I just want to turn a BEQ into a B

and by "assembly" I mean "machine code".
just knowing assembly isn't enough. I need to know how to encode these damn instructions

oh hey "beq" isn't a real instruction. it's a mnemonic for a variant of BCx instruction!

OKAY I think I successfully hacked this game to not care about save game CRCs.

weird. I modified the byte I thought was controlling what color skirt I was wearing, and it changes the MARKER selecting my color, not the color itself. strange!

yeah the color is a pointer/res_id. boo. I can't just tweak a byte to get FORBIDDEN COLORS

wait no
is it just RGBA?

it is! enjoy my magenta skirt, yo!

the pants and skirts use a completely different coloring system.
of course they do.

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH FUCKING GENDER IN MY WHEEL OF FORTUNE GAME

reverse enginering powerpc binaries is too hard
let me just reverse engineer this completely undocumented stack-based virtual machine inside this game

oh god they're either running the VM recursively (running scripts inside other scripts) or they've implemented some kind of coroutine situation. either one scares me

I got distracted by rickroll. this keeps happening

and it turns out it glitches and skips because I was accidentally trying to write out every frame as a PNG. whoops.

well I think I found one of their debugging functions.
unfortunately, they wrapped the contents of the variable in an ifdef, so it's now an empty function

the cursor class has the pointer as an array, 4 items long.
this seems really weird until you remember this is a wii game, which is one of the only situations where you might regularly have 4 cursors on screen at once

oh no
there are coroutines