Xgamer4 Random nobody Level: 5 Posts: 2/3 EXP: 333 For next: 196 Since: 01-22-11 Since last post: 11.3 years Last activity: 11.3 years

Posted on 01-22-11 05:55:41 AM, in Magi-Nation (GBC) Link

Yeah, that's part of what I meant by the game's history. The other part is that it seems to have been rushed out. I seem to have found a list of battle commands (Fight, Summon, Run, etc.) Most notably is what seems to be a list of spells and monster abilities. I haven't checked everything, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of these wound up unused. Between locations 0x15EB7 and 0x1651B Fight Summon SummonX Item Run Spell Focus Barrage Beam Bite Blast Blaze Boost Bramble Burrow Carnage Charge Choke Claw Coil Consume Crack Cremates Crumble Crush Curse Cute Cyclone Devour Dream Drown Fang Flame Flash Flock Fortune Frenzy Gale Goo Gravity Gust Haunt Heal Ignite Impale Infect Inferno Ink Jiggle Jolt Lamp Leaf Magma Maul Melody Mend Mist Munch Pack Petrify Pinch Pollen Prism Pummel Punch Quake Roar Roots Scratch Sever Shade Shake Shield Shock Shred Slide Soar Sonic Spark Sponge Spore Squirt Sting Storm Swarm Swing Syphon Tackle Tangle Tempest Terror Thorns Thrust Thunder Tic Toc Tide Timber Tsunami Turtle Vampire Vortex Whirl Wreck ...I'm assuming that's how they should be layed out, but I may be wrong.

Xgamer4 Random nobody Level: 5 Posts: 3/3 EXP: 333 For next: 196 Since: 01-22-11 Since last post: 11.3 years Last activity: 11.3 years

Posted on 01-23-11 02:47:46 AM, in Magi-Nation (GBC) Link

I was poking around romhacking.net in search of a text dumper and the only thing that looked even remotely like it'd do what I wanted was a C++ app that wouldn't run on Windows 7 x64 and made my compiler barf on me when I tried to recompile it. So I said "screw it" and wrote a python script that does it for me. It's a very... oblivious script, so the dumps contain a bunch of artifacts, which you'll notice reading through the dump. "Fixed up" text dump: http://fieryfalls.com/MagiNationText.txt NOTE: Not fixed up completely, but the obvious not-text chunks were removed The raw dump, straight off the script: http://fieryfalls.com/rawDump.txt If anyone's interested in the script I can spruce it up and upload it. Command-line only, no GUI, but right now it just reads from a Thingy table file, and uses those values to determine what it cares about. If a string of 5 or more characters that appear in the table appear in the rom, it writes them out. There are a few obvious issues, if there's a word like "No!" that appears amongst a bunch of gibberish data it won't get recorded, and similar stuff, and an implementation issue I haven't bothered to fix (if a string of 5+ characters appear in a row, but a character not in the table appears between characters that are, that character is just blissfully ignored instead of breaking the sequence).