Hero garden fruit and eternal sapling fixes

[F-Man]

EDIT 2: All of this has since been fully fixed by the Enhanced Chao World mod. You can get it here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/48915

I spent all day figuring out how to find changes in the exe used for the Chao World Extended mod, and applying them pretty much one by one to see which in particular fixed two of the most annoying bugs in the Chao Gardens (yes, more than the "Bright Chao"!).

Now, this requires a decrypted exe because any changes made to the default one will make it refuse to run. Use any free hex editor (I use Frhed) and go to offset 4869224. Change the default value of 63 (99%) to 28 (40%). You've now fixed the stamina value given by fruits in the Hero garden!

And for the trees always looking like saplings, with fruits floating in midair when they're supposed to be fully grown, the partial fix found by DarkyBenji for his mod was to basically do the reverse, and have them always look like fully grown trees instantly, which is much more ideal (someone new to the game would just assume that's how it was originally designed). There're 7 offsets to change, I assume one is for each type of seed:

At 15887177, change 74 to 7D
At 15887188, change 1C9A to 9CAD
At 15887200, change A4CE to E4DB
At 15887212, change E4F2 to 04FD
At 15887224, change D411 to 9C1C
At 15887236, change 9C32 to DC3D
At 15887248, change 0457 to FC64

Huge thanks to DarkyBenji for figuring out all of these in the first place!

Now, I just hope somebody fixes the next annoying bug on my list, that fruits grow and fall way too rapidly and start overrunning your garden in no time.

[Octopain]

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to thank you for making this! It really helped me out!

[AWAWA Liz]

Thank you so much! We can't thank people enough these days who code for a living.

[F-Man]

Bump.

MainMemory just recently posted instructions to add these fixes as codes to the mod loader, so you don't need to get a decrypted exe and modify it!

Here's the post: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=37960&st=0&p=926123&#entry926123

[Chocice75]

NECROOOOOOOO!
I'm pretty sure that Chao World Extended already fixes the saplings with modloader codes & mods.

Originally posted by F-Man:

Bump.

MainMemory just recently posted instructions to add these fixes as codes to the mod loader, so you don't need to get a decrypted exe and modify it!

Here's the post: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=37960&st=0&p=926123&#entry926123

[F-Man]

Originally posted by ChocIce75:

NECROOOOOOOO!
I'm pretty sure that Chao World Extended already fixes the saplings with modloader codes & mods.

Not everyone wants to use Chao World Extended. Also my OP kind of made that obvious.

[King of Amazons]

How do I decrypt?

[F-Man]

Originally posted by NecroDragon:

How do I decrypt?

Read my other reply, this isn't needed anymore.

[DJ Professor M]

After downloading Frhed and changing all of the offsets, the game fails to start (error 51). Has anyone had a similar experience and/or a potential fix to this? (I know this thread as old, but I thought I might as well ask anyway)