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I've been working on what should be a very short, but fun mod called Dungeon Rush. It's being developed for the V1.0 rom, with the hopes that I'll be able to create a playable wad for the Wii. The concept is pretty simple: I'm linking together all the dungeons within the game one after another, with minimal changes made to the dungeons themselves, creating what should be a very fast paced game. All the major modifications to the dungeons are complete. Figured out how to patch the PJ64 rom database file in order for it to recognize the mod/apply the no pause screen lag code. There are a few other things that are delaying release: [*]Doing some research to find some of the cutscenes that lack documentation, in order to trim boss fights. [*]Convert a few more dialogs into quick skips. [*]Implementing a custom title logo. Worked a little on writing a simple program that can parse PNGs, need to study the format more. Logo, mask done thanks to Image Magick and Gimp. [*]Write up a script to automatically find edited files, compress them, and place them back into a standard V1.0 rom. Done. [*]Easter eggs.

I figured out everything about the on entrance cutscene table. $000DEC64 cutscene table Entry Format: ${ee ee aa ff oo oo oo oo} e = entrance index a = age to play cutscene (0 for adult only, 1 for child only, 2 for both) f = event flags (pattern is 00-07 sets 0ED5, 08-0F sets 0ED4, 10-17 sets 0ED7, 18-1F sets 0ED6, etc. o = pointer to cutscene

Ok so I think I almost have have a very good mapping of the game's save format, which helps to shape the boundaries of the event flags. 0000: "Beginning of the save format stuff"00A4: "Quest/Status Screen flags (one word long)"00D4: "Start of Scene Flags (1Ch bytes reserved per scene, do not know end bounds)"0E64: "Start of Farores Wind"0E9C: "Gold Skulltula Flags"0ED4: "Start of General Global Event Flags (Determined by the On Entrance cutscene flag)"0F38: "World Map Flags"0F40: "Start of Pierres song (360h? bytes)"1352: "End of save data"Edit: Also the "On Cutscene" flag pattern is the following. 00-07 sets 0ED5. 08-0F sets 0ED4. 10-17 sets 0ED7. 18-1F sets 0ED6. So for example, a flag of 00 will set the rightmost bit at offset 0ED5, setting it to 01. a flag of 01 will set the second rightmost bit at offset 0ED5, setting it to 02, etc.

In ovl_player_actor: Change what entrance index/cutscene plays after opening a chest with the Silver Gauntlets inside: Edit: Thanks to Three_Pendants for the chest? check BE9BDE: Check against what item was within the chest to see if the cutscene should play (set to 0035) BE9BE2: Entrance Index (set to 0123) BE9BEE: Cutscene (set to FFF1 for cutscene 1)

I've been posting a lot of stuff in https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2189-sods-oot-10-u-notes/ lately as I've been working on reconfiguring the entrances blue warps/cutscenes take you for a mod I'm calling Dungeon Rush. I've been posting mostly v1.0 specific findings there, but just now I've found how to change which entrance and cutscene to play when opening a chest with the Silver Gauntlets inside. It's located inside ovl_player_actor. These are absolute Debug Rom locations rather than relative to the file start. C1D006: Check against what item was gotten inside the chest, to determine whether to play the cutscene (Default is 0035 for Silver Gauntlets) C1D00A: Entrance Index (set to 0123). Search for 240E 0123 C1D016: Entrance Cutscene (set to FFF1 for cutscene 1).

Did some maths and some smart hex viewing and I think I managed to find the pointer table used by the 0x3E8 cutscene command that points to asm that (among other things) sets up which cutscene to play next after a cutscene is done.It's located at B7D2C8 in rom. This was found using Zelda's Courtyard CS #1 (Zelda's Lullaby) which refers to offset 33h, which is B7D394. B7D394 contains the pointer value 80053BE8 which in turn should point to some asm that sets an entrance index of 00CD and a cutscene of FFF8 Edit: 8005 3350h is the ram offset to the asm code that determines where to place you when pulling the master sword (regardless of whether it was the first or n'th time). That converts to AC91B0 Rom.Change what entrance/cutscene plays when pulling the Master Sword the first time:AC91DA: Entrance Index. Default is 00A0AC91F2: Cutscene number. Default is FFF3Change what entrance to use when pulling the Master Sword after the first timeAC9212: Entrance index. Default is 02CA

Edit: Think I found the scene/cutscene values, also think that either the machine code pointers starts 4 bytes earlier than stated, -1 is subtracted from the index, or 67h *4 != 19Ch.Edit 2: set 810669FE to 00EE

It's two big features are calculating Reverse Bottle Adventure and Wrong Warp results. The RBA calculator lets you calculate RBAs for both the 64 and 3DS versions, and allows you to even try out impossible combinations like... !rba Sun's Song, Boss KeyThe wrong warp calculator calculates the result of a wrong warp: What scene, what entrance, whether it will crash, what cutscene will play if that can be determined, or whether the previous cutscene is a factor. The way you use it, is you search for a scene... !ootscene Deku Tree <OcarinaBot> Deku Tree #0, Deku Tree Boss #17Which will return a list of scenes paired with their index in the scene table. Then you use the index as a parameter in a command that looks up all the "base" entrance index values for that scene: !ootsceneent 0 <OcarinaBot> x0000: from Kokiri Forest x0252: from Deku Tree BossThen you can either do a Death Hole Wrong Warp calculation with the !dhww command, passing the entrance index value as a parameter, or a "normal" wrong warp with !ww, passing in the entrance index value and the cutscene number the blue warp sets: 0 for Inside Jabu Jabu's Belly, 1 for Deku Tree and Dodongo's Cavern, 3 for Fire Temple: !ww 0252 1 <OcarinaBot> x0252: Deku Tree from Deku Tree Boss with cutscene 1 will wrong warp you to x0257: Tower Collapse Interior Burning Rocks from Tower Collapse Exterior Lower but is affected by the cutscene pointer.

Double posting because I want to keep the posts separate. Someone asked me for the tables I use in Ocarinabot, so I put 'm online here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qy26qtahw48hs5q A lot of it is information taken directly from the wiki (the Debug File table, Actor/Object Tables), but I also have a proper entrance table with human readable descriptions for every position. I also have an almost complete table of cutscenes, with the known cutscenes all given human readable names, but the bank offsets are v1.0 only.

Rather than create 20 threads for every little thing I mess with, I'm going to start. C# Programs: Ocarinabot - An IRC bot with various functions for Ocarina of Time / general irc stuff. VCSaveGen - A crummy hex editor for editing save data from emulators/virtual console. MasterOcarina - A C# code base that assists in my various rom hacking endeavors. VerboseOcarina - Program that prints out various Scene/Map data. Dungeon Rush (Rom Generator utility) - Converts a NTSC 1.0 file into the Dungeon Rush hack. Petrie's Challenge (Rom Generator utility) - Converts a Master Quest rom into Petrie's Challenge hack. zcodec - A newish/incomplete console based program that compresses/decompresses roms, and byteswaps them. More functionality will be added eventually Spectrum - A simplistic console based memory viewer for the purpose of mapping out the game's ram in an attempt to understand the game better. Other: Ocarinabot Database - My own database for Ocarina of Time related stuffs. Originally started as an xls table for performing simple RBA calculations, it's been expanded to hold data on a number of different things (entrances, exits, dmadata). Bitflag mapping xls file - A file I created to help map out the save format. Mainly covers flags (scene flags, event flags). Improvements to VerboseOcarina have largely replaced the need to continue documenting scene flags. Other threads I've posted on: NTSC 1.0 Notes - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2189-sods-oot-10-u-notes/ Collision Mesh notes - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2910-collision-questions/ Hookshot as Child - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2209-use-hookshot-as-child-link/ Porting Jabu Jabu's room between versions - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2685-lol/ Event flags - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/2064-zelda-oot-event-flag-documentation-just-before-zelda/ Random Questions - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/1996-random-questions/ Odds and ends (Scene header commands, object filesize limit, text format) - https://www.the-gcn.com/topic/3003-collection-of-things-i-discovered-last-week/

Nah. Don't need to accidentally dirty my rom.

Tried this with V1.0 on PJ64 Can't get the first code to play any song other than the intro. Can't get the second code to play anything. Also the rupee counter increments are odd. Edit: Got the first code to work by resetting the emulator.

I browsed the code a bit for kicks, didn't find anything terribly odd.Found this gem in the board source though. {if(Prototype.Browser.IE){text=text.replace(/!!~~~~~~~~~~ie-sucks~~~~~~~~~~~~!!/g,"n");}

I don't think of scene flags as being event flags because they seem to only be accessed by the scene they belong to.

Odd thing I just read in another thread. "Also, dunno if you've ever heard about the thing where you pour the fish out on top of the steps in sacred forest meadow, and when you start the cutscene where you learn Saria's Song, the fish teleports onto Saria's lap, but would it be possible to find out if that was on purpose?"

They released the source? yep

I feel dumb. I just realized what was being set when leaving Gohma's warp. So 15E660 is the start of what's saved right? Well, 15E734 is the start of the perm scene flags, which is 1C bytes per scene, 101 scenes in the normal game, or a minimum range of 15E734 - 15F240. I still have yet to figure out if the debug scenes can save perm flags too but that's another deal Now these flags behave a little strange compared to event flags because they aren't read/written to directly. Instead, they are copied into a static working space when a scene loads and are only updated when the scene either changes or the game is saved. A few of your values fall into this range. The one set when leaving Gohma's room, 15E918, is the clear trigger for defeating Gohma. 15F080, 15F084, 15F08C Are actually Kokiri Forest Perm flags.

try installing direct x?

Personally I want to kick down PJ64's doors for making it impossible to build without buying the pro version of Visual Studio

What are you playing on btw.

Runnerguy is one of the the coolest OoT runners I know. Also, his YT channel once made cameo on CNN.

Actor:Variable0192:0001 Green Deku Scrub, (-662, -1880, -957) (0000, 0000, 0000)0192:0002 Green Deku Scrub, (-311, -1880, -904) (0000, 0000, 0000)0192:9C03 Green Deku Scrub, (-946, -1880, -767) (0000, 0000, 0000) This is how the 2 - 3 -1 deku scrubs are loaded. The last one probably sets a switch flag somehow with the 9C portion of the variable

/// <summary> /// Gets alternate setup count for scene files only /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public int GetHeaderCount() { ISMAsset start; ISMAsset end; end = (ISMAsset)this[HeaderCommands.AlternateHeaders]; if (this[HeaderCommands.PositionList] != null) start = (ISMAsset)this[HeaderCommands.PositionList]; else start = (ISMAsset)this[HeaderCommands.ObjectList]; return (int)(start.Offset - end.Offset)/4; }

What technically happens is you jump over the transition actor.

How do you calculate the CRC?