ROM Hack Question is it possible? (To mod Terraria)

[Eeveekid]

to mod terraria on switch


i know it cane out like a week ago
but it cant hurt to ask

 

[linuxares]

Please don't make clickbait titles.

 

[Eeveekid]

Please don't make clickbait titles.

sorry bput that

 

[linuxares]

sorry bput that

It's fine, a lot of people get annoyed by it. I've took the liberty to edit the title. However modding Terraria sounds plausible however. But I'm not the right guy for it :/

 

[Eeveekid]

It's fine, a lot of people get annoyed by it. I've took the liberty to edit the title. However modding Terraria sounds plausible however. But I'm not the right guy for it :/

thanks for the edit

 

[Falo]

Terraria on Switch uses the Unity Engine + il2cpp, the PC version uses the XNA engine.
Porting mods is not possible, since most PC mods depend on big code modifications to enable mod loaders.

It is possible to mod it, but it is 1000 times more complicated then on PC.
I did port some of the PC cheats via cheat codes, but these are only small code changes.

 

[linuxares]

Terraria on Switch uses the Unity Engine + il2cpp, the PC version uses the XNA engine.
Porting mods is not possible, since most PC mods depend on big code modifications to enable mod loaders.

It is possible to mod it, but it is 1000 times more complicated then on PC.
I did port some of the PC cheats via cheat codes, but these are only small code changes.

Wow they rebuilt the whole game?!

 

[Eeveekid]

Wow they rebuilt the whole game?!

no wonder it took so long

 

[fvig2001]

Hopefully the next major/final update of Terraria won't take long to be ported on the Switch then.

 

[masagrator]

Yup, even localization files are rebuilt and are not compatible with PC & Android version.

Textures are more complicated to modify as they are stored in ResS blobs, when in assets are only info about where in this blob texture is (but it's possible to modify, FF IX Crunched Moguri Mod is a proof).
And adding anything additional is very hard when you don't have DLLs in Unity game.

 

[Imatra]

Possible? Yes.
Easy? Definitely not.

Terraria on Switch was coded from scratch in Unity (which imo is a great move due to the performance increase Unity brings in) and since it's a Switch game it doesn't use the "standard" file structure for Unity (including DLL files). Modding the game would be possible after countless hours of debugging, file-digging, dealing with ress blobs etc. Unless somebody has a shit ton of time (and patience!) on their hands, I seriously doubt that we will ever get any bigger mods for Terraria.