The two tools we will be using today are Pokemon ROM Changer and BWTE v2 to make our edits to our B2W2 game. When you think of a ROM hack, what first comes to mind? You have Trainers, Wild Encounters, Movesets, Evolutions, Overworld/Event Scripts, and Maps.įor this tutorial, we'll be focusing on the easiest ones: Editing Trainers to make them harder/unique and to edit what appears in the grass. These won't be covered since this is just an intro. Other extensions can be seen for Pallets, Images, Tiles, and animations. These are the most common file extensions you will see in DS games, they are essentially packed up files. SSEQ audio files used to store music and sounds that are played back during gameplay.Īrchive file used by games for the Nintendo DS portable gaming system may contain various game data, including graphics, text, and level information typically contained within a Nintendo DS ROM file can be unpacked with some editing tools.īinary file used by the Nintendo DS series portable gaming systems contains executable data for a Nintendo DS game can be used to patch, or modify, emulated Nintendo games for DS emulators. This leads to a very organized file tree, which you can see in this image.ĭue to this tidy separation of files, it is important to know what the 'file extensions' are.Īudio data file used by the Nintendo DS, a portable game system contains sound files for the game, such as. These resources are loaded by the game overlays when required.

In the DS series of games, similar files are packed together into separate files. Additionally, everything is scattered around the ROM with no obvious organization.

In the GBA series of games, users have to manage many offsets and find free space for every addition they make. Section 0 - Advantages of the DS Filesystem This tutorial is somewhat brief - don't fear, editing DS games is VERY easy. For now I'll assume that you know nothing about hacking on the DS but if you do, you can skip Section 0. Hey everybody! Today I'm here to give you an intro tutorial into basic editing of what B2W2 has to offer.

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