I don't know how to determine game's text address

JetQ

Hi, I want to translate a gba game called Granbo. I found the game's font address is 308BF8, but I don't know how to find the game's text address. Does anyone have a specific document showing how to determine the text?

GoldenArc

The common method is to construct a table file, where one or more bytes corresponds to a letter or whatever else. Then you can easily search for text in a hex editor. Any of the text hacking or table file documents on this site should get you started.

More complex edits will require an understanding of GBA pointers (moderately straightforward) and control codes to resize text length. The GBA and DS hacking guide has more helpful information for intermediate-advanced topics.

bogaa

Did you try out Mesen 2? The emulator has a nice graphic viewer. The character are mostly indexed as you see them in VRAM. Then you can create a table file what is a simple text file to tell what character has what index. Once you load it you can search memory for text.

The memory viewer does also show loaded values in color. So text is data and will show blue. You can load savestates and do quick edits in RAM to figure stuff out too.

So for some stuff I have on my screen you do not need a table since it is ascii. The japanese stuff seems to be graphic and not tile-mapping. I guess the text is compressed but not sure.. I tried to trace it but I am really bad with GBA stuff. Here I have a other screenshot from where in RAM it will copy. You can edit the text there. Data will be streamed in and I could not follow that code sorry. https://imgur.com/7TtMtFC