Any good Hex editor that supports Shift-JS (Japanese)?

Alex4U · Dec 6, 2017

Yeah yeah, I'm asking for this again 'cause I'm tired of CrystalTile2, everytime I save the damn ROM, it corrupts the ROM and I can't proceed working on my translation thanks to this error. I don't know if is my laptop that is failing or something, I don't know. I already downloaded every CrystalTile2 version, even in chinese from different websites and still isn't working?! (I don't know where to post this, so, I will post it here because I don't want to repeat the same thread.)

Dammit, so, I've searching for hours a good hex editor, but I can't find one that supports Shift-JS (japanese font) for a NDS ROM.

So, I don't really want to use CrystalTile2, I know is a very powerful tool for NDS ROMs, but I can't get it working, 'cause everytime I save the modified ROM, it corrupts the ROM and I can't proceed translating the game thanks to this error.

Anyone knows a good editor can could support Shift-JS?

Thanks in advance.

FAST6191 · Dec 6, 2017

Do you know how it is corrupting the file? I tend not to use its hex editor for anything more than looking at things but for as flaky as some of the functionality is I don't tend to see it corrupt things.

"for a NDS ROM"
A file is a file is a file. If you have permissions it does not matter, save for some older editors that try to load the whole file in memory or top out at 4 gigs or so. If you want one that is aware of the DS file system then that is a rather more limited selection.

Personally I find doing shiftJIS in a hex editor to be tricky -- so many games will have say an 8 bit control code and that makes everything that follows (at least until the next 8 bit code) not work. This is also before you mess around with pointers.

Short version is you have reached the point where you really need to learn to extract and insert text -- a hex editor should only really be used to read things and correct typos and even that can be tricky. Bonus for you is there are loads of conventional text editors that handle it, though JWPCE and njstar are the better choices if you need to put the Roman characters from the shiftJIS section (shiftJIS technically supports U16 but most DS games will not)

Kaidou · Jan 5, 2018

I use Hexecute for my hex viewer with Shift JIS encoding.

Alex4U · Jan 5, 2018

Kaidou said:
I use Hexecute for my hex viewer with Shift JIS encoding.

Thanks for the reply.

So I'll try Hexecute then.

Kaidou · Jan 5, 2018

You might have to extract the files out of the .nds file first with something like dsbuff, make your edits, then repack using the same program. Hexecute doesn't uncompress it for you.

Any good Hex editor that supports Shift-JS (Japanese)?

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