DKC Atlas Forum

Also, this is just a fun nitpick, but it seems to me your 'z' key is broken. It keeps returning 's'! For example, you typed RainbowSprinkles. But then you also typed customising :P Sorry. I have bad spelling. LOL. One example of a thing I might change, is wouldn't it be easier to distribute a list ...

Hi, This will be the place I will post my knowledge and anything to do with DKC hacking. Please take everything with a grain of salt. I'm a horrible hacker but I think that knowledge should be shared. Hopefully this will be useful for beginner hackers such as myself. Thanks for looking! PS thanks Ra...

That's alright. Thanks for conforming it for me.

^ Thanks for your reply. I know what your saying but the glitch I posted was for something else. Here is the bonus level I was referring to. http://www.dkc-atlas.com/maps/dkc/4-1 It's the 3 bonus area. Anything other then the default entrance style causes the kongs/animals to fall off the screen. Th...

Here is just one example of some of the glitches that occur.
See screenshot.
Thanks.

Your screenshot has 1 small mistake. You found the right pointer (good job on that <i title="by the way">by the way</i>) but you labeled it incorrectly. The capers pointer is 3ffede. Your highlight shows that, but your note does not. Yea, its just the way I visualize things. Edit.. How is...

rainbowsprinklez wrote:That particular glitch seems to happen on animal buddies starting right. But you knew that

And also Donkey Starting Right.

Do you also get the "falling off the screen glitches? Happens mostly on entering bonus areas.

^ are you sure you don't get the same glitches? This is just one example of a glitch I encounter.
See screenshot. And thanks for enabling the Doc.

For animals. go to $80xxxx. First instruction is an lda. Change it to change which animal spawns. Also, I wasnt clear here. I should've said to change the quantity loaded by the lda, not to change the lda itself! Lastly I am not sure what this code does. What do you mean Change it to change which a...

rainbowsprinklez wrote:I'm not sure what else you're doing, but entrance location is found in Giangurgolo's docs>offsets.

I don't have permission to view that document!

rainbowsprinklez wrote:Thank you! You inspired me to add to my editor!

Spoiler!

Looks amazing. But you know how I feel about it... How did I inspire you?

rainbowsprinklez wrote:

Cyclone wrote:This is the version of the game I'm using.

I can't seem to find the NTSC 1.0 version

Whoa whoa whoa. Are you using v1.1? Amazing so far no errors. I use 1.0

That post is more then 2 years old. I am using version 1.0 see screenshot!

How can I change the entrance style and start points? It’s greyed out,

Hi, I would like some advice on changing the entrance style. I got bunch of entrance style pointers. Most seem to work ok. But sometimes the player falls off screen (mostely on bonus level). And I get black screens in water levels using most pointers. An odd thing is for example coral capers setting...

I don’t know

^ yes I’m assuming so. I have encountered that too

I like and think all of the music in DKC is good. Each track is good in its own way.

"But once you go to a stage that uses the tire instrument for something else," can you elaborate on this? Let me try this. Those waveforms might be different. I believe some are static and always available (like snare) but some are variable. Don't point to variable. I got the waveforms he...

I vaguely understand what you are saying. :scratch: "But once you go to a stage that uses the tire instrument for something else," can you elaborate on this? How does one test to make sure it sounds correct. Like my hack of Jungle Groove. How do I test to make sure it sounds correct later ...

I'm not sure I understand what your saying.

Thanks for your comment.
I altered it

https://youtu.be/y5fl97Uo8OA

Just a simple / slight mod to the Jungle Groove song in Donkey Kong Country.
Be sure to listen to its entirety. It’s not a huge difference but I thought it was neat.

I recently figured out how to mod the music.

I use Zsnes

Question for you. how do you record a video?

Cool. May I suggest adding music sanity? So I could, say, change 1-1, and EVERY associated level changes too. Also, you got all the varieties of levels... does that mean you have an array of $3e values? If you have the array, sanity becomes SO much easier. If I got your suggestion right… I have alr...

What are you talking about? What is music sanity?

WesternTanager794 wrote:Looks great! It’s great you got it released!

Thanks. It still have bugs. It no where near complete.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kaf97o08ml24req/DKC_EDITOR_Version_0.37__October_19th_2022.zip/file Hi, I added a basic Music Editor to my program. You can change which music is played on each level and change the tempo to make the music faster or slower. Or mute each tack individually. Other feature...

That’s alright. I can do that. I am already familiar with hex.

What I meant by the 21st byte was the number of bytes from the start of the header to the address of for example the tempo address.

By playing around I noticed if I change the 21st byte from the header address it will Mute the music and the sound effects still play. That's what I wanted. The thing is I can't find the control code in the Document. I attached a screen shot of the highlighted bytes. The last highlighted by...

Idk how you found that A0 12 byte pair, but there's 2 bytes before it in the rom header. In the document it says... "Song Header Start Address Donkey Kong Country = $12a0" That is where I got the A0 12 from. I thought that is where the header starts. Anyways I think I got the basic unders...

Hi, Could someone explain how to use the doc found here https://loveemu.hatenablog.com/entry/20130819/SNES_Rare_Music_Spec to for example change the volume of the music. The document said the... Song Header Start Address Donkey Kong Country = $12a0 Under Common Events it says 02 xx yy - Set L/R Volu...

Wow that's cool.. how you changed K.Rool's motion.
Keep it up. Looking forward to the finished version.

^ Thanks so much for the link. Looks interesting.

^ Yes. It is played when completing a level for the first time. I found the location of the tempo offset here... 0x3C5A29 also the Document is missing the Intro Theme offset. How would I go about changing the pitch of the music. Any ideas things I can change besides tempo? Any help on the music form...

rainbowsprinklez wrote:19 is at 0xd3deab and 1a is at 0xfc5a12. Question. What are you changing about music? Just tempo?

Those are invalid. My hex editor won't except them? Maybe they are in a different format? And ya I am editing the tempo
hmm

I found this bit of documentation here on the Atlas. Most of it seems correct except the lines in bold. Changing those values did nothing. These lines apear to be wrong? 19 Bonus Lose 0x13E2B3 0x0AB3F0 1A Level Goal 0x13E789 0x0AB38A Any ideas? Thanks. Song title Sequence position Waveform set posit...

Hi, I have a program that I made with some basic hacks.
If anyone wants to test it please Private Message me.
Its almost ready to post.
Thanks.

ok so it loads a sprite pointer. What can you do with it?

Sounds interesting. What does it do? Screenshots please.

I am working ion my own editor too. Thanks to everyone though for the help.

Grrr you got me excited! Any hints?

Hey Simion how is it going? What are you working on? Any news or updates?
Keep us updated
Thanks!

Those are ram addresses? Not sure what to do with them

That’s true. Sorry

Is making a backup copy when the user saves the changes ok.. instead of what you suggested?
Thanks

Did you ever find a way to change the length of the credits? No I haven't. Did you? I DON'T want to call you out in front of others, but I tried and really don't like your program. My biggest thing is the fact that it alters the file directly on the disc. What if an error is thrown in your program?...

Yes. I knew about that pointer table. It was missing some songs, like the kong family songs? There was no pointer in the table for Cranky's and the kongs songs.
But I figured it out. thanks to MAttrizzle again for the help!

How would I go about changing Crank's music with a different one?

and good work sprinklez

Mattrizzle would you be willing to help me out?

I am trying to change the music and sound around in the game. I translated this bit from the doc Mattrizzle posted. In addition to this, the waveform set system is used. This is the one that reads the specified waveform into ARAM. There is one waveform set for each song. The pointer to the waveform ...

Hi all, This is a Text editor for Donkey Kong Country. It's not that great but does the job. You can edit most of the text in the game. Level Names, Character Dialog, Fake Credits and Actual Credits. I still need to add the load functions though. Hopefully this makes it easier for hackers to add cus...

Hi, so I am trying to edit the credits. I am able to change the text but I don't know how to end the credit sequence earlier then the original. When I try (by editing the pointer at 0x45011 ) i get a black screen when it encounters the last bit of text in my custom sequence... Also I notice that the...