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This is a little guide for all those who are wondering How they should go about using cheats with Visual boy advance.
Its really quite simple if you do not know what hex is much less be able to use hex editors this guide will still be helpful So here goes
Signed values are the ones that can be either Positive negative or Zero here are some Examples: 179 0 -179
Unsigned Values can Only be positive or zero here are Examples of that: 1992 0
Pretty simple right Ok
(Hex)adecimal or Hex for short is a number system much like the Decimal system or Base ten system Which is why we have digits 0 thru 9
10 digits in all to represent powers of ten Some Examples are as follows: 1000 100 10 1 -10 -100 -1000 these are 10^3 10^2 10^1 10^0 10^-1 10^-2 10^-3
It goes to follow that Hexa decimal would use something like this pattern and it does Hexadecimal basically is the Base 16 number system it works wonderfully with computers because it shortens the length of binary which is base 2 Since Hexadecimal is base 16 it uses 16 digits but how you ask like this 0 thru 9 then A thru F the latter have special meaning
this is how it breaks down: A=10, B=11, C=12, D=13, ...you get the picture it goes to 15 making the total number of digits 16 Now heres an Example of a Hexadecimal and its decimal equivalent: FF=255 this value is very important since you will see it over and over again in games
Oh you may want to know how to convert hexadecimal to decimal it is quite simple really
do this break it up into blocks
[0] [3] [E] [7] now each block is a place value and you should remember how that works but with the base 16 system it uses powers of sixteen not ten so instead of ones tens hundreds thousands u have ones sixteens 256's and 4096's Ok so since they're are no 4096's you only have to worry about those other three places 3x256=768 E=14, Ex16=224 7x1=7 ok now all you do is all up all the places into one number so 03E7=999 Often times you will notice the leading zero will be dropped do not be alarmed this is simply done because that zero doesn't really affect anything
ok so now you should be well on you're way to writing your own cheats if you have questions feel free to ask them
Reading before you post will Often answer your question. if not you may find someone will randomly help you out if they do. Don't Complain if what they give you, you cant use.
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