Ripping Questions

[Omegakyogre]

I'm experiencing this problem, too. I'm using Mario Golf: Advance Tour. What do I do?

If you're using Visual Boy Advance, open up the Palette Viewer from the Tools menu, and find the color in the left box (the box labeled "background") that you want to replace-- In theory, the slot you are looking for is the one in the upmost far left corner of that box, but I haven't confirmed that this is true for all GBA games. Click on that color square in the box, and you should see information on it pop up in the lower left: Address, R, G, B, and Value. Take the address (which should be in the format 0xZZZZZZZZ, with 0x meaning Hexadecimal and the Zs representing your address- for me, it was 50000000), and copy it somewhere so you can remember it. Now, find the color you want to replace it with, also in that box- I went with a gray color I found a few blocks to its right- and copy down its Value (in the format 0xYYYY; for me, the value was 4210). Once you have these two values, it's as simple as opening up your Cheat List and entering in a Codebreaker code as follows:
8ZZZZZZZ YYYY
Give it a title, click OK, make sure the cheat is turned on, and click OK out of the Cheat List. The changes should take effect immediately, but if they don't, try going to a menu screen and going back in-game, or if all else fails Reset (Ctrl+R) the cartridge with the code turned on.
In Metroid Fusion, I can only see the changed background color when layers 1-4 are turned off, so don't be surprised if you don't see any changes until you turn those layers off.
Let me know if you have any problems.