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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    yeah I noticed this. The way you've go to think of it when reading it in is. (these numbers are off the top of my head so I may be a little wrong with some of them) If the value is between between 90-9f it means its changing the group of characters its using. if the value is between20-89 its a...
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    Thats no problem (I'm juggling this with other projects too). In a few months if you want to work on it a little or want an update on how I'm getting on with it just send me a pm as I dont know if I'll be checking this thread on a regular basis.
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    I made a program that counted all the pointers and checked if any of them pointed to the same address and none do. While there are still pointers that point to other pointers none point to the exact same address. (So it looks like I'm wrong about how it may re-use text) It looks like some may...
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    It wouldn't store the characters thats speaking like it stores the script. If it was me programing it I would use a number to represent each character and a second number to represent if they should appear/what facial expression they should have. I'll make some time tomorrow to sit down...
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    I'm under the impression the game's text branches and because it uses the same lines of dialog in different branches it's impossible to have the whole script in order. (I could be wrong but thats how it looks to me) I was thinking about making a program that would extract the script and put it...
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    Sorry its taken me a while getting back to this but some of my other projects have needed all my time. So in this part I'm going to explain how to find memory addresses in the first place. before I get into this it's important to understand that some things stored in memory will be in the...
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    ROM Hack How do you handle game with custom encoding table?

    I've been working making a translation of this game for a friend. and I've been speaking to jjjewel (the OP) and to cut a long story short I said I would post a guide on RAM hacking with enthesis on hacking Vampire Knight DS's memory. I'll be using DeSmu 0.9.6 for this guide. I tried a few...
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