[hackfleisch]

Hello,

after getting so much help from this board in understanding the principles of ROM hacking and architecture of the Nintendo Gameboy (DMG) i would like to give something back. Therefore i start this project.

My goals are:

• Learn a lot of console arch, game development and such...
• Disassemble the whole game
• Translate the gametext to German language
• Change graphics inside game to some custom pictures
• Looking for cheats inside the code
• Generate patches for endless life/fire and such

Tools:

• Gameboy-Emulator: http://bgb.bircd.org/ - In my optinion the BEST Gameboy-Emulator for Windows PC (runs even under Win 10)
• Debugger: BGB also contains a powerfull debugger. It can modify code in-place, on-the-fly. Has memory and VRAM viewer and many more.
• Compiler toolchain: -STILL LOOKING-
• Tile-Editor: -STILL LOOKING-
• Sound-Composer: -STILL LOOKING-

Step 1: Getting familar with the ROM
The cart-info tells it's card type "MBC1", no additional RAM, no battery and ROM-Size is 131.072 bytes.

[ObiKKa]

Have done the research on the game. I have found that there's a separate Game Gear version of this game with full color graphics! According to Wikipedia the reception was that the GG version had better controls than the GB version. So I wonder why you'd choose this GB version to hack unless you don't know how to hack Sega's consoles? Or maybe their consoles are just not well-documented or don't have enough good debuggers for everything at this time.

[hackfleisch]

This is a self-study project. I choose GB, because i thought it would be easier to understand an old gameconsole than an recent one (like PS-Vita or such). Another point was that i get in touch with Z80 in my early Computer and electronics experiences. So i am a little bit familar with it.