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[Vanit]

Those words are irrelevent. Anyways it seems the English table is in pure ascii (there are a few proper table files lying around the place).

I've always used hex workshop.

[VoX]

though it seems that the most of the files are name to the english langaue i cant find a single file relevent to the text of the menu

[VoX]

have you thought of them using shift_jis

[bitblt]

I haven't tried to hack commercial DS ROMs myself, although I have done my share of hacking in general. l can tell you that every DS game will be structured different so there are no specific techniques. Hopefully the directory/file names will give you a hint what the files are used for.  A hex editor should allow you to read/edit plain text within binary files.  If you change a binary file you must maintain the exact same file size.  This means you can't replace a four letter word with a five letter word. You also can't replace a four letter word with a three letter word, although you can pad the three letter word with a whitespace character. Most images will not be found in standard BMP/JPG/GIF formats. Sometimes raw images will be an array of bytes that reference a color palette of 256 16bit RGB values.  Often raw images will use RLE, LZ or some other compression.  Even simple text may be encoded and/or compressed.  It's helpful to have some programming experience to help decipher raw binary files. If you look around you might even find pre-made tools (like dslazy) that other people have put together.  You could ask Zemus for some help but I have no idea if he is interested. Good luck.

[VoX]

thanks you i'll try to contact him in the mean time have a look at thew new wiki http://theds-hackproject.pbwiki.com

[Vanit]

... Take the wiki down. It would be stupid to make one with no content or even a guarantee if this will work.

[VoX]

no content? there's two projects and ones finished

[Vanit]

Well the other one wasn't even your project . But I'd take the pearl one down for now.

[VoX]

Well the other one wasn't even your project . But I'd take the pearl one down for now.

i'll take the pearl one down but the other one is my project even have a look in the faqs and help section, why isnt it mine?

[Haoie]

The official translation is due out in, say, half a year, as I recall.

[VoX]

I know, its long. If i knew were the dialogue and the menu file were and what program gamefreak are using to edit it me and Vanit could finish it a matter of weeks,

[Vanit]

I agree, its this main bottleneck here thats holding us up.

[VoX]

just imagine if we find that file, oh and by the way Vannit its not any of the files in the data file cheacked them all, didnt bother checking sound because of obvious reasons

[Vanit]

Really? I was convinced it was hidden in the event files.

[XXXTestament]

Excuse me, I would like to help.
Please contact me at final_fantasy_danny@yahoo.com so I can get up to speed.