Post subject: Hex-Editing FCM
Player (168)
Joined: 4/27/2006
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Hey, I'm having some problems hexing an FCM. I have it open in an editor, and I have no idea where the frames start and how to tell which buttons were pressed... I saw the guide for hexing fantasia movies here, but unfortunately im on the evil win xp and there are no versions of nesmock that work with it, so that isn't an option for me. Anyone have the values i need, or know of another way to convert the file?
Post subject: Re: Hex-Editing FCM
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Rising Tempest wrote:
im on the evil win xp and there are no versions of nesmock that work with it
Not true. It's just that the latest version does not exist for winblows yet. Look more carefully at the http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/nesmock.html page :)
Player (168)
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Bisqwit, Perhaps I should've been more clear in my first post,,, What I meant was, the win 32 versions of the program wont work in XP, XP no longer supports DOS based programs as win 32 did. Just to be sure, i downloaded and tried every win 32 version, and had no luck. So,,, is there any other alternative?
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Rising Tempest wrote:
Just to be sure, i downloaded and tried every win 32 version, and had no luck.
WinXP is a Win32. Win32 is a generic class referring to 32-bit Windows systems, as opposed to 16-bit Windows systems such as Windows 3.11. What makes you think you "had no luck"? What is the apparition that induces that thought into you, i.e. what do you see on your screen when you start thinking it didn't work? Nesmock is a commanline program. It does not create GUI windows etc that kind of stuff; it is to be used from a commandline, such as from window created by cmd.exe. If you try clicking the nesmock.exe icon from the GUI, Windows creates a new console window for Nesmock to output into, and closes that window immediately as Nesmock terminates. Nesmock does not have a UI that waits for user input, it works entirely based on its commandline as do most of the commandline programs in the world. Which is why commandline programs usually create that window that flashes by and disappears immediately, when ran without any commandline parameters.
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The easiest way to edit an fcm is using Phil's site.
Player (168)
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Location: Eastern Canada
I feel kind of silly now,,, i had tried using it from cmd.exe but it looks like I was doing it wrong. Thanks Bisqwit. Baxter, I'll try that site as well, it looks like it would work too,,, I'll experiment around a bit and find which way works best for me.