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RGBY Map Headers & Stuff That Goes With It
By Hat (a.k.a. The Black Phantom)
Version 1.0
-Feel free to distribute this document and/or edit it,
-try and credit people you get info from and/or write how you updated...
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Main Credits (Structure Information):
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[Xeon]
Wrote some stuff about Map Headers and Object Data.
Which this document expands upon, a bit.
[F-Zero] & [Tauwasser]
Wrote a document (in German) explaining how GSC connection data is stored.
RGBY connection data is stored almost the same way, it turns out, so
that helped a great deal. All that is really different is the values you
add the amount of blocks to.
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General Map Header Structure
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Explanation:
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This contains all the data (pointers count as data) to build the map.
Format:
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#1: [Tileset Number]
#2: [(Y Size) Map Height]
#3: [(X Size) Map Width]
#4-5: [*2 Bytes*: Pointer to Map]
#6-7: [*2 Bytes*: Pointer to Maps Text Pointers]
#8-9: [*2 Bytes*: Pointer to Maps "Script"]
#10: [Connection Byte:
00 = No Connections
01 = North
02 = West
03 = West + East
04 = South
05 = South + East
06 = South + West
07 = South + West + East
08 = North
09 = North + East
0A = North + West
0B = North + West + East
0C = North + South
0D = North + South + East
0E = North + South + West
0F = North + South + West + East]
?: [*11 Bytes per Connection*, No connections? Straight to "Object Data"!]
Last: [*2 Bytes*: Pointer to Object Data]
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1) Tileset Numbers
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These are copied from a PDF by Cartmic, called "Pokemon Red Documents".
00 = "Outside"
01 = "Ash's House"
02 = "Pokemon Center"
03 = "Viridian Forest"
04 = "Ash's House -- Again"
05 = "Gym"
06 = "Pokemon Center -- Again"
07 = "Gym -- Again"
08 = "House"
09 = "Museum"
0A = "Museum -- Again"
0B = "Underground Path"
0C = "Museum -- Again #2"
0D = "S.S. Anne"
0E = "Vermilion Port"
0F = "Pokemon Cemetary"
10 = "Silph Co."
11 = "Cave"
12 = "Celadon Mart"
13 = "Game Freak HQ"
14 = "Lab"
15 = "Bike Shop/Cable Center"
16 = "Cinnabar Mansion/Power Plant etc"
17 = "Indigo Plateau"
18 = ???
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2 & 3) Map Height (Y) & Width (X)
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Exactly that, the amount of blocks high and wide the map data is.
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4 & 5) Map Data Pointer
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You can use Pokemap/GoldMap for hacking all this quite easily.
The map you walk around on and stuff is stored as block indexes.
A single block consists of 4*4 tiles, so... somewhere else (the Block Data),
the block is stored as 16 bytes...
...the same amount of bytes as a 2bpp tile.
Read stuff on Romhacking.net for information on bits per plane/pixel (bpp).
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6 & 7) Pointer to Maps Text Pointers
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2 byte pointers to text that is used on that map.
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8 & 9) Pointer to Maps "Script"
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Not entirely sure what/when/where/why/how.
But it contains unique things to the map at a guess, as I've found such things
as "what Pokemon is inside a Pokeball on the desk data"(Eevee) living there.
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10) Connection Byte
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Note:
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I think I wrote the directions in the order connection data is stored...?
By the way if this value is 00h it is immediately followed by the Object Data
Pointer, no gap. Repeated list...
Connection Byte:
00 = No Connections
01 = North
02 = West
03 = West + East
04 = South
05 = South + East
06 = South + West
07 = South + West + East
08 = North
09 = North + East
0A = North + West
0B = North + West + East
0C = North + South
0D = North + South + East
0E = North + South + West
0F = North + South + West + East
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?) Connection Data (0-44 bytes, explained in more depth: further down)
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Last) Object Data Pointer
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The last thing in the Map Header. It points to a bunch of certain stuff that
is stored in certain structures, because they are so overly used on maps.
Object Data is discussed at the end of this document.
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*** Hacking Connections ***
This might take a bit of "practise hacking" to fully understand what the
hell is being said here.
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Explanation:
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The "Connection Byte" determines how many connections are in this space,
including none at all.
Structure:
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#1: [Map Index of Connected Map]
#2-3: [Pointer to "Connection Strip"s Upperleft Block (Connected Map)]
#4-5: [Pointer to "Connection Strip"s Upperleft Block (Current Map)]
#6: ["Bigness"]
#7: [Map Width]
#8: [Y alignment]
#9: [X alignment]
#10-11: [Window]
Connection Strip Example:
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Connection Byte 0D...
the C rectangles are the connection strips for the current map...
&&& \
& & |
& & |
& & |
& & |
& & |- Connected Map (North)
& & |
+++++++++++++CCC+++++ |
+++++++++++++CCC+++++ |
+++++++++++++CCC+++++ /
+++###############+++
+++# #+++<------------- '+'s = current maps border
+++# #+++
+++# Current #CCC&&&&&&&&&&&&
+++# #CCC &
+++# Map #CCC &
+++# #CCC &
+++# #CCC&&&&&&&&&&&&
+++# #+++
+++###############+++
/ +++CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC+++
| +++CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC+++
| +++CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC+++
| & &\_____________/
| & & \
| & & Connected Map (East)
/| & &
|\ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
|
\_ Connected Map (South)
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#1 : Map Indexes
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Not included! Download UltraMap, the text file known as "RedEnglish.txt"
contains all the Map Indexes in decimal, which you'll obviously need to convert
to hex.
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#2-#3 : "Connection Strip" Location
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The "connection strip" pointer -- points to the area of the connected map that
is visible when standing before you even enter it. Points to the upperleft
block of the "connection strip".
* connection strip is always 3 blocks wide (E/W connection)
3 blocks high (N/S connection)
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#4-#5 : Current Map Position
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This points to the part of the current map (in RAM somwhere or something)
that the connection strips upperleft block is placed on the current map.
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Connection |
Direction | Formula
___________|_______
North: C6EB + X_Movement_of_Connection Strip
South: C6EB + (Height of Map + 3) * (Width of Map + 6) +
X_Movement_of_Connection Strip
West: C6E8 + (Width of Map + 6) * (Y_Movement_of_"Connection Strip" + 3)
East: C6E5 + (Width of Map + 6) * (Y_Movement_of_"Connection Strip" + 4)
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#6 : Map "Bigness"
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North/South Connection = Connected Maps Width
East/West Connection = Connected Maps Height
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#7 : Map Width
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The width of the connected map.
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#8 : Y alignment
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Relative Y-position of player after entering connected map.
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Connection |
Direction | Formula
___________|_______
North: (Heigt_of_connected_map * 2) - 1
South: 0
West/East: (Y_movement_of_connection_strip_in_blocks * -2)
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#9 : X alignment
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Relative X-Position of player after entering connected map.
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Connection |
Direction | Formula
___________|_______
North/South: (X_movement_of_connection_strip_in_blocks * -2)
West: (Width_of_connected_map * 2) - 1
East: 0
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#10-#11 : X alignment
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Position of the upper left block after entering the Map.
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Connection |
Direction | Formula
___________|_______
Above: C6E9h + Height_of_connected_map * (Width_of_connected_map + 6)
South/East: C6EFh + Width_of_connected_map
West: C6EEh + 2 * Width_of_connected_map
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Object Data: General Structure
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Object Data
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[Maps Border Tile]
[Number of Warps][Warp Data]
[Number of Signs][Sign Data]
[Number of People/Trainers/Items]
[People Data]
[Trainer Data]
[Item Data]
[Warp-To Data]
Warps:
------
[Y position][X position][Warp-To Point][Warp-To Map]
Signposts:
----------
[Y position][X position][Text String Number]
Normal People:
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[Picture Number][Y position + 4][X position + 4]
[Movement 1][Movement 2][Text String Number]
Trainers:
---------
[Picture Number][Y position + 4][X position + 4]
[Movement 1][Movement 2][Text String Number]
[Trainer Type][Pokemon Set]
Items:
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[Picture Number][Y position + 4][X position + 4]
[Movement 1][Movement 2][Text String Number]
[Item Number]
Warp-To Points
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[*2 Bytes*: Event Displacement???][Y position][X position]
Event Displacement Formula:
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C6E3 + ((Map width + 8) * (rows above + 1)) + (X movement + 4)
Just set it to C6E3 if you're not using it I think.
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