I decompressed the rom with ndstool, but all I got was a bunch of NARC / ARC files. What are they exactly? Any way to open them?
I also got AAR files.

(With, I think, Jump Ultimate Stars)
The files can be in any format the programmer wanted them to be in. We aren't dealing with an operating system here.
That's the reason why you'd need to go through it using a hex editor and making a table for it, correct?
You may also want too tell us the game your trying too translate ... which i assume is one of the Pokemon games??

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O_O Mean, but why though? Nowadays, aren't kids more likely to go for Naruto? At least it seems to be "the rage" even with college students.

I find nothing so incredibly attractive about...