Main Site Updates

[FullOfFail]

Hello.

I've been adding a decent amount to the main site, and figured for the time-being, I'd make a thread dedicated to notifying the general public of what has been recently added. Everything is a W.I.P. and subject to change, of course.

Also, Note: I made this thread open to the public so I can get feedback. If you notice a outdated hack version, or a mislabeled doc, etc, please point it out.



HACKS:

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Full:

01. Super Metroid X Chapter 1 Investigation - h (reaper901)
02. Eternity - uh  [Kasel)

Half:

01. Blackout - uh (JAM)
02. Colors - h (After K)
03. emoD - uh (Toraichi)
04. Fantasy and Dazzle - h (backfire)
05. Intense - h (Eddy23911)
06. Kill Time - h (Stacy)
07. Super Hard Metroid - h (Crocomire)
08. Super Metroid Hard Modes - uh (JAM)
09. The Darkness Spreads 2 - h (Boostguardian)
10. Vino - uh (Cyclamen32)
11. Warfare - uh (Bolognab)
12. Dismet - uh (BloodSonic)
13. T-Metroid - h (kokoakki2)
14. GR2 Halfhack2 - uh (GR2)

Mini:

01. Few Room Hack - uh (Shadow34370)
02. Glitchtroid - h (ducknerd)
03. Hell - uh (YP)
04. Mindfuck - uh (Crys)
05. Perspective - uh (ZENE09)
06. Darkholme Hospital - uh (Cloud13)
07. Magma - uh (Boostguardian)
08. True Boss Rush - uh (KT_JDDD)
09. Containment - h  (reaper901)
10. Black Plague - uh (JamieWebb16)
11. Advent - uh (Shadow96)
12. Digital Cube - uh (Cloud13)

One Room:

01. Confinement - h (Bolagnab)
02. Landing Site Abuse - uh (Spoo)
03. Attack of the Rinkas - uh (pontarou)
04. Ultimate Challenge - h (Popple_Waffles)
05. Yonpi ks One Room - uh (Toraichi)
06. Ridleys Challenge - h (squishy_ichigo)
07. The One Room Hack - h (Digital_Mantra)

Overhaul:

01. Super Zero Mission - uh (SBniconico)
02. Rainbow City - uh (squishy_ichigo)
03. Z-Factor - uh (Metaquarius)
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DOCS:

[spoiler]
01. MetroidMst - Making New Rooms (.txt)
02. PJBoy - SPC Log (.txt)
03. PJBoy - Disassembly Log (.txt)
04. Grime - Enemy Animations (.rtf)
05. Grime - Samus' Animations
06. Red Monkey - Samus' Animations
07. DChronos - Animation ASM (.txt)
08. JAM - Beam Editing Guide (.txt)
09. Red Monkey - Kraid Animation Data (.txt)
10. Crashtour99 - HUD Disassembly (.txt)
11. JAM - HUD Hex Tweaks (.rtf)
12. MetroidMst - Item Names (.txt)
13. Red Monkey - Editing PLMs without ASM (.txt)
14. Metaqarius - Footstep Effects (.txt)
15. Sting Chameleon - Changing State Headers (.txt)
16. DChronos - DC's Workshop (.txt)
17. PJBoy - Misc. Notes (.rtf)
18. Grime - Boss Hex Edits (external link)
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HEX:

[spoiler]

Jumping, physics and controls

None.

Bombs, power bombs, morph ball and spring ball

None.

Beams and missiles

260DD - 05 to ?? (Regular)
264A6 - 05 to ?? (Chozo-Ball)
26977 - 05 to ?? (Shot-Block)
Expansion Pickups: Missiles

26102 - 05 to ?? (Regular)
264D8 - 05 to ?? (Chozo-Ball)
269AF - 05 to ?? (Shot-Block)
Expansion Pickups: Super Missiles

26127 - 05 to ?? (Regular)
2650A - 05 to ?? (Chozo-Ball)
269E7 - 05 to ?? (Shot-Block)
Expansion Pickups: Power Bombs

Speed booster

None.

Space jump

None.

Samus' ship

None.

Damage to Samus

A0EEE - 10 00 to ?? ??
Damage of Spike block with BTS 01 (Found By JAM)

A188A - 10 00 to ?? ??
Damage of Spike block with BTS 02 (Found By JAM)

A0F29 - 10 00 to ?? ??
Damage of Spike block with BTS 03 (Found By JAM)

8034A - 1E 00 to ?? ??
When player have health lower than this value, make Samus breathing heavily (with arm shaking) (Found By JAM)

86A83 - 1F 00 to ?? ??
When player have health lower than this value, health alarm sound is on. (Found By JAM)

87335 - 1F 00 to ?? ??
When player have health greater than this value or equal it, health alarm sound is off. (Found By JAM)

8E6D3 - 1F 00 to ?? ??
When player have health lower than this value when returning from pause screen, turn health alarm on. (Found By JAM)

37147 - 1E 00 to ?? ??
When player have sum of energy and reserve energy lower than this value or equal it, turn on subroutine that spawns more energy pickups. (Found By JAM)

3714C - 32 00 to ?? ??
When player have at least this energy and reserve energy, turn off subroutine that spawns more energy pickups. (Found By JAM)

37142 - 18 6D D6 09 to EA EA EA EA
Disable checking for reserve energy when triggers subroutine that spawns more energy pickups. (Found By JAM)

Enemies

MOCHTROID (enemy ID: DF9D)
A3A98F - 50 00 to ?? ??
50 00: Amount of frames it takes for a mochtroid to damage you. Low numbers = deadly, high numbers = harmless. Making mochtroids suck more makes them suck less. Suck less, and they suck more. :P (Found by DSO)

METROID (enemy ID: DFAB)
11EEE4 - 00 60 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Varia Suit. (Found By JAM)

11EEE9 - 00 30 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Varia Suit. (Might be a typo, maybe Gravity Suit???) (Found By JAM)

11EEEE - 00 C0 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Power Suit. (Found By JAM)

Notes: Don't know, how to explain this shortly. The above 3 values are used for internal counter that doesn't do damage. When counter is underflowed, samus takes damage.

11EF00 - 01 00 to ?? ??
How many energy to substract when Metroid damage counter is underflowed. (Found By JAM)

11EEAC - B0 to 80
Removes the changing palette to blue when Metroid suckles you. Player also can run away from Metroid like Mochtroid. (Found By JAM)

BLUE EYE (enemy ID: DE31)

1410E9 - 04 00
Item that will turn blue eye enemy on.
Bytes are reversed. Default is 04 00 (Morphing Ball) (Found by JAM)

1410E6 - A4 to A8
Type of item that will turn blue eye enemy on.
Change A4 to A8 to get activation from beam. Value is still at 1410E9. 04 00 will be Spazer.(Found by JAM)

Elevators and doors

23D58 - C9 00 02 F0 22 to EA EA EA EA EA
Prevents super missiles from opening red missile doors (found by JAM).

23D58 - 06 00 33 A8 to 24 87 B1 C4 (Green Right)
24231 - 06 00 63 A8 to 24 87 E2 C4 (Green Left)
24290 - 06 00 93 A8 to 24 87 13 C5 (Green Down)
242EF - 06 00 C3 A8 to 24 87 44 C5 (Green Up)
24351 - 06 00 F3 A8 to 24 87 B1 C4 (Red Right)
243B3 - 06 00 23 A9 to 24 87 E2 C4 (Red Left)
24415 - 06 00 53 A9 to 24 87 13 C5 (Red Down)
24477 - 06 00 83 A9 to 24 87 44 C5 (Red Up)
Above changes make missile doors change to standard blue doors after being unlocked. They require an extra hit to open (as a standard blue door)

HUD, pause screen and menus

11297 - 85 B1 to C6 B1
112C6 - 85 B1 to E6 B1
112D3 - 85 B1 to C6 B1
112E0 - 85 B1 to E6 B1
The pause screen map scrolls much more smoothly (found by DSO).

110CF - 22 4D 89 80 to EA EA EA EA
110DA - 0B to 00
11110 - 20 91 42 91 56 91 AB to 56 91 AB 91 31 92 42
11251 - AD 53 07 F0 to A9 03 00 80
12505 - 20 to 60
Disables the Map screen, goes directly to Status screen (Found by Scyzer)

FX1, graphics and other visual effects

45E54 - 0F to ??
Adjusts how far the "haze" FX1 extends from the bottom of the screen, as well as transparency? 00 = entire screen is covered with transparent haze color, 0F = standard, 1A = slightly noticable haze along the lower portion of the screen, etc. (found by Black Falcon)

59C98 - 88 to 93
Removes the greenish haze from the title screen (found by DChronos).

924D - 88 to 93
Removes the greenish haze from the game over screen (found by DChronos).

15490F - 22 to 6B
Removes the gray haze from the bomb Torizo's room, and allows you to use any other FX1 in place of it. Easiest way to do this is to use another Crateria room's FX1 pointer after you change 22 to 6B (found by Sadiztyk Fish).

80264 - 04 to 05
80269 - FF to 0F
Changes the graphic animation when Samus touches the surface of acid from steam(?) to bubbles (found by Black Falcon).

Miscellaneous

855C9 = 33 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) You can perform Crystal Flash when your energy is below this value. (Found by JAM)

855D0 = D0 18 to EA EA
(Crystal Flash) Disable reserve energy checking. Now you can use Crystal Flash even with full reserve tanks. (Found by JAM)

855D6 - 0A 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) You can perform Crystal Flash when you have this amount of missiles or greater. (Found by JAM)

855DE - 0A 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) You can perform Crystal Flash when you have this amount of super missiles or greater. (Found by JAM)

855E6 - 0A 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) You can perform Crystal Flash when you have this amount of missiles or greater. (Found by JAM)

856EF - 32 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) How many health to add when burning missile. (Found by JAM)

85712 - 32 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) How many health to add when burning super missile. (Found by JAM)

85735 - 32 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) How many health to add when burning power bomb. (Found by JAM)

8564C - 0A 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) How many missiles to burn. (Found by JAM)

85720 - 0A 00 to ?? ??
(Crystal Flash) How many power bombs to burn. (Found by JAM)

5E00E - 03 to ??
5E1E4 - 03 to ??
5E27A - 03 to ??
5E2E8 - 03 to ??
5E329 - 03 to ??
5E370 - 03 to ??
If player have ending time in hours lower this value, show the best ending. (Found by JAM)

5E1E9 - 0A to ??
5E2ED - 0A to ??
5E375 - 0A to ??
5F559 - 0A to ??
5F59B - 0A to ??
5F5BE - 0A to ??
If player have ending time in hours greater or equal this value, show the worst ending. (Found by JAM)

5E00B - E0 to DE
5E1E1 - E0 to DE
5E277 - E0 to DE
5E2E5 - E0 to DE
5E326 - E0 to DE
5E36D - E0 to DE
5F3D6 - E0 to DE
5F556 - E0 to DE
5F598 - E0 to DE
5F5BB - E0 to DE
Change checking for hours to checking for minutes when showing ending. Should be useful for mini-hacks. (Found by JAM)

156777 - 4A 17 to ?? ??
(Wrecked Ship Chozo Statue) Change 4A 17 to ?? ?? to change position of Silver Chozo "hand" in Wrecked Ship. X coordinate is the first byte, Y coordinate is the second byte. (Found by JAM)

25160 - 08 to ??
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Change 08 to ?? to change Y position of Golden Chozo "hand" in Norfair. (Found by JAM)

2516B - 04 to ??
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Change 04 to ?? to change X position of Golden Chozo "hand" in Norfair. (Found by JAM)

15679D - 0C 1D to ?? ??
251DA - 0C 1D to ?? ??
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Change 0C 1D to ?? ?? to change position of plug that will be removed when the acid is lowered. (Found by JAM)

7B1F8 - 6A to 7A
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Change 6A to 7A to be able to change liquid level, it's lowering speed etc. and SMILE. When done, change it back. (Found by JAM)

25156 - D2 02 to ?? ??
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Change D2 02 to ?? ?? to change liquid level in Golden Chozo room after re-entering it. (Found by JAM)

25181 - 83 to 08
A1149 - 2F 86 to DA D6
(Norfair Chozo Statue) To make Golden Chozo works in every area. (Found by JAM & Kej)

25193 - 00 02 to ?? ??
(Norfair Chozo Statue) Item needed to activate lower Norfair Chozo.
00 02 is default (Space Jump). Change it to 04 00 to activate in any way. Well, actually, 04 00 is a Morphing Ball's value, but you can't activate it if you can't morph anyway. (Found by JAM)

137779 - 90 to 80
No screen shake at all when escaping Ceres. (Found by Grime)

13764C - 30 to ??
13765E - 30 to ??
Distance from Samus that Ceres doors open/close. (Found by Grime)

8EF07 - 8D to 01
Can't turn around while xraying, EA also disables sounds. (Found by Flamestar666)

4078A - 0A to 00
Disable xray startup animation. (Found by Flamestar666)

8D2D6 - 00 00 to FF FF
Prevents x-ray from revealing any blocks. (Found by Kejardon/Black_Falcon)

28491 - 68 01 to ?? ??
Time for how long the message box stays open. (Found by Black_Falcon)
NOTE: The ROM value is reversed so 68 01 is actually 0168 which means the box stays open for 168 frames in hex (time for the 'aquired item' fanfare).

4078A - 0A to ??
This is how long the X-ray's beam takes to widen before you can move it around. Obviously 00 is very helpful, as the beam appears instantly. (Found by Quietus)

4079A - 0A to ??
This is the width of the beam itself. This goes up to 40, which effectively X-ray's the entire screen in front of Samus, but going higher glitches. (Found by Quietus)

16EDA - 1E to 1F
When starting a brand new save file ("no data"), Samus immediately begins at the Crateria landing site after "start game" is selected, instead of displaying the area and map screens. For this to work, the "hide intro" box must be UNchecked in SMILE. (Found by Webber)
NOTE: Only works when "No Data" is selected, loading saved files will still display maps)

43446 - 22 CB 90 80 to EA EA EA EA
Disable Lava sound effects. (Found by DSO)

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Note: JAM takes care of the Patches section, so if you need anything related to that, you should PM him.

Feedback / Criticisms are welcomed.

Laters.

[Quietus]

Nice to see some updates. :^_^:

For a slight addition, where you have:

Elevators and doors

23D58 - C9 00 02 F0 22 to EA EA EA EA EA
Prevents super missiles from opening red missile doors (found by JAM).

I'm fairly certain that this also prevents Super Missiles from destroying the eye doors as well.

[squishy_ichigo]

Overhaul:
02. Rainbow City - uh (squishy_ichigo)

Something seems wrong here...

[FullOfFail]

I'm fairly certain that this also prevents Super Missiles from destroying the eye doors as well.

I'll test it out, and note it the tweak desc. sometime soon.

Something seems wrong here...

I just went by the way Qactis had them categorized in his hack collection folder awhile back. Rainbow City is pretty awesome in execution though, I think it deserves to be there. It's a demonstration of all the aspects that can be altered visually. Good inspiration for newer hackers.

[squishy_ichigo]

I was referring more to the fact that it was never completed, and probably never will be. However, if you are linking the alpha test version, I think it should be labeled as such.

Hmmm, upon further inspection, the main site labels it demo, it was just your shoddy typemanship that threw me off. :P

[JAM]

11EEE4 - 00 60 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Varia Suit. (Found By JAM)

11EEE9 - 00 30 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Varia Suit. (Might be a typo, maybe Gravity Suit???) (Found By JAM)

11EEEE - 00 C0 to ?? ??
Damage of Metroid per frame in subhealth units when in Power Suit. (Found By JAM)

Notes: Don't know, how to explain this shortly. The above 3 values are used for internal counter that doesn't do damage. When counter is underflowed, samus takes damage.

Maybe health subunits then? How else explain heat damage, for example? It's subunits per frame: $4000 subunits = 0.25 units. 0.25 units * 60 frames = 15 damage units per second.
Even gravity is measured in subunits. $0000.1C00 (pixels per frame).

[Quietus]

I don't think FullOfFail was pointing out the use of 'subhealth units', but pointing out that both of the first two entries have different addresses, but the same description - Varia Suit.  Is one of them supposed to be the Gravity Suit?

[FullOfFail]

I don't think FullOfFail was pointing out the use of 'subhealth units', but pointing out that both of the first two entries have different addresses, but the same description - Varia Suit.  Is one of them supposed to be the Gravity Suit?

Yeah.

The only thing I added was the "(Might be a typo, maybe Gravity Suit???)" And, at the bottom, where it says "Notes:...", that was something JAM wrote.

I think JAM forgot he wrote that and got confused.

Anyway, I can try to change the description a bit, if you want JAM.

[JAM]

The only thing I added was the "(Might be a typo, maybe Gravity Suit???)" And, at the bottom, where it says "Notes:...", that was something JAM wrote.

I think JAM forgot he wrote that and got confused.

Anyway, I can try to change the description a bit, if you want JAM.

Ahh... Of course, it's a Gravity Suit (second tweak with value of 0030).



By the way, patch section is updated. I've added all the patches posted in collaboration stuff topic from August 2012 to current moment, including 2 "lost" patches (posted long time ago, but not uploaded):
•Variable solid + non-solid blocks by Scyzer
•Super Missile fix v1.2 (with BRA $28 bug already fixed) by Kejardon

If you have a patch that in not on the main site now (and you want it to be on main site), please let me know.

[Quote58]

Well, it seems you've included me twice in the patches section.
When updating I guess you forgot that I already had the fusion gfx up.
Don't bother fixing it just yet though, I'll have more stuff to post soon so you can just put them all together at that point.

[JAM]

Shadow96
Oops... My fault. I will fix it during the next update with adding a few patches (where there'll be any)

[FullOfFail]

Bump for relevance.

So, I'm going to update the site again. Eventually the site will have a make-over via Vismund, which is why it's been held off, but then I realized it'll all have to be in the repository anyway and decided to go ahead and get it up to date. This is just a easier way to divide the work up. That all said, I haven't really been around/paying full attention to what's been released for the last 6 months or so, and wanted to make sure I included everything. Here's what I have so far:

[spoiler=To Be Added Hacks]
Full:
Escape2
Hydellius

Half:
Patience

Mini:
HISHE [not sure if this should be, but for archive purposes I'll add it]
Ridley's Revenge (Prime Hunter)

One Room:
None

Winter Solstice:
Ice Returns
SMCompetition [+SMNonCompetition]
So Little Items
Sunshine Oddity

Mini-Contest Tourney
[Not sure how to handle this just yet.]
Week 2:
Adam's Hack (Jefe)
Celestriuas III
Spikes!!!
Retro Dust[/spoiler]

Important!

If you have a completable hack, and it isn't on that list, please either send me a pm, or link it here and I'll add it. I'll also give the Japanese sites another look-over before proceeding.

I'll also be adding more Docs, and Hex, but that should be easier to dig up (for the most part).

Edit: Also note this list is subject to change, make sure to double-check it before letting me know a hack needs to be added.

Laterz.

[Retroo]

a name for my hack Retro Dust there you go

[Quietus]

Are you just looking at stuff for Super?  If not, then Incursion was also released.

[FullOfFail]

Someone brought up the subject of Metroid 1 hacks the other day, and I'm just not sure how to add them yet. Eventually when the site gets redesigned, we can have a much more fluent categorization system, but I'm not sure it's ready for it yet. I'd also need to know how many and what hacks I'd be adding, as to I know nothing about them and this creates a entire different list. We'll also have to have a section for the others, like Zero-Mission and Fusion, just to be fair and all. I'll chat with some people, we'll get it ironed-out.

[personitis]

Eventually when the site gets redesigned, we can have a much more fluent categorization system,

I'll restate my thought that way it's stamped somewhere: use a tagging system to organize things on the main site.

[Vismund Cygnus]

So, FoF mentioned that the site will be getting a pretty new makeover soon enough (that is, when I have the time/energy to work on it). Chances are, the actual appearance of the site will remain similar if not identical. I probably should have posted this here and seen what feedback I got from everyone, but I didn't even think about it to be honest. So here it is, in all its MS Paint glory:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
I'd prefer that any feedback came to me through PM, if only to keep this relatively clutter free. Alternatively a separate topic could be made for main site ideas if the demand is there.

Lots of love, Vismund.

[FullOfFail]

Just wanted to mention I updated the site earlier. Here's a list of the hacks I added. Also have a few misc things I'll add in the near future. I don't feel well and need to take a break for awhile, but if anyone mentions any mistakes I made or new patches, I'll take care of it. Laters.

[personitis]

As stupid as this sounds, I don't consider Evac to be complete. That said, if we had a better submission system, I wouldn't have submitted it. I'm not saying our current one (submission topic on the forum) is bad or even flawed, but there is the issue of no one using it and leaving it up to those who can access the main site to crawl around the forums and find would-be submissions. :neutral:

[Metaquarius]

It's nitpicking but -Ice Returns- was made by Crys AND me... -Sunshine Oddity- was made by Vismund AND Quote58 I think too. Since the hack page is being remade currently, make sure proper credit is given (when the info is available of course)

I don't feel well and need to take a break for awhile

Take care of yourself then come back when you can :^_^:

[Smiley]

More nitpicking! You should have SMCompetition under the Winter solstice category and SMNonCompetition under minihacks, since they're technically different hacks.

[Quote58]

It's nitpicking but -Ice Returns- was made by Crys AND me... -Sunshine Oddity- was made by Vismund AND Quote58 I think too. Since the hack page is being remade currently, make sure proper credit is given (when the info is available of course)

I don't feel well and need to take a break for awhile

Take care of yourself then come back when you can :^_^:

As well, So little collab was made by mst AND vismund

[FullOfFail]

Alright, went ahead and did all that was asked. Hopefully everything is all fixed now.


Also, I felt like making a video of the most mundane task, so I did. Here's me reorganizing the interior of the hacks page. It became too long, and I had to clean it up.

[spoiler]http://youtu.be/TJLdx29wIp0?list=UUB63xuMydpgC9dW2e1akUrA[/spoiler]

See you all later.

[JAM]

FullOfFail
You don't added the old hacks I sent to you like Maridia-Norfair, Super Metroid II, Rebuild 3 and 4 and such, don't you? Should I add them to the site?

By the way. I have ideas for the new categories. Tell me guys, what do you think.


Micro hacks
The new category was born this year. Starting from a hack named HISHE by Scyzer.
HISHE, Evacuation and Green Peace are micro hacks.

Well, the description is "Something you can pass in less than 100 seconds". Yes, we have One Room hacks, but Evacuation is a One Room hack, HISHE is not. But both hack can be cleared in 100 seconds, as I mentioned. Besides of that, there is One Room hacks with tough challenge, which you could clear in about 5 minutes or so.


Vanilla hacks
We have a lot of Half hacks. Should we make Vanilla as an unique category?

[Quietus]

I'm not so sure about micro hacks.  Perhaps just having a miscellaneous or novelty category, without any restriction like time.  Your own Blackout, for example, is still the size of the original game, but has the novel feature of being dark.