I think I figured out how to make a text dump myself from the Might and Magic ROM. I used FreeBASIC. I renamed the ROM file to "mandm.txt" (this isn't necessary, but I did it to email the file to myself) and then ran in FreeBasic.

This is the output file.

Screencap of it when opened in notepad, showing some text but also some data:



(Click for full)

Assuming NES games all map bytes to text in the same way (it's not straight up ASCII), this program could be improved to do stuff more automatically. (Currently, I know how many bytes to read of the ROM because I simply looked at the file size; I should get that to work automatically)


I might have some other fixes I need to make (it looks like quotes are mapping to question marks). If I ever get it to work perfectly, I could compile it as a standalone program for anyone to use.



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Last Edited By: Crawl and 1OOO 02/25/12 7:38 PM. Edited 4 times.