In the box titled "ROM Editing Options" on the right side, make sure "Use Joined GFX Files" is NOT ticked. In the menu bar at the very top, click on Options > General Options. Open up Lunar Magic with your, or any, Super Mario World ROM. You can click on it and scroll down to see the old versions' logos, too.īut we're not here to marvel at these logos, let's figure out how to load up a graphics set and a palette before I teach you what each of the buttons do!įirst, let's grab an existing graphics file for simplicity's sake I'll teach you how to create graphics from scratch after. In version 0.99 that is a box with the program's name and a skull. When opening YY-CHR, you will be greeted by the current version's logo in the big graphics viewing area on the left. If not, try looking at the table above and making sure you picked the right extension, and that you chose the right sublanguage ".FRA" will not work for French-Canadians for example, make extra sure you picked the right one! Once you've done this, open up YY-CHR again. In my case, I have to rename it to "yychr.DEU". On most Windows machines, you can find the corresponding locale extension in the bottom right of the taskbar as well.įor example, this is how it looks for me, as a German:īoth the table and my PC confirm that my proper file extension would be ".DEU".įind out yours and then rename the "yychr.ENG" file to match. The "yychr_language" text file in the same directory holds a table of file endings for most languages, but I'll copy it here for convenience:įrom this table, pick the one that suits your computer's language. To do that, we have to change the file extension of "yychr.ENG", that means the ".ENG" part to match the language your computer is set to. If they're not English, we will have to fix that really quickly. If they're English and the menus look like the image on the right (click to zoom), then you can skip ahead to the next section. Now check, are the menus in English or are they in Japanese or look like gibberish characters? Open up the YY-CHR executable, yychr.exe.
I will not go over how to extract and insert graphics, so be sure you know how that works!īefore doing anything else, we will have to make sure YY-CHR runs in a language you can understand. zip file you downloaded to its own folder somewhere, such as in a general tools folder. Knowledge about how to extract and insert GFX/ExGFX filesĮxtract all the contents of the YY-CHR.This tutorial will teach you how to open, edit and draw graphics for Super Mario World hacks with a bitmap editing tool called YY-CHR. Lunar Magic has a built-in graphics editor in the form of the 8x8 Graphics Editor, but that one is very basic and lacks a lot of helpful features. There are a lot of reasons you would want to edit the GFX and ExGFX file you use in your hack. Drawing and Editing Graphics using YY-CHR
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