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kingofcrusher
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« on: October 29, 2009, 06:30:34 pm »

I think I know cartographer pretty well, but I can't find any way to dump a script with a pointerlist.txt file instead of a pointer table in the rom for pointers that are all over the place. This game doesn't use any pointer tables, they're just kinda scattered around before the block of text they point too (at least I haven't been able to find any pattern to them).

I have a pointerlist.txt file for use with Atlas when inserting the script that has all the offsets, but I can't figure out a way to dump them short of manually dumping them all and matching each line up with it's pointer offset for Atlas.

Am I just missing something or will I have to do a raw dump/match by hand? Thanks!
rveach
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 01:57:48 pm »

I don't know any programs off the top of my head that does this.

My program (Pointer Table) does have an option to locate scattered pointers throughout a ROM if you know the XOffset, but this requires the text to be clumped together and for you to know the 'end of string' byte(s). You make it sound like the text and the pointers are both scattered?
You could give it a try and see how well it works.

If no one else is able to help you, I could modify my program to allow entry of this type of pointers. It shouldn't be too hard, I just got done making an update to it.
kingofcrusher
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 02:20:47 pm »

Thanks for the reply! The text is set up in small blocks of anywhere from 1-15 or so sentences, with the pointers somewhere in the chunks of data above them but not spaced in any pattern I can figure out. So I've been manually going through, finding sentences, then locating the pointer to that sentence and copying the offset to a text file.

I'll definitely try your program and let you know how it goes. Thanks again for the help, I must have totally missed your program when I was going through all the utilities again so I'm glad you replied!
RedComet
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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 03:25:20 pm »

No. Cartographer can't use pointerlist.txt files. I hadn't thought of adding that when I first made it. Hmm... I keep forgetting to upload that to the site. D'oh.
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