Another VWF already??

16 years ago by Mato

A very, very quick update this time around 😛 Late in the game, special battle boxes that have 3 lines show up. These also needed to be hacked to have a VWF. Luckily for us, it was almost another instance where I could copy-paste existing code and then tweak a few things and voila. Only took an hour, too 😯

So that pushes this item on the to-do list to 50% now:

Hack special text boxes and other important things that appear later in the game. This will be a real pain.

The only thing left to hack battle-wise is a similar text routine used at the end of the game. It’s a little bit different than the normal battle text stuff, but let’s hope the coding is basically the same. If so, some more copy-pasting-tweaking may be possible.

(sorry for no pics — this stuff all involves end-of-game spoilers)

Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm by Mato, filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comments and pings are currently closed.

46 Responses to “Another VWF already??”

  1. Sonicandtails said 16 years ago:

    Wow, that was a quick update! Two in one day?!

  2. Paul said 16 years ago:

    So uh, when do we get to buy T-shirts/make paypal donations for the spectacular work you guys are doing?

    I’m so excited, I think I just peed myself a little!

  3. TheMetroidMan said 16 years ago:

    Oh meh god! Another update!? Who the hell turned this project speed up to 12802730928734?~?!??!

  4. Lumpy said 16 years ago:

    great job you guys keep up the good work

  5. Anna said 16 years ago:

    Paul: NEVER

    And god damn mato, you’re like a hot knife and this game is butter

  6. Kalle said 16 years ago:

    oh man, I was JUST checking out the new previews of everything that’s been done so far and then all of a sudden I see this x3 VERY EXCITED!

  7. Ed said 16 years ago:

    Jesus fuck, guys. This is amazing. I’m getting even more excited about this, something I didn’t think was even possible.

    Keep up the awesome work, guys.

  8. Derrek said 16 years ago:

    you should update the description of your to do list from “as you can see, theres still alot to do” to “as you can see, there isnt much left to do”

  9. Gemini said 16 years ago:

    Does this involve that dialogue at the end of the game I told you once? 😀

  10. Nessie (person1014 on the forums) said 16 years ago:

    I love you Mato

    I have a question though.

    I am creating a full MOTHER 3 animation, I need voice actors and I was wondering if you were willing.

    Pick any character that interests you or you think can fit your voice.

    I know you are a very busy person, but your vocie will not be needed for some time, possibly even after this project is done.

    I am just making nessecary preparations and as you being the American god of MOTHER 3 to me. I hope you understand and are willing, thank you.

    ~Nessie (Person1014 on the forums)

  11. Mato said 16 years ago:

    Gemini: Do you mean that recent stuff in that PM? I can’t remember things too clearly lately 😛

    Anyway, I found the code I’ll need to hack for the final battle. It looks very similar to the main VWF, though a straight copy-paste won’t work, some extra tweaking will be necessary. I could probably finish it today, but I got a whole lot of work to do so maybe some other time 😛

  12. Mato said 16 years ago:

    Nessie: Nah, that’s not really my kind of thing, thanks for the offer though. You might wanna ask Jeffman though 🙂

  13. NecrosaroIII said 16 years ago:

    Tomato, at that speed will you be able to pull out in time!?!?!!

    Keep up the great work. I’m glad to hear that so far this VWF hack isn’t as hard as you thought. Let’s hope everything else continues to go smoothly.

  14. Anna said 16 years ago:

    Mato, did you never see my shin chan question or are you just trying to avoid it? 🙂

  15. rc5 said 16 years ago:

    I just came here for two whole updates.
    Awesome.

  16. Mato said 16 years ago:

    Anna: No, I don’t know how well it’s doing, but seeing as Adult Swim keeps getting new episodes, it can’t be doing too bad. Also, I think the first DVD set came out today officially (or maybe it was yesterday or tomorrow).

  17. Magus said 16 years ago:

    If only I could figure out when Shin chan was on, consistently. It keeps getting shifted around or I keep forgetting what day of the week it is…something like that.

    I’ve seen it a few times and it was funny.

  18. Nessie (person1014 on the forums) said 16 years ago:

    Hmmm, of course! Anyone would be great for this, I mostly want to biggest of fans though, fan who love the game so much that they would translate it.

    Well, if you are reasing this Jeffman, you are courgily (damn I suck) invited to voice act in the Mother 3 movie.

    I will send him a P.M. on the forums anyway though, thanks Mato you are awesome!

  19. Anna said 16 years ago:

    Yeah adult swim isn’t much for keeping a schedule I can keep track of, thank god for adultswim.com and tivo.

    Oh and partly in preparation for Mother 3, I got a CycloDS and the ezflash 3-in-1 for slot 2. The menu patch works perfectly. 🙂 (Just don’t freak out like I did at first when it says that it’s too big to load and didn’t read any instructions to learn that you need to use the OTHER mode for 32 MB games :D) I very much reccomend it, there is some cool DS homebrew out there and it’s nice to have all my games on one device, carting around all those cards is annoying. 🙁

    Also for those of you with a Wii and need to forget the pain of not being able to play Mother 3 for a good while, My Life as a King is INCREDIBLY addicting and fun. Totally worth 1500 Wii Points, and to me, worth the 1600 more for the downloadable extras (but you don’t need them to finish the game or anything). I want to go home and play it so bad, I was up until 5 AM last night ^^;

  20. Artek said 16 years ago:

    …..My brain….it can’t comprehend the amazingness that is today….

  21. honeymustard said 16 years ago:

    I’m so excited I’m gonna eat my foot.

  22. MrPopo said 16 years ago:

    Wow, this update came so fast we didn’t get another in that series of pictures for the last update.

  23. Mato said 16 years ago:

    Heh, you’re right 😛 That’s what happens when you go 88 mph I guess.

  24. Anna said 16 years ago:

    Mato 3: Mato in the Fast Lane starring Tom “Tomato” Ato, Jeffman “Jigglypuff” Johnson, and “Pew Pew” Byuu

  25. The Great Morgil said 16 years ago:

    According to my calculations, this bumps the to-do list’s percentage up from 90.5% in the last update to now 92.4%. Hot Damn 😀

  26. Reagle said 16 years ago:

    A-another update? Good lord, things are shifting into overdrive.

  27. TheMetroidMan said 16 years ago:

    I will give you 1000 Disco Points for this update! Thanks!

  28. Magus said 16 years ago:

    again Morgil, your calculations need to be modified to take into account the main script hacking thing being really 40ish% not…whatever small % you have it as.

    Hurray for the main script! ….Mato needs a cheat code.

  29. Paige(Halfmetal Alchemist) said 16 years ago:

    Bwahaha, I visited thinking “There is most likely not another update, but I’m checking anyway” and lookie! There is another update! Ahh, man, you rule so much! I wish I could give you cookies!!

  30. wingzero98 said 16 years ago:

    88mph??? is that a back to the future reference???
    1.21 gigawatts!!!

    In other news HOLY CRAP a lot of stuff is crossed out!

    keep up the good work Mato and Jeffman!

  31. gilligan156 said 16 years ago:

    Speaking of Wii. If you type in “earthbound” in the Virtual Console search, it snaps to earthbound before you finish putting the letters in. But, of course, it’s not on there yet.

    HMMMMM….

  32. ArashiSai said 16 years ago:

    Are you sure you didn’t enter Magicant and awaken your hidden hacking abilities Mato? cuz holy crap, I got home and there’s two updates and another section is almost off the list 😮

  33. The Great Morgil said 16 years ago:

    @ Magus:

    In looking at the to-do list, under the Main script Section, only two things aren’t crossed off. One says 25%, and the other is blank, which i assume is 0% then. So which one do you say needs to be changed to 40%?

  34. Animus01 said 16 years ago:

    So, I get up this morning, BAM!, new update! I get home from teaching, BAM!, another update! Ok, forget Kraken and Thirsty Coil Snakes. This calls for the dreaded Carbon Dog/Diamond Dog to Runaway Dog comparison! (And yep, that’s quite a difference in power.) So, you guys make Carbon Dog and Diamond Dog seem like Runaway Dogs in hacking skill! You’ll be pulverizing Ghosts of Starmen in no time!

  35. Beck said 16 years ago:

    That was quick. A little too quick…

  36. Jupiter-x said 16 years ago:

    gah! I was saving that Tenda Tea for a good time, I thought last night when you said you had lots of work that it would be awhile till the next update, so I posted it then, but now there’s two new updates? gaaaaaaahhh…. I don’t want to double post, but I put some good time into that, and it’s at the very bottom of a thread two updates ago and no one will see it… DX

    Ah well… It’s certainly not the reaction I should be having to two updates in one night! 😀 Great work with the hacking and keep it up!

  37. Sotye said 16 years ago:

    Awesome.

    I almost spit out my soup :D.

  38. Mother_Lover123 said 16 years ago:

    Every time I see that there’s a new update my heart skips a beat, and today it just about stopped. Keep up the phenomenal work you guys. We’re all counting you!

  39. Adam said 16 years ago:

    Way to go! Keep em coming my friend! 🙂

  40. Magus said 16 years ago:

    Nah I mean you aren’t taking into account that the Main Script fixing thing will be so long/is so important that it counts as 40% of the total hacking.

  41. Eddward said 16 years ago:

    Now all we need are the 2 major hacks done and then Mato does what Mato does best, translate. I hope that the flashing text issue does get fixed and I can see the stars for the battle memory. Mato, don’t neglect real life work just for us please. I like what you are doing but don’t get in trouble for not doing work you are paid to do.

  42. Some dude said 16 years ago:

    You’re on fire man, go for the gold!

  43. ArashiSai said 16 years ago:

    there are only 2 things left hacking wise that have 0% done, and one of them is that screen disclaimer thing ( no idea what that is, but it doesn’t sound super hard judging by what you’ve done) and the rest of the stuff is at least a quarter done! I thought you said this will most likely be done in the next half of the year! Though now that I think about it, time’s gone real fast, we’re almost at half point anyway.

  44. MigueL_D said 16 years ago:

    Truthfully, looking at how this game is being translated for so long, it’s going to be hard to imagine how things will be like after you finish and stop updating. It’s become one of my daily routines and everything…

    Looking at the To-Do-List, it seems like the main hacking may be finished before summer starts. There’s only so much more left to do with the Battle Hacking, but I believe that the Main Script will provide plenty of challenges in its own way. Aside from that, it’s still hard to imagine how far you and your team has come with this translation.

    I’ve told many of my friends both in real life and on the internet about this translation. I even helped to get more people into the series. It feels really good to be able to help the cause for all of this.

    Well, I may not say anything for a while, but I’ll just say this:

    Happy Hacking!

  45. Majora said 16 years ago:

    TWO items checked off the to-do list. TWO updates. ONE day.

  46. Moonside said 16 years ago:

    And to think the Battle Text hack was so hard… >_> Well, that was before the Sprite Text hack.