PK Hack v0.5.14 by AnyoneEB

PK Hack v0.5.14 (source) Build time: January 19 2008 04:08:08 EST

You will need Java2 v1.4.2+ to run this. Get it for Windows or Linux (labeled "J2SE v n.n.n_nn JRE", not JDK!) at the Java download page: 1.4.2 or 1.5.0. If you have Mac OS X, then you may need to update your Java to v1.4.1. This version came out on March 10, 2003, so you probably have it if you have latest version of Mac OS X. Run "java -version" from the console if you are unsure what version you have. If you have Linux you might have a Java clone already installed.

Run by double-clicking the .jar file. If that doesn't work, run it by typing "java -jar jarfile.jar" where jarfile.jar is the name of the .jar file. If that doesn't work, you need to get Java.

Source is included under the GPL. Extract the files from the .jar using "jar -xf jarfile.jar" where jarfile.jar is the name of the .jar file. You can also change the extension to .zip and extract the files with anything that can extract from .zip files. It is also on the internet.

PK Hack is documented using javadoc. Anyone interested in writting their own PK Hack modules will find this useful.

More information and disscussion can be found in the PK Hack v0.5+ topic on the PK Hack forum of the starmen.net boards. I will make a post there whenever an update is made.

As of v0.5 JHack is now known as PK Hack. It is fine to refer to it as either name, although PK Hack is prefered. JHack or PK Hack v0.5+ can be used to clearify which PK Hack is meant (v0.2, v0.3, and now v0.5 of PK Hack are all separate code bases).

My current progress (that is, including between releases) changelog and todo list are available.

Change history:

v0.5.14

Event-Based Map Changes Editor: Can write changes data to the expanded area (thanks HyperBound, Michael2)
Battle Entry Editor: Improved, less confusing GUI
Battle Entry Editor: BUGFIX: Does not break if user deletes and enemy then saves (thanks The_Kirby)
BUGFIX: PK Hack can create valid empty preferences file (thanks Erik500002 et al.)
BUGFIX: Data in the first expanded MB is now nullified correctly
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Will not fill up your expanded area with door data
Changed all instances of "anyoneeb.ath.cx" to "anyoneeb.net"
Added Battle Swirl Editor

v0.5.13

Map Editor: BUGFIX: Local tileset data is saved correctly (thanks SilverFang)
BUGFIX: decomp returns the right length for compressed data that goes past the end of the ROM (thanks Spooky Mook)
Tile Editor: BUGFIX: import/export of arrangements worked incorrectly since v0.5.12
Enemy Placement Groups Editor: BUGFIX: Fixed bug with saving
Door Entry/Destination Editor: Improvement in GUI
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Scrolling during seeking fixed
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Tileset/palette link fixed
Map Editor: Added shortcuts to clear doors and enemies under "Tools"

v0.5.12.2

Map Editor: Dragging aligned with user's cursor
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Manual coordinate entry works
Map Editor: Added "Undo" button for tile changes
Text Editor: BUGFIX: Will not read text across bank boundaries. (EB will wrap around to the start of the bank.)

v0.5.12.1

BUGFIX: Fix RomMem.createIPS(). Buggy section only used in v0.5.12.
Switched original ROM back to memory instead of file IO for speed reasons.

v0.5.12

PSI Damage Editor: BUGFIX: writes properly
Fixed effects list: Offense up, Defense down, Hypnosis, Magnet, Paralysis, Brainshock have Alpha and Omega forms, not Alpha and Beta
Logo Screen Editor v0.2: Added image import.
Town Map Editor v0.2: Added image import.
Text Editor: corrections to code list and raw text listing (thanks Goplat)
Pointer Editor v0.3: More user friendly error messages
Graphics editors now have a no diagonals fill mode option (suggested by Radiation)
Eyedropper tool works properly when a palette contains identical colors
AbstractRom: BUGFIX: compare() works correctly for int[]'s
TileEditor v0.8: BUGFIX: Tile properties incorrectly reporting not enough space
TileEditor v0.8: More efficient storage for tile properties
Sprite Editor: BUGFIX: Image import selects colors properly when palette 4 is selected
Level-Up Experience Editor v0.3: Added import/export as .csv
BUGFIX: extension appended in save dialog after user-entered extension in caps (thanks EBrent)
BUGFIX: Tile Selector stretched 8x8 tiles to 17x17 instead of 16x16 (thanks n42)
Some reworking done so classes do not care how they were loaded - to be used in the future to support by-module updates of PK Hack
Hex Editor: BUGFIX: Checks that searches are entered correctly
BUGFIX: RomFileIO now properly implements readByteSeek(); effects unknown (none?)
Text Editor: BUGFIX: Goto works for the start of the raw text area (thanks JeffMan)
BUGFIX: decomp() will not attempt read past the end of the ROM (thanks Spooky Mook and MrTenda)
BUGFIX: RomMem does not react as badly to attempted reads past the end of the ROM (related to above BUGFIX)
Added Title Screen Editor without import/export or letter position editing
IPS Patch Maker v0.7: Offers to use the same original ROM used for backups
The original ROM used for backups is now loaded as file IO instead of into memory. This will save memory, but may cause certain operations to run slower.

v0.5.11

Flyover Editor v0.2: BUGFIX: 6MB ROM problem
Flyover Editor v0.2: BUGFIX: Text areas scroll when text is too long
Flyover Editor v0.2: Now uses Text Editor's text parsing
Condiment Editor: BUGFIX: Actually opens.
Enemy Editor: Corrected weakness for damage PSI to max at 100%, not 200% (thanks Radiation)
Gas Station Editor: BUGFIX: palettes can be changed separately after image load (thanks BlueStone)
BUGFIX: writeToFree will not overwrite other data or write outside of ROM because of unexpected size of data because of FF shielding (thanks BlueStone)
Ctrl-click can be used instead of right-click on palettes to change colors (thanks Weldar)

v0.5.10

Item Editor: BUGFIX: Workaround for bug where extra power would get set to the item number.
ROM File IO: BUGFIX: array reading can no longer return null; caused problems with decomp
Text Editor: BUGFIX: Special characters (including line breaks) are converted to spaces before attempting to save
Enemy Editor: "IQ" changed to "Luck" (thanks Radiation)
Misc. Crap Editor: BUGFIX: Text field's maximum length increased to 5
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Dragging sprites, doors, and hotspots is fixed
Door Entry/Destination Editor: Comboboxes for entry and destination selection instead of text boxes
Added Text Editor (for Wheel of Fortune for the NES)
Sprite Editor v0.10: BUGFIX: h-flip flag handled correctly
Sprite Editor v0.10: BUGFIX: Export sprite now always exports what you see
Sprite Editor v0.10: will import images with off-palette colors to closest colors
Battle Sprite Editor v0.2: will import images with off-palette colors to closest colors by current palette
Battle Sprite Editor v0.2: BUGFIX: Import image sizes are checked.
Condiment Editor: BUGFIX: There are 44, not 45, entries in the table.
EbHackModule: decomp() always returns the number of bytes read to allow for partial decomp; libcomp major version must now be 3 (not 2) for native decomp to be used
"Partial decomp" now attempted by the following editors when they encountered corrupted compressed data: Tile Editor, Battle Sprite Editor, Town Map Editor
Reset Button v0.6: Allows loading of ROMs other than EarthBound
SPT Editor v0.6: Can allocate an area for new sprites. Useful for making sprites bigger.
Item Editor/others: BUGFIX: Item combo boxes always show the right item name (thanks Radiation)
Reverting only results in as big a ROM as needed.

v0.5.9

Enemy Placement Groups Editor: Made ctrl-click have the opposite effect on meters
Map Editor: Added enemy previewing using sprites and options to enable it and colors
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Enabling the showing of map changes and using Enemy Mode works
Editors with Map Previews: BUGFIX: Error is not produced when preview is shown
Tile Editor: BUGFIX: Changing tile selector grid lines preference correctly redraws multi-clipboard (thanks BlueAntoid)
Gas Station Editor: BUGFIX: Tile selector shows last 20 tiles.
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Shift-clicking on tile palette in Enemy Mode doesn't open Tile Editor
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Cannot select 0xcb in tile palette in Enemy Mode
Music/Flags Correlations Editor: BUGFIX: Event flag fields allow for hex number entry
Music/Flags Correlations Editor: BUGFIX: Writes pointer table correctly

v0.5.8

PSI Editor: Row selector changed to text field so any row may be chosen
AutoSearchBox: Exact find option added, applied to Item and PSI Editors
Item Editor: See above
PSI Editor: See above above
LevelUpEditor: Dump button added
Added Enemy Placement Groups Editor
Map Editor: Added "Enemy Edit" mode
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Sprites save correctly
Event Music Editor: BUGFIX: Changing of default music works

v0.5.7

Map Editor: BUGFIX: Sprite positions are not slightly off
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Tileset names are correct
Map Editor: Added copy/paste sector feature
Map Editor: Uses map data pointer table
Editors with Map Previews: BUGFIX: Clicking on preview doesn't cause an error
Event-Based Map Changes Editor: BUGFIX: Non-numerical input is ignored when deleting tile changes (except for "all" or "none")
Battle Entry Editor: Added game order view like Enemy Editor
Made some spelling corrections in sptNames.txt (thanks NLA)
Photo Editor: BUGFIX: Only shows normal sprite entries that will actually appear in photo (if the TPT entry's event flag is 0)
HexEditor: BUGFIX: Works no matter what the default charset is set to.
Item Editor: BUGFIX: Values containing 0's or 9's work.
Map Sector Properties Editor: BUGFIX: Saving works correctly
Map Sector Properties Editor: Added map preview of sector
Music/Flags Correlations Editor: BUGFIX: Fixed saving issue

v0.5.6.1

AbstractRom: BUGFIX: Forced ROM types to not be "".
AbstractRom: BUGFIX: Errors in the load ROM dialog are caught and shown in a dialog box as well as the normal console.
Attempted to fix bug where PK Hack would sometimes immediately error and die. As a result, the GUI and error console flash open and closed when PK Hack starts.
HexEditor: BUGFIX: Works correctly when another ROM is loaded
Clarified a few dialogs and fixed some typos
Item Editor: BUGFIX: The type combobox only allows the entry of numbers.
AutoSearchBox: BUGFIX: Correctly compares to null (this bug caused problems in the item editor)

v0.5.6

Enemy Editor v0.6: Added game order view like PK Hack v0.2. ROM-specific enemyGameOrder.txt files may be used.
Tile Editor v0.7: Added Multi-Clipboard for minitiles (suggested by NeSs79)
Added error messages for missing emptyPrefs.xml and preferences.dtd files.
Town Map Editor: BUGFIX: Fixed bug in import.
Text Editor: BUGFIX: toggling codes only does not change modified status (bug reported by GuyInSummers)
Pointer Editor v0.2: pointers may be entered as regular (0x) or SNES ($)
Pointer Editor v0.2: BUGFIX: Only hex numbers may be typed
Gas Station Editor: BUGFIX: various image import related fixes
Hotspot Editor: BUGFIX: All required data is loaded when editor is opened
Teleport Destination Editor: BUGFIX: Seeking behaves properly
Map Editor: BUGFIX: After saving, doesn't explode
Door Editor: BUGFIX: Prevents accessing door entries in out-of-range areas
Map Sector Properties Editor: BUGFIX: Prevents accessing sector properties in out-of-range sectors

v0.5.5.2

Updated codelist.txt (thanks EBPlayer1028)
Added image import to gas station editor.
Map Editor: Map Editor-related data is not loaded when the ROM is loaded
Map Editor: Added Error menu and sprite/door error dialogs (no longer displayed in console)
Door Editor: Added link for text pointer to the Text Editor
Photo Editor: BUGFIX: Preview's palette changes when palette selection changes
Teleport Editor: Added "Go To" button
Teleport Table Editor: Added "Go To" button

v0.5.5.1

Added "Hide Error Dialog" option
Map Editor: Re-added sprite caching
Map Editor: Added limit on sprite entries per sector (30)
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Vertical door dragging fixed
Door Editor: BUGFIX: Switching destinations doesn't break stuff
Event-Based Map Changes Editor: BUGFIX: Flag field updates when switching flag groups
Added description for window 0x32 (Windows Flavor Chooser)

v0.5.5

Added auxillary windows and type AutoSearchBox to Item Editor
Added Battle Entry Editor
Added Map Sector Properties Editor
Map Editor: Added link to Map Sector Properties Editor
Map Editor: Added "Find Sprite with TPT Entry" feature
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Door entries are written contiguously in Expanded Area

v0.5.4.1

Misc. Crap Editor: BUGFIX: Reads miscData.txt correctly
Photo Editor: BUGFIX: Last photo accessible by GUI

v0.5.4

Added Misc. Crap Editor
Item Editor: labels updated
Action Editor: BUGFIX: null asm effect bug fixed
Sound effect listing fixed up
Added Event-Based Map Changes Editor
Map Editor: BUGFIX: fixed dragging between sectors issue with sprites and doors
Map Editor: added links to other editors at the top
Map Editor: added event-based map changes viewing option
Music/Flags Correlations Editor: BUGFIX: you can add correlations even if there are none
Map Editor: BUGFIX: can recover from and fix bad sprite entries

v0.5.3

A few SPT names additions from JeffMan
SPT Editor: BUGFIX: horizontally flipped sprites are shown correctly (address bit 1 set)
BUGFIX: Special properties of destinationless doors write correctly
Map Editor: can jump to destinations
Door Editor: can edit special properties of destinationless doors
Photo Editor: BUGFIX: now displays flags/palettes in their fields correctly
BUGFIX: 6MB expansion now changes byte to trigger SNES9x's ToP workaround, so 6MB ROMs work in SNES9x now.
Map Editor and Photo Editor have better dragging
Map Editor: added hotspot editing
Photo Editor: preview shows palettes and palettes can be edited
Door Editor: BUGFIX: Doesn't mess up while changing types
Added Hotspot Editor

v0.5.2

BUGFIX: FindFreeRange now only finds ranges that are within a single bank.
Gas Station Editor: BUGFIX: Pasting palette before copying does nothing.
Gas Station Editor: BUGFIX: Saves correctly if palette before and after flash are read from the same place.
BUGFIX: Title of main window is correctly changed after a "save as"
Added Window Position Editor.
SPT Editor v0.5: Added all sprites flip and swap x/y buttons.
Map Editor: BUGFIX: Map Editor writes doors correctly
Map Editor: Map changes not saved directly
Teleport Table Editor: Previews/seeks the destination
Teleport Editor: Previews/seeks the destination
Door Editor: accessible from main menu
Added Music/Flags Correlations Editor
Text Editor: added option for CCs to be in upper or lower case
Text Editor: new codelist.txt (thanks GuyInSummers)

v0.5.1.2

Map Editor: BUGFIX: Map Editor handles event flags in door destinations correctly
Map Editor: draggable door entries

v0.5.1.1

BUGFIX: Upon loading a 4 MB ROM the ask to expand window would appear. Minor because it would not expand past 4 MB.
Text Editor: BUGFIX: Expanded meg editing works with 6MB ROMs.

v0.5.1

Native comp() and decomp() support.
48 megabit/6 megabyte/ExHiRom support. User is given choice as needed. Auto-expand is still to 4 MB if enabled.
Hex Editor: BUGFIX: goto doesn't allow entry of non-hex digits
Due to display problems, the CDE/Motif look and feel is no longer offered.
Compression format for auto-update download may be selected (zip, 7z, bz2, rar)
Enemy Editor: Added impossible to run flag and mirror success rate % (Unknown J)
Battle Sprite Editor: BUGFIX: shows error message on attempted import of an image with invalid colors (instead of dying).
Disallows editing of default ROM. Disallows load in direct IO mode, and disallows save in non-direct IO mode.
SPT Editor: BUGFIXes: Paste without copy does nothing instead of dying, and hex text fields only allow hex digits to be entered.
Tile Editor: If tiles are compressed wrong, selecting "fail" will attempt to display whatever could be decompressed.
Reset Button: No longer truncates nulls before compressing.
Sprite and SPT Editors: When showing sprites with a palette of 4 (which means use current map palette), a list of tilesets and palettes is offered to show how the sprite will look in different maps (thanks Mr. Accident)
Map Editor: Added sprite and door placement (written by MrTenda)
Added Credits Photo editor (written by MrTenda)

v0.5.0.2

IPSFile: BUGFIX: IPS creation no longer uses recursion, should fix obscure bug Red80 was getting.
IPSFile: better error handling; won't attempt to create IPS if modified file is larger than original file
Error console: waits for 4 seconds no output before asking to send error.
Error console: "error reporting error" messages can be copy and pasted from.
Made compressed graphics editors not output errors for decompression errors, just dialogs and to the regular console.
IPS Database: BUGFIX: Click apply with nothing selected
AbstractRom: File not found errors no longer printed to error console, dialog still appears.
AbstractRom: Only Earthbound ROMs of exactly 0x300200 may be expanded.
Sprite Editor: BUGFIX: Background color no longer changes on saving, and background color can be set by right-clicking on it in the palette. (thanks to NLA)
Sprite Editor: Error message shown if imported sprite image is too big.
Tile Editor: Added abort/retry/fail upon decompression errors like the other graphics editors.
Tile Editor: Error message on palette reading failure.
Misc. Text Editor: BUGFIX: Strings can now be set to blank/empty.
Text Editor: BUGFIX: Can save strings that deparse to longer than 8 KB and can load strings that are longer than 8 KB and/or parse to longer than 80 KB. Should also improve text editor memory usage.
Reset Button: BUGFIX: Entry of ranges with an end before the start is no longer permitted. If attempted, the start and end will be switched.
Hex Editor: BUGFIX: You can't edit address and text columns, could result in trying to edit outside of ROM.
Battle Sprite Editor: BUGFIX: Typing in no digits (and zero or more other symbols) into the palette selector and hitting enter caused an error.
Store Editor: Added null entry to start.
Attempts to save, save as, or close ROM will no longer cause errors when no ROM has been loaded.
Text Editor: Warns user about losing changes if they switch text blocks with a "Save"/"Don't Save"/"Cancel" dialog.
XMLPreferences: Added error dialogs.
Enemy Editor: BUGFIX: Doesn't die on out of range out of battle sprite value.
Phone List Editor: BUGFIX: Shows error message on invalid input instead of dying.

v0.5.0.1

BUGFIX: IMPORTANT: AFFECTS MOST EDITORS. Number text fields work right. (Would load incorrect values in v0.5)
Text Editor: Improved error handling.
Dialog window now informs user if a ROM file is not found.

v0.5

eb.TextEditor v0.6: Added support for multiple CC parsers. Used for coffee/tea/flyover and ending credits to be parsed according to teacodelist.txt and creditcodelist.txt. Also added option for a CC parser to not use compression, which is used for those two.
eb.MiscTextEditor v0.5: Added Lumine hall text, max window width (250px)
HexEditor: fixed bug where the goto switched regular and snes pointers
Most recently loaded ROM is automatically loaded when JHack is opened. (suggested by JamesPicard_007) This can be disabled in the options menu. (suggested by GuyInSummers)
SpriteEditor: BUGFIX: Hitting cancel on import/export no longer results in an error.
Added log files. Two log files are created for each session with filenames in the format ~/.jhack/logs/yyyyMMddHHmmss.out.log (and .err.log). (doesn't work with -c/--console argument)
Automated error reporting (doesn't work with -c/--console argument)
Rom class separated into AbstractRom and RomMem. Some of RomFileIO moved to AbstractRom as non-optimised implementations.
Added some of JeffMan's graphics work to IPS Database
New version notification only shown once. (suggested by JamesPicard_007)
BUGFIX: A few comp() bugs fixed (thanks to Faolan for the bug report and Goplat for helping fix them). Attempt made to ensure that any other comp() bugs will not be fatal, unsure if it works.
BUGFIX: Selecting "Close ROM" now hides module windows.
Enemy Editor: BUGFIX: Problems related to too high arguments are fixed and show a warning message to inform the user what happened. (thanks EBPlayer1028)
Minimised work done on ROM load (moved to module load) in order to do less unneeded tasks and speed up ROM loading.
Added Map Editor. (written by MrTenda)
Created JLinkComboBox to make creation of links easier. Made lots of new links.
Created NumericMaxLengthDocument for numbers-only text boxes (currently decimal numbers only). Changed many JTextFields to use this.
Changed name to PK Hack!

v0.4.7.1

IPS Database support added for gas station and town map editors
SPT start changed to entry 0x00 instead of 0x01.
Fixed Hex Editor bugs where the last byte of the file would not appear and goto would not always work
Text Editor: Added undo/redo to text area ([ctrl]+[z]/[ctrl]+[y])
Text Editor: [0A XX XX XX XX] correctly recognized as end of text block
Font Editor: offers to apply battle font width hack, and correctly reacts to it being applied (thanks Chris_Davis)
DrawingToolset: [ctrl]+[1-8] changes selected drawing tool in all graphics editors

v0.4.7

Text Editor: raw text range start moved from 0x51D12 to 0x50200. Index of text entries will no longer match that of other text editors.
IPSFile: .ips code has been made faster in all areas except for checking if the .ips has been applied.
IPS Database v0.5: Added API for support for non-ips files. Used by Font Editor, etc. Modified database to take advantage of this.
Font Editor v0.4: Added support for IPS Database entries
Reset Button: Major speed increase on reset area. Mainly affects Direct File IO mode.
Battle Sprite Editor: bugfix: sprite renaming now works correctly (thanks FaulkFan420)
(IntArr|Image)DrawingArea: bugfix: attempts to drag selections outside of allowed area now are ignored. (thanks FaulkFan420)
(IntArr|Image)DrawingArea: width and height increased by one pixel so the bottom/right edge gridline is drawn where is should be. Makes selections on those edges visible.
Added dialog when an unexpanded Earthbound ROM is loaded asking if the user wants to expand the ROM with a remember checkbox.
Added IPS Database entry support in Window Border and Logo Screen Editors
TPT Editor: Moved start down one so previous #0 is now #1. #0 is now correctly shown as Ness.
Enemy Editor: moved enemy display down one so "null" is shown as #0, as it should. Modifying "null" is not allowed.
Item Editor: modifying "Null" item (#0) is not allowed.

v0.4.6.2

BUGFIX: ROM expansion works; specifically, original ROMs will now get expanded correctly automatically (previously caused JHack to sometimes be unable to close)
BUGFIX: Set original ROM menu option now works when no ROM is loaded
BattleSpriteEditor: You can now type in a number and hit enter to select a palette, instead of selecting it from the list.
Added MrTenda's Map Viewer

v0.4.6.1

BUGFIX: Modified console/error window code to not take up full processor at all times.

v0.4.6

Added PSI Damage Editor (by JeffMan)
Added "console" windows for regular and error output, so no more messing around with DOS to see it. The regular output window can be disabled from the main "options" menu. If you want the output to go to the console like before, use the new "-c" or "--con
All graphics editors now have options for toggling grid lines in their tile selectors and arrangement editors (separate options).
All compressed graphics editors now will show abort/retry/fail windows if they are unable to read the compressed data.
New net/starmen/pkhack/romtypes.txt file used for identifying ROM types (which game). See comments in file for explaination of format.
fixed bug: revert menu doesn't automatically close all editors to force them to reload from the newly reverted ROM
Battle Sprite Editor: Added warning when size is changed with ok/cancel option.

v0.4.5

Added Gas Station Editor (by n42)
Added PSI Editor (by EBisumaru)
Added links to Item Editor (by EBisumaru)
Editors for full screen graphics (town map, logo, gas station) will now have have scroll bars when nessacary

v0.4.4

Added Logo Screen Editor
Window Border Graphics Editor v0.3: Added import/export and flavor names can be any length
Sprite Editor: Added palette selection (previously only in SPT Editor), address display, and jump to SPT Editor menu option

v0.4.3

Added Town Map Editor
Tile Editor: much faster editing!

v0.4.2.3

TPT Editor v0.2: bugfix: secondary pointer writes correctly
TPT Editor v0.2: entries of type item can now have money or items

v0.4.2.2

Battle Sprite Editor: bugfix: no longer makes it look like you can edit palettes past 31
Text Editor v0.5: shows current position within a text block and goto supports jumping forward or backward by prefixing target with '+' or '-'.
IPS Database v0.3: Added "unapply" button

v0.4.2.1

Text Editor: bug fix: no longer compresses text between [19 02] and [02] (note that it's a bit dirty, so after any CC block ending with [19 02] it will stop compressing
Item Editor: "Permanent" checkbox (which was two bits) has been separated into "Disallow Give" and "Unknown" checkboxes

v0.4.2

Window Border Graphics Editor v0.2: added preview
Enemy Editor: added battle sprite preview
Action Editor: fixed bug where ASM addresses not in list would not get read correctly
Battle Sprite Editor: added support for importing .bmp files (supports the same ones that work with the old editor)

v0.4.1

Added Battle Sprite Editor
Added Pointer Editor (Chris_Davis is making a _much_ longer list)
Added Actions Editor (written by EBisumaru) for editing battle/item effects
Made text preview boxes only update when you hit the refresh button instead of as you type (the black boxes in the item, enemy, and font editors)

v0.4

Added Window Border Graphics Editor
Added support for modules for games other than Earthbound (but no such modules exist yet)

v0.3.9.6

Lots of code clean-up and graphics fixes (everything should look right now with any look and feel)
Hex Editor v0.2: Added goto and find buttons
Font Editor: Added display of which ASCII character and which control code represents the selected character
Earthbound ROM wrapper v0.6: Added seek() and related methods to allow C-like file access and cleaner reading/writing code
Made module catagories expandable/collapsable (all start collapsed) so make finding modules easier
Teleport Destinations Editor: Added PPU selector to switch between 8 and 32 PPU (made by EBisumaru)

v0.3.9.5

Added Look & Feel selection to options menu
Various graphics changes/fixes

v0.3.9.4

Added links to Text Editor in item, enemy, tpt, and phone editors

v0.3.9.3

Font Editor v0.3: Bug fix: reads and writes Battle and Tiny fonts correctly

v0.3.9.2

Added Hex Editor

v0.3.9.1

Font Editor v0.2: Added import/export and fixed bug where you could select non-existant characters
Made "ask to update" dialog not get messed up and made it support version numbers up to 35 in each place instead of 9

v0.3.9

Added Font Editor

v0.3.8.6

Tile Editor marks foregroud tiles that you cannot write to (makes them grey with a red X over them)
Text Editor: updated codelist.txt (thank you to all who worked on it)

v0.3.8.5

Text Editor: Bug fix: Does not crash on non-expanded ROMs

v0.3.8.4

Text Editor: starts up four times faster

v0.3.8.3

Text Editor: Fixed various parsing problems

v0.3.8.2

Text Editor v0.3: Added text compression

v0.3.8.1

Text Editor v0.2: Added lots of stuff (but not compression)
Don't Care Editor has an option to remember if you want the six-char hack

v0.3.8

Added Text Editor.

v0.3.7.6.7

Bug fix: TPT Editor: saves

v0.3.7.6.6

Tile Editor: Selection and selection movement in arrangements now supports mouse dragging.

v0.3.7.6.5

Works

v0.3.7.6.4

Tile Editor: You can now select minitiles in arrangements by holding [ctrl] and clicking. [alt]+click and drag moves the selection. Plain left or right click flattens the selection. Selection will not be saved if not flattened.
Teleport Table Editor: now shows direction correctly
Enemy Editor: weakness tab combo box selections clearified

v0.3.7.6.3

Playable Sprite Table Editor v0.2: Added targeting and enemy selection for NPCs (NPC Battle Table editing)

v0.3.7.6.2

Enemy Editor v0.5: Added weaknesses tab

v0.3.7.6.1

Condiment Editor: added "Cold Cure" and "Poison Cure" to effects list
Enemy Editor: relabeled "Run Flag" to the more clear "Fear higher leveled PCs?"
Made _ALL_ save and load boxes use default directory

v0.3.7.6

Added TPT Editor
Added recent loads to file menu of main GUI (up to 5 most recent)

v0.3.7.5.5

Fixed bug: module buttons now appear with Java v1.4.1

v0.3.7.5.4

Condiment Editor: bug fix: works (v0.3.7.4 killed it, I think)
IPS Database: bug fix: made it so you can only select one patch at a time

v0.3.7.5.3

Added separators to modulelist.txt format. Put in any number of -'s (dashes). You may put a title in like "--IPS---" if you wish.
IPSDatabase: bug fix: automatically expands ROMs for .IPS's that require an expanded ROM
More .IPS's from CD (including fixed Christmas wreath)

v0.3.7.5.2

Added CD's Christmas wreath Nintendo logo .ips.

v0.3.7.5.1

Fixed Mac compatiblity bug

v0.3.7.5

Added Flyover Editor (by Dr. An)

v0.3.7.4.5

Fixed GUI bug in Starting Stats Editor

v0.3.7.4.4

Fixed some GUI bugs

v0.3.7.4.3

Store Editor: fixed bug where the combo boxes would appear to not change

v0.3.7.4.2

Reset Button: Made comp and decomp work better

v0.3.7.4.1

Playable Sprite Table Editor works (was broken by v0.3.7.4)

v0.3.7.4

Reset Button v0.5: Added comp and decomp buttons
SPT names (edited with SPTEditor) are now specific to each rom and stored in the file X:\path\to\rom\romname.smc.sptNames.txt
Tile Editor: added palette import/export (1 palette = 1 set of subpalettes)

v0.3.7.3.1

IPS Database fixed, it wouldn't start because some files were missing from the .jar.

v0.3.7.3

Reset Button v0.4: Readded loading of ROMs other than the specified orginal ROM.

v0.3.7.2

IPSDatabase v0.2: Added the screens from custom logos topic. Added API for other modules to access the IPS Database.
Don't Care Editor v0.2: Added better 6-character hack detection and support for applying the hack.

v0.3.7.1

Fixed IPSDatabase bug, now it reads .ips and screenshot files correctly.

v0.3.7

Added IPSDatabase: Allows a list of commonly used .ips files to be included with JHack. Currently only the PK Hack Halken screen by BA is there and screenshots don't show from .jar's.
Item Editor v0.2: Labels for str/ep/ep inc/special change in response to item type
Changed module list into a more logical arrangement.

v0.3.6.9.6

Made search boxes only show "not found" errors once (including the in-battle sprite selector in the enemy editor)

v0.3.6.9.5

Enemy Editor: made battle sprite combo box searchable

v0.3.6.9.4

Tile Editor v0.6: Added copy/paste both for easily copying arrangements and tiles.
Reset Button v0.3: Now uses the orginal ROM selected for auto-backup, so loading a separate one is not required.

v0.3.6.9.3

Fixed bug where Direct File IO switch would not save.

v0.3.6.9.2

Tile Editor: Fixed copy & paste for tile graphics editor boxes and added buttons for quick copy & paste between them.

v0.3.6.9.1

Fixed preference reading bug. Moved preference file to ~/.jhack/ ( ~ = home directory for you Windows users :), so the prefs in the directory of the .jar will disappear.

v0.3.6.9

SPT Editor v0.4: Unknowns can now be edited

v0.3.6.8

"Don't Care" Editor: Added detection and support for Mr_A's six character name ASM hack.

v0.3.6.7

Fixed bug in IPS patch creation that made it crash when saving IPS files with RLE compression.

v0.3.6.6

IPS optimisizations complete. Using non-direct file IO IPS patching and creating is nearly instant.
Added an option to have JHack check for updates and ask if you want to download them.

v0.3.6.5

Made IPS code MUCH faster (mostly not applying to Direct File IO)
Cleaned up auto-backup & made it only need one ROM (it expands and copies unexpanded orginal ROMs)

v0.3.6.4

Added auto-backup/revert.

v0.3.6.3

Tile Editor: Fixed MAJOR bug that caused collision pointers to be written incorrectly, therfore ruining all collision data.

v0.3.6.2

Tile Editor: Added tileset properties import/export

v0.3.6.1

Made store editor window a bit bigger and resizable, so longer renamed items would look correct.
Added Playable Sprite Table Editor for editing the Game Character Sprite Table

v0.3.6

Added [1F 21 XX] Teleport Table Editor
Made the "IQ/Guts/Speed/Vitality/Luck Up 1" actions be marked as item actions. (affects enemy editor)

v0.3.5.9.2

Fixed bug where palette editing would round colors to 3 bits instead of 5.

v0.3.5.9.1

Does what v0.3.5.9 was supposed to do, I forgot to call the code I wrote :).

v0.3.5.9

Bug where Sprite Editor and Tileset Editor would save incorrectly fixed.

v0.3.5.8

Tile Editor v0.5: More (and working) imports/exports including all tileset data and all tilesets' data.

v0.3.5.7

LOTS of bug fixes, possibly more bugs than lines of code ;).

v0.3.5.6

Sprite Editor v0.9.1: Fixed a bug that caused it to not open under Java v1.4.2.

v0.3.5.5

Added Condiment Editor
Added "Close ROM" to file menu
IPSFile: Now uses ArrayList instead of an Array for records, should be a bit faster.

v0.3.5.4

Added Level-Up Stats Editor

v0.3.5.3

Tile Editor v0.4: Cycle Focus menu item now works. Only changed information is written for faster saving.

v0.3.5.2

TileEditor v0.3: Lots of interface fixes. Collision and arrangement copying added.

v0.3.5.1

Tile Editor v0.2: Added palette editing. Current tile and arrangement are highlighted in selectors.

v0.3.5

Added Tile Editor

v0.3.4.9

Fixed bug that made reading the whole ROM at once throw an error with Direct File IO. Probably only affected IPS stuff.

v0.3.4.8

Added < and > characters to text, appear as open and close "smart" quotes in EB
Fixed bug that made writing more than one byte at a time throw an error with direct file IO. May have only affected Don't Care Editor.

v0.3.4.7

EB ROM Wrapper v0.5: Added Direct File IO mode, activate in the options menu

v0.3.4.6

Enemy Editor v0.4: Added row and final action arguement (labels may be wrong?)
Reset Button now starts looking for the orginal ROM at the default directory

v0.3.4.5

Added preferences file (JHack.ini). Currently contains default path and wether to use hex or dec numbers.

v0.3.4.4

SPT Editor: copy & pasting of entries added

v0.3.4.3

SPT Editor: Bug Fix: Bank can now be changed

v0.3.4.2

Reset Button v0.2: Added preset range support and a few preset ranges. Preset ranges stored in the resetranges.txt file.

v0.3.4.1

Added ResetButton, adding a list of pre-set ranges next

v0.3.4

ImageDrawingArea (Sprite Editor): Made selection appear correctly with gridlines on.
First fully documented version.

v0.3.3.8

Enemy Editor v0.3: Run flag check box, and gender select combo box added.

v0.3.3.7

Bug fix: Background color change now applies to all palettes
Shy pointed out the correct name for sound effect #0x65 ("chick hatching"). Thank you!

v0.3.3.6

Made Sprite Editor honor flip bit when saving and importing images.

v0.3.3.5

Sprite editor v0.9: Palette Editor (right click on colors in palette) and image import/export (won't work if palettes are different)

v0.3.3.4

Sprite editor v0.8: Background color changing in options menu

v0.3.3.3

Mac compatibility fixes

v0.3.3.2

Sprite editor v0.7: Option to show gridlines added, on by default

v0.3.3.1

Added searching to SPT, sprite, item, and enemy editors

v0.3.3

Sprite editor v0.6: Shows names on most sprites

v0.3.2.10

Sprite editor v0.5: All of the SPT is used, so all sprites should be in there somewhere.

v0.3.2.9

Sprite editor v0.4: "Garbage" sprites aren't shown in list

v0.3.2.8

Sprite editor v0.3: Has an option to not list repeated (same address in ROM) sprites (activated by default)

v0.3.2.6

Bug Fix: If you click the close button on the main window and then click cancel the window no longer closes.

v0.3.2.4

Made modules set-up GUI when you click their button instead of when JHack starts. Much faster loading.

v0.3.2.3

SPT Reading Tester v0.2: added unknown bytes display

v0.3.2.2

Added SPT Reading Tester

v0.3.2.1

Made Icons appear on Mac (helps for the sprite editor :) )

v0.3.2

Added Sprite Editor

v0.3.1.2

Made Misc. Text Editor not strip spaces from the start and end of text entered

v0.3.1.1

Added out of battle menu and status window text to Misc. Text Editor

v0.3.1

Added Store Editor

v0.3

Added Enemies Editor

v0.2.9

Added Level-up Editor

v0.2.8

Added Starting Stats Editor

v0.2.7.1

Added PSI and titles to Misc. Text list
Added title support to Misc. Text Editor

v0.2.7

Added Phone List Editor

v0.2.6

Added ailments and battle actions to Misc. Text list
Added Misc. Text Editor (look at miscTextLocations.txt to add more, thanks to JeffMan for the current list)

v0.2.5

Added loading progress bar
Added Teleport Destinations Editor

v0.2.4

Added Item Transformation Editor
Made about screen scroll so it isn't very tall

v0.2.3

Added Item Editor

v0.2.2

Added IPS Patch applier
IPS Patch maker now as efficent as possible for size AFAIK

v0.2.1

Much faster file loading and saving. (thanks to cabbage for inspiration :)

v0.2

Improved IPS Maker class, now with max record size bug fix
Made IPS Maker class (mostly a port from Tomato's code)
Added ROM Expander (thanks to DrAndonuts for the orginal code)

v0.1

Made base classes
Made "Don't Care" names editor

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