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Topic: just a curious question (Read 535 times)
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realworksuks
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« on: March 03, 2007, 05:49:25 pm » |
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I don't know a thing about romhacking, i've never tried it. I was just wondering if it would be possible to take an rpg and drastically cut the random battle rate down. Like make it so you only run into a random battle every minute or two. Would that be possible? If so how hard?
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hippiejake
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« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2007, 06:01:09 pm » |
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Probably not hard at all. Most games do something along the lines of this:
1) Get a random number by some algorithm.
2) If that number is less than[or maybe greater than] some specified number, trigger a battle.
If you can find the location of that number, which basically acts as the probability of a battle, you can change it so that fewer values will trigger a battle. It would take a little tracing, but nothing too hard.
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« Last Edit: March 03, 2007, 07:18:46 pm by hippiejake »
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Numonohi_Boi
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2007, 06:03:39 pm » |
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obviously you'll need to know some basic hacking stuff, but yeah if you can find it, its should be straightforward after that. Of course it always depends on the game.
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Gideon Zhi
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2007, 07:01:15 pm » |
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Other games use a step counter. They generate a random number when the overworld/dungeon loads, and count down every time you take a step. When it hits zero (or negative) you get into a fight.
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realworksuks
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2007, 09:49:18 pm » |
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hm, that'd be great to have the random battles in games chopped by about 1000 %. I wanted to play beyond the beyond, but there's simply too many boring random battles, the same goes for many games that I want to play.
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Nightcrawler
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« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2007, 04:03:31 pm » |
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It's an easy hack to do, however the hard part is FINDING that value. That's probably going to be hard without having the skills to use a debugger or trace file to figure out where it is. I don't think you'd fare very well being able to find it without some help from looking through the game code.
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realworksuks
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« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2007, 03:06:22 pm » |
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yes it seems beyond me, hm someday if I get some more ambition maybe i'll try to do some research. Do you think that'd even help?
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