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[Other] Advance Text help?

babyxd001

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    Ok, here goes...

    I recently installed Advance Text onto my computer. Keep in mind that I have installed it and used it wonderfully before on my laptop. However, the PC is much more convenient for me. With some difficulty (and scouting for .ocx files) I got it working. Mostly.

    The problem is, I noticed that a lot of the text is missing. When I click on that line of dialogue, the entire box is just empty. If I try inputting my own text into the blank boxes, it has no effect whatsoever on the ROM. This is only present in certain dialogues, however. The ones that still do have text, I can delete and change at will, and the effects show in-game. Any ideas as to what I could be doing wrong? :/
     
    Advance Text(for what I remember) requires that you have the knowledge of the offsets which direct you to that text. If you type in something, willnilly, it will overwrite space in other scripts and functions or nothing at all. So if you want to edit some text, you need to find the offset of it, first.

    An offset looks something like this 08000000. You find them in hex editors.
     
    Now that you have A-text installed, you can go ahead and delete it.
    Seriously though, it's a very weak tool. Back when I used it, it didn't even support repointing. You're better off just decompiling the scripts and editing the texts that way. I'd edit non-script texts in a hex editor.
    Here's a paste of hex -> ASCII the game uses: https://pastebin.com/ifdbs0t1

    If you have python I wrote a small program to convert text to hex and vise versa. So you can just search the relevant string in a hex editor and edit it.
     
    Thank you for the advice. Also, I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply lately. To be honest, I forgot about this thread for a while. XD I've been experimenting with XSE and Advance Map, so I'll just use those from now on. The odd thing is, though, i didn't even use Advance Text when the text was blank. I opened up a conversation (without editing anything) right after installation and there was nothing there. :P
     
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