Translation Need help decrypting game binaries to extract text

[ateliermae]

Hi guys, we're currently trying to extract text from a Switch game made in unity (TMGS4), we found the text files but the text is encrypted in some binary files that turned out to be a lot of squares and gibberish. Do you guys know if there's a way to turn them back into japanese, or is it impossible? All the main text of the game is separated in 12,000 binary files.

Thanks and hope someone has the answer!

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

Japanese is usually encoded in UTF-8.
Most HEX editors just show the bytes but not the unicode text.
Just load a small text file into a text editor like Atom or Notepad++ and change the encoding to see if something shows up.

 

[ateliermae]

Japanese is usually encoded in UTF-8.
Most HEX editors just show the bytes but not the unicode text.
Just load a small text file into a text editor like Atom or Notepad++ and change the encoding to see if something shows up.

Hello! Thanks for your answer, I tried doing that in Notepad++ and only got this kind of result

https://i.imgur.com/dxbfPTm.png

Do you have any other idea?

 

[Levine91]

Hello! Thanks for your answer, I tried doing that in Notepad++ and only got this kind of result

https://i.imgur.com/dxbfPTm.png

Do you have any other idea?

After you've gone to "Encoding -> UTF 8" in Notepad++, once again choose "Encoding" and then choose "Character Sets -> Japanese -> Shift JIS"