Found something cool in CTDS through hacking or modding? Post it here!
Having recently discoverd that hacking ds saves and savestates won't work, I needed to find a way to cheat to access stuff at a whim.
One way I've discovered is Cheat Engine 5.4. It's a tool that examines and allows you to search and edit the running memory of any given program on your computer. In this case, I'm using No$GBA. The game's memory is fully searchable and editable within here. The first thing I found through a search is Crono's stats, and equipment.
I did a search for 70 HP and 08 MP, Crono's starting stats. Boom. Found it and edited it to my liking.
In No$GBA's memory section, Crono's HP and MP begin at address 0BD52A3B.
All kinds of neat search functions and technical stuff to play with in Cheat Engine 5.4, and it's free.
http://www.cheatengine.org/index.phpJust like searching for cheats in any snes emu, only a little different. This is how we are going to load up every monster, npc, playable character and unlockable.
We can post addresses of anything we find here.
Crono's other stats and equipment are right under his starting stats, by changing the next 20 bytes or so to random numbers, I had crono with all kinds of different stats and a dummied item or two equipped (the name of the items were actually "dummy", It's so cool they still use that term
).
What's neat is we have memory addresses from the SNES version, and can find and edit all of it.
What I've been successful at is looking at the SNES RAM while CT is running, copying a section of bytes and searching the No$GBA memory for the same string, and often I find exactly what I'm looking for, meaning some things are layed out exactly the same between the two games.
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Crono's weapon slot - 0BD52A66
Characters in your party - 0BE800A80 *06 is Magus and 07 is Epoch, nothing after that
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Scroll mask values - 0BC25D12
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