answered Editing species of overworld encounters (Reshiram, Foongus/Amoongus, Musketeers) in Pokemon Black?

[butts]

I'm trying to edit the species of the overworld encounters in Pokemon Black, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I've used luascript to find the overworld and script narc files of the maps they are located in, but the scripts files don't seem to contain the overworld encounters and the overworld narc files are pretty incomprehensible to me (and all the guides I can find are for BW2 only).

All I'm interested in is editing the species of the encounter, nothing more. I assume there's just a single byte in some file somewhere that I have to edit in order to do that, but there's the issue of finding it first. : /

[Kaphotics]

It's all scripts; look for the species dex # (in hex) in the map's script data.

[butts]

Thanks for your reply! Searching for the index no. of the Pokemon in the script files worked for the musketeer trio, but searching for Foongus' on Route 6 doesn't seem to work.

[Kaphotics]

You would have to look at the individual script that the overworld file assigns to that entity. If I had to guess, it'd be a callstd or another nonstandard wild encounter script in another script file.

[butts]

Okay, after looking at the overworld file for the route and looking at this (and desperately hoping the file is structured the same way it is in bw as it is in bw2), I've found that both of the Foongus interactables have 0E 29 stored in their script called bytes (which I think translates to 0x290E or 10510?). Unfortunately that's much larger than the size of the script file of the map they're in and I don't know what else I could do with the information. Do you (or anyone else) have any ideas? (or am I going about this in entirely the wrong way?)

Sorry for asking so many questions, but I'm very new to hacking the DS games and I'm feeling way in over my head here. : /

[Kaphotics]

Well, you can always try changing that 2byte value and see if anything changes

[butts]

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 20 21 22 23

Route 6 Foongus:
0F 00 D2 00 00 00 00 00 FF 02 0E 29 01 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 71 00 73 01 00 00 00 00
10 00 D2 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 0E 29 01 00 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 68 00 78 01 00 00 00 00


Route 10 Foongus:
09 00 D2 00 00 00 00 00 03 03 0E 29 01 00 1E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B3 01 73 00 00 00 00 00
12 00 D2 00 00 00 00 00 04 03 0E 29 01 00 1E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 AE 01 72 00 00 00 00 00

Route 10 Amoongus:
0F 00 D8 00 00 00 00 00 02 03 0F 29 01 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 CF 01 64 00 00 00 06 00
0E 00 D8 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 0F 29 01 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D5 01 68 00 00 00 06 00 

These are my findings so far. The 02 and 0A bytes are different for Foongus and Amoongus (as is byte 22, but I think that's just the z co-ord?), and byte 1E corresponds to the level of each. Unfortunately all my attempts at editing this stuff have just resulted in either the events becoming uninteractable or the game crashing (which may just be me being bad at using the tools or saving/save stating in awkward places because there doesn't seem to be a pattern to the crashes, and sometimes going back and undoing what I've changed doesn't help).