Modding Golden Eye:rogue agent (concept of making halo)

Required Tools
Dslazy
TilEd 2002
sseq2mid
Kiwi Ds Editor
A Hex Editor

FIRST STEP

extract your clean rom (unedited) with dslazy

Now you will have folders and files like this:

NDS_EXTRACT
data
overlay
header.bin
y7.bin
y9.bin
arm7.bin
arm9.bin
banner.bin


Editing The Games Icons

go to the data folder, inside the data folder there are many other folders,
to get to the icons go to the folder icons (surprised?)
try to preview one... (it wont work)
they aren't in the average windows format,

to edit them use tiled2002

Using TilEd 2002
Open up TilEd 2002
now click the Browser button (where the file button normally is)
Then click Open
navigate to your icons
(dslazy/NDS_EXTRACT/data/icons)
they wont show up,
click where it says all compadible roms then click all files
then open up a icon (e.g DrNo.ico)
a jumble of random colors apears,
to fix this click SNES 4bb (see picture)

IMG

now you should get a picture like this image shows
IMG
to fix colors press buton indicated in previous picture.
(note this isn't the right pallette, could someone please make one?)

copy tiles to editer window then select paint mode
and edit in the editer window

(these arn't the virtual trainning icons... they are the ones that pop up when you have to verse "xenia onnatop" and other charachtors in campaighn.)

Text Editing
Objectives and stuff...
Editing Level Objectives Text
I will use Fort Knox as an Example
go to:
dslazy\NDS_UNPACK\data\Levels\1_0_FortKnox
open 1_0_Crash.txt with notepad
now type in the new message (in the same space as the old one)
(try to keep similar length, otherwise falls of screen)
(for more space delete the empty lines between text (but not above the text!))
also works on all the other txt files in the level folders

Editing In Game Text
Remember this txt from level 1?

CODE

YOUR PERSONAL SIDEARM, THE SPEC 9, IS CURRENTLY EQUIPPED IN YOUR RIGHT HAND. PRESS THE R BUTTON TO FIRE YOUR RIGHT HAND WEAPON...PRESS THE L BUTTON TO THROW GRENADES OR FIRE YOUR LEFT HAND WEAPON. YOUR GRENADES WILL BE HOLSTERED UNTIL YOU SWITCH BACK TO THEM BY DOUBLE TOUCHING THE LEFT WEAPON ICON.

OR Even

CODE

NUCLEAR DEVICE LOCATED! NOW DEFUSE IT!

its in Templates.Crt
open templates.crt in your hex editer then press CTR+F and search for the string you want (e.g "NUCLEAR DEVICE" or "YOUR PERSONAL" for guns just search for their names e.g "JACKAL")
edit to your every will (without adding extra hex bytes!), and thats a little more of this game hacked...

EXAMPLE IMAGES:
IMG1
IMG2
(You can edit some of this directly through the rom but it shows a message on boot up something like "Menus Edited Please Recompile")


Editing The Games Music/Sound
I'm not too sure about this but heres some info i got off the net

Extracting SDAT files
in dslazy/NDS_EXTRACT/data/Sounds there are some files (Sound_All.sdat ect)
open Kiwi Ds's Editor
then click File/open
navigate to dslazy/NDS_EXTRACT/data/Sounds
open file you want to extract,
it will then show upon the editor,
double click it.
this should bring up a new window, now select all.
then click extract selected.

Repacking SDAT files
open Kiwi Ds's Editor
then click Tools/Make SDAT
clck source files foledr (the ... button)
then navigate to the extracted files directory

Converting SSEQ to MIDI

copy SEQ_MUSIC0.sseq (exsample) to the sseq2mid-20070314\bin
create a new bat/batche file insert this code

CODE

sseq2mid.exe -1 SEQ_MUSIC0.sseq
pause

this will give you a MID file,

Converting MIDI to SSEQ
kiwids released a program called mid2sseq, (link)
will use soon

Model Swapping Data
incorrect model swapping will cause the game to freeze,

your guns are labeled like 'ar4_commando.nsbmd'
your enemys guns are labeled like 'npc_assault_rifle.nsbmd'

i will work on a model swapping compadability list...
(probably on my own site so i can work in html)
Swapping Jackal and spec9 works (animations work to : shoot and reload)
replacing the minigun with 50 caliber machine freezes the game
this could be due to animation file incompadibilitys...