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First, I take no credit in the creation, distribution, translation, re-
formatting, or making of this game, period. This honor goes to the workers at
Nintendo.
Second, this document in Copyright 2004-2005 Brian McPhee.
Third, this may not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal,
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That's Kirby021591 signing out. I can't wait to write another walkthrough, but
it looks like I'll have to. I hope I've helped. See ya later.
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Oracle of Seasons Text Dump
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American Version
Dumped by David Butler (davogones@hotmail.com)
for The Legends of Zelda (http://loz.zeldalegends.net/)
Last Revision: 9/11/02
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What is a text dump?
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A text dump contains all the text in a video game, ripped
straight from the ROM. I use a script to convert the ROM code
into formatted, readable text, in either TXT or HTML format.
Why is this useful? It is often useful, when theorizing about
Zelda, to have exact quotes handy. These text dumps put all
the text in the Zelda games at one's fingertips.
A word of warning though: internally, the ROMs arrange the
quotes in essentially random order. There is a little bit of
structure: for example, though one person's dialogue may be
split up into separate quotes, these quotes will generally
be all together, in order. But if you wish to find a specific
quote from the game, you will have to already know a few words
from the quote so that you can search through the entire text
dump. Any decent text editor should have a Search function,
and you'll need to use it to find anything specific in the
text dumps.
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Where can I get the latest version of your text dumps?
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If you downloaded this file off of a site like GameFAQs.com,
you might have an out-of-date version. This is because I only
submitted the text dumps to FAQ sites once, just so people
would know that these text dumps exist. Updated versions can
be obtained at my web site (The Legends of Zelda -
http://loz.zeldalegends.net) in the Emulation section.
Compare the revision date at the top of this document with
the one in the files on my site to see if you have the latest
version.
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How do you make text dumps?
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I include the following information for those who are curious.
If you don't understand any of it, just skip ahead.
The first step in making a text dump is to have a copy of the
ROM. Then, if you have a quote from the game, you can search
for the text. Newer games (like OoT, MM, and LA) use standard
ASCII values for raw text, so it is possible to find the text
using any common text editor. Older games (like LoZ, AoL, and
ALttP), unfortunately, don't use ASCII standards, so it's
necessary to do a relative search using a hex editor like
Thingy. Then you can make a translation table that will allow
Thingy to translate ROM text into standard ASCII text. (There
are many freeware utilities available that will help you do
relative searches and make translation tables.)
To make things even more difficult, some games compress, or
encrypt, the text. For example, in Oracle of Seasons the hex
value "02 0E" translates to "Twinrova." ALttP uses compression
and doesn't use standard ASCII values, so this is the most
difficult game to dump. OoS and OoA use ASCII standards but
have text compression. Fortunately, I already have TBL files
for both of these games, so dumping is not as difficult as it
could have been. ^_^
After you have found the text (and you're sure you've found
ALL the text), copy and paste all the text you can find into