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Posted on 05-11-11, 11:51 pm


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Id like to know if anyone agrees with my method. (Feel free to disregard it as im not accomplished...yet)
ID think to begin reversing, Identify rtl functions.Then global variables, wich can be figured out eventualy as I reverse. Then, i think to work on finding vtables for classes and identifiying other data structures. Then, work on members and any functions they lead to, while trying to peice together all the data I found in the earlyer step. Then I think I should work on other peices of code that you haven't found. (btw, ive never actualy writen a hack, so...)Wat do you do mega-mario?
Posted on 05-12-11, 06:40 pm
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I look at the data I want to hack and try to find patterns in it. Some pieces of data have obvious purpose, other not. In the latter case, I usually try modifying the data slightly and look what happens.

Also, moved the thread to misc. ROM hacking.
Posted on 05-12-11, 07:29 pm


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Do you think my tequeneque would work well?
also, ive tried your way but im not skilled enough to do it
Posted on 05-12-11, 10:17 pm
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Of course. Treeki [author of Reggie! and other cool stuff related to NSMB Wii] uses similar techniques, and he does amazing things.

Oh, and yeah. I also happen to look at ASM code, when the simpler method I exposed above fails. But it's more work, and I'm lazy
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