OK, so I want to start hacking roms. So the first thing I did was get the rom I want to hack, which happens to be "Dragon Ball Z - Super Saiya-jin Densetsu" for the SNES. I have patched it with an English translation I obtained from here ---> Dragon Ball Arena - SNES Roms.

So, I read a walkthrough on how to hack/translate text in a rom.

The walkthrough I used is here ---> Text Hacking / Translation Tutorial

I followed the instructions exactly, and when it mentions to go ahead myself and hack the rom I am using, I run into a few problems. I used "Relative Search" and nothing came up. I tried a lot of examples, and still nothing. I also read that some roms needed to be "dissassembled" and I do not know what that means, and what I am supposed to do. Also, I read somewhere that SNES roms can either be "LoROM" or "HiROM", but again, I have no idea what that means.

Is there a way someone can either explain to me what I need to do, or what I am doing wrong? Or maybe, just upload the table for this game, or suggest anything.

Thanks.

-Mason

Try doing a relative search with damn near any NES game.  You'll get results easier that way.

Is it still common to edge new people towards NES stuff right at the start?

Well, if you can find your graphics for the text you can usually compile a table without ever using relative searching. Not all games are like this but 99% are. Then you have weird ones like dual orb that are completely out of order. So the uppermost left tile would be 00 and it would count 1 in hex for every tile after it. If you can't find graphics or relative searching isn't working then you can do a trace. When you do a trace you can ALWAYS find everything. It just takes someone who is experienced and knows how to track things down. If you have no luck with any of these methods keep posting till someone helps or just switch to a different game.

Yeah, still nothing...

I need some way to decompress the rom or decompile it to do a Relative Search on it.

-Mason