DKC Atlas Forum

UPDATED! See link! https://www.romhacking.net/news/3122/ RainbowSprinklez sent me some messages a few months ago and long story short - with the power of teamwork now the bugs have been ironed out and the full release is here. All levels are beatable and bonus levels too. Happy to have a true full r...

3's the best in my opinion but 2 comes very close.

STripper proved extremely useful! I ripped all the DKC3 tilesets and just submitted them to Spriters Resource.
dkcomp will come in handy with hacking the games, I'm glad we have a no-bullshit command line tool finally

that was insanely good

Take your time, it would make no sense to rush it out and make something you're not satisfied with and end up burnt out. We've got all the time in the world, and after all this is only a no-profit hobby to you – the lone developer. Everyone here appreciates your efforts, so please only spend as much...

I see. Not a big deal really – a clever map designer can circumvent this limitation anyway by designing the map parts just the right way. One more thing; can you edit the level layer mode properties? The caves, for example, have the standard 4bpp level tiles and a 4bpp background plus an additional ...

Sounds like a solid plan!

Myself086 wrote:- No up/down screen transition.

I'm not sure what you mean by this though.. are you talking about the brief fade out/in effect when you cross the map border, like from Reptile Rumble?

Your attitude sounds very professional, determined and inspiring. Keep up the good work! I'm a Mac user, yes. Generally Mono apps works just fine, but the most common bugs are with Windows-related GUI things, I think. Usually ranging from "that doesn't look right" to downright abrupt crash...

Sounds great You should also note that the format used in the world maps' tilemaps is (likely) the same that is used in every other tilemap as well – the game over screen, the title screen image, the 'choose a file' dialog, the "copyright 199X Nintendo" screen and the "Nintendo presen...

Speaking of files, what are all the files that get exported in the end? I'm thinking • levels* • sprites* • palettes • tilemaps • overworld maps* • banana formations? • individual SPC songs? • credits/dialogue/level names? *) There's probably no one-file solution because "levels" alone are...

The Rom is now 8mb instead of 4mb, the editor no longer edits the Rom directly but instead you create a project with independent source files that get compiled into the Rom. This is very good news! I was just thinking about this the other day and wished that more editors did this. Especially Game B...

Sounds absolutely amazing. Great job!

The link has now been fixed!

Cody wrote:"mirror mode"

It's very possible such an emulator exists, although I haven't heard about it.. I might be remembering things wrong, but isn't there a keyboard command in Windows to flip the display horizontally? That could work, haha

Great job, Quaraage!
Do you think it would be better to leave a script editor as-is, giving the user full access to writing bytes, or make a pseudo-language/mnemonic interpreter?

Full access to entity scripts seems like a holy grail in DKC hacking. With what we have now (dkedit, dkcre) it feels wasteful seeing a huge list of sprites that are only marginally different but being unable to actually edit those subtle differences. I can choose a barrel that shoots 5 tiles upright...

Looks super! :krool: Keep us updated! I've never been into open sourcing my code but maybe I'll change my mind. Well, it's your code so you have no obligation to share it with anyone, but for the benefit of the collective, Open Source projects are always better :swanky: Also, maybe a clipboard/scrat...

Sounds great! Some requests: • Edit level length • Map editor (edit paths, level names, level destinations and the map tiles themself. Maybe a single 256x224 image importer that auto-calculates palette/attribute bytes using Superfamiconv ?) • Numeric input access for sprites/bananas/scroll boxes. • ...

I somewhat attempted this a few years ago but gave up once I realized how much effort it'd take to accomplish even changing Jungle Hijinxs. Doing the scripts wasn't particularly difficult, so much of the heavy lifting was automatic. I can imagine how painful it could be if you tried to do it by han...

this is a cross-post from romhacking.net forums Download here: ckd.ips The patch is for an unheadered US 1.0 ROM. I was greatly inspired by SMILEuser96's Super Metroid Rotation and I've been working on this for some time now. In a nutshell, this hack flips all the levels in Donkey Kong Country hori...

Great job!! The screenshots and videos look amazing. Keep up the good work.

Also - regarding your texture work, just thought you might like to know that the typeface used extensively in Donkey Kong Country is Gill Sans (Ultra/Extra) Bold.

Mac user problems... Are there some dependencies or pre-existing things I must have installed when running DKCRE? I've tried running the program through WINE in multiple bottles and versions and I even installed a Virtual Machine running Windows 7 in which I tried multiple compatibility options in t...

Wow. This has insane potential! Haven't tried it yet, but especially the Sprite Editor looks amazing. Is there any chance for automatic tile parsing for sprites? Like, you could import a sprite and it would auto-calculate the optimal tile size and tile count and re-arrange them to take as little spa...

SNEScentral is implying you're a scammer - do you think you can provide any proof that your cart is legit? I'm interested in the EPROMs but I'm not holding my breath.

Do you think you could share the EPROM shards with us via Dropbox or something? This seems like extremely important and valuable data.

Lastly, the fine folks at Assemblergames know a lot about ROM dumping and related topics, maybe they can help better than us.

I don't know if this should deserve its own topic, you know, being really useful for making custom sprites for the DKC series, but bear with me: This is a direct quote from BullockDS, from The Spriters Resource: Source As a forum with many talented spriters, I'm surprised I haven't seen this been di...

I want to put the Boss Rush games into an arcade cabinet. Now that's interesting. I don't think it's possible to turn a console ROM into an arcade ROM, with the actual "insert coin" message and coin chamber triggers. Is there? Modifying a string is fairly trivial, as would be "trigge...

well, since all 2bpp backgrounds are 256px high and the level height is 512, I padded the missing top 128px a with blue and the bottom 128px with black. This is the result. Opinions, guys? http://i.imgur.com/Ze8Rpcs.png more accurate, yes . more appealing, ... ? But nagging aside, DAMN those CSS3 an...

Can't really comment on the issue here, but testing your hacks on ZSNES is generally a bad idea.
The ideal emulator would be BSNES/Higan, but I think SNES9X is okay too.

Looks smooth! Only complaint is the background. Because the millstones occupy the SNES Layer 2, this level only has a 2bpp Layer 3 as its background and I can tell that's not it.
Still, spot-on job with the CSS3 animations!

Wow – that's weird. Well, the more you know
Good luck with Millstone Mayhem!

Do you guys think it would help if we did a binary comparison of all the ROMs, map the differences and reference them to a (well, non-existent at the moment) ROM map? SMWCentral has a fantastic and comprehensive ROM map of SMW, which helped me find out differences between the US and PAL versions of ...

Lookin' good!!
Are the lamps supposed to look like that, though? There's a few red pixels that don't look too good.

Okay, wow, thanks! jonesy47, please disregard the misinformation in my post. While the offsets were probably somewhat right, you're better off following the info in the link Mattrizzle provided. With that info and enough determination, you might be able to replace most graphics. But it's still a gia...

All Kiddy's palettes are somewhere in the 0x3D3213 - 0x3DC3A3 range. Finding and changing them to match Donkey's palettes pretty easy I guess. Kiddy's graphics, on the other hand, begin at 0x4C2E7 and end in 0x4F05F. That's only one bank, though, and you'll find Kiddy again at 0x533B5 - 0x5E4A9, 0x6...

yeah wow ok ffdsgdf that might be just the coolest thing I've seen all year. I'm not sure if I can word this properly.

Absolutely astounding job. It's both a testament to the greatness that is DKC, but also beautiful web development.

Fantastic! While you're at it, can you give me a reason why Jungle Hijinxs looks like this instead of this? I mean, the pixel aspect ratio of the background hdma gradient masks is way off.

Well color me impressed!! The new maps (and the world map navigation system) look absolutely amazing, but I think the greatest addition yet is indeed the CSS3 animation on the Zinger. I can't stress enough how much impact it has on the map overall and I'm very confident that it needs to be eventuall...

Looks fantastic!! Here's a suggestion. Though you can select levels from the drop-down menu, the map sections "Kongo Jungle" and "Monkey Mines" etc. are selectable but don't take you anywhere. How about a feature where selecting a world takes you to a page with the map image itse...

vgmusic.com probably has every song from the game
Also, my memory might fail me but there might be a SPC to MID -conversion program

A notable exception is Wario's Woods for SNES. It didn't use SPC at all, but some weirdass workaround. To my knowledge you can't listen to emulated Wario's Woods music, as the SPCs you record will be empty.

Metal Gear for NES. oh my god

"I FEEL ASLEEP!!"

"UH - OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!"

I have a special place in my heart for Mac OS 7/8/9. Oh the times we had ;_; Tough choice between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard though. I loved every inch of Snow Leopard and still use it at home, but it's slowly being phased out because of Mountain Lion (my work OS, fantastic but a bit too iOS-new...

I agree wholeheartedly. LightIRC is a lightweight flash-based IRC client. Everyone, even the IE-users have flash, so I can guarantee nobody would be left out from the chat room. Advanced users could connect with a real IRC client. People who use outdated browsers are the cancer of the online world. ...

Music hacking can be easy, given the right set of tools, but what amazes me is how thorough Mattrizzles documentation is. Documenting music data has always (to me, at least) been very difficult. I've dealt with Super Mario Land's music format in the past, and even though the Game Boy only has four c...

Sutte Hakkun (SNES)
Umihara Kawase (SNES)
Tombi (PSX)
DKC3 (SNES)
DKC2 (SNES)
DKC (SNES)
SMW2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Mother 3 (GBA)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES)

In no particular order. What I mean is that those are my _absolute-favorite-games-of-all-time_

So what? So had I. Judging people on how they sound like is pretty immature. :C

a girl and her cats

Vocaroo.com lets you record your voice and share it.
Here's me!

Haven't had a chance to try it at all but from what I've seen from the shadows, I'm absolutely sure you've done a fantastic job. Among Fu-So-Ya, Treeki, VL-Tone and probably Aeon Genesis, you're one of the most phenomenal reverse-engineers/ROM Hackers I've ever had the pleasure of knowing online. Ho...

Thanks, both of you! I removed the spoiler :) And Matt, you're right. It even has a point assigned to it in the coordinates, unless I'm mistaken. If any of you guys have an SVG editor, here's the file so you can knock yourselves out. The first polyline is the first path in the path table and the sec...