07-25-2008, 10:04 PM
Thanks for the help Sekel. I'm very pleased with the second bit of advice, because it really helps me out. Assuming I figure out where the heck my monsters went off to, (and before anyone mentions it, Find Text has failed me...) I should be able to do minor assembly work despite having no prior knowledge thereof. It SEEMS easy enough, to me, certainly much less iffy than the other programming languages that I've tried. EDIT: To clarify: I've done everything that a mod-making tool and hex editing can do. I would do more with hex editing but it'd probably be not worth it, considering the .EXE issues I've got, even after a fresh install.
EDIT2: Just read further down on the monster-making thing. Except for the seeding code, that all seems easy enough, and I'm very willing to give it a shot. Sounds like you have to be something of a stubborn, nitpicky asshole to do it, but hey, why not? If anyone cares to offer help with the seeding code too (this might be an exception to the " don't do it for me" thing, although I'd REALLY much rather do it myself with lots of hints) then hey, I might get away with it.
Out of curiosity, I wonder if anyone could link me to a different (free) disassembler than the one I'm using, W32Dasm. Perhaps I got a messed up download, and I really don't feel like shelling out the money again just to fix it.
EDIT3: Problem found.
W32Dasm's hex viewer showed quite clearly all the monster names. When I told it to go to the beginning of the code page with them, I got a blank screen. It treated everything past 00487BF8 as nonexistant, so I can't use it for what I want to do. Ideas for replacements, people?
EDIT2: Just read further down on the monster-making thing. Except for the seeding code, that all seems easy enough, and I'm very willing to give it a shot. Sounds like you have to be something of a stubborn, nitpicky asshole to do it, but hey, why not? If anyone cares to offer help with the seeding code too (this might be an exception to the " don't do it for me" thing, although I'd REALLY much rather do it myself with lots of hints) then hey, I might get away with it.
Out of curiosity, I wonder if anyone could link me to a different (free) disassembler than the one I'm using, W32Dasm. Perhaps I got a messed up download, and I really don't feel like shelling out the money again just to fix it.
EDIT3: Problem found.
W32Dasm's hex viewer showed quite clearly all the monster names. When I told it to go to the beginning of the code page with them, I got a blank screen. It treated everything past 00487BF8 as nonexistant, so I can't use it for what I want to do. Ideas for replacements, people?