ROM Hack Question I want to translate games

[Nicytta]

Hi guys, is there a tutorial to translate nsp games from Switch, or what tools without needing?Thanks!!

 

[masagrator]

You need to specify game. There is no one universal way to do this. If game is using more known engine, you have higher chance that tools are available to use that may work with game you want to translate.

 

[MRJPGames]

There might be a tutorial. For the most part however translating will depend on the game and how it stores it's assets.

Some games include text files for most text (eg. DS professor Layton games) yet others use archives that cannot be simply opened in a generic text editor.

I would personally start extracting the romFS, and seeing where the text might be stored in the game. You might also be able to find resources online about it, depending on how popular rom hacking the title is. But I'm sure you'll be able to find some helpful people.

 

[FAST6191]

ROM hacking works much the same on whatever system you are doing.

The differences tend to be in the specifics of the hardware and pulling apart a ROM into its component files (assuming you can do that -- anything that uses a cartridge that is the GBA or older tends not to have that, anything with an optical drive or floppy drive on the other hand).

Find a description of the hardware, find a means to pull the ROM apart, maybe find a graphics tool that can decode the hardware's internal setups and it is all pretty much the same whether you are on a commodore 64 or current PC.
Do a search to see if someone has gone before, and this can include older games in the franchise (developers are lazy, computers are designed to allow you to be lazy, they will reuse concepts all the time) or in the same engine.

After that you get to fiddle -- there are a billion different ways to approach most problems in programming and developers often will.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentation-project-new-2016-edition-out.73394/
http://www.romhacking.net/start/
http://gbatemp.net/topic/291274-the-ultimate-nintendo-ds-rom-hacking-guide/
https://docs.google.com/document
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:Game_Formats
https://fileinfo.com/filetypes/game
/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub?embedded=true

 

[MRJPGames]

ROM hacking works much the same on whatever system you are doing.

The differences tend to be in the specifics of the hardware and pulling apart a ROM into its component files (assuming you can do that -- anything that uses a cartridge that is the GBA or older tends not to have that, anything with an optical drive or floppy drive on the other hand).

Find a description of the hardware, find a means to pull the ROM apart, maybe find a graphics tool that can decode the hardware's internal setups and it is all pretty much the same whether you are on a commodore 64 or current PC.
Do a search to see if someone has gone before, and this can include older games in the franchise (developers are lazy, computers are designed to allow you to be lazy, they will reuse concepts all the time) or in the same engine.

After that you get to fiddle -- there are a billion different ways to approach most problems in programming and developers often will.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentation-project-new-2016-edition-out.73394/
http://www.romhacking.net/start/
http://gbatemp.net/topic/291274-the-ultimate-nintendo-ds-rom-hacking-guide/
https://docs.google.com/document
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:Game_Formats
https://fileinfo.com/filetypes/game
/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub?embedded=true

As an add-on to this. As this was posted in under Nintendo Switch, that system uses romfs. Extracting that will give you the asset files of the title, and you can edit them from there.

Of course how those files can be edited depends on the title.