Do you guys do ROMhacking? What are you working on? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I want to translate the Touhou games into cantonese and I have no idea where to even start. Have any of you made custom tables for foreign scripts? Apparently some people already translated the games into Thai and that sounds like a lot of work

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

I have no idea where to even start

Back in my day, we used a free Hex Editor to open the file, and just scrolled until we found interesting text, and switched it.

I'm sure there's better tools now, though.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

The tools will be fairly specific to the game you're hacking. For example, a lot of tools exist for GBA Pokemon games, but something like porymap won't work for another game.

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