Rai
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« on: May 30, 2007, 01:58:10 pm » |
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I'm interested in doing a Summon Night game that was never released here in America, but there's one problem, the thing weighs like 32 MBs. I try to open it up in Translhextation and yeah, that doesn't work because the thing is just too big. The other bad thing is I really have no idea how to find where the text starts if I can open the 32 MB file. I know there's uncompressed text in there since I did successfully open the file with a text editor once(Took like 10 minutes to open though), and if I could just find an editor that can open big files, that supports Japanese text searching, I could hack the game.
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DarknessSavior
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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2007, 02:00:44 pm » |
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Have you tried WinHex? I haven't used another romhacking text/hex editor since I found that. It is god.
~DS
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Rai
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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2007, 02:07:49 pm » |
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Yeah... I tried that before, but it screwed up when I tried to dump.
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DarknessSavior
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2007, 02:10:11 pm » |
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Don't dump from WinHex, use romjuice to dump things. Duh. ^_~
~DS
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RedComet
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2007, 02:12:00 pm » |
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Hex Workshop for hex editing, rsearch for relative searching, and romjuice for dumping. You don't need a fancy romh editor.  |
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Rai
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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2007, 02:14:59 pm » |
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Yeah, but the thing is I don't know what to dump.
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RedComet
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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2007, 02:16:56 pm » |
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Which is where relative searching comes into play. How were you going to know what to dump any other way?  |
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KaioShin
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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2007, 02:19:04 pm » |
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He searches for words in a text editor  |
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Rai
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« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2007, 02:22:04 pm » |
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Well, if it's not compressed there's really no need to relative search, especially if it's in ASCII format. Unless your editor has some sort of active viewer where you can actually view the text and not just Japanese gibberish, it's really not going to help.
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RedComet
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« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2007, 02:24:31 pm » |
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Any hex editor worth its salt supports ASCII.
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DarknessSavior
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« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2007, 02:25:36 pm » |
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Relative Searching is for finding table values, not for finding text. Once you figure out the table values, load that into your romhacking friendly hex editor and THEN search for the text. I reccomended WinHex because it supports searching for Kana.
~DS
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Rai
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« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2007, 02:28:45 pm » |
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And... it has ASCII table values so I can just apply an ASCII table. No use to waste your time when you know the values already. If the text editor just shows gibberish Japanese characters though, I guess I'll have to use relative searching.
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« Last Edit: May 30, 2007, 02:34:28 pm by Rai »
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Spikeman
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« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2007, 02:42:32 pm » |
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WindHex shows ASCII by default, but you can enable Unicode to use with tables and the like.
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DarknessSavior
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« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2007, 02:43:09 pm » |
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Ctrl + D. =D
~DS
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KaioShin
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« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2007, 02:45:30 pm » |
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And... it has ASCII table values so I can just apply an ASCII table. No use to waste your time when you know the values already. If the text editor just shows gibberish Japanese characters though, I guess I'll have to use relative searching.
Don't use a text editor for hacking ROMS. Seriously. It's showing gibberish because it's not made to show data. Do you modify images by opening them in a text editor? No? Right, you use a paint programm, since they are specifically made for that. Use tools for hacking then and forgot your text editor! |
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