im trying to romhack a game. i own it legit, but im still using a sub for this just in case and will not say what game it is making the thread so i might stick with the project cause if i dont i know ill dick around for a while and then forget about it setting goals for the same reason. easy ones first cause i dont know what im doing and then harder ones get most of the data unencrypted so i can look at it change lines of dialogue edit a sprite add a new line of dialogue somewhere edit an animation will get more ambitious if i figure out how to do those i'm partway through goal 1 and looking through the data files for stuff that got dummied out
found a bunch of debugging flags hidden in the script saying to tell someone if you see them. am telling this thread that i saw them
found plans for a whole mechanic that never got made. am learning many things about this game's dev history
havent found a line at the start of the game thats good for testing yet but i can make a character i hate say 'punch me in the face' this is too much power for one fan to wield
can change lines. tried copying how the game does multiline dialogue to add a second line to something but it didn't show. probably need to change event scripting somewhere
found some dialogue with the word 'vicisitudes' in it dummied out why would you bother typing vicissitude if you were just gonna dummy it out
i keep finding messages for things i didnt know you could do. or just didnt occur to me to try. id be a shitty QA tester.
the sprite for one boss is just a normal enemy with a different head in an animation cell over the other head
found the answer to a weird plot hole thing in dummied dialogue too bad i cant share it because sekricy maybe someday
i have new respect for fan translators at least if there hacking games that store text in as bullshit a way as this one does
you do realize that romhacking a game you own is legal so long as you don't distribute the roms to people who don't already own the game?
