[adaml]

I have a friend writing a faq for the NES Remote Control game. I help him with various things (mostly hex cheating for games to help him through them) and he asked if I knew how to dump the script to a game. Being unskilled in such things ("ME GRIMLOCK!!) I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction so he can dump the Remote Control script and extract every single one of the questions and answers. He says the game is compressed if that helps or hurts things.

[Skrybe]

I'd offer to help, but I don't know the first thing about working with compressed text. My suggestion would be to ask around romhacking.net.

[rbudrick]

No idea about compression either, but there are some programs out there (Chris Covell wrote one, iirc), that offsets the Ascii by X amount of steps so as to see if you can see uncompressed text. Pretty useful tool. The text in many games just jumps right out at you in a hex editor.

-Rob

[ProgrammingAce]

I'm googling "dumping script" to see if i can find any... WOAH!

[Lakmir]

Given that the game's for the NES, you're most likely dealing with simple dictionary compression. It's pretty simple stuff; you can find your script but it'll have holes in it. It'll be like, "I went to [80] bar." where when the game hits the [80] byte it prints the word "the". You put this in your table file like "80=the". Otherwise, relative search as normal. It'll take longer than usual, but... Remember to only search whole words, letters only, no mixed case. The longer the better.

[adaml]

Thanks for the info, I'll pass it along.