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Golden Sun Resources => Misc. GS Hacking => Topic started by: rpearl on 11, February, 2017, 06:28:03 PM

Title: Japanese text extraction?
Post by: rpearl on 11, February, 2017, 06:28:03 PM
Hello! My partner's both playing Golden Sun and learning Japanese; we were trying to extract the text from the Japanese version of the ROM so he can add flashcards with the English<->Japanese translations.

But, I'm having a lot of trouble actually doing this. All the data for it is available in the TLA editor (it successfully displays the text) but I can't find any way to get it *out* of the editor.

So, how do I get those bytes? Even if it's a bunch of binary and I have to match it up to actual unicode characters myself I can do so, but right now I'm having trouble even getting the data. I tried a different decompressor (https://github.com/romhack/GoldenSunCompression ) that worked with the English version but it appears the Japanese compression table and string table is in a different place and I don't know how to find it.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Title: Re: Japanese text extraction?
Post by: rpearl on 14, February, 2017, 12:22:54 AM
Update: I used the source of the TLA editor and hacked it apart to give me a text extractor, then transcribed the extended ascii in the game font to get unicode.

Still can't find the kanji though.