Primary Zelda Hacking

Hi Lin, I was wondering: Do you plan to upgrade ZOLE any further?
I want to work on my hack, but if there's a newer version coming anytime soon, I will suspend it and wait for that.
Thanks in advance!

I wait too for a update to ZOLE.
Just be patient.

It's not a matter of patience, it's more of a matter of prioritizing the things I do. D:
Because if they're isn't one anytime soon, I'll just work on it now.

Indeed there are. Actually, ZOLE resumed work and version 1.13 should be out later today, featuring a new enemy editor. Here's the plan.

Enemy editor > Sprite editor (uncompressed sprites enemies and NPCs use) > ZOTE improvements, signs > minimap editor > compressed graphics/tileset editor > Seasons support

After that ZOLE is possibly done. I can't think of anything else that needs to get added to make Ages support complete.

Ah! That's good news. I can get my game finished, then. :)

Thanks for the update!

I thought you said you weren't working on that? God, I hope you finish it :X

This idea may be a little impossible, but perhaps in the future you could port ZOLE to Wii so someone could modify their levels before using VBA GX to play them.

All you need to do is find the kit and it'll be a breeze. I haven't ported anything though, so who knows?

Lin is a coder yes, but he has no way to make a wii app i wouldn't think and if he did Nintendo would portably not make it downloadable or licence it. Dude great idea but its fucking unlikey to EVER happen.....

Homebrew channel.  ;)

Another useful feature would be the ability to import tilesets.

Sure, you can use TLP, but it's tedious to use extensively.

Vector Dancer,
your the brains here i guess :laugh:

Why is everyone using Tile Layer Pro, when better sprite editing programs, like YY-CHR, already exist?

That's a good question. TLP lacks so many features like opening a ROM with it and expecting TLP to load the ROM. But perhaps it's because it's popular, simple, and has a rememberable name, unlike YY-CHR.