If this is your first romhack, I suggest you find another project. You're trying to kill the Chaos Emperor Dragon as a Level 1 Trainee Rogue armed with a butterknife.
If every aspiring ROM hacker who attempts to work on a DS title were to find a new project, as they are told every single time someone posts such a topic, we'd be out of GB/C/A games by now. I don't see how a menu translation is "the Chaos Emperor Dragon" even if it's for a vastly undocumented system. The fact that this guy is aware that he needs to edit the pointers, even if he's not sure how to go about doing so, indicates that he's put some basic studying into the subject. The fact that he's asking specific questions (with proper terminology) that make sense also lends credence to this assumption.
That being said... valyr, have you tried locating the pointers in another game, just to see if you're doing it right? That would give you some indication as to whether the problem is with your understanding of pointers or if there's something odd about your particular project choice that makes them difficult to locate. You should be able to grab an English released NES or GB ROM and try out the pointer techniques from the documents and see if you can move things around properly. If so, then there's probably something odd about the project, if not then you may be misunderstanding something about pointers in general. (Unfortunately, I've never even extracted the files from a DS ROM, let alone attempted to hack them, so I can't offer much specific advice on the subject.)
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