Steve McAllister (mcallister@CSUS.EDU)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:00:35 -0800
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 Message-ID: <000101be710d$070a9480$92bba0d1@macspro> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:00:35 -0800 From: Steve McAllister <mcallister@CSUS.EDU> Subject: Re: About changing the text in the Win 95 version...
>I was thinking. Someone mentioned that it might be possible...and I'd
>certainly buy the Win 95 version if it were. But I'm wondering exactly how
>it could be done -- I mean, it's not like a rom which you can just make a
>quick download with the text already embedded, or a quick patch. I guess
>we'd have to wait and see how much of the game is actually installed on the
>hard drive.
Actually, it probably wouldn't work unless either
1) All data files are saved in easily read formats (such as keeping text in
txt files)
2) You actually know how these files are saved
Most games made nowadays are encoded in some way. One good example of a
program which did _not_ do this is FF7 for the PC - all the movie files were
standard MOV (avi?) files.
Some programming teams come up with their own formats for saving data.
And if that's the case, it may be quite hard indeed to read or alter the
info.
Another problem getting the whole thing back onto a disc. I'm sure that
you could download the entire contents to hard drive, replace the text
files, and re-write it to a CDR, but that's not the same as a verbatim
copy - and if they program decent anti-pirating software into it, that copy
probably wouldn't run.