OmnipotentEntity User Level: 11 Posts: 2/16 EXP: 4421 For next: 1564 Since: 04-07-09 Since last post: 11.8 years Last activity: 9.5 years	Posted on 04-09-09 06:21:38 AM Link | Quote
	Well, if anyone stumbles on this looking for it, the game over screen text is located starting at $94DC. It uses 16 bit-offsets from the fonts located at $70200. I think I'm using a headered rom, but I'm not certain. I didn't care enough to check.

Xkeeper Level: 263 Posts: 10040/25353 EXP: 297138798 For next: 1821655 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them/???????? Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 11 min.	Posted on 04-09-09 09:23:13 AM Link | Quote
	Given that a header is $200 bytes, I'm almost certain it's headered. What a weird way to store text, though. 16-bit pointers? ____________________

Xenesis Roy Koopa Actually a Doctor Level: 101 Posts: 277/2732 EXP: 10486584 For next: 231091 Since: 07-28-07 Pronouns: She/Her From: Orange Star's Retirement Villa Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 19 hours	Posted on 04-09-09 10:35:12 AM Link | Quote
	Sounds like they didn't really want to do a dedicated text parser or whatever. If I remember correctly that particular font is unique... So I guess they took the hacky shortcut for doing it rather than doing it properly. I mean who was going to know (besides us)?

OmnipotentEntity User Level: 11 Posts: 3/16 EXP: 4421 For next: 1564 Since: 04-07-09 Since last post: 11.8 years Last activity: 9.5 years

Posted on 04-11-09 01:53:07 PM Link | Quote

It is a headered ROM. @Xkeeper, Yeah, you can put pretty much anything you like there, as long as you don't mind the palette being wonky. The beginning and length of each line are hard coded somewhere else, the text is preformatted as far as beginning of line location and line lengths are concerned. A line that has a line directly below it must end with FF FE. (Used for double height letters.) A line that does not have a line directly below it must end with FF FF.