Hello!
A while back, I dabbled around in Mario Party 2's text files to change what Toad says at the start of the game. I was successful, so here's how you can do it.
First, you need to download Mad Edit, a hex editor which can access said text files. You also need your rom(obviously). I'm going to use Mario Party 2 as an example, for this tutorial.
So, when you've downloaded mad edit, open your ROM in it.(It might not load correctly first time, so close and reopen it, to be safe) When you've opened it, you should see something like this:
The text that just says "MarioParty2" on the third line is the ROM name. If I changed it to something like "MarioParty9," then my N64 emulator would say that's the ROM name. The "NMWE" on the fourth line is the game's ID. The letter at the end is different for each region. Because this is a dump of the American version, it has the letter E, for NTSC-U. There are others, like P for European regions(PAL), J for Japan(NTSC-J), and K for Korea(NTSC-K).
Now, you may ask, where is the text? You have to find it. Luckily, Mad Edit has a search feature, so we can search for a specific word that we know is in the game's files. If you want to change what Toad says at the start of the game, search for "story." You should come up here:
The dots between the words are very special. If you replace them with normal periods, the game will likely freeze at Toad. So, whenever you need to make a space, you have to do over to the numbers side and type "20" where you want the space to be. This can get tedious, but it's something you have to deal with. Anyway, when you have your custom message typed in, save it and load it in an emulator. If you did it correctly, this should happen:
This should work with any other game, as long as the text isn't encrypted. Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading this, I sure did typing it.
A while back, I dabbled around in Mario Party 2's text files to change what Toad says at the start of the game. I was successful, so here's how you can do it.
First, you need to download Mad Edit, a hex editor which can access said text files. You also need your rom(obviously). I'm going to use Mario Party 2 as an example, for this tutorial.
So, when you've downloaded mad edit, open your ROM in it.(It might not load correctly first time, so close and reopen it, to be safe) When you've opened it, you should see something like this:
The text that just says "MarioParty2" on the third line is the ROM name. If I changed it to something like "MarioParty9," then my N64 emulator would say that's the ROM name. The "NMWE" on the fourth line is the game's ID. The letter at the end is different for each region. Because this is a dump of the American version, it has the letter E, for NTSC-U. There are others, like P for European regions(PAL), J for Japan(NTSC-J), and K for Korea(NTSC-K).
Now, you may ask, where is the text? You have to find it. Luckily, Mad Edit has a search feature, so we can search for a specific word that we know is in the game's files. If you want to change what Toad says at the start of the game, search for "story." You should come up here:
The dots between the words are very special. If you replace them with normal periods, the game will likely freeze at Toad. So, whenever you need to make a space, you have to do over to the numbers side and type "20" where you want the space to be. This can get tedious, but it's something you have to deal with. Anyway, when you have your custom message typed in, save it and load it in an emulator. If you did it correctly, this should happen:
This should work with any other game, as long as the text isn't encrypted. Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading this, I sure did typing it.
