Editing Compressed Graphics And Text

Using the disassembly is the only easy way to edit compressed graphics. In addition, compressed text can be modified through ZOTE, but it is easy to corrupt the proceeding text with that tool. This page will show you how to edit graphics and text through the disassembly, then insert those changes into a ZOLE-modded ROM.

Procedure

• Start by Setting up the Disassembly.
• Ensure that you followed the "Configuring" section in the above link so that you are in "modifiable mode".
• Edit any file in the gfx_compressible folder with your favourite graphics editor (such as YY-CHR), or edit text/text.txt with a text editor.
• When finished with those changes, run the following command, replacing <path_to_rom> with your rom's filename:

tools/insertDataIntoRom.sh <path_to_rom>

(Note: if you're on Windows, you can access your C drive through the /cygdrive/c folder. Conversely, you can access your cygwin drive through C:\cygwin64. You may want to copy your rom into the ages-disasm folder for convenience.)

• Your changes should take effect next time you run the ROM.