ROM Hack Hmmm, what file type is this?

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I have no idea what .WSB is o.o;;;

I'm wanting to work on translating 2404 - Ookami to Koushinryou - Boku to Horo no Ichinen (J). It seems that a lot of stuff is located in these kinds of files. So yeah...if anyone could tell me what it is and/or how to open them, that'd be awesome. Hah.
 

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hmmm, I still have no idea how to look at these things, haha.

Well, if it has images inside of it, then it probably isn't for the text...and I have no idea where that'd be stored. Here are the folders located in this folder, some of which I'm pretty sure are already idenified and don't need to be messed with.:


data
font
graphic
movie - Opening video only
script
snd - sound files
voice - character voices I assume, considering they seem to be labeled with abbreviations of character names.



I'm going to need help figuring out these other folders though, lots of other folders within the data that I'm sure have some text within them.

in the graphics folder, all files located in the several different folders are those .NSCR, .NCGR, .NANR, .NCER, and .NCLR type of files. Not knowing much here, if someone could tell me what those are for I'd appreciate it.
 

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I am not 100% sure about those:
.nanr:animation
.ncgr:compressed graphics(Nintendo Compressed GRaphics?)
.nclr:are palette files
Edit:
.nscr:map files

You can view all of those files using Crystaltile2
 

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that seems like those would be right, I wish I could get a 100% on that though.

I'm really wanting to translate this, as I am a huge fan of the novels, anime, and now wanting to play the game.
 

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CPhantom said:
thank you very much. Unfortunately I cannot read that either. Hah.

Are there any guides? and does this help with text? ^^

CrystalTile2 is a graphic viever...
For dialog you must use other tool, like a hex editor and find the hexadecimal value of jap characters.
 

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