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Welcome MetConstian to the General guides section, whether you are looking to get into hacking or to improve your level design, its all here, if you are new here you should check out Why ROM Hack to see why you should try getting into ROM hacking if you have a serious interest in getting into games design, once you read that you can go check out the rest of this section of the wiki for all the tools and guides to read to get into ROM hacking more.
Below is a section of essential downloads for any hacker, you should probably have these already downloaded, but just in case we will list links to them below.
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xvi32 | xvi32 is a freeware hex editor, you can pick between this or HxD depending on your tastes. |
HxD | HxD is a hex editor, useful for when you need to do any kind of hex editing in your ROM. |
Lunar IPS | Tool for applying any IPS patches you may download from MetConst. |
Lunar Address | SNES address converter tool, useful for during hex editing. |
Graphics Editors | |
Tile Layer Pro | Graphical editing tool, used to edit any GFX files you may download or uncompressed graphics inside the ROM. |
YY-CHR | The other graphical editing tool, both function pretty well, its a matter of preference to which you use. |
Tile Molester | Another graphical editing tool, some people prefer this, it also has support for Mode 7, something which the other editors lack. |
NES | |
fceux | Contains debugging tools for Metroid hacking, nestopia is probably better for playing, but lacks debugging tools. |
nestopia | Latest version of nestopia, for playing Metroid ROM hacks. |
GB | |
BGB | BGB is a GB/C emulator and debugger. |
SNES | |
SNES9x | Latest version of SNES9x, for playing Super Metroid ROM hacks. |
SNES9x Geiger | Debugger version of SNES9x, for tracing and debugging your Super Metroid hacks. |
SNEStuff | This program combines Lunar Address/ips/Expand, xkas v0.6, an HDMA color converter and more. Very useful. |
xkas | a 65c816 assembler, you will need this for any assembly you download from MetConst. |
ASMDev | ASMDev is mainly a ASM code editor that allows users to change the ASM code in a ROM without the use of an external assembler. |
GBA | |
VBA Debugger | VBA with enhanced debugging abilities, useful for GBA hacking. |
no$gba | A recommended GBA debugger, useful for when assembly hacking. |
Visual Boy Advance | VBA is an emulator for playing GBA and GB games. |