ROM Hack Making a Game

[.::5pYd3r::.]

Hi I'm looking for some help to try creating a game for DS and i'm wondering where to start like what tools you need and how to do it and stuff so all help is appreciated (sorry if i didnt word it properly i'm not good at writing my thoughts down)

 

[Issac]

devkitarm (part of devkitpro) Go download it! (libnds should come along, you need it bad!)
some program to write c code in... (if you plan on doing it in c, like me) You can use notepad, or whatever flum...
and the command window... (cmd).

Not much more is needed actually!

Much info and help and tutorials at drunkencoders.com and gbadev.org

(the gbadev forum that is)

best of luck, and any more questions, go ahead

EDIT:

Okay, some basic info.. do you know c ? it helps quite a lot, but isn't that necessary if you know any other programming language since if you write your code in pseudo code, you can easily translate it all into which ever language you want, by looking it up in a c book for example. (you don't even have to know ANY language, but it will make it a bit harder.. not impossible though! But if you know some language, you will have some structure help probably..)
CODE... and then it should loop eight times, calculating 4 + x where x increases from 1 to 8...
TRANSLATE!
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for(x=0; x

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

Thanx alot Issac

 

[Issac]

updated it once again

now with a bit better info

 

[Heran Bago]

Issac, this board needs more awesome posters like yourself.

OP - I recommend PAlib in addition to ndslib/devkitpro. It really simplifies things if you're starting. There are even wonderful tutorials an samples.
www.palib.info

 

[Issac]

Issac, this board needs more awesome posters like yourself.

OP - I recommend PAlib in addition to ndslib/devkitpro. It really simplifies things if you're starting. There are even wonderful tutorials an samples.
www.palib.info

Aww thanks, and still barely anyone know who I am

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PAlib, I havn't used that one, so I can't comment on it, though I'm sure it's great

many libraries are great, but it's good to watch out so it wont get double declarations... (I remember when I played around with GBA in the beginning, writing the library myself... then using a premade one too.. and all sorts of errors since I had like: btnA and the library had button_a and linking to the same bit... aww it was not fun!

I have to check up on PAlib

 

[Flozem]

Though when that happens it's solved by merely placing the function "btnA = button_a" after loading the libraries. But yes, it can get confusing - had that happen to me making scripts for Neverwinter Nights PW's. It was always hell if you wanted to incorporate other people's code into your own core scripts.

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

thanx everyone just made one n0ob happy!