Sage of Mirrors Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I just beat Paper Mario a few days ago, and I decided to rip it and see what was there. I noticed the text was kept in ASCII, so I wanted to see if I could edit it at all. The reason the line of text below 'Enrichment Center' is cut off is that I forgot to add a <p> tag after the latter. <p> seems to tell the game when to scroll the text up out of the text box to make room for more; it's used with <k>, which is what makes the game stop for player input (specifically, wait for the player to press 'A'). I tried having a version with longer text, but it broke the text in that room; both the computer and the partner (the Goomba) say 'No message.[English]' if they try to speak. I would've made another version with proper use of the tags, but I needed to burn the image to a backup disc in order to play the game on real hardware (Dolphin sucks on my computer). Since I don't have any more discs at the moment, another version is impossible unless I figure out how to load the ISO directly from a USB drive... which, I admit, would be far more practical with this sort of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malqua Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 That's amazing! Now you're thinking with Portals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sage of Mirrors Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Thanks! Once I get some more discs (should be this weekend at the earliest), I'll mess around with different tags... I'm looking forward to seeing if the Shadow Queen's unique textbox will work anywhere else. I have an idea as to what the test text will be... Or I could just wait until I get my laptop back, and mess with it then without having to use discs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannssoni Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 ooh i want see more paper mario hacks or modes ( or anything ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sage of Mirrors Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 It seems that a lot of graphical stuff, such as sprites and background images, are stored in .tpl files. Now, I've got a program that can extract the image files, but I can't pack multiple images into one .tpl. As far as I can tell, no such program exists. With this limitation, the only type of image swapping I can do is between the background images maps use, as they are all .tpl files holding one image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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