ROM Hack making table with 2 bytes = 1 symbol

[ashinigami]

I'm trying to learn how to translate roms and i'm learning alot but how can i make a table when
1 symbol/letter is two bytes long?

I can only find references to it but not anything telling how to go about it.

 

[FAST6191]

Your main problem with reading guides is they will be for SNES era games and software is probably not far off. They did use such things in SNES games but far more infrequently due to space issues.

Long story short if you have the correct viewers and formats (or viewer that supports a hack to the formats) you have no worries. Most modern tools (such as those people around here and http://www.romhacking.net/utils/ will suggest) will support this and most table formats are really basic:
0000=A
0001=B
0002=C
...
...
...
...

The above is the tbl file format used just about everywhere these days (as many bytes as you need on the left in hex, an equals sign and the character you are representing with it). You can edit it in a text editor if you wanted to.

The hardest part would likely be to remember use wildcards when you are playing with a relative search for 16 bit character sets (rarely will the upper byte change for a given subset of characters (it is generally considered bad practice) and if you are dealing with characters that do not have an order (kanji for instance: few will include the entire set and even if they do have a near complete one there are numerous ordering systems or none at all)) you can generally add in an order of your own.

 

[ashinigami]

I'm not sure i understand but basically you are saying to make a list in a text editor?

 

[Celice]

You create a list with Notepad or your hex editor (Windhex32 has this feature), and list which hex ID is what relative to the game. Usually the first entry in a list will be $00, or $0000 is they use words, or however many necessary. Here's an example from some of my old projects:
CODE46=a
47=b
48=c
49=d
4A=e
4B=f
4C=g
4D=h
4E=i
4F=j
50=k
51=l
52=m
53=n
54=o
55=p
56=q
57=r
58=s
59=t
5A=u
5B=v
5C=w
5D=x
5E=y
5F=z
60=0
61=1
62=2
63=3
64=4
65=5
66=6
67=7
68=8
69=9
6A=A
6B=B
6C=C
6D=D
6E=E
6F=F
70=G
71=H
72=I
73=J
74=K
75=L
76=M
77=N
78=O
79=P
7A=Q
7B=R
7C=S
7D=T
7E=U
7F=V
80=W
81=X
82=Y
83=Z
8C=;
8D=:
8E=,
8F=.
9C=?
9D=!
EF=
AD=/
9E=

 

[ashinigami]

thanks i understand now