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ROM Hacking: Replacing Bugsite's Title Screen

So, I happen to be a ROM hacker and I work on code and modifications for two Game Boy mongames. One of them is Telefang, slightly notorious in certain places for having been badly translated into Chinese and then English... and then marketed as "Pokemon Diamond and Jade". This is not an article about Telefang. This is, however, an article about Network Adventure Bugsite, which didn't have an English titlescreen until last month.

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ROM Hacking 0x0002

Here is yet another demonstration of my incompetency as a low-level programmer as I fail to recognize how different tools encode numbers in different bases thus comprising half of the video I had to cut out.

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Keitai Denjuu Telefang

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ROM Hacking - Trying and failing to rip a font that's already ripped.

Watch as I flail about for an hour trying to figure out how to rip a font before realizing it's not only already ripped, but incorrectly ripped for some reason.

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Keitai Denjuu Telefang

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ROM Hacking - Getting stumped by my own old code.

This is a bit of an experiment into a new format of programming videos. I am disassembling a partial fan translation modification of Keitai Denjuu Telefang, aka "That Bootleg Game Twitch Plays Pokemon Uses After A Season Ends". Due to inexperience and lack of proper assembler support we never actually created source code for our work, instead hand-assembling it into the ROM and passing IPS patches around. This would have been acceptable except for the fact that this game comes in two versions and we only have a patch for one of them.