ROM Hack PSSE - Pokemon Shuffle Save Editor

[pbanj]

I changed the release a bit & uploaded a new .exe, can you tell me if it works better ?

https://github.com/supercarotte/PSSE/releases/tag/v1.2.1-beta2

that works

 

[supercarotte]

that works

Glad to hear it ! It appears what I first uploaded was a "debug" build while this one is a "release" build. Idk what's the difference but I should remember that it exists for my next release ^^

 

[Scrub Lord]

I changed the release a bit & uploaded a new .exe, can you tell me if it works better ?

https://github.com/supercarotte/PSSE/releases/tag/v1.2.1-beta2

It doesn't work for me same issue as the other guy. Doesn't even open.

 

[nic0lette]

It doesn't work for me same issue as the other guy. Doesn't even open.

Can you run it from the command line and see if it spits something out there?

 

[Scrub Lord]

Can you run it from the command line and see if it spits something out there?

How do I do it? I'm a total noob, as my name and number of posts makes obvious

 

[supercarotte]

How do I do it? I'm a total noob, as my name and number of posts makes obvious

Press Windows+R, type "cmd" and press enter. Drag your .exe file into the command window and press enter again.

 

[Scrub Lord]

Did it, but got nothing.

 

[Scrub Lord]

So, since I'm getting nothing atm from this .exe , I'm trying to erase it from my desktop so I can make some space. However, I cannot even delete it; it says the action cannot be completed because it is open in system (not those words exactly: my notebook is set to portuguese so I don't really know how it'd say that in english)
I tried to find the thing in the system manager so I could close it, but I can't even find it there. PC is Windows 10 64 bits. What might be going on??

 

[ccfman2004]

Even works in Windows XP so not sure why you can't get it to work. I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine to run some old software that doesn't work in Windows 7. I don't use Windows XP for my main OS. I mostly use Mac OS.

 

[supercarotte]

So, since I'm getting nothing atm from this .exe , I'm trying to erase it from my desktop so I can make some space. However, I cannot even delete it; it says the action cannot be completed because it is open in system (not those words exactly: my notebook is set to portuguese so I don't really know how it'd say that in english)
I tried to find the thing in the system manager so I could close it, but I can't even find it there. PC is Windows 10 64 bits. What might be going on??

It should be opened as "Pokemon Shuffle Save Editor" in task manager. I'm sorry it doesn't work for you but I've no idea why right now, even after a good night of sleep.

Maybe try downloading it again & mess with the compability options (right clic > Properties > Compability tab)

Even works in Windows XP so not sure why you can't get it to work. I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine to run some old software that doesn't work in Windows 7. I don't use Windows XP for my main OS. I mostly use Mac OS.

Does that mean it doesn't work on your win 7 ? My gosh it seems that it definitely won't work... I should probably make a pull request and let nic0lette take care of the .exe generation.

 

[Grim Ripper]

v1.2.1 beta 2 works with my classroom pc.

Windows 7 home premium 32bit
Pentium 4
1gb RAM


I'll try later when i return home but i'm sure it'll work there too.

 

[ccfman2004]

Does that mean it doesn't work on your win 7 ? My gosh it seems that it definitely won't work... I should probably make a pull request and let nic0lette take care of the .exe generation.

I didn't try it in Windows 7. I'd have to reboot my Mac and I didn't want to do that.

As a side note, the original 1.1 version runs fine on my Mac through CrossOver but not the 1.2.1 beta 2 for some reason, it just crashes.

 

[Smynos]

It looks like the versions of PSSE creates - when they first run - a directory resources in the directory where the .exe file is. And it populates the directory resources with several .bin files.
Now when you did run PSSE 1.1 you will already have a resources directory with older .bin files in it and when you run PSSE 1.2.1-beta2 in the same directory where the .exe of PSSE 1.1 lies it tries to use the resources from 1.1 and this fails and it crashes.
You should always create a new directory for every verison of PSSE.
Then this problem will not occur.

For example I have created the following directories:

PSSE_1.0
PSSE_1.1
PSSE_1.2.1-beta2

And then copied the .exe file from each version into the directory for each version.
And I don't have any problem so far to start each version of PSSE.

 

[supercarotte]

It looks like the versions of PSSE creates - when they first run - a directory resources in the directory where the .exe file is. And it populates the directory resources with several .bin files.
Now when you did run PSSE 1.1 you will already have a resources directory with older .bin files in it and when you run PSSE 1.2.1-beta2 in the same directory where the .exe of PSSE 1.1 lies it tries to use the resources from 1.1 and this fails and it crashes.
You should always create a new directory for every verison of PSSE.
Then this problem will not occur.

For example I have created the following directories:

PSSE_1.0
PSSE_1.1
PSSE_1.2.1-beta2

And then copied the .exe file from each version into the directory for each version.
And I don't have any problem so far to start each version of PSSE.

Oh yeah, why didn't I think of this sooner ! That's right that PSSE 1.2 uses different resources files (namely those from 1.3.6 version of the game, I extracted the 1.3.7 files but they didn't change much so it'll come with the next release) and crashes if you attempt to launch it with the 1.1 resources files.

Unfortunately I don't see a way of checking if the files are too old without removing the possibility of updating them manually (which is their purpose in the first place), so just remember to clean the resource folder before using another version of PSSE ^^

 

[Scrub Lord]

Wow! I did what Smynos said and it worked!! Thank you all very much for the help!!!
Now I'll try to do whatever changes I need in my savefile and see if everything goes ok

 

[Scrub Lord]

Working fine now, just imported a modified save and everything went well.

 

[supercarotte]

Quick update : fixed PSSE not updating exp values when changing a level. I had to add a 6th .bin file for this, pokemonLevel.bin, that contains the total exp values needed to get to each level depending on base power (it's file #13 in the game's config tables). That's in my latest commit if you want to check it out.

 

[Madridi]

Quick update : fixed PSSE not updating exp values when changing a level. I had to add a 6th .bin file for this, pokemonLevel.bin, that contains the total exp values needed to get to each level depending on base power (it's file #13 in the game's config tables). That's in my latest commit if you want to check it out.

You did it? Really?

Is that in the latest commit that we have to build ourselves, or in the latest release?

 

[Madridi]

Any instructions on how to compile and what's required. I assumed it would've had a make file or something..

 

[nic0lette]

Any instructions on how to compile and what's required. I assumed it would've had a make file or something..

If you have a Windows PC then you can compile it with Visual Studios -- I was using 2013, IIRC, but I think you can also use 2015 if you have Windows 10? It should be free for the community edition which is all you need.

If you want to build it on a Mac you can use Xamarin Studio, but if you do want to do that there's a bit of code that has to be added because of a bug in their implementation of Windows Forms (which aren't supported any longer so they aren't interested in fixing it).

In either case you just open the "solution" file (Pokemon Shuffle Save Editor.sln) and use "run".

If you're interested in always running the latest, because you're really hardcore into testing bleeding edge, then you can attach to supercarotte's github project and pull the latest code whenever he adds something and then re-run it.

That being said, @supercarotte forgot to push pokemonLevel.bin so no one (aside from him) can compile the code right now