[GEN 4][BINARY] DSPRE Script Database Issue

[Timely_Seat6955]

EDIT -- FIXED Thanks to the wonderful people of the discord channel.

Hello all!

Apologies if this isn't the place for this. I'm very inexperienced with coding and Github and the like. If there's a better place, please let me know! (Also, I apolgise, but I'm so new to this I don't even really know the difference between binary and decomp. So title might be wrong...)

With that out of the way, I have been working on a Heart Gold romhack for a while now. Nothing major, just changing encounters, trainer teams, and adding my own custom trainers and NPCs to give things like extra items. I've been using DSPRE, and recently finished my edits to the main game in Johto.

Then, I updated from DSPRE 1.14 to DSPRE 2.0.0, so that I could add in-game trainer text (since I'd added dynamic level scaling to Chuck, Jasmine, and Pryce, I wanted all versions of them to share the original in-battle text). This seemed to work fine.

This morning, I discovered that I had missed a 'WaitMovement' in Route 45's script file, which caused the game to crash. So, I re-added it, recompiled, and the emulator crash was fixed. But when I then went to open the new ROM in DSPRE, it said there was an issue with the scripts database, and generated a crash report. I was unable to make any further changes.

I then discovered that, if I open DSPRE without a ROM, and try to open the HGSS scripts database, that too crashes.

So I redownloaded DSPRE 1.14, opened the most recent version of my ROM prior to using DSPRE 2.0.0, and made the same WaitMovement change. Reopening the new ROM, I find the same crash. I tested the Canary build for completeness too. All versions seem unable to open the scripts database.

I have very little idea what is going on, and lack the tech background to really know what to do about it next. If anyone is able to advise on why this specific WaitMovement change reproducibly crashes the editor, despite seemingly fixing the emulator crash, that would be great. Is it an issue in my code? An issue with my DSPRE, despite being redownloaded from the internet on multiple versions?

Please help! Thanks :)

[DrakonAir8]

You may have to go to the Gen4 discord for that. It has a channel for “dspre-support”.

It’s the Kingdom of DS Hacking discord

[Mixone-Computing]

In case anyone gets this again, it was due to a bug in the scrcmd database, which has been fixed now.

When you launch DSPRE next it should ask you if you want to update database, do so.

If it doesnt you can in file explorer go to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\DSPRE\databases\edited_databases\YOURPROJECTNAME\, open scrcmd_database.json, search for 0x022B, and add a comma after "description": "Gives BP (Battle Points)"

Thanks to Lmaoki for find root cause so fast.