I am cooking in front of my machine right now so I have not had time to decode the loop fully. I would suggest going through the opening screen first and starting a game or at least getting to the point where the "sixteen years" part should be.Īfter aggravating my wrist pressing c and enter several hundred times we get started, after the opening what should appear in R1 but 086F0B60 and with the following being 086F0B64Ĭontinuing a few times I decided to read the 0202F134 area (mb 0202F134 is the command) and lo and behold the decoded text is appearing there byte by byte on average about once every 20 instructions (8 bit writes to the WRAM are the normal state of affairs) - all from a THUMB loop housed in the 03000000 area work ram. Sticking with the opening scene at 0202F134 in memory (about 3 quarters of the way through the WRAM) up popped the "Two Androids with strength beyond comprehension appeared from out of nowhere" line where before the text which did appear in the ROM did not appear in the memory dump (normal enough on the GBA)Ĭuriosity obtained, time to fire up VBA-SDL-HīPW 0202F134 100 (breakpoint on write to that address for that length after the address). The raw ascii of the missing section also appeared in my memory dump at the appropriate time. Sections following the last readable section do not seem to compress that well, do not appear as an alternate encoding (the usual things like distribution, double letters and punctuation do not get me that far) but they have pointers. Also sections that started out in ASCII or something close to it do seem to vanish into the ether before they are done (the opening sixteen years stuff being early in the game and what I shall be looking at here). That said I had a quick look and it is a fairly interesting affair as it seems fairly resilient, to respond to start and stop markers and did not run together/in game order. I see no obvious compressions (LZ usually gracefully degrades and huffman tends to still be kind of half readable as well) and if there is one covering the whole text it is extremely poorly implemented so inability to edit things here could just as easily be pointer related issues. Before going too far into this do you have the pointer format? (the looks of things the pointers at the end of each section).
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