The list will be updated with relevant information and possibly download links in the future. This page contains links to the NDS ROM Hacks. After this, type: "C:/NDS/ -x -9 -7 -y9 -y7 -d data -y overlay -t -h " (again without quotes) and press Interaction Count: Download Patched Pokemon NDS ROM HACKS. For extracting a Nintendo DS ROM file, open the Command Line, type: "cd C:/NDS/" (without quotes), and press enter.Usually, the game author attaches a “read me” instructions file. Patching a Pokemon Nintendo DS rom hack is relatively straightforward. GIMP - A free and powerful image editor comparable to Photoshop.Download Hack Tool - (Copy and Paste Link)Ģ5 Best Pokemon ROM Hacks VGMusic - A place to find midis of various video game songs. Has resources and people who can help you if you run into problems trying to make games or just have questions. RPG Revolution - A great site/community for RPG Maker stuff. Spriters Resource - For those who want to take sprites from preexisting games to use as-is or to modify them.
Making a RPG game would be much harder in this, but still very possible.Ĭharacter Generator - This can help you make sprites for your games. It has more freedom and flexibility than RPG Maker, but it also doesn't help you make any particular thing by giving you a preexisting engine. Game Maker is for making ANY type of game (even 3D ones). You can check it out from the main page if you'd like. They're also doing some new Game Maker Suite thing, but it's a bit confusing to me.
Game Maker - The official Game Maker website where you can try the free or buy the professional version of Game Maker. Also be advised that for older versions of RPG Maker (XP and prior), you can actually just get them from the Control Panelįighting Game Maker 2nd Round - By the company that brought your RPG Maker (Enterbrain), this is an engine designed to make 2D fighting games. They also have IG Maker, which is a generic game maker program designed to create stuff that's not RPG (Platformers, shooters, etc).
RPG Maker series - The RPG Maker website where you can download trials or purchase your desired version of RPG Maker software. Tile Molester Alternate - Strange name, but a popular tile editor among the Pokemon hacking community. There are more of them than I care to count, but this is one of my favorite because it's easy to use and easy to direct-edit within the program itself. TiledGGD - For games that aren't GBA Pokemon, you may need to use more generic tools for altering the graphics. s files with Mid2Agb (should be included, but if it's not, someone let me know). You can do this with midi files if you properly convert them to. Sappy - This is a program that lets you replace songs in GBA games. If you don't know what re-pointing is, chances are, you're not ready for this. What it does is find free space available in your ROM so you can re-point data. but if you're ready to become an intermediate hacker, you'll need it. If your other utilities for getting graphics fail you, try this and see if you can view them that way.įree Space Finder - This is an advanced tool that most novices shouldn't be messing with. UnLZ-GBA - Some GBA ROMs use a LZ compression, making it impossible to see the graphics with a regular tile editor. Using APE, you can directly alter the palette sets so that the colors will be correct. This can cause your sprite to look really weird with random coloring. If you modify just the sprite pixels itself, the colors won't change, no matter what colors you use unless the program you are using also edits the palette.
I've not personally be able to figure out how to edit map sprites in the newest version, so if you need to do that and are as stumped as I am, try NSE classic.Īdvanced Palette Editor - This tool is very useful in fixing palettes in GBA ROMs.
It's geared towards Pokemon with plugins that easily locate trainer card sprites and back sprites. Nameless Sprite Editor - This is a good resource for locating and altering the sprites in GBA games.
If anyone knows of anything they feel should be added here, feel free to PM me about it. This is a work in progress, but hopefully it'll be comprehensive eventually.
It's my intention to make this thread your one-stop for finding tools, resources, and information to get you started on making your very own ROM hacks and actual games.