Official RBITool editor thread - 1.0 Update

[Mike D.]

I see, now others want to join in the fun.

tecmoturd 2, Darky 1

Beefmaster 1, Gantry 0

[Darky]

The old site will be up in a bit, you really don't have a single copy of the ROM on your computer anywhere?  You should definitely keep one there for backup purposes no matter what.  

I have all kinds of ROMS. I loaded my ROM into Turds editor on the virtual nes, but that does not fix the lineup issue...meaning I can't switch the lineup for Game 1....getting Morris vs Gooden in game one.

Again, I placed a ROM on the desktop, dragged it into Turd's RBI tool on my virtual nes, worked fine, but I have no idea as to how and re-arrange the line-ups.

[Turd]

I have no TONE!  Anyways, I have an idea...

For starters, did you unzip the file to a location on your hard drive? You can't run it from within the zip.

One you've done that, in the folder where you unzip it to, do you have the other files that came in the zip in the same folder as rbitool.exe? If not, it won't work.  By the screenshots you've sent, you're not having an issue with the framework, you're having an issue with the editor (I probably should trap for the error you're seeing and spit out a friendly message that tells you what you'e doing wrong).

[Turd]

Also, heh, I just noticed something...you have custom drawn icons (for chocolate).  That means that my editor won't be able to reproduce those, so you'll have to uncheck the "draw abbreviation tiles" checkbox so that it doesn't try to do so.

You don't do anything with VirtuaNES until you've created the rom from my editor. DOn't do any dragging from your computer to the editor, or the editor to VirtuaNES.

To change lineups, do this:

Click load from ROM, choose your rom. It'll hopefully put the text from the rom into the white editor box.  You can then re-arrange the the players in that textbox. Then, hit "create rom" and choose the rom to apply this to. (Be sure to backup your existing rom in case something goes wrong).

Now you have an edited ROM.  Load it up in VirtuaNES as usual and you should be good to go.

[Gantry]

The old site will be up in a bit, you really don't have a single copy of the ROM on your computer anywhere?  You should definitely keep one there for backup purposes no matter what. 

You can't play games with ROMs located on nightwulf's site... he'd have to have them locally somewhere unless he deletes them after the games every week.

Yeah I know that, please read my post again.  Then insist that MikeD give that point to me instead of you. 

[Darky]

Thanks for the help Turd...

Here is what is going to happen. I am going to baseball practice, then run some sprints followed up by a jog.

When I get back, I fully expect Gantry/Nightwulf to have the site fixed so I can just go in and change the SP's with no fuss...no muss.

Worst case scenario...Nightwulf's site is still down, I spend a good hour following your instructions, and maybe shit will work out or maybe I'll need to ask my questions. The Fantasy RBI Playoffs really needs to continue. This is not good for my league.

[Turd]

Find me on IM this evening otherwise and I'll help you out otherwise.

[Darky]

Putting everything in one folder helped. I zipped through it and made the necessary changes. Looks like the turd editor will be the official editor for the FRBI V LCS and WS.

You should have made clear instructions in your OP to put all the files in one folder meat...live and learn. Would have saved me a lot of time and less anger.

[Attezz]

I'm sure that's his primary concern.

[Turd]

I'm sure that's his primary concern.

While this quote is amusing, I will say that I agree I need to include instructions. It's simething I've been meaning to do. I guess I just assumed someone would unzipped the whole thing out to a folder.  Glad it worked for you. Let me k ow if you find bugs or whatever.

[Darky]

I'm sure that's his primary concern.

I'm sure you're a social disaster...

I will say that I agree I need to include instructions. It's simething I've been meaning to do. I guess I just assumed someone would unzipped the whole thing out to a folder.  Glad it worked for you. Let me k ow if you find bugs or whatever.

Yes! As smart as you think we are, some of us are right brained impaired and forget the details.

I'll play around with the ROM after the FRBI V playoffs...nothing personal, but I'm going back to Nightwulf's editor. It's seems a bit more practical and easier to use. In your editor, there is no switch button to change the SP order or the batting order. No big deal really, but it does take more time and it's harder to read...especially the player's ratings.

Nevertheless, thumbs up for your Editor.

[Turd]

No problem. It's more meant fir editing in excel and then dropping the csv right in and applying. I should cod some sort of lineup reorderer thing though, good call.

[Attezz]

I'm sure that's his primary concern.

I'm sure you're a social disaster

...some of us are right brained impaired and forget the details.

Yep, definitely me.

[TβG]

can the editor put the pitcher's spot in different places in the line-up?  sort of a "tony larussa" idea there.  bat the pitcher 8th and a position player 9th instead. 

also, maybe another idea would be a hack for DH.

since you got the 30 team rom put together, perhaps next could be a stadium editor?

great work all the way around.  i hope to someday be able to figure out your editor when it's complete and i have more time to understand what you were doing.

[Turd]

I didn't make the 30 team ROM, just helped with locations and how the ROM is laid out.

My editor (save for a few bugs) is complete for the 10 team rom version.  If there's something you need, I'd be glad to help.

It's not terribly confusing once you understand what's going on.  It's basically just a text file with each line representing a player.  If you double click one of those lines, you get a GUI for that player (or team, if you click on a team line).  When you're all done, just apply your changes to any ROM you like and it'll create the game for you.

I realize it's probably not noobish user-friendly, but it's pretty powerful once you get the hang of it.  I'm just used to the community over at Knobbe knowing how to use TSB Tool, which is basically the same exact thing, only for Tecmo.  I'll be glad to help anyone use it, just hit me on AIM.

As for the hacks you requested, I am still learning assembly, so I'm not much good to you in terms of the hacking department just yet. I'm a C# programmer, which allows me to read and write to the ROM, just not change it to do my bidding.  Tough to explain, but for now, the hacks we have are what we have.  Someday I hope to get good enough at assembly to write some cool shit, but for now I'll specialize in more modern programming.

[bonny]

Is any form of stat tracking possible? (team)

[Gantry]

I doubt it Bonny, something like that would have to be written from scratch into the game - a HUGE undertaking. 

[Turd]

Best we got is to manually extract at the end of the game.  I could probably write a utility to do this and have it save your season for you...so when you play your games, you, set a save state and it'll read in your stats for that game for you, and you could view your stats through there...that way at least you'd have your own stats...and your opponents...