I think I'm starting to figure it out. It seems like when things break down into gobbledegook, two characters are missing for every byte. This leads me to suspect that there are certain bytes that decode to 2 character combinations.

Consider this quote from the vampire, "All living things are born to die"

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the ROM code is on the left and what it decodes to is on the right. The "two character bytes" even are reproducible. For example, there are two "1B" = "space and t" and two "1F" = "i and n" examples just in that excerpt.



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