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    ROM Hack Pokémon Black & White Official Translation thread

    You can build a table easily by dumping Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji by their little endian Unicode hex values. In fact, since we've hit a dead end so far, I'll do just that. And to be honest, I usually work as a manga scanlator. I came here to explore rom translation out of curiosity. I can...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    Well, therein lies the first problem: it's encrypted. The encryption is different from DPP and HGSS, so it's going to be tough I'll try editing different parts to find out where each sentence is, but that's about the most I can do right now. MAYBE I'll get lucky and have a Latin character pop...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    When I zero out that area, the text in the menu disappears
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    I think I've located the main menu text in file 179 of 0/0/2 (0x2463d8 to 0x247c80, size = 6312 bytes)
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    Hmm, I have an idea. We should just remove or zero out the narc files until we figure out which one contains the text. In other words, we do a binary search by zeroing out half of the suspicious ones. If it doesn't load the text, we know that it's in the half that's zeroed out. Else, it's...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    The Japanese (Hiragana, Katagana and Kanji) are all encoded in Unicode and stored as little-endian. Meaning that if you want to find "????" (Pokemon), you can use that converter to convert it to hex ("30DD 30B1 30E2 30F3") and switch the bytes around ("DD30 B130 E230 F330"). You can also...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    All of the extensionless files are NARC files, so you can rename and open them as such. So now that a few of the have been discovered as translatable sprites (status, types), it's time to start cracking!
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black/White Hacking Documentation

    Here are the representations of the text in the memory and the save file. I'm not sure if it's like this in the script also, but it's worth a try. Also try flipping them around if they're different endians (0xdd30 -> 0x30dd) Oh, and if you want to see for yourself, just search for "strbuf" in...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon B&W: Translation

    Oh hey I didn't know that. Let's see ...A search shows that all of the files in data/a/ are NARC files. Interesting. Just rename all of them and look through them all. One of them has to be msg.narc Edit: 0/1/4 is the overworld BTX files, still looking for msg Edit 2: Don't trust me on...
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    ROM Hack Pokemon Black and White translation info help thread WIP

    The problem with BW is that the files are all messed up. No more msg.narc, but files names in single digits from 0/0/0 to 2/3/4. Also, I think the tables are changed too. あ is now 0x3042 (or the other way, not sure which endian these files are in) I tried finding ポケモン encoded in the new...
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