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Source Code Public Release

New Super Mario Bros Wii Pal Patches

Preamble

Well, here it is, the thing you've been awaiting for.. years. Yep.My original plans were to majorly clean up and reorganise the codebase andtools, because I really wasn't satisfied with the current state of them.

Unfortunately, this didn't quite pan out - as much as I'd like to have donethis, getting everything into the state I wanted would require months uponmonths of work - something that's a bit difficult to do nowadays, since Neweris done and I don't wish to devote yet more of my life to projects related toNSMBW.

So.. I've decided to dump the source code here so other people can dosomething with this. Much of it isn't really in a usable state - but I'mreleasing it in case someone else wants to take up development and work ongetting everything polished and ready.

-Treeki, 22nd November 2013

Licensing

The Newer SMBW source code and tools are released under the MIT license.See the LICENSE file in this repository for full details. General motors gm laam keygengurus.

Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Treeki, Tempus, megazig

Requirements

For compiling the Newer game hacks:

• OS and setup where you can compile LLVM and Clang
• devkitPPC
• Python 2.x
• Python libraries: PyYAML, pyelftools

For using the Newer tools:

• Windows, Linux or Mac OS
• Python 2.x
• PyQt
• Possibly something else I forgot?

What's Here

Clang Patchset

Newer requires a modified version of the Clangcompiler. Clang is a modern C/C++ compiler created as part of the LLVM project,and Newer uses it to generate compiled code that can be injected into the game.

Most Wii homebrew development is done using GCC (usually as part of devkitPPC),but regular compilers cannot be used because the generated code uses adifferent C++ ABI from CodeWarrior (which is what Nintendo uses) and thereforeis not compatible with the NSMBW binary.

My (admittedly, very kludgey) patches to Clang modify various aspects of thegenerated code to work round this. It's not perfect: in particular, multipleinheritance and RTTI are not compatible and possibly entirely broken.Thankfully NSMBW doesn't really make use of these features, so it works justfine for Newer.

Another caveat is that I stopped working on this a few months back, so you'llneed to pull an old-ish version of LLVM and Clang from their SVN repos - thepatch I included is based off SVN revision 184655. LLVM is unmodified, but youshould probably also stick to this version of it to avoid possibleincompatibilities.

Kamek

All the Newer hacks are inside the Kamek folder in this repository becausethat's how our files have always been organised, but technically, Kamek isreally just a simple build system for calling the tools to compile/assembleeach source file and putting together an output file you can inject into yourgame.

Unlike most typical build systems, though, there's a bunch of featuresspecific to game hacks like Newer:

• Kamek is configured through a game-specific project file; each projectpulls in various modules, which can each contain C++ and assembly sourcefiles, and hooks
• Hooks are different types of patches that are used to inject things into thegame: patch static code/data in RAM, overwrite pointers with a reference toa symbol exported from Kamek code, inject branch instructions, ..
• Memory addresses in the linker script and used by hooks are automaticallyconverted to match all supported game versions - Kamek uses the originalversion of the PAL/European NSMBW release as a reference.
• The compiled output is converted to a specific format expected by theNewer loader.

There's also a few things I'm not quite happy with..

• The projects/modules system turned out to be rather messy in Newer
• I think there's some features which just aren't used any more because theNewer loader changed over time.
• I wanted to add some NSMBW-specific features, like an easy way to injectnew actors and sprites without having to modify the data structures usingvery-easy-to-mess-up Kamek hooks, but I never got round to this

Newer Hacks

The stuff that makes this game tick. Thousands of lines of C++ code, asmattering of assembly, tons of patches, and a lot of blood, sweat andtears. (No Treekis or Tempuses were harmed in the creation of these. Well.Not harmed THAT much, anyway.)

You'll need to set up the stuff in the above two sections to be able to buildyour own copy of the hacks.

This is the source code for the unfinished release with translation support,so there's likely to be some bugs here. In particular:

• Expect to see some broken stuff with translations: wrong messages, etc.
• The final boss battle doesn't work. I never managed to figure out why.
• Possibly other things are broken?

Koopatlas

Where do I even begin with this..

This is the editor half of Koopatlas - a totally new 2D map engine we wrotefor Newer. Without going into too much detail, here's a quick roundup:

• Ridiculously buggy and unpolished editor
• 2D maps with an unlimited* amount of layers
• Tileset layers, supporting an unlimited* amount of tilesets
• Doodad layers, allowing you to place arbitrary textures on the map at anyposition and scale/rotate them
• Doodad animations
• Unlockable paths and level nodes
• More hardcoded things than you can shake a stick at (possibly rivallingNintendo's 3D maps)
• Multiple maps with entrances/exits a la Reggie
• Maps are stored in a '.kpmap' format for easy editability - a JSON file in aspecific format - and exported to an optimised '.kpbin' format for usagein-game

*Unlimited: Not really. This is the Wii, a game console which wasunderpowered when it was released in 2006. There's not a lot of room in RAMfor lots of tilesets and doodads. A couple of the Newer maps use up almost allthe available space, so..

If you want to make maps, feel free to try it. Then bash your head against awall when you accidentally close the editor and lose your unsaved work becausethere's no warning against that. Or when it crashes on you, which might happen.

Misc Tools

There's a bunch of scripts in here which do.. things. Most of them might notbe useful in their current state. Just look through and see what you cangather, I guess.

Don't ask me why the random tiles script is in Ruby. Well, if you really wantto know, I was learning Ruby at the time and wanted to write stuff in it toimprove my skills..

So how DO I use this junk?

Good question.

I could probably write an entire book (or two) documenting how to set up thetools, the internals of the NSMBW game engine, and everything I added in Newer.But.. do you have any idea how long that would take?

The setup procedures aren't really documented at all, but I'm hoping thatanyone with the skills to actually work on this stuff will be able to figureout what they're doing and get it running by looking at the error messages.

As for the game engine APIs - I'd love to document these, but it would simplytake way, way too long. Let me know if you have any technical questionsinvolving these: post in the thread on RVLution, or query me on Freenode IRC(my nick is always Treeki).