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Crystal Berry October 29th, 2015 6:22 PM

Text Editing
 
Is there a program I can use to easily edit text in the games? A-Text is buggy for some reason. If there are no tools to edit text, is there any easy or simple way I can do it?


esperance October 29th, 2015 7:04 PM

You can use a hex editor, which actually allows the user to edit the binary data of a ROM file. Hex editors arrange the data into groupings of 8 bits (called a byte), which conveniently matches up with how a lot of text is encoded on computers (although modern formats take more data), including the special encoding used in the GBA games.

Because the text is encoded in a proprietary way, most hex editors don't support it. So you'll need two things: a table file (just Google Pokemon table file), and a hex editor that can use table files. Hex editors that I've used that support table files are GoldFinger (the simplest one), Translhexation, and WindHex.

You can then edit the text by hand ;)


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