Okay so in my hacking of Captain Tsubasa for Nintendo I have encounter a weird pointer/string termination combo and I was wondering if anyone had come across anything similar...

#FF = End Text
#F9 = String End
#3X = Pointer for the next string

So like the text bubble would appear as

 Nishi doesn't#F9#33
 have a star on#F9#35
 their team...FF

But if you had it like this...

 Nishi doesn't#F9#37
     have a star on#F9#33
their team...FF

Anyone seen anything like this. Also the school names are called by a control code... Just wondering if anyone has seen anything similar cuz I find it a bit strange even though it makes sense... Gives me lots of room for moving around text though

I know about the MTE, it's the other one. I have never seen it before out of maybe 50 or so games I have looked at, this is the only time I have seen this kind of system.


so the #3X number writes the upcoming string at a certain starting point. Bah it's weird to explain, maybe I'll upload some pics after dinner...

Looks to me like the 3x code is telling the game where to begin drawing the next line. So 30 would start at the very first 8x8 block, 31 would start one space to the right, and so forth, right?

That's not a pointer. :p

It only tells the game where to draw the text. I've seen this in some games. They use this to place tiles in different spots, and I've mostly seen them on title screens.

This really shouldn't affect the text at all. At least you can indent stuff without using padding.

Yes but Dictionary usually refers to fixed length entrys while MTE can have a pointer table for the etries or an end byte for each entry.

For table files, it's quite possible to attribute either one letter to more than one byte, and possible to attribute a string of characters to one byte.  I know everybody should know this, but just my two cents, and also would make dictonary encoding much easier to hack.