Omnimaga
Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: noahbaby94 on March 12, 2009, 07:16:40 pm
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I've figured out a way to make hacked pics work in emulators. You're gonna need ti-connect installed.
First take the group open it then take the pic you would like then open in ti-connect it should be default then save as and you get the option for file name this doesn't really need to be anything but the next part you save as pic0 transfer it to emulator then use real(3 to open it and real(9 to save it to right pic the main problem with this is you need to know what pic it uses. I'll post more detailed one with pics tonight.
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I made an ASM utility that makes this a bit easier :D. You can use two of the programs (SETPICS and EXPICS) in Picture Utilities (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=304). Setpics will take any pic var and move the data into a list (basically what CustomPics does) with the corresponding name (e.g. Pic1 will be in the list PIC01). Expics will move the data from a list to the pic var. More info on the syntax/how it works is in the readme.
I'm planning on eventually creating a program that will accept a list of pic numbers, create all the intermediary lists and stick them in a group. Then you would just have to transfer the group and an extraction program that would extract the lists from the group, create the corresponding pics and delete the lists. I wasn't really in the mood to do that when I first made them, but anyone is free to bug/harass/remind me about this until I actually do it.
[edit] Okay, I just found a little bug in these programs. Apparently, if the pic you're trying to store or list you're trying to extract from doesn't exist your calculator crashes. So... I'll fix it sometime tonight but until then make sure the stuff exists :-[
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For Reuben Quest 2, what i do is that I store all pics in pic 0 through 9 and you got to send them to the calc, and run a prgm that copies them all in pic 11 through 20, then send another group of pics, repeat the process but it copies the next pics to 21 through 30.
However, if your TI Connect isn't fucked and allows you to send groups directly to the archive without ungrouping them, you can send hacked pics fine to the calc. However, groups doesn't work with Wabbitemu so emulation is out of the question unless you use PindurTI. In fact, I managed to get Zelda DLQ to work under PindurTI, altough it took a long while to send:
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(note in this video it was speed up 2x to emulate the SE speed)
the only other way to get this game to work on emulation is VTI Alpha 3.0, but you must dump the entire game with the rom using VTI 2.5b rom dumper, which requires a black serial link cable.
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OK. I fixed the whole exploding if the source doesn't exist thing, so now you really can transfer hacked pics to a calculator or emulator without having to use any tricks or groups. The PicUtilities (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=304) in the downloads has been updated (along with a new program I found lying around on my computer).
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Or you could use Celtic III's PicArc image database commands to stuff those pics into an appvar file and send it as an appvar. Not only will it solve a problem, but it makes storing them easier, since they can be compressed... ehh...
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Nevermind. That's probably not what you're looking for. Hope it helps with your projects, though.
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I've figured out a way to make hacked pics work in emulators. You're gonna need ti-connect installed.
First take the group open it then take the pic you would like then open in ti-connect it should be default then save as and you get the option for file name this doesn't really need to be anything but the next part you save as pic0 transfer it to emulator then use real(3 to open it and real(9 to save it to right pic the main problem with this is you need to know what pic it uses. I'll post more detailed one with pics tonight.
hmm, this process seems overly complicated...
All I do is send the pics from the calc to the computer in a group.
Then I extract the group and send the pics to the emu.
The pics retain their original names and you can archive them if need be.
This method works with WabbitEmu and PindurTI.
I haven't used any other emus, but why would anyone want to (since WabbitEmu is the best :P )
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As said in my previous post groups won't work fine with WabbitEmu. Only the first file of each group will show up on the calc when ungrouping the group and sometimes none at all. The same thing happened with TI-83+ Flash Debugger earliest versions
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The groups don't work, but you can extract the contents from them and send the files individually (that's what i do).
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nah, some hacked pics won't extract because they got illegal file names. For example Pic;.8xi will not extract because on Windows you cannot use ; in filenames
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ah yes, i forgot about that x.x. (i knew there was a reason why i picked the numbers i did with bowling...)
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someone or me should put a filename chart online for these pics so people know which one to use in priority before using others :P
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Yeah, wabbitemu does not work with Groups...I need to bug them on that ;)
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true lol, since the emu seems to work pretty well at the moment I think this should be one of the next issue to fix besides half-working Z-Address support and high contrast glitch (contrast gets lighter at high levels when emulating a 15 MHz model) and screenshooting doesn't emulate contrast changes
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lol (and congrats ;D)
Please try and stay on topic though :)
besides half-working Z-Address support
What's Z-Address?
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ok sorry i just really wanted to be able to play in the arcade it looked so intoxicating
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lol (and congrats ;D)
Please try and stay on topic though :)
besides half-working Z-Address support
What's Z-Address?
You can change which LCD row is at the top of the screen (and it wraps around).
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In other words you can create earthquake effects with Z-Address. It is used in both Reuben Quest games as well as Illusiat 2004, ROL3, Zelda DLQ and I think ROL2 used it too. You can also have vertical smooth scrolling effects. That doesn,t work well in WabbitEmu. Sometimes it does, like iN Reuben Quest battles, but some other times it doesn't. Plus this isn't recorded by the screenshooting. PTI supports it well, though
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Yeah kevin has the most and best effects of games I have seen on calc..FFTOM did some cool things too though ;)
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yeah fftom was awesome too, especially the battle animations