ROM Hack Okami HD. Find Timer or Position

[Arch Feline]

Okami HD. I want to hack the last race, Kai's race. I have gotten Sys-netcheat running. My first idea is to find the timer and freeze it. My second idea is to poke my position to the end of the course.

Sys-netcheat lets me search for a value.

I have not been able to find the timer. I am posting here on the hope a rom hacker can tell me how I should search. When I start the race I see 4:59. I think the timer starts at 0 seconds and counts up to 159 seconds. The game wiki says you have to beat 2 minutes 40 seconds.

What size is the timer?
Is timer set to zero when display is 4:59?
Does timer increment before or after the display?
Is my game loaded at a fixed address? Either the game is being loaded at different addresses or the searches are off the map.

Is anything known about position variables for Okami hd?

Is there an article I can read regarding layout of game memory after it is loaded?

 

[dsrules]

not sure man, don't see any race timer cheats for other game systems (ps2, wii, wiiu, etc...)

 

[Arch Feline]

I am still trying to find a counter for the race. There are multiple counters.
The time using celestial brush
The time not using the celestial brush
The length of time the AI takes for the race.
The faux time added by crystals.

I am trying now to find the counter for the faux time. How likely is it that the timer variables have the number as floating point or character?

I mean --- Say a crystal has added 30 faux seconds to the timer. instead of 30 there is 29.999999 and I need to search for 29.999999 instead of 30.

or for character - checking an ascii table 30 is rendered as hexidecimal 3330 which is 13104.

I do not think the 12104 is likely but the 29.999999? I am not making any headway. Do I need to search for 29.999999? I found this link for floating point. At least floating point numbers are 32 bits, there are sites which convert for you and I just use a conversion table for search value and do not sweat details like 30 or 29.999999.