how to edit action replay codes part two: find the codes

 by dsman195276
warning: may be illegal depending were you live and laws. we will use roms and emulator. make sure that you have the game and system the emulator and roms are for or it is illegal.


now then. on to the Instructable. please make sure you are familiar with the format of action replay codes and hexdecimal.

in part one of this you learned how to change the back 8 numbers in the code. in this you will learn simple and complex ways to edit the code. the complex way uses emulators and roms and hacking systems so only pros should really attempted complex.

things needed:

action replay(duh)

game system that goes with the action replay(duh)

game to hack

how to count in hexdecimal

have read part one of this instructable

for complex only

emulator and rom for the game

 
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Step 1: NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!

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I can NOT tell you were to get comertial roms and emulators! it is illegal and does not need to be talked about here. do not pm me or comment about it i will not respond!
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GASSYPOOTS says: Dec 20, 2011. 4:16 PM
i think pikachu thinks its an ABRA
g12345389 says: Jun 1, 2008. 4:53 AM
you said emulators are illegal your using one
MaXoR in reply to g12345389Aug 22, 2010. 10:40 AM

Ok, since I've been arrested for this type of stuff, listen up! Emulators, they are NOT illegal to have, run, or share (Unless the emulator is created as payware, and you didn't pay).

It is illegal to OWN A ROM..... PERIOD. There isn't any imaginary law that says "If you own the game, you may make as many copies as you like", there was a "law" sony released a while back that attempted to limit the use of music CD's once you've purchased them.... thats about as close as it gets in Northamerica, or Canada.

Microsoft also allows you to copy windows, since it isn't the disk that is special, but rather your CD key for that version of windows.

I don't know of a single game maker that allows you to make copies of their games, whether you've purchased them or not. It's part of their intellectual rights, and the rights assigned to the game. There has been a rumor for a while already that once you purchase a game, it's YOURS..... actually you just own the plastic CD it's printed on, you do not own the rights to that data, just because you paid $29.95 for it!! LOL

This is a prime example of why you don't believe everything you hear, even if you've heard it 1,000 times from 1,000 different people..... before the great explorer's of the world set out, 1,000's thought the world was flat!
dsman195276 (author) in reply to g12345389Jun 1, 2008. 5:51 AM
no, emulators are illegal if you do not own the system and game you are hacking.
zimmemic25 in reply to dsman195276Oct 13, 2008. 10:29 PM
also wrong. emulators are always legal. but its illegal to use roms (games) that u dont own.
Landon531 in reply to zimmemic25May 3, 2009. 1:59 PM
Ds man, I am not talking to you, so don't wig out on me. To anyone else out there who reads this, where is a good place to get mods? Please???
dsman195276 (author) in reply to Landon531Jun 22, 2009. 4:37 PM
well, even if your not talking to me, if your talking about a place to get roms, then stop. roms are illegal and instructables would have problems if liinks to rom sites were posted here. same thing with emulators.
eggyeggyeggy in reply to dsman195276Oct 31, 2009. 12:03 PM
Roms arent illegal if you own the original game
dsman195276 (author) in reply to eggyeggyeggyNov 2, 2009. 1:01 PM
What difference does it make here? I have no way of knowing if everyone that uses the link owns the game.

The fact is Roms can be illegal, and I don't know about you, but I would rather not take the chance.
 
samskinburg in reply to dsman195276Jul 28, 2009. 1:57 PM
dude I'm pretty sure no one from nintendo is reading this. and if they are they are not going to track you,OK? If they did track you 25% of America and Japan's youth would be in jail
dsman195276 (author) in reply to samskinburgJul 29, 2009. 7:00 AM
So your basically saying that it's ok to rob a bank if the police aren't around? and Nintendo is not the only people who check for ROMs. the police and others do to. once the ROM site is linked to instructables(by someone posting a like to it) you can track instructables from that site. no one ever has to check instructables.
cdousley in reply to dsman195276Dec 28, 2009. 9:20 AM
wait dsman your doing this so your " robing a bank if the police aren't around"
dsman195276 (author) in reply to cdousleyDec 29, 2009. 7:48 PM
Not true, when I had this ROM I owned both a GBA and this mario game. I don't own that game now, but i also don't have the game or EMU, so i'm fine.
DJ Radio in reply to dsman195276Jul 30, 2009. 1:19 PM
Nothing like this should be illegal on the internet. Piracy rules.
dsman195276 (author) in reply to DJ RadioDec 29, 2009. 7:45 PM

Not true in any sense. When a copyright is involved it completly changes the situation. The data for a game is own by the company who made it, and dispersing that for free is illegal because it directly causing the company to lose money.

If roms were legal, none would ever be made. Why do you think video games of any sort are made anyway? To make money, and by making ROM's legal you tank the entire industry.

You make ROM's legal, and you distroy the video game industry.

DJ Radio in reply to dsman195276Dec 29, 2009. 8:27 PM
The point of a ROM is to emulate a game system so that a certain game is playable on the system right?  And most of the time it isn't used on new games, but rather on older games, that nobody sells in stores anymore, and therefore make no money on. 
dsman195276 (author) in reply to DJ RadioJan 2, 2010. 5:05 PM
First, ROM's are used 10X as much for new games then old because people don't want to pay.

A ROM  is the exact file on a ds game card, no changes at all.
 
MaXoR in reply to dsman195276Aug 22, 2010. 10:40 AM
Ok, since I've been arrested for this type of stuff, listen up! Emulators, they are NOT illegal to have, run, or share (Unless the emulator is created as payware, and you didn't pay).

It is illegal to OWN A ROM..... PERIOD. There isn't any imaginary law that says "If you own the game, you may make as many copies as you like", there was a "law" sony released a while back that attempted to limit the use of music CD's once you've purchased them.... thats about as close as it gets in Northamerica, or Canada.

Microsoft also allows you to copy windows, since it isn't the disk that is special, but rather your CD key for that version of windows.

I don't know of a single game maker that allows you to make copies of their games, whether you've purchased them or not. It's part of their intellectual rights, and the rights assigned to the game. There has been a rumor for a while already that once you purchase a game, it's YOURS..... actually you just own the plastic CD it's printed on, you do not own the rights to that data, just because you paid $29.95 for it!! LOL

This is a prime example of why you don't believe everything you hear, even if you've heard it 1,000 times from 1,000 different people..... before the great explorer's of the world set out, 1,000's thought the world was flat!
DJ Radio in reply to dsman195276Jan 2, 2010. 8:49 PM
Oh well.
Landon531 in reply to DJ RadioDec 14, 2009. 5:17 PM
 Amen, bro-dah!
samskinburg in reply to DJ RadioJul 31, 2009. 3:43 PM
you know it
samskinburg in reply to dsman195276Jul 30, 2009. 1:02 PM
dude you must smoke a lot of pot if your this paranoid, who agrees
dsman195276 (author) in reply to samskinburgNov 2, 2009. 1:40 PM
It's funny. if you accuse me of smoking pot because I follow the law, the police must be smoking 24/7.

You also have to think, every Rom you download is money lost to the company that worked hard to make that game. When ever you download a Rom, you are doing the equivalent of going into Gamestop and stealing it. Ofcoarse, i'm sure you think that stealing a game from Gamestop is wrong, so why would you download Rom's?
 
DJ Radio in reply to dsman195276Nov 2, 2009. 8:31 PM
Well, it should be OK if the company doesn't sell the game anymore since it's so old.  You have no other way to get the game otherwise.
Sypran in reply to DJ RadioFeb 15, 2010. 2:48 PM
agreed specially if its one of the rarest games (lets say only 1,000 are made) selling it of course = illegal, but playing around with your own personal use  and the games no longer sold by the company they make no money off it anymore. I agree it should be legal.
Whats the chances that your going to stumble on an NES game that was never released, never fully completed? well demo cart is undoubtedly going to be extremely rare. probably slim to none. a rom would let you be able to play the game. and it's not liek they made money or are continuing to make this game.
dsman195276 (author) in reply to DJ RadioNov 5, 2009. 2:55 PM
Ya, it's a little different if your downloading a old pacman game verses a game that just came out.
samskinburg in reply to samskinburgJul 30, 2009. 1:03 PM
oh and landon what do you mean by mods
klip5 says: Mar 7, 2010. 8:48 AM
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klip5 in reply to klip5Mar 7, 2010. 8:56 AM
oh yes and dsman you must have smoked your self stupid if you think the goverment is going to get you i have downloaded all ds games new and oldish iv never had cops at my door unless they were arresting me for selling pot wich is illegal.ps i have some fire dro if you lookin lol
Sypran says: Feb 15, 2010. 4:47 PM
and wait I found the code i needed how can I make it an action replay code? I don't need it for my emulated game, but I need it for my physical game
cdousley says: Dec 28, 2009. 9:15 AM
what is a ROM
IgnorantZebra says: Jun 18, 2009. 12:38 PM
*5 btw what game is this
Capt. Kidd in reply to IgnorantZebraJul 30, 2009. 11:36 AM
its mario and luigi superstar saga, and awesome game. for gba though.
sigmazero13 says: Feb 3, 2009. 2:36 PM
I will admit, I'm not an expert with the Action Replay in specific, but at the end, when you say "subtract or add 2", you would probably be better off adding/subtracting 4 in many cases. If the second half of the code is the "value", it's a 4-byte value: each pair of 2 hexadecimal digits is one byte.

0123456789AB
A_B_C_

If you entered the address of A, you'd have the value "01234567". If you only added 2, and entered the address of B, you'd have the value "456789AB". Lets say you CHANGED A to FFFFFFFF. If you then look at B, it would be "FFFF89AB", which may or may not be what you intend.

Again, though, this is assuming the Action Replay memory addressing is roughly similar to other computer memory systems. And the addressing may be reversed (IE, above, I assume A + 2 = B. It might be A - 2 = B), but I just thought I'd point it out that going by 4's may prevent memory overlapping.
dsman195276 (author) in reply to sigmazero13Feb 3, 2009. 3:04 PM
i have found some games where values are every 4 addresses, and some where values are every 2 addresses. since nothing done in a action replay is saved(except if you save a game, but when a game is saved, only some of the action replay codes are saved with it, and those are ones where addresses are changed and the ending result is stable(like changing pokemon), then it is saved, but things that glitch up the game will never be saved)
sigmazero13 in reply to dsman195276Feb 3, 2009. 3:13 PM
It very well could be that way; I'm not an expert in this particular case by any means :) Oh, and it looks like my "diagram" got messed up. The "B" is supposed to be underneath the 4, and the "C" is supposed to be underneath the "8" :)
dsman195276 (author) in reply to sigmazero13Feb 3, 2009. 4:24 PM
ya, instructables always seems to get rid of spaces. i am also not a expert in this field. i know a good amount but that is mainly from what i have read, and tested. i have never actually found a code for my ds, just edited them. this is due to the fact that my computer just chokes when it tries to run anything like a DS emulator. i was barely able to make this instructable because my computer was freezing every once in a while when i ran the VBA.
zap89 says: Apr 1, 2008. 7:29 AM
whats an emulator?...
dsman195276 (author) in reply to zap89Apr 1, 2008. 12:07 PM
a emulator is a program that runs a game system on a computer.
ojochris in reply to dsman195276Apr 24, 2008. 1:11 PM
And you can't tell us where to get one? Do you know why it's illegal?
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