Super Metroid hacking - The ASM's of an ASM novice

[samus11able]

Excuse me, but I am new at Super Metroid hacking, and I was wondering if there was a tutorial on how to actually edit an ASM. Like, where is the original files.

[kissapoikanen]

@samus11able There are plenty of ASM tutorials out there. Google is your friend.

You write whatever code you want in plain text with Notepad or some other simple text editor. Then you save that as an .ASM file (usually File -> Save as... and just add .asm to the end of the filename) and sort of add that code to your hack with Xkas.

[samushunter242]

thanks for this now all i need is a tutorial on asm hacking (not that this didn't help me)

[kissapoikanen]

@samushunter242

westerndesigncenter(.)com(slas­h)wdc(slash)datasheets(slash)P­rogrammanual(.)pdf

Without the brackets.

That's a long but in-depth tutorial. The first 10-30 chapters will help you.

SMWCentral also has ASM tutorials, but they're shorter, aren't so in-depth but are really easy to understand. I recommend going there first.

[samushunter242]

do you think that you could tell me how to make the space jump only work twice?

im making a prime style hack of super metroid and i just wanted to make that

[kissapoikanen]

@samushunter242 Sorry, but I'm not that good at ASM. I know how the code to limit Space Jumps would work, but I don't know how to make it. Basically:

When Samus is on ground, set some unused RAM address to 00. When she does a space jump, check if that value is below 2. If so, allow space jump and increase that by 1. If it is 2, then don't allow space jumping. (So Samus falls to the ground and that value is reset back to 0.

But I don't know how to code that.)