Pokemon FireRed ROM Hacking: A Blog

Hey all, welcome to the final installment of the blog. In this post, I will be going over everything we have accomplished throughout the blog's history, running the edited game for myself, and discussing a bit about the future of ROM hacking. To begin, I want to reiterate that this is the first time I have ever attempted ROM hacking. I am no prodigy when it comes to this medium; there are countless ROM hacks out there that make the work I have accomplished look like a teaspoon of water in the Pacific Ocean. This blog was a learning exercise for myself, and I wanted to convey what I had learned to you , dear reader. Though I have covered a fair deal of ground in hacking Pokemon FireRed, I have hardly scratched the surface in the sheer amount of depth and effort that goes into ROM hacking. Although development in hacking the game could be difficult and even aggravating at times - getting Snappy to work and adjusting my MIDI instruments took me hours to complete and figure out - i

Hey all, for today's post, I'm going to be looking at the XSE application for the Generation III Pokemon games on the Game Boy Advance. XSE is short for Xtreme Script Editor and was developed by a Pokemon hacker by the name of HackMew . The user has since retired from ROMhacking. The link to download XSE is included in my initial blog post, but, for the sake of convenience, you can download it from here as well. As today's tutorial will involve editing scripts in the game, I recommend downloading a hex editing program to use alongside XSE. I will be using HxD since I have used the application before on another game (Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition on the PC). In this post, we are going to create a very simple script. This script will allow us to interact with an NPC and give us some dialogue. First, open up XSE using the Pokemon Game Editor program we used in the first few posts. Be sure to load your ROM alongside it. If you click on "Format" in the top l