I want to do a translation project for a particular GBA game, which I won't say the title of right now, but I know absolutely nothing about GBA text schemes. So does anyone know of any tutorials or tools I could use that would help find the text inside a GBA game?
Finding text in a GBA game works the same way it does in any other cartridge-based game. Seriously.
Find the font, do some relative searching, and pray to the software gods that the text isn't compressed. (Not that you can't still hack it if it is, but it's a bit more difficult. I recommend VBA-SDL-H for tracing.)
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Quote from: Ryusui on December 16, 2006, 08:42:44 pm
Finding text in a GBA game works the same way it does in any other cartridge-based game. Seriously.
Find the font, do some relative searching, and pray to the software gods that the text isn't compressed. (Not that you can't still hack it if it is, but it's a bit more difficult. I recommend VBA-SDL-H for tracing.)
Thanks, there is actually some uncompressed text in the "game" I'm hacking, quite a bit. There is definitely some compressed stuff in there though.
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