Tail Concerto (PS1) (SLUS_006.60) - Translating DATA.BIN without character limit

[ikskoks]

Hi. I'm just wondering if anyone tried to translate text in DATA.BIN file in a way that new text is longer than original text?
I've tried to search for pointers, but I couldn't  find anything. Any help appreciated. 🙂 

Tail_Concerto_DATA.bin_file.zip

[Thief1987]

I'm not sure, but it seems that at least for the text that I found in this file, string length jsut need to be multiple of 6

 

edit hm, no, this pattern is not working on later strings. It's something different

Edited July 10 by Thief1987

[Rabatini]

I debugged with nopsx.

The first pointer is in red, and the second is in blue. The game uses upside-down text.

Now, you need to study the ASM code to discover how it makes the calculation.

You can test this: if you change e0 to e1 or e8 to e9, the text will change in the game first dialogue.