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UPDATE PEOPLE! {XD}
This "poorly-made" tool converts Text values to Hex value, and vice-versa. And it is now written in VB.NET! After I decided to part ways with Java. For example if you want to change the game's battle messages,(see smeargles' tutorial HERE) you can use this tool to aid you in converting text values to hex values, and again, vice-versa. And now added support to standard hex!
If you're familiar with hex, converting is just a piece of cake for you. But what if not? Try to look at this:
Let's try to convert the string, "Hello world" for example. Now, how the heck can we convert this to hex? Take note that every letter has it's corresponding Hex equivalent. You can look at this list if you want:
Now, did you find yourself a pretty hard time looking for its hex equivalent?
Worry not anymore cause this is the aim of this tool. To help minimize the work for you.
Just input the text/hex you want to convert, push the convert button, and VIOLA! piece of cake, ain't it?
This tool cannot convert specific characters yet, for "Text - Hex" only. They are as
follows:
Link is in the tool, in the about section.
If you want to test the older versions, you would want to download Java 6 or higher since the v1 and v1.1 are both written in Java.
Enjoy!
-Kakarot1212
Text Hex DecoderConvert Version 2.1.1
What the heck is this tool?
This "poorly-made" tool converts Text values to Hex value, and vice-versa. And it is now written in VB.NET! After I decided to part ways with Java. For example if you want to change the game's battle messages,(see smeargles' tutorial HERE) you can use this tool to aid you in converting text values to hex values, and again, vice-versa. And now added support to standard hex!
If you're familiar with hex, converting is just a piece of cake for you. But what if not? Try to look at this:
Let's try to convert the string, "Hello world" for example. Now, how the heck can we convert this to hex? Take note that every letter has it's corresponding Hex equivalent. You can look at this list if you want:
Spoiler:
Now, did you find yourself a pretty hard time looking for its hex equivalent?
Worry not anymore cause this is the aim of this tool. To help minimize the work for you.
Just input the text/hex you want to convert, push the convert button, and VIOLA! piece of cake, ain't it?
Screenshots
Spoiler:
Bugs
This tool cannot convert specific characters yet, for "Text - Hex" only. They are as
follows:
- [pk], [mn], [po], [k], [ké], [bl], [oc], [U], [D]
[L], [R], [.], [""], "", ['], [m], [f], [$], [x], [>]
[u], [d], [l]
Future Plans
- Add a "Hex to Text" feature DONE!
- Improve GUI DONE!
- Ability to directly open a ROM and change its battle messages
directly - Fix all bugs - Getting there
- And a lot more, I hope.
Changelog
Spoiler:
Download
Spoiler:
Source Code
Link is in the tool, in the about section.
If you want to test the older versions, you would want to download Java 6 or higher since the v1 and v1.1 are both written in Java.
Enjoy!
-Kakarot1212
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Text Hex Convert v2.1.1 
Why has no one commented on this yet? This is great, this can be really helpful for decapitalization, instead of having to use Advance-Text and then compare roms in a hex editor. Good job!
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Agreed, this is pretty awesome. This is a great tool to ween people off of A-Text and change things that would otherwise be left untouched due to lack of hex editing knowledge. I'm interested to see how this will develop.
I'll definitely be giving this a try, writing in hex directly is a PITA {XD}
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A Gen 3 remake de-make, featuring many new encounters and Gen VI mechanics
I've been using this to decapitalise my hack, and being new to hex, this is just a godsend! Thank you so much for making it ♥
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WOW! ^_^ Thanks for all the awesome comments guys! I will try to develop this tool to make it more powerful. :D
Sometimes the tool doesn't work, like right now, I put STORAGE and it gave me CD CE C9 CC BB C1 BF and that's fine, but now I put Storage and it gives me CD E8 E6 D5 DB D9. It happens commonly so please fix :D
Sometimes the tool doesn't work, like right now, I put STORAGE and it gave me CD CE C9 CC BB C1 BF and that's fine, but now I put Storage and it gives me CD E8 E6 D5 DB D9. It happens commonly so please fix :D
That's just normal. Because the hex equivalent of BIG letter and small letters are different. Like BIG letter 'O' is C9 and small letter 'o' is E6 . ^_^
That's just normal. Because the hex equivalent of BIG letter and small letters are different. Like BIG letter 'O' is C9 and small letter 'o' is E6 . ^_^
I know about that, it's the number of Hex characters that are appearing xD
I know about that, it's the number of Hex characters that are appearing xD
Ooohhh, you should have said earlier sorry about that. I'll go and fix this. Thanks for reporting :)EDIT: In addition to that, what other particular word(s) does this same error occur at?
Damn. Sure wish I came across this tool earlier. Would have saved me a tonne of time.
EDIT: Seems to not insert the line breaks (FE in hex.)
Yeah, it currently don't work at the moment. Please insert it manually for the meantime. I'll add this when school ♥♥♥♥s are done. ;)
EDIT: Seems to not insert the line breaks (FE in hex.)
Ooohhh, you should have said earlier sorry about that. I'll go and fix this. Thanks for reporting :)
EDIT: In addition to that, what other particular word(s) does this same error occur at?
Not sure. Sometimes it just happens randomly, I don't think it depends on the words. Good luck in fixing this, it really has helped a lot ^^
EDIT: In addition to that, what other particular word(s) does this same error occur at?
It was not able to translate the small 'o' in Dark Sneasal's case. When I type 'o' it gives a blank output. This is the problem. There might be more characters missed. Otherwise, the tool is very convenient
Not sure. Sometimes it just happens randomly, I don't think it depends on the words. Good luck in fixing this, it really has helped a lot ^^
It was not able to translate the small 'o' in Dark Sneasal's case. When I type 'o' it gives a blank output. This is the problem. There might be more characters missed. Otherwise, the tool is very convenient
Yeah, sorry about that guys. It was a heck a lot of carelessness of me that I miscoded the small 'o' to big 'O'. BTW it is fixed now. Thanks for reporting :)
Very Nice tool,
I did have a private tool similar to this, but I never got the hex to text feature working properly. I look forward to seeing that implemented :).
Yeah, it really gives me aches at the moment, but I'll work on it when exams are done. :D
I did have a private tool similar to this, but I never got the hex to text feature working properly. I look forward to seeing that implemented :).
UPDATE!
See first post :)
See first post :)
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I can't open it, it says
Link fixed! Please try to download it again. :)
Spoiler:
UPDATE!
Some highlights on the Version 2.1.0
Version 2.1.0:
Some highlights on the Version 2.1.0
Version 2.1.0:
- Name changed from 'Text Hex Decoder' to 'Text Hex Convert'
- Added support for Standard Hex Values
- Added 'History' function
- Added 'Other Form' functions that shows the other possible forms of the hex
- Added update function
- And further GUI improvement
Very Nice tool,
I did have a private tool similar to this, but I never got the hex to text feature working properly. I look forward to seeing that implemented :).
I managed do it somehow ^_^
I did have a private tool similar to this, but I never got the hex to text feature working properly. I look forward to seeing that implemented :).
I'm skeptical as to the need for a dedicated GUI for this, frankly.
The encoding of 0xFC through 0xFF is arbitrary and frankly not very good.
[[email protected] ~/Documents/Projects/pkmn-macro]♣ python Python 3.4.2 (default, Jan 12 2015, 11:38:40) [GCC 4.9.2 20141224 (prerelease)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import codecs, pokemon >>> codecs.register(pokemon.getregentry) >>> "Hello, Pokécommunity!".encode("pokemon") b'\xc2\xd9\xe0\xe0\xe3\xb8\x00\xca\xe3\xdf\x1b\xd7\xe3\xe1\xe1\xe9\xe2\xdd\xe8\xed\xab'Here. It's in the public domain. It's not the best mapping in the world, but it's not my fault - the encoding Gamefreak used doesn't map cleanly onto Unicode. For example, Unicode has separate codepoints for apostrophe (U+0027) and closing single quote (U+2019), but Gamefreak use 0xB4 as both. I didn't want my codec to be non-bijective, so I don't encode U+0027 as 0xB4, which leads to behaviour that may look odd.
>>> "RIVAL's NAME?".encode("pokemon") # U+0027 APOSTROPHE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/thomas/Documents/Projects/pkmn-macro/pokemon.py", line 8, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input, errors, encoding_dict)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x27' in position 5: character maps to <undefined>
>>> "RIVAL’s NAME?".encode("pokemon") # U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
b'\xcc\xc3\xd0\xbb\xc6\xb4\xe7\x00\xc8\xbb\xc7\xbf\xac'
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name("'")
'APOSTROPHE'
>>> unicodedata.name("’")
'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'I also haven't added support for 0x53 through 0x59, because I'm not sure what the correct thing to do is. Use the private-use area? Decode e.g. 0x53 as U+1D3E U+1D0B?The encoding of 0xFC through 0xFF is arbitrary and frankly not very good.
You're a true lifesaver for making this tool, saved me lots of time and frustration! Thank you!
I'm glad I can help :p
I'm skeptical as to the need for a dedicated GUI for this, frankly.
The encoding of 0xFC through 0xFF is arbitrary and frankly not very good.
Let me be blunt, the GUI is important because it simply makes work easier. Compare to what you made, my tool is easier to use right? You don't need to type lots of codes to make it work, just hit convert and your done! That alone save a lot of time. And it is less confusing compared to what you show. Let's take the example you gave:[[email protected] ~/Documents/Projects/pkmn-macro]? python Python 3.4.2 (default, Jan 12 2015, 11:38:40) [GCC 4.9.2 20141224 (prerelease)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import codecs, pokemon >>> codecs.register(pokemon.getregentry) >>> "Hello, Pokécommunity!".encode("pokemon") b'\xc2\xd9\xe0\xe0\xe3\xb8\x00\xca\xe3\xdf\x1b\xd7\xe3\xe1\xe1\xe9\xe2\xdd\xe8\xed\xab'Here. It's in the public domain. It's not the best mapping in the world, but it's not my fault - the encoding Gamefreak used doesn't map cleanly onto Unicode. For example, Unicode has separate codepoints for apostrophe (U+0027) and closing single quote (U+2019), but Gamefreak use 0xB4 as both. I didn't want my codec to be non-bijective, so I don't encode U+0027 as 0xB4, which leads to behaviour that may look odd.
>>> "RIVAL's NAME?".encode("pokemon") # U+0027 APOSTROPHE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/thomas/Documents/Projects/pkmn-macro/pokemon.py", line 8, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input, errors, encoding_dict)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\x27' in position 5: character maps to <undefined>
>>> "RIVAL’s NAME?".encode("pokemon") # U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
b'\xcc\xc3\xd0\xbb\xc6\xb4\xe7\x00\xc8\xbb\xc7\xbf\xac'
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name("'")
'APOSTROPHE'
>>> unicodedata.name("’")
'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'I also haven't added support for 0x53 through 0x59, because I'm not sure what the correct thing to do is. Use the private-use area? Decode e.g. 0x53 as U+1D3E U+1D0B?The encoding of 0xFC through 0xFF is arbitrary and frankly not very good.
Yours: "Hello, Pokécommunity!".encode("pokemon")
b'\xc2\xd9\xe0\xe0\xe3\xb8\x00\xca\xe3\xdf\x1b\xd7\xe3\xe1\xe1\xe9\xe2\xdd\xe8\xed\xab'
-> With this, you still need to remove the apostrophes, backslashes and the 'x' char to be inserted in the ROM, and that alone consumes a LOT of time. What if it is a whole lot of sentence?
Mine: Just type "Hello, Pokécommunity!" on the text field, hit convert and you get C2 D9 E0 E0 E3 B8 00 CA E3 DF 1B D7 E3 E1 E1 E9 E2 DD E8 ED AB, hit copy, paste on the ROM, done. Easy right?
Anyway, I know this can be done on Python this way, but I wanted to make more conventional one. Good luck on yours bro.