1/ Alter the translation horribly to make it short / add letters to the font that are commonly used so that "ch" "en" for example are considered a single letter...
2/ Learn about Pointers
German is far more wordy than English (and so is French, Swedish, Finnish...) so you'd need to learn about how to modify the pointers, which are little thingies that say "the text is located.. at address xxxx" or alternatively "first string length is 3, second is 4, ...".
Open the first parts of the file in hex and try to find if there's something similar to a pointer. You should read about NES pointers document in romhacking.net, then read about gba/ds pointers, then see what's the case you have at hand.
Ahhhh i think i understand the system with the pointers 
But have it to do all with a hex editor? give it no tool to edit the pointers?
in hex editor i see 04 00 00 00 C8 00 00 00
04 is the lenght of the word (Its right it has 4 Letters) and c8 is the adress
thats many work, give it no tool that make the work easier?
But have it to do all with a hex editor? give it no tool to edit the pointers?
in hex editor i see 04 00 00 00 C8 00 00 00
04 is the lenght of the word (Its right it has 4 Letters) and c8 is the adress
thats many work, give it no tool that make the work easier?
If you know about the pointers, you can make one sentence shorter to make the next longer, or something like that.
But if the total of the text is bigger than the original, you could add data in the middle (to make the file bigger with the hex editor just add data to the end of the file), but you need to be very careful (it can have something at the beginning with the file size that you'll need to change as well, ...)
And yes you are doing romhacking so you'll need to work with hex editors.
If you know how to program for PC, you can code a program, so that you type the text and he does automatically all the pointers and modification things that you were doing manually with the hex editor. It just makes the work faster, but it's the same.
But if the total of the text is bigger than the original, you could add data in the middle (to make the file bigger with the hex editor just add data to the end of the file), but you need to be very careful (it can have something at the beginning with the file size that you'll need to change as well, ...)
And yes you are doing romhacking so you'll need to work with hex editors.
If you know how to program for PC, you can code a program, so that you type the text and he does automatically all the pointers and modification things that you were doing manually with the hex editor. It just makes the work faster, but it's the same.
Thanks GHANMI
I know now what you mean with Pointers, have made my First Translate.
No i know not how to programm, cant make.
Make it with Tinke it has a Hex Editor. It is very time intensive.
But do not know how I could make it faster...... Have one an Idea?
Usually you do get to make a program to help you out and yeah going by hand is a long and tedious process which is why few ever do for a long game like this. The other options include a pointer tool like atlas ( http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/224/ ) which is almost a programming language unto itself or you make a spreadsheet.
Hopefully there is some nice indicator of an end of section (I have often seen sentence by sentence pointers and that means you can use the fullstop, what it is here I can not remember) so you dump the initial pointers into a spreadsheet, do a search for whatever end marker/start markers you have on your edited script and dump that into the same table and then adjust accordingly (the start or end markers might be a set distance from where the pointer wants to go to). Alternatively you could try actual lengths from your new script but that is almost all the way to programming your own tool.
Hopefully there is some nice indicator of an end of section (I have often seen sentence by sentence pointers and that means you can use the fullstop, what it is here I can not remember) so you dump the initial pointers into a spreadsheet, do a search for whatever end marker/start markers you have on your edited script and dump that into the same table and then adjust accordingly (the start or end markers might be a set distance from where the pointer wants to go to). Alternatively you could try actual lengths from your new script but that is almost all the way to programming your own tool.
Can someone help make a script? The pointers are very simple first is the length of the text and then the address.
04 00 00 00 CE 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 D4 00 00 00
That's a line from the Hex Editor here are always 2 pointers in a row , the first begins with the length and 4 to address the CE and the 2nd 05 pointer is the address D4.
The biggest file is a 2 MB File with many many Text and Pointers Horrible to edit only with Hex Editor
04 00 00 00 CE 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 D4 00 00 00
That's a line from the Hex Editor here are always 2 pointers in a row , the first begins with the length and 4 to address the CE and the 2nd 05 pointer is the address D4.
The biggest file is a 2 MB File with many many Text and Pointers Horrible to edit only with Hex Editor
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