BCEI Basic Text Replacement | PhilAM | An old document on an old method for text replacement. | Text Hacking | Multiple | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 09 Apr 2002 |
Changing a NES Game's Text | aStROcReEp 2000 | NES text editing with the aid of NESticle. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 2.0 | Beg | 04 Nov 2011 |
NES ROM Hacking | §N¥ÅP§ÎD¤ | An easy to follow guide to NES romhacking. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 18 Jan 2001 |
The Newbie NES Text Hacking | Dark X | A very basic guide to text hacking. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 31 Dec 2002 |
The Novice Translation Document | Crazy Child | A very sparse document roughly outlining the translation hacking process using the Pokémon Blue JAP ROM as an example. More useful as a supplemental document rather than a newcomer’s primary source of information. | Text Hacking | GB | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 01 Jan 2000 |
The ROM Hacker's Bible | SeRiAlKlR | A very old document on text replacement. | Text Hacking | Multiple | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 01 Jan 1997 |
ROM Hacking/Translating for Anyone Volume 1 | UtilMike | A brief overview to the major aspects of hacking ROMS. | Text Hacking | Multiple | N/A | 1.5 | Beg | 06 Nov 2011 |
ROM Hacking/Translating for Anyone Volume 2 | UtilMike | A brief overview to the major aspects of hacking ROMS. | Text Hacking | Multiple | N/A | 1.5 | Beg | 12 Jan 2011 |
Text Hacking / Translation Tutorial | Jair | A good, graphical tutorial for basic ROM hacking. Another excellent starting point for beginners. | Text Hacking | Multiple | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 04 Jun 1999 |
A Beginner's Guide to NES ROM Hacking | Sliver X | An easy to follow guide to NES text replacement. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 2.1 | Beg | 10 Jun 2002 |
The Playstation Translation Doc | Cless | A useful document for veteran ROM hackers get their feet wet with hacking PlayStation games.
Includes methods to help get around the differences of hacking a PSX CD’s contents over a typical ROM, and includes some other basic info as well as tip…. | Text Hacking | PSX | N/A | 2.0 | Int | 05 Dec 2005 |
The ROM Hack Document | Demiforce | Horribly outdated but one of the first ROM hacking documents. This file still has a lot of good technical information that you won’t find in other documents, so I recommend reading it anyway. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 10 Oct 2010 |
Zdawg's NES ROM Hacking Document | ZackMan | Covers several different aspects of ROM hacking. | Text Hacking | NES | N/A | 0.65 | Beg | 14 May 2008 |
FAQ for the LZSS Compression | Nemesis | A detailed tutorial that’s all about LZSS which is commonly used in video games. Tells how to find it, crack it, or implement it. (Translated from French by DaMarsMan) | Text Hacking | N/A | N/A | 1.0 | Int | 06 Jun 2006 |
Resident Evil 5 | Yugisokubodai | Resident Evil 5, aka Biohazard 5 in Japan, is an horror survival first person shooting game. It was first released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2009 by Capcom, and for the PC after that.
The game itself supports multi language, such as Japanese, E…. | Text Hacking | PC | Resident Evil 5 | 1.0 | Int | 15 Dec 2014 |
Rock Man 2 Weapon Get Text Document | DragonMage98 | This is a hacking document for Rock Man 2’s text in the weapon get screen. This is for the Japanese version of Mega Man II, so far. | Text Hacking | NES | Mega Man 2 | 1.1 | Int | 16 Mar 2016 |
Text editing in Hebereke's Popoon | LucianoTheWindowsFan | This is a document on text editing in Hebereke’s Popoon (in British English), it would be useful for translating the game. | Text Hacking | SNES | Hebereke's Popoon | 1.0 | Beg | 01 Aug 2020 |
Constructing Tables for NES ROM Hacking | InVerse | An easy to read, no nonsense guide to making tables for NES ROMs. | Table Files | NES | N/A | 1.2 | Beg | 13 Apr 1999 |
Definitive Guide to ROM Hacking Tables, The | InVerse | This is the end all and be all of ROM hacking table documentation. | Table Files | Multiple | N/A | 1.0 | Beg | 03 Sep 2001 |
How To Make Table Files | Kevtav | Another guide to making table files. | Table Files | Multiple | N/A | 0.10 | Beg | 27 Jan 2001 |