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## Emulation &amp; ROM Hacking

### Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal' - Page 1

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#### Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: ahiddenwaffle
Date: 2016-08-25 18:33:59
Hey, new here, have literally done nearly nothing with editing roms and stuff, so I figured I could start here. I'm interested in text dumping a popular bootleg Pokemon game 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'. As the name suggests, It's a bootleg version of Pokemon Crystal. Except with terribly translated, and funny, text. For instance Pokemon are called ELFS. Totodile is 'CROC'. Exegguttor is 'NO', and Pidgey is 'LAP'. I was interested in text dumping this. Although the Pokemon Crystal 'Table thingy's' haven't worked… I'm all out of ideas… And thought this would be a good place to ask.
Would give an IPS patch for it here, but not sure if that's allowed. :/

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: Háčky
Date: 2016-08-25 22:18:58
Theres an existing text dump, but if youre interested in poking around yourself, the character map starting from $80 is:
[tt]!%&()+,-./0123
456789:;=>?ABCDE
FGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU
VWXYZ???????????[/tt]
Everything from $B5 to $E2 is question marks (which is why most untranslated text is shown as mostly question marks, because that range covers most of the hiragana in the original character set); everything from $E3 to $FF is left as it was in the original game.
If you look through the text, youll see that a lot of strings were translated more than once; I was trying to catalogue these a while back until I stumbled into something more exciting.
Personally, my favorite piece of translation work is the text for Mobile Stadium Moveable Sport Field:

> HERE CAN READ OUT
> THE RENTIANTAN 64
> SPECIAL SOFTWARE
> THE DATA USED BY
> ELF SPORT FIELD
> GOLD AND SLIVER
> S MOVEABLE SPORT
> FIELD
> DO YOU WANT TO
> READ THEM OUT?

> READING
> OUT IS OVER
> PLEASE PLAY
> ELF SPORT FIELD
> GOLD AND SLIVER
> S MOVEABLE SPORT
> FIELD

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: ravioli
Date: 2016-08-26 23:26:34
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/e49d2634ac06d2f854807e1f1c6b1784.png[/img]
oh dear

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: Charmy
Date: 2016-08-27 11:51:09
I think these are pretty funny:

> PONG
> BEGIN
> BROADCASTING\

> HOW ARE YOU?
> WHAT ARE YOU
> DOING?
> WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
> HOW MANY BUDGES
> HAVE BEEN
> COLLECTED
> HOW MANY SMALL
> CHANGES HAVE
> BEEN SAVED?
> HOW IS YOUR MUM?
> COLLECTING ELFS,
> HOW MUCH?
> TOO MANY
> QUESTIONS
> ARE TO BE ASKED.\

Budges are pretty good.

> …PERHAPS THE
> ELF RELIVED.

> SHOPPING UNDER THE
> SKY,FEELING GOOD\
> PLAY AGAIN?\
> DISTRIBUTE CARDS\
> HIT!\
> MISSED\
> GIVE ME\
> REGRET\

> MOVING-FIGHTING
> IS SELECT 3 ELFS
> TO FIGHT EACH
> OTHER.EACH
> ONLY 10 MINUTES
> IN FIGHTING
> IF THERE IS NO
> RESULT IN THE 10
> MINUTES,THE
> SIDE WHOSE
> DYINY ELFS IS
> LESS IS WON
> IF THE AMMOUNT OF
> DYING ELFS IS
> THE SAME,
> THE SIDE WHOSE
> STRENGTH SUBSTRACT
> LESS IS WON!\
> LEFT 1 MINUTE
> FIGHT OR NOT?\
> LEFT NO TIME
> TODAY,COME ON
> TOMORROW\
> LEFT NO TIME
> TODAY!\
> CAN'T COMMUNICATE
> ANYMORE,TODAY\

And this one is placed right before the "ELF SPORT FIELD GOLD AND SLIVER MOVEABLE SPORT
FIELD"

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: Bert
Date: 2016-08-27 15:48:43
[font=courier]I AM VERY DISGUSTED WITH THE TRASHY MAN. IN SPITE OF THE MONSTER, AND THE COACH, ONLY TRASHY, I WILL BEAT DOWN THEM ALL. FOR THIS I MUST STRENGTHEN MYSELF. THE MONSTER IS THE SAME TOO. COLLECT ALL THE TRASHY, RIGHTEOUS FELLOW ALL ARE UNPARDONABLE! YOU DON'T AFFECT ME. THE TRASHY STROLLING IS AN EYESORE![/font]

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: Spoink
Date: 2016-08-27 17:36:26

> [font=courier]I AM VERY DISGUSTED WITH THE TRASHY MAN. IN SPITE OF THE MONSTER, AND THE COACH, ONLY TRASHY, I WILL BEAT DOWN THEM ALL. FOR THIS I MUST STRENGTHEN MYSELF. THE MONSTER IS THE SAME TOO. COLLECT ALL THE TRASHY, RIGHTEOUS FELLOW ALL ARE UNPARDONABLE! YOU DON'T AFFECT ME. THE TRASHY STROLLING IS AN EYESORE![/font]

[font=courier]HE WHO IS UNJUST IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.[/font]

#### Re: Text dumping 'Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal'

Posted by: Bert
Date: 2016-08-27 20:48:37

> [font=courier]HE WHO IS UNJUST IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.[/font]

[font=courier]GET ANGRY AS SOON AS THINKING THIS, YES, OUR LOVE MUST BECOME STRENGTH. [/font]
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