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~Bent~ Newcomer                 Since: 01-01-07 Last post: 5933 days Last view: 5911 days |
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| I'm not an especially knowledgeable ROM hacker, but I've had some limited experience -- specifically, working with and modifying text (in the older Pokemon games especially). Since text is really something anybody can do, I've been looking around for places where I can learn about slightly more advanced topics. I found my way here in a Google search of Coolboyman (of Pokemon Brown fame), and read through roughly one-eighth of all the threads currently in the Acmlm ROM hacking boards. Seems like a good forum...
So... posting access pls?  |
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~Bent~ Newcomer Since: 01-01-07 Last post: 5933 days Last view: 5911 days |
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| Making tables is probably the same between NES games and SNES or GBA games. I've only worked with GBC, but it's rather simple:
- Get a hex editor (I use Translhextion) - Open the ROM - Use the "Search Relative" command, and search for a string of text - Write down the hex values for the match - Modify these values, then play the game and see what symbols appear, then write them down That last step isn't necessary, but it's useful in that it shows you all characters that exist in the tileset. You can then then open the thingy table that you've finished, click "Thingy View Active," and watch the splendor of readable text in the right-hand column. 'Course, this only works for games in English, presumably. I've tried making Thingy tables with Japanese characters, but the ASCII encoding deletes the Shift+JIS and Translhextion won't open tables done in Unicode, so I don't understand where to go from there... unless you don't use Thingy tables at all for that. |
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~Bent~ Newcomer Since: 01-01-07 Last post: 5933 days Last view: 5911 days |
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| You'll need a GBA flash card, definitely.
GBA games run on a flash card fairly easily, but for GB and GBC games you'll need to put Goomba on there. To play DS games on a GBA flash card, you'll have to "flash" the DS in order to make it read .nds files from the GBA slot. |
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