Question about making Zelda 2 romhacks

[lilo-san]

Anyone can point out:

1. What are the main good/recommended tools used to make romhacks without coding. To modify overworld, side views, etc...

2. Documentation about the Zelda II rom and learn the quirks and ways to hack in your own asm scripts. I'm able to understand technical docs, code, asm, etc... without much issue.

3. Any website more dedicated to Zelda II romhacking that romhacking.net?

Thanks in advance

[Jorpho]

Is there some reason you didn't post this in Newcomer's Board..?

Anyone can point out:

1. What are the main good/recommended tools used to make romhacks without coding. To modify overworld, side views, etc...

Why not start at http://www.romhacking.net/?page=utilities&category=&platform=&game=753&author=&os=&level=&perpage=20&title=&desc=&utilsearch=Go ?  Or consult the readme for existing hacks like http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/456/ , which seem to suggest Dwedit's editor.

See also https://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Zelda_II:_The_Adventure_of_Link .

[lilo-san]

Hi Jorpho,

I honestly didn't know it was more correct to put it there.

I did look into documents and utilities at romhacking.net.

The thing is I found an editor that seems better and more put to date but not mentioned on the romhacking.net downloads: https://github.com/cfrantz/z2edit

And documentation regarding the rombanks also missing in romhacking.net.

This give me the impression that either I'm looking at it wrong or the Zelda II community is gathering somewhere else.

Thanks for the link to data crystal, the information there only mentions older documents, editors and hacks, seems to not to have been updated on a while.

Under any case, thanks for answering!

[Jorpho]

I did look into documents and utilities at romhacking.net.

The thing is I found an editor that seems better and more put to date but not mentioned on the romhacking.net downloads: https://github.com/cfrantz/z2edit

It often leaves people with a much better impression if you start out by saying what you've searched for and what you've found.

This give me the impression that either I'm looking at it wrong or the Zelda II community is gathering somewhere else.

You will also find references to acmlm's board in some of those readmes.

the information there only mentions older documents, editors and hacks, seems to not to have been updated on a while.

Considering the game came out 34 years ago, how much updating would you expect to be necessary..?

[Trax]

Consult my docs if you want to see a disassembly of the game's code and data, with my comments. If you have more precise questions, ask them here...

Zelda II - Bank 0
Zelda II - Bank 1
Zelda II - Bank 2
Zelda II - Bank 3
Zelda II - Bank 4
Zelda II - Bank 5
Zelda II - Bank 6
Zelda II - Bank 7

Zelda II - RAM Map