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Quote from: KaioShin on December 04, 2006, 04:37:43 pm
Pointers do what the name suggests, they point to something. If change the pointer for string a to string b's address string b will be displayed when the game would display string a otherwise (ten points if you can understand that sentence!). This works the same for level data, music, game locations, sprites, whatever type of data you can think of.
I get ten points. I understand. I keep overlooking the fact that Rom Hacking is kinda like Rearrangement programming... Except much harder than some of the popular programming languages. Ok, so pointers point to something. Easy. It's not limited to "warping/ teleporting" but to just about anything. Kinda like my e-mail address is a pointer pointing towards me.
