gecko searches

[savage]

what should i be looking for with my gecko to make wii ware and vc codes, i tried to my a code for a nes game and none of the strings that came up were right?

[GMO]

you need gecko os 1931, then you either need WiiRd or Gecko.Net to find codes, other than that you just need time.
CHeck out this thread

http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,101.0.html or CLICK HERE

[savage]

you need gecko os 1931, then you either need WiiRd or Gecko.Net to find codes, other than that you just need time.
CHeck out this thread

http://wiird.l0nk.org/forum/index.php/topic,101.0.html or CLICK HERE

i have geck os and wiird and dotnet but should i change values maybe 16bit instead of 32 for original nes games?, i can find codes on regular wii games np but just for the hell of it i was messin around with adventure island for nes(yes its not worth hacking)and all the codes i would seasrch for never would do anything....

[dcx2]

NES is an 8 bit system, so try 8-bit searches.

[savage]

i just tried that before you posted><  it did not work on adventur island but it did work on a couple other thanx!, Hey GMO, did you ever do anything with the socom serieses for ps2, if so we might have bumped into each other...

[GMO]

What kind of code were you trying to make in Adventure Island? Majority of its codes are 8-Bit searches. If you were trying to make a lives code, if i remember since I last hacked it, it uses the Zero Life Concept. Health was a little more complicated since it was factor into how much time it took to finish the stage, and also if you stayed time for a minute you also die.

[savage]

i was tryin for lives, still have not been able to get it, what range should i look in c0 d0 80 90 ..... ?

update: tryied all ranged and still nadda, do i need to change to hooks in gecko...i really dont know what im not doing right,,......seems like the older games are harder than new...lol

[GMO]

Hacking Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqdo8qW43ZE <- FCRE Lives using ZLC
Hacking Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXTcqQvcNk <- FCRE Lives using Unknown Search
Hacking Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksa9xIVbhPg <- <- FCRE Lives using Unknown Search (Gameplay)


Zero Life Concept (ZLC) 00=01
Many Old School Consoles such as NES, SMS, TG16, and Neo Geo utilize this. Have you notice when you die and your playing your lives says Zer0 (0)? many games actually read your zero life as 01. So let us say your screen says 02 lives and it uses the zero life concept. The game actually reads it as 03. 00 = 01.  Now try this concept in Adventure Island.


Do an 8-Bit Search for 03, You should have a couple thousand results.
Now kill yourself.


Do an 8-Bit Search for 02


Now KILL yourself


Do an 8-Bit Search for 01


Now that you only have 2 results left you can start poking

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Simple enough? Took 1 minute to find, 2 minutes to take screen shots, 3 minutes to post, 2 minutes to edit the post on what to do.
P.S. On NES games you'll 98% of the game will never leave the 80 mem range, unless your hacking the Turbo Grafx 16 version then ONLY will you be in 90 mem2 range

On a side note, you could of easily done this using the unknown search as well. Set it to 8-Bit, Set to Equal, Unknown Value, Click Start.
Each time you die you could would click Less Than, and click search. Die again, click Last value, make search it is on less than, and click search.

[savage]

thanks i found were i messed up at, i super appreciate the walk through....i was searchin for 2 and not counting the life i was on already.... still not used to the unkown search part of gecko...so that also helpedx... 1 more question and i should be good to go for a long time.. i was using uknown to try and find jump hieght for another game... did search... then hold - and search (wii mote) never got the code i was searching, maybe i didnt hold the wii mote steady enough?

also i hope it wasnt much trouble for you to do that walk through

[GMO]

If you are referring jump height as a Moon Jump code then it's a little more complicated. I'll go a little more into detail about that on a later time, I'm catching up on C64 games for PAL users

[savage]

i think i kinda figured it out, i was messin with values and ended up floating into the air, but was able to still run and shoot, but could not crouch or prone or jump,, must be on the right track tho, unforunatly i was lookin for other codes and wiird froze and i forgot to save the code so i have to try and relocate it,ill try and post a screen shot

[GMO]

As long as you learned something from this, my J o B is done :)