ROM Hack Golden Sun Editor

[Kaleid]

Here are my save editors for Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

The editors are presented in a modular format. This means you only need to keep (and update) the editors you want. No reason to have editors you will never use, right?

The only files that are mandatory are Golden Sun - Main.exe and Pandora.dll. The former is the main program. You would use this to access the editors. The latter is where the magic happens.

I have implemented smart game detection. This means you simply load a file and the proper editor will load automatically, if you have it. If you don't have a proper editor, the program will let you know.

Features:
- Supports drag and drop. Simply drop a file onto the main form to load it!
- Save state files only! No battery files. (Editing battery files is pointless anyway.)
- Process editing. Edit the memory of an emulator in real-time!
- Export the WRAM portion of the save file, uncompressed.

Bad things:
- Only supports process editing for VBA (SVN 1097) and DeSmuME 0.9.8 x86. Pointers are located in different spots in each build. Until I can find a better way of finding what I need, this is how it is.

Required Files:
Main Program
Pandora (Revision 6)

Optional Files:
Golden Sun (Revision 3)
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Revision 2)
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Revision 2)

Thank you for your time.

 

[Yepi69]

Basically this is like an PokeGen editor for Golden Sun save states right ?

 

[Kaleid]

It is a save editor. It supports editing save states, but not battery saves. Decoding algorithms is an unnecessary time sink.

It can also cut out the middleman and attach directly to a running emulator. While attaching, all functions work exactly the same as if you open a save state.

Process editing is in it's baby stages atm, as it's not very intuitive to automatically detect to which version of the emulator you are attaching. It works with the emulator version listed in the original post.

This was a side project, or a test project to see if I could get Isaac back up and running. If it works out, expect great things for the future.

 

[Awdofgum]

cool. i can start a golden sun game and skip the intro.

 

[BORTZ]

Lol i stop making everyone react to EVERYTHING

 

[Hebon]

Just to clarify, when you say battery saves aren't allowed, what does that entail. Does this editor actually edit a rom file, or is it just a save state? It'd be cool if I could play a modded Golden Sun on my M3.

 

[Kaleid]

Correct, it does not edit battery saves. Most games use an algorithm to check the integrity of save data. Decoding this algorithm is a huge waste of time, as the same editing can be done at the state or even emulation level.

It does not edit ROMs, as they also require some type of decoding that I just don't have time to deal with. I will update the original post to make it more clear what can be done here.

 

[Qtis]

Just to check before doing anything to my saves: Is it possible to add Djinn to the save? I missed one by going in the wrong direction (second playthrough) and saved afterwards. Basically am very near the end and I'd prefer not to start playing it from the start.

EDIT: The DS version in question (aka Dark Dawn).

 

[Kaleid]

As a precaution, and this applies to any file on your computer, always make a backup if you are unsure of the results.

You may add any Djinn to any of your characters. Also, no changes are saved until you click the save button in the menu dropdown. So, you may peruse the editors without fear of breaking your saves.

Also, always backup your stuff. Always.

 

[Qtis]

As a precaution, and this applies to any file on your computer, always make a backup if you are unsure of the results.

You may add any Djinn to any of your characters. Also, no changes are saved until you click the save button in the menu dropdown. So, you may peruse the editors without fear of breaking your saves.

Also, always backup your stuff. Always.

Yeah I've got a backup, but just wanted to make sure it was possible.. Now I can possibly play the game till the end

 

[JMSMORIARTY]

Can you reupload ? I lost the third Oriacholm without prior saving and I fucked up a little...

 

[FAST6191]

Can you reupload ? I lost the third Oriacholm without prior saving and I fucked up a little...

Both the main download and later ones on
https://gbatemp.net/threads/project-isaac.297313/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/project-isaac.297313/page-5
Which is what the same author eventually made/bundled together still seem to be available. Might be better to grab those and see what goes.

 

[JMSMORIARTY]

Both the main download and later ones on
https://gbatemp.net/threads/project-isaac.297313/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/project-isaac.297313/page-5
Which is what the same author eventually made/bundled together still seem to be available. Might be better to grab those and see what goes.

Thank you so much, I used the search and find nothing