Advanced topics - Underrout/LunarHelper GitHub Wiki

Lunar Helper contains advanced features that may be useful for users with more elaborate needs. This page serves a starting point to learn about these features. There are multiple chapters on these features, each focusing on a specific topic. Each of them is briefly explained here, if something sounds interesting to you, feel free to check it out.

  • Using git - Chapter with a short explanation of git, links to git tutorials as well as information specifically about using git for hacking projects

  • Passing command-line options to tools - Chapter on passing additional command line options to PIXI, GPS and other tools

  • Customizing the emulator - Chapter on specifying an emulator explicitly instead of Lunar Helper attempting to use the emulator you have configured for Lunar Magic

  • Creating your own initial patch - Chapter on creating a custom initial patch, which is applied on top of the clean vanilla ROM at the start of the Build process

  • Human readable map16 format - Chapter on using a human readable map16 file format instead of Lunar Magic's binary format

  • Multiple build profiles - Chapter on using several different configurations for building your hack that you can freely switch between as needed

  • Inserting globules - Chapter on inserting and using "globules", which are subroutines/data that can be inserted globally by Lunar Helper and then shared between all tools and patches

  • Lunar Helper command line usage - Chapter on using Lunar Helper on the command line/inside scripts

  • Getting Lunar Helper information in asm - Chapter on retrieving information about Lunar Helper inside asm resources during builds

  • Custom quick build triggers - Chapter on specifying custom quick build triggers, which can be used to re-insert resources when other resources are re-inserted