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Quick Question!

Open OlivesGalore opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

I've used plenty of roms before, but I'm extremely new to the world of gba game modding. I'm wondering how I need to edit the buildfile text to enable or disable features?

Should I be entering a 1 or a 0 somewhere along the way? I already tried deleting lines of features on the buildfile .txt, but upon playing the game, features weren't enabled at all.

Thank you for your help!

OlivesGalore avatar Sep 07 '20 21:09 OlivesGalore

In the Event Assembler syntax "//" denotes the start of a comment, some features in the "ROM Buildfile.event" file start commented like that and some others do not.

If you want a feature to be included you just need to make sure it's not commented out, if you want to exclude it you should comment it out (or delete the line, but that's going to be confusing if you want to enable it in the future).

Once you've done that you need to rebuild, which you can do by following the build instructions: https://github.com/LeonarthCG/FFTA_Engine_Hacks#build-instructions

An issue you might find after doing this is that the game appears to be vanilla, most of the time this happens because you've opened the original ROM instead of the output ROM, or (and this is way more confusing to people) because your emulator is set to automatically apply .ups patches to ROMs, applying an .ups patch over a ROM that already has those changes has the effect of reverting them, so by auto-patching the modified ROM you end up with a vanilla ROM!

I'm leaving this open so you can let me know if that solved your issue, or if you have other questions.

LeonarthCG avatar Oct 07 '20 21:10 LeonarthCG