Petit Computer

First I would like to say thanks to everybody who helped me with my RPG, this is my first big project and I really appreciate the help, I will be posting any future questions here so I don't have to create a new topic, thanks to anyone willing to help me
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It's not necessary to place the LOCATE command, because the BGPUT command does it for you. Actually, the LOCATE command is for characters, not backgrounds.

Umm . . . I have a question. What is the "36896" on the BGPUT? Are you trying the expert version of BGPUT? If so, you made a mistake. First, it's suppose to be 4-digits. Second, it's in a string. I wonder why you place that number.

honestly I have no idea why it worked, I thought the same
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ok so I took out LOCATE, and also I tried reading screen data for grass again, I did this:
BGPUT 0,0,0,32,9,0,0
BGREAD(0,0,0),SC
PRINT SC
and it gave me that same number so I did:
ACLS:CLEAR
BGPUT 0,0,0,'that# can't remember the exact#
and it worked, could somebody explain that?
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3DS Friend Code: 1246-9643-6385

I was correct about the LOCATE. You don't need it.

As for the "36896" value, apparently, BGPUT accepts numeric values, because it will translates into a hexadecimal value. As it turns out, "36896" in hex is "9020", which is exactly the string used to make the grass tile. If you were to do it as a hex value, it would look like this.

BGPUT 1,X,Y,"9020"

I'll explain about the screen data. b00-09 is the character number, b10 is the horizontal flip, b11 is the vertical flip, and b12-15 is the palette number. To make the grass tile with no flips and a palette of 9, the character number is 32. If you understand bitwise, 32 is exactly b05. Since there are no flips, we ignore them. For the last four bits, b12-15, it's just like the character number, except easier. The palette is 9, therefore, it's a combination of 8 and 1. In this case, we use b12 and b15.

If we lined the bit values up, it would look like this, from right to left, of course.

1001 0000 0010 0000

Of course, we need to translate it into hex. Easy. Each of the four bits represents one hex value, from right to left. They are also in power of two. It would look like this.

8421

To make it easier to understand, look at what we do in order to translate it.

1001 0000 0010 0000
8001 0000 0020 0000
8+0+0+1 0+0+0+0 0+0+2+0 0+0+0+0
9020

As for how we get a numeric value out of the hex is a matter of math. Hex is a power of 16. The first digit is just the number value, the second digit is the value times 16, the third is the value times 256, and the fourth is the value times 4096. The fourth digit is 9, so 9*4096 is 36864. The second digit is 2, and so, 2*16 is 32. Combine them, and you will get the numeric value, 36896. Cool, right?

Of course, you don't have to do all of this. You can just use the string hex value to make it easy.