVED.

We can almost public our patch, but there is one other thing that is a must be:)
So..
d) In the main menu when you choose a team (between 8 existing) you can highlight algerian or japanese flag and press a secret combination down+L+R+X+A to play with a special hidden team. The problem is you can activate that code only using joypad. The code won't work on keyboard ( too many buttons pressed at once i think). So the thing we want to do is to decrease the amount of buttons needed to activate that code.
For example only L+R etc.
The input controller is held at $4218-$4219 ?
Is there an easy way to do that?
Thx for help everyone !

This is quite simple. People had a problem similar to this when Chrono Trigger first became avilable on emulators (there's a sequence that requires pressing L, R, and A at the same time).

Simply bind all the buttons to the same key on keyboard/joypad.

~DS

Heh:)
It's a good way, but everyone will have to change his/her buttons every time.
The better way is to do a permament change in rom, so this code is activated via 2/3 buttons only. If we don't find any sollution we will simply use that method of yours;)

edit:

I just found out that there is a key combo option at the misc section in Zsnes..
Geez it was so easy, and we don't have to hack anything..
So the topic is solved at the moment, Thank you !