[Choppasmith]

You wouldn't happen to have a link to that, would you? A quick check for various likely-sounding search phrases with Google doesn't turn up anything that looks interesting within the first few pages of results.

Sure
https://w.atwiki.jp/dq_binary/pages/31.html

If you use some kind of webpage translator the site should be more obvious but basically the list starts with hacks and then goes to developer tools underneath that. They have some RAM and ROM values for games on the left side, but it's very incomplete and mostly for the SNES games. They do have config files for BNE2, sort of a multi-game data viewer/editor that uses said config files for rom hacking. There's somewhat of a English explanation and how-to here but I haven't tried it myself:

https://www.southcape.org/2014/12/22/using-bne2-for-rom-analysis/

Oh and abw, I'm really sorry, I'm trying to update my DW2 rom with your latest Menu Upgrades patch (via asar). I must be forgetting something (it's been a while) that's different in my ROM compared to an unchanged ROM but I'm getting a glitch when I try to buy any weapon/armor in a shop (It just skips the party menu and goes straight to the "(Cannock) Can not equip this are you sure?" message and the graphics glitch out,
October 23, 2020, 08:41:18 pm - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)Also, abw, I was hoping to ask if you know how to edit the Redraw Menu text to fix a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glitch when cycling through menus (Sorry to be a pain but I figured maybe you had to touch this up a little bit when doing your Latin translation)



The format is baffling to me

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AN 
D[top border-77] 
[top border-77][top border-77] 
[top border-77][top-right border] [right border]Why do you need multiple lines for one line of the window? What are the spaces for?

I tried to simply edit it according to where the letters of the new Command window now line up but that didn't work. ND seems to work a little better than AN but I still get extra lines.

[abw]

https://w.atwiki.jp/dq_binary/pages/31.html

Thanks! Alas, there's not a lot of information on that page, and all the links I tried are giving me 503 errors, so I can't even try it any of it out for myself . Assuming they actually do have a (non-Overworld) map editor, I'm curious to see how well it works.

Oh and abw, I'm really sorry, I'm trying to update my DW2 rom with your latest Menu Upgrades patch (via asar). I must be forgetting something (it's been a while) that's different in my ROM compared to an unchanged ROM but I'm getting a glitch when I try to buy any weapon/armor in a shop (It just skips the party menu and goes straight to the "(Cannock) Can not equip this are you sure?" message and the graphics glitch out,

Probably what you're missing are the 2 new menus and their pointers. Basically I just took the 2 BUY/SELL target menus (from pointers #18 and #42), copied them to new menus (creating pointers #75 and #76, which meant shifting the entire block of menu data down by 4 bytes), updated them to include a space and the new optional E control code ($F0-$F2 depending on the hero), and adjusted their size/position to fit the new text.

Why do you need multiple lines for one line of the window? What are the spaces for?

Because it's not one line of the window, it's two lines divided up to match PPU attribute boundaries so that the game can apply the right palette when clearing and drawing the overlapping tiles (of course, the palette doesn't change between the parts of the COMMAND and EQUIP menus that overlap, but it's all part of the same system that handles rolling the EQUIP menu up and down over the map background which almost always does use a different palette, so the overlap section still has to obey the same rules). A tiny bit of experimentation will show you that that "AN  " is the "AN" of the top line and then the 2 spaces on the second line directly under the "AN". The rest of the data works the same way, e.g. "SP  " covers the "SP" on one line and the "  " directly below it.

After updating that section of data, you'll want to test getting into a battle, because despite being completely separate conceptually, the game actually uses one of the strings of 4 consecutive spaces from that block of COMMAND menu replacement text as one of the black backgrounds in battle .

And yes, DW2's menu clearing/redrawing is indeed a pain.

[Retrolife]

Next year is 30th anniversary of DW III so a new hack is in order one that brings out the best of the game in every aspect(gameplay,storyline,npcs,graphics)

[Chicken Knife]

Guess I was a few months too early on our DQ3 NES restoration / retranslation hack. 

I intend to eventually work on the SFC version, but even if I started it immediately, (which I don't plan to) it would definitely not get finished in 2021.

[joe73ffdq]

I have been gradually working on my DW2 mod recently, and I was wondering a few things...

In the enemy data, the 2nd byte is for enemy evade. The left nibble specifically is for evade, and the right nibble is supposed to be for HP amounts of 256, but there is no instruction to ram. There is thread on Gamfaqs from 2011, where AlexKC mentions this about enemy byte #2... Is there a way to add an instruction to ram, so specific end game enemies can have over 255 HP...

2nd question... Is there any kind of overworld map editor. There is a utility that works visually while using it, but it doesnt work properly, and screws up much of the data... There is map restoration for Hargons Castle in this thread. Do you guys possibly have a working map editor...

I would really like to add more HP specifically, and map work would just be for cosmetic differences... Right now in my notes for enemy set up, 3 of the last 5 bosses would be spamming healall, which doesnt quite work very well...

Thank you guys 

[Chicken Knife]

I have been gradually working on my DW2 mod recently, and I was wondering a few things...

In the enemy data, the 2nd byte is for enemy evade. The left nibble specifically is for evade, and the right nibble is supposed to be for HP amounts of 256, but there is no instruction to ram. There is thread on Gamfaqs from 2011, where AlexKC mentions this about enemy byte #2... Is there a way to add an instruction to ram, so specific end game enemies can have over 255 HP...

2nd question... Is there any kind of overworld map editor. There is a utility that works visually while using it, but it doesnt work properly, and screws up much of the data... There is map restoration for Hargons Castle in this thread. Do you guys possibly have a working map editor...

I would really like to add more HP specifically, and map work would just be for cosmetic differences... Right now in my notes for enemy set up, 3 of the last 5 bosses would be spamming healall, which doesnt quite work very well...

Thank you guys 

For the question about an editor, this tool: http://sonic_death.byethost31.com/DW3Bestiary.txt by abw is the most helpful thing out there. Although it is just a viewer, you can really learn the exact process that the game uses to draw. I was able to use this to do my DQ3 map edits. I didn't get too far with the concept of drawing maps more efficiently in order to create space, but I was lucky enough to have some free space to work with and unused data to eliminate, which just required some moving around of map data and adjusting of pointers in order for me to do the expansion where necessary.

For your first question about expanding enemy HP, I'm afraid I don't have much to offer there. If abw comes out of his sabbatical at some point, I'm sure he could give a helpful pointer or two.

As for me, I continue to poke around with the issue where the Zombie Killer sword sporadically does bonus damage to metal slimes. It's already well documented here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/587249-dragon-warrior-iii/50550773. 1whoistornapart did some valuable disassembly of the issue 11 years ago, but never exactly followed up with a solution.

It's a pretty complex issue created by weakness in a set of subroutines that check whether a monster is vulnerable to Expel/Banishasu. In some cases where a monster has already fled, the subroutines get mixed up as to which monster to be checking for resistance.

I feel like the solution probably has to do with adding a bit of code to that subroutine structure to check the status bytes of the targeted monster and determine if it has fled, and then switch to another monster in the group if it has. But I have a fair amount to learn before getting anywhere with this. Open to advice anyone has to offer.