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Graphics > Possible to edit graphics in roms?

#8090 - Kagato Obsidian - Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:45 pm

I'm looking to edit the graphics stored inside of a GBA rom. I know that in the past with older consoles, it was possible to decompile the rom, edit the graphics, and recompile the rom with the new graphics - basically I'm looking for a how-to on how to do this for the GBA.

Thanks for all the help.

#8097 - sgeos - Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:16 am

Kagato Obsidian wrote:
I'm looking to edit the graphics stored inside of a GBA rom. I know that in the past with older consoles, it was possible to decompile the rom, edit the graphics, and recompile the rom with the new graphics - basically I'm looking for a how-to on how to do this for the GBA.


If the GFX are not compressed, locating them in the ROM is easy. Find them in VRAM, and then search for that byte sequence in the ROM with your favorite hex editor.

-Brendan

#8105 - tepples - Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:26 am

Last time this was discussed on forum.gbadev.org: here.
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#8124 - Kagato Obsidian - Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:23 pm

I seen that post - but it only deals with extracting them - once they're extracted, I wouldn't know how to put them back in. I did read that topic before posting though.