Assuming NES games all map bytes to text in the same way


Yeah, pretty sure they don't. (By the way, I cheated and used FO's notes to text-dump Might and Magic) I tried making some headway in text-dumping Final Fantasy (not because I really, really want to for its own sake, but just to see how it works). I eventually decided on using this program.

Then when I opened the output program, I control-f'ed for something I knew would be in there. I got this:

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I highlighted a few words so you can tell it's not completely random nonsense.

But that only got the capital letters. I can't find any dialogue in the ROM. I wonder if it's compressed or something.



"Without a foothold in the past, we cannot walk towards the future."
-Vagrant Story