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ROM Hacking

02 Mar 2024

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Text hacking.

Needed: GCRebuilder
Dolphin
PMTTYD ISO

Create your copy of the directory

  1. Open the ISO in GCRebuilder.
  2. Export files
  3. Now you have the directory. Save it somewhere else

Begin text editing

  1. Go to too/msg/{country name here}
  2. Use notepad++ to open files. Make sure you have EOL conversion on (Unix).
  3. Edit the text.
  4. Save the file.

Export

  1. After saving your text files, go to GC Rebuilder. Open Root and select the folder you have been working in.
  2. Root > Save. If you don’t have a new ISO yet, type the name of your modded ISO. Otherwise select the modded ISO.
  3. Root > Rebuild.
  4. Test your ISO in Dolphin or emulator of your choice.

Notes

  1. Build often stalls at 1459814400 bytes written for some reason. Wait it out.
  2. Always test after making changes! Not every single little one, but don’t wait too long between large revisions.
  3. One bug I encountered was incorrect line spacing. First encountered with the Toad girl in Glitzville who has a crush on the “Welcome to the Glitz Pit!” guy. I could not find a way to fix it. I must have changed something at some point that caused this, but her actual text was unaltered. Removing the <wait 250> command fixed the first segment but I could do nothing to fix the next ones. Solution was to delete the entire tou2.txt file and get a fresh tou2.txt file from the original. Do not copy paste the text from fresh copy to altered - it doesn’t work, for some reason. Instead, deleted your altered tou2.txt and replace with a fresh tou2.txt.

Edit the number of coins

(TODO)

Tags: video game