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jffvlhs06
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« on: May 17, 2007, 02:24:45 pm »
i have no hacking experience or anything. in fact, i know little about what it takes or how difficult it is to hack a ROM. but I have multiple consoles, ROMs, and the emulators to play the ROMs on my computer. my main question is... is there any way for me to take the Family Feud ROM for Super Nintendo (FamilyFeud.smc) , and make it editable so that I could change the questions of the game (for a school project). It would avoid me having to make a long chain of websites to create the same effect.

Thanks to those who offer advice and/or help. I've been looking everywhere.
Tauwasser
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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 02:32:12 pm »
Well, what you need would be a hexeditor with table support (see utilities section), some relative searching (doc section) to find the necessary data to make your own table) and then take a look at the game and see if you can manage to figure out what the correct answer would be for each question. Space might be an issue, see "pointer" in docs. Also, it might be an issue if you have more questions than the original game has had. If you do, then there possibly is no easy solution to that.
Oh, and you should get down with hexadecimal and hexediting right from the start, it's trouble if you don't Wink

cYa,

Tauwasser
UglyJoe
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2007, 02:51:04 pm »
Quote from: Tauwasser on May 17, 2007, 02:32:12 pm
then take a look at the game and see if you can manage to figure out what the correct answer would be for each question.

The answers might have other tricks, as well, since those sorts of games are designed to accept misspelled answers. 

For example, I messed around with Classic Concentration for the NES one time, and it stores it's answers like, if the answer were "Roast Beef", it would be stored as "RoaSt BeeF" (in ASCII, even).  Ends up you could type in "RSBF" or "RxxSBxxF" or even "RqqqqqSBqqqqFqqqqqqqq" and they would all be valid and correct answers, since the game was only looking for the characters stored in upper-case. 

I'm not saying Family Feud uses the same technique, just keep an eye out for similar trickery.
jffvlhs06
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2007, 02:52:59 pm »
would i be wrong by saying that it appears that there are no hex editors for super nintendo in the ultilities section?
UglyJoe
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 02:54:50 pm »
Sort of, since hex editors are for any system, not just one or two.  Try here.  I like WindHex, personally (it's on page 2).
jffvlhs06
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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2007, 03:22:51 pm »
...giving up. probably a little too complicated for me to do. suggestions will still be taken. thanks to those who gave advice. maybe ill give it another run in a little bit.
creaothceann
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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2007, 03:55:07 pm »
Creating webpages would definitely be easier, unless there's a game-specific editor for that game. Which probably is not the case.
StIoachim
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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2007, 04:04:41 pm »
Even making a not so big chain of pages using PHP and a database should be easy...
Spikeman
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« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2007, 06:33:21 pm »
Gotta love the answers you can give family feud. Roll Eyes
Ryusui
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2007, 06:41:39 pm »
You want lazy? Check out the Shiritori game in Sylvanian Families 2 - Rainbow Forest Fantasy.

Shiritori is a Japanese word game: players take turns making a chain of words where each word has to begin with the last syllable of the previous word. (The rules don't translate all that well into English.) You lose if you slip up and say a word that ends in the "n" syllable, because no Japanese word begins with the "n" syllable.

That said, you can type absolute gibberish into SF2's shiritori game: as long as you continue the chain and don't end with "n", it'll accept anything. There's no form of dictionary checking whatsoever.
Moulinoski
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2007, 07:06:23 pm »
Niiiiice. A dumb game. XD I mean, the game itself is not bad, its not being able to enforce it! XD
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