Current Tools List

[karatekid552]

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General Hacking

Hex Editing-

• HxD
• Gold Finger (.tbl support, good for text editing)
• HexWorkshop

Graphics (Uncompressed)-

• TileMolester
• TileMolester (Alternate)

GBA

Emulation-

• VBA 1.8.2
• VBA-M
• NO$GBA

Assembly/Debugging-

• VBA-SDL-H
• NO$GBA (paid, but great tool)
• HackMew's Thumb Compiler

Patchers-

• IPS Patcher (16mb Max, lowest file size?)
• UPS Patcher
• APS Patcher

Graphics-

• Un-Lz77
• GBA Graphics Editor
• NSE 2.X
• NLZ-GBA

Pokemon Specific


Gen I

Graphics-
Scripting-
Mapping-
Sprite Specific-
Tiles-


Gen II

Graphics-
Scripting-
Mapping-
Sprite Specific-
Tiles-


Gen III

Alot in One-

• Pokemon Game Editor

Pokemon Data-

• PGE
• Yet Another Pokemon Editor (YAPE)
• Learnable TM Editor Pro (LTMEP)
• Egg Move Editor

Graphics-

• NSE Classic
• NSE 2.X
• Advance Palette Editor
• Nameless Tilemap Editor (NTME)
• Sphere Editor
• Darth Tilemap Editor

Pokemon Sprites-

• Wichu's Advanced Series (Does everything, even indexing)
• NSE Classic (Plug-in)
• NSE 2.X (Plug-in)
• Un-Lz77 (Last Resort...)

Scripting/Battle Scripting-

• eXtreme Script Editor (XSE)
• PKSVUI
• Battle Script Pro

Mapping/Tiles-

• Advance Map 1.92
• Advance Map 1.95 (WARNING! Buggy unfinished beta, but it has some cool features.)
• Door Manager (Door Animations)
• AnimEditor (General Tile Animation Editor)
• Tileset Manager

Trainers-

• Advance Trainer
• Jambo51's Trainer Editor (Coming Eventually...:P)

Attacks-

• A-Tack
• Move Editor

Music-

• Sappy 2006 mod 17.1

Items-

• Item Manager
• Item Editor
• Item Image Editor

Misc-

• Advance Starter
• Day, Night, & Seasons
• Advance Mart
• Advance Text
• Move Tutor Data Editor (MTDE)

Gen IV

Graphics-

• Tinke (Almost any program that can view DS graphics for that matter, but Tinke is the best.)

Scripting-

• SDSME (In progress)
• PPRE (Discontinued by author)

Mapping-

• SDSME

Sprite Specific-

• PokeTEX
• Tinke

Textures-

• SDSME
• Tinke

Gen V

Graphics-

• Tinke

Scripting-

• SDSME (In progress)

Mapping-

• SDSME

Sprite Specific-

• KazoWAR's BW Tools

Textures-

• SDSME
• Tinke

[Doublade]

Thanks for the list bro,! This will help me! Good bye!

[Miksy91]

I didn't find a suitable place for these kind of updates, but they just posted a neat utility in romhacking.net - IPS Peek - and I thought, "Why not just link it here as well?".

Personally, every time I run into bugs, I try to track them down first by comparing two earlier versions of my hack with each other in which;
1. The bug doesn't occur in the earlier version, and
2. The bug occurs in the next version.

If the IPS patch between those two is "small enough", the bug can be easily tracked down by checking what the ips file does. And that is exactly what this tool is made for.

We should open up a new thread for posting links to useful general tools, tutorials etc. being hosted elsewhere, don't you think?

[Luna]

Miksy that tool looks incredibly handy. I just downloaded it, and I'm sure it will be helpful to others as well. I also agree that it would be nice to have links to tools that are posted on other sites, especially for tools that the author has requested only be downloaded from the main location (so people can still see and find the tool, but always have the newest version because it is linking to the original site/thread/etc.)

[Miksy91]

Originally Posted by Mateo

Miksy that tool looks incredibly handy. I just downloaded it, and I'm sure it will be helpful to others as well. I also agree that it would be nice to have links to tools that are posted on other sites, especially for tools that the author has requested only be downloaded from the main location (so people can still see and find the tool, but always have the newest version because it is linking to the original site/thread/etc.)

True, it is handy

I don't think we should even host others' tools or tutorials here - rather just link to them since that will work too and no "harm" is done by doing that.

So making a new thread with the purpose of just sharing links to useful general utilities or documents could do it. And whenever people find something worth to be shared with others, they could just post their "finding" as a new post in that thread and if it was worth it, the creator of that thread would update the main post with a link to that tool/document/whatever the finding is (along with a simple description of what it is for).

(This way, we could also avoid the possiblity of a new thread being made for every new finding which would be "not worth a shot".)

[The_Buddha_Wolf]

Where can I safely download rom hacking tools for macintosh?