Trying to create a funky/flame runner editor code

So I was in HxD and I decided I wanted to torture Funky Kong because he was so overused and I wanted to make him and his bike green. Now I could texture hack, but I wanted it in the form of a gecko code so I found the PAL offset  for accessing funky kong and flame runner (017F73A6) but I don't know what to do now.

That address just leads to text saying "la_bike-fk.szs". That's the address of the file, and not the actual address of the colour. You would need to find the address for the colour. It's probably possible, but might be rather difficult, because you would need multiple addresses, as the bike and character are not just one colour.

SnB@BWH wrote:That address just leads to text saying "la_bike-fk.szs". That's the address of the file, and not the actual address of the colour. You would need to find the address for the colour. It's probably possible, but might be rather difficult, because you would need multiple addresses, as the bike and character are not just one colour.

Ok. I decided finding all that would be too hard. Would it be hard as that to make some kind of gecko code that disabled the fog in mushroom gorge?

I don't know how you would go about doing that. It depends on whether the address for the fog is loaded as a part of the map or only something you view, wherein the value changes every time you're viewing it or not. It could either be a Float (movement, size, speed) value or a boolean (1/0, on/off, true/false, enabled/disabled). Knowing which one it is, you then have to choose the appropriate hacking method.

This will either be loading the map, searching for an "unknown value", then exiting and searching for a "less than previous" value, then reload the map, and search for a "greater than previous" value. Keep repeating this until you have very few values and test each value. Doing this would be time consuming, but it may hold your address.

The other option would be to load the map, "unknown value" search, then view the fog, search for "greater than previous" value, then make sure the fog is not in sight, and search for a "lesser than previous" value. Keep repeating this until you have very few addresses left. If you find an interesting address, put it on a breakpoint write, and if the game freezes without the value changing, you know that that address will freeze the game, so try another. If it freezes when you're changing the value from within the game, it is more than likely the right address.

SnB@BWH wrote:I don't know how you would go about doing that. It depends on whether the address for the fog is loaded as a part of the map or only something you view, wherein the value changes every time you're viewing it or not. It could either be a Float (movement, size, speed) value or a boolean (1/0, on/off, true/false, enabled/disabled). Knowing which one it is, you then have to choose the appropriate hacking method.

This will either be loading the map, searching for an "unknown value", then exiting and searching for a "less than previous" value, then reload the map, and search for a "greater than previous" value. Keep repeating this until you have very few values and test each value. Doing this would be time consuming, but it may hold your address.

The other option would be to load the map, "unknown value" search, then view the fog, search for "greater than previous" value, then make sure the fog is not in sight, and search for a "lesser than previous" value. Keep repeating this until you have very few addresses left. If you find an interesting address, put it on a breakpoint write, and if the game freezes without the value changing, you know that that address will freeze the game, so try another. If it freezes when you're changing the value from within the game, it is more than likely the right address.

Thank you. Some guy asked Mario Kart DS hacking legend davidevgen if he could do that and he said maybe and never got around to it. Since Dolphin has a Disable Fog button the only thing it does is remove a blue triangle from the corner of your screen XD
I might try one of these, though it's probably going to take a while.