Alright, love this blog, but the time has come for me to ask how you do it. I've played with databending before, and I've sequenced music in hexadecimal, and I've written some basic computer programs, so I think I should be able to get to grips with it, and rather than spending hours trying to has through something by myself and end up pissed off that I can't work it out, I thought I'd just ask the master. What do you do and how do you do it?

You came to the right entity jackpuke    Disabling line break syntax    For sake of simplicity    Because holy hell this is long

When it comes to hex editing    It’s less actually knowing the fundamentals of hexidecimal coding and values    And more going willy nilly with trial and error in finding where the graphics and sounds are located in the ranges    With that said though    I will show you the ropes kid    Show you thaaaaaaa ropes

With all hex editing and ROM corrupting programs    The main thing is editing the data tables    To create abrupt and severe changes to the game    Whether it be in sounds graphics controls redirections or the core programs    Sometimes they are organized very nicely by the creators    Others times like a rat in a maze    Jumbled in between coding that will freeze the game if altered    This is where your job comes in    You gotta find the right range    And edit them until you get a somewhat desired effect    The emulator I use for NES is NEStopia    Gameboy with Visual Boy Advance    Any emulator is good so long as it can screen capture and record AVIs for GIFs (which we’ll get into later) and WAVs for sound    And the two programs for hex editing are ROM Corrupter 5.99 by Dwedit and Hexecute    There are many others but these work best for me    I’ll go over each one

First is ROM Corrupter 5.99 by Dwedit    This is probably the most user friendly program you’re going to find    However a .ocx component it needs only works for non-Windows 8 systems    As the needed component can’t be licensed under Windows 8    As it’s not packaged for it or some other legal reason or lack of reason    So this program is only workable for lower models    Aside from that it is your best and quickest bet to get some NES ROMs fucked up

First is getting all the directories (1) straightened out    Make sure the emulator and ROM and newly created corrupted version are in the same folder    Once that’s kinked out the only thing left is to specify a range of values to hex edit (2)    Which bits (3)    And to apply the effect desired to selection (4)    Then click GO (5) if you want to stay on that range    Or AUTO which will move the specifications to the next range if you added one    Both will start up the emulator and load the corrupted ROM (6)

The advantages of this program is that it’s very very easy to change a huge amount of data quickly    Where most others you have to nick-pick your selection    And is able to hex edit NES SNES and Gameboy ROMs    It is also able to hold 10 global saves of your worktable    So you can access the range of a hardy ROM easily again    Or leave off on where you last were

The problems are two    Again it doesn’t work on Windows 8 which is common on today’s computers and laptops    You need to downgrade in order for it to register the neccessary component    The other one is that while it can make big changes in a friendly manner    It’s impossible to use for exact effects or more complex glitching    As you can only really have one selection at a time

For the second problem I head over to Hexecute    I don’t use Hexecute as much since it requires a lot of labor and is reserved for more patient people    But it in return it has massive advantages as well over ROM Corrupter 5.99    The first is that since everything is manual    You can have much more precise success in hex editing sound or graphics to your pleasing    And are able to change anything without having a limit range and hop over anywhere    The second one is that if you’re knowledgable in hexidecimal programming    You can immediately locate where everything is    Instead of dicking around with ROM Corrupter 5.99 and hoping for the best    The third one is you can open a corrupted ROM with ROM Corrupter 5.99 and compare it to the original ROM to see what was changed exactly    And the save the table as back-up to recreate the desired or close effect later on    The last and biggest one is probably the fact it works for Windows 8

Now how to work Hexecute    First make sure to make a duplicate of the ROM you wish to corrupt    As it will save over the one you currently have open    Instead of making a copy    As said it requires manual input    You don’t have to know programming in and out to use it well    Honestly there’s not that much to explain in using it    Just click where you want to change (1)    And begin    You can leave from there and move onto another spot    Should the sound or graphic data be jumbled up across the game    And save the table itself to implement into other ROMs under the dropdown menus (2)    Once finished save the ROM and open it up in the emulator (3)

Now for personal tips   1. When corrupting sound and graphics as whole use ROM Corrupter 5.99    And for more precise/sensitive values Hexecute    2. You will get a lot of CPU jams and freezes    If this is constantly happening you are probably in a core (data that supports the game directly)    Or controls    Or redirectories    3. If you are wanting to make GIFs    The shortest way is to save what you want as a GIF as an AVI    And then open up said AVI in Evan’s Movie To Animated GIF Converter (freeware)    Then select time intervals and export    And it will automatically have it saved as an automated GIF    You can also save separate frames and use Photoshop or GIMP and line them up and save as animated GIF    But that takes longer    4. If you want to resize an image    Use Photoshop or GIMP and scale image without any interpolation    To keep them pixels nice and crispy    5. Tumblr will reject some of your GIFs    That’s just how life rolls sometimes    6. BACK-UPS BACK-UPS BACK-UPS    Keep all the corrupted ROM copies you made    Maybe not for something like a screenshot    But definitely for ones you rendered AVIs or WAVs from    The ROM sizes are tiny as shit so you might as well be safe than sorry when you a AVI becomes unreadable (which does happen sometimes)    Or when Tumblr rejects your GIF    And trust me    Recreating the same effect with ROM Corrupter 5.99 without having it globally saved within it or Hexecute    Or remembering bits changed and how    Is fucking impossible    Especially if you use the random bits corrupted option    7. Master through practice    I’ve wasted 3 years of free time with this    And there’s still plenty of games and possibilities to dick around with    8. Have fun    No seriously if you don’t then what’s the fucking purpose    Money question mark    Ha ha ha ha    Good one    Anyways yeah    No point in keeping with something that bores you   You’ll have plenty of time to toil away with stuff no one cares about    So you might as well enjoy what you do with this

That is pretty much it    Hope you and other potential game glitchers out there find this useful    pC    Out

PS    Thanks for calling me master    Probably not but it’s good to be seen in high standards