EarthBound Script Extraction Tool

NOW will you make an uncensored Earthbound patch? With Pokey called Porky? Pleeeaaasseeeeeeee

Hey Mato, since we have this tool now, do you think it would be cool if we inserted the text we translate in our translation into EarthBound, that way we have a retranslated and uncensored version?

Pleeeease, and have all the original stuff. For example, cross on the hospitals, Ness naked in Magicant, uncensored and more realistic dialogue, changing the pencil and eraser to the octopus and doll.

Oh, and let’s not forget changing everyones text about the caffeine buzz to alcohol, changing “Cafe” back to “Bar”

Why change the pencil? That wasn’t censorship. The original joke just didn’t work in English.

@Ness1985 We plan to do all those changes except the pencil and eraser, because of the reason gwamls stated above. We’re going to try and retain jokes as much as possible, so some things may not be changed (example: The guy in Onett who asks you about the Beetles song; the question is different in Japanese, but it makes no sense in English, so we’re keeping the EarthBound line for that)

@TheZunar123 That’s fine, other things would be nice

@TheZunar123: Hey, TheZunar, you might be interested in using this patch as a springboard to begin with.

http://fangamer.com/forum/Community/PKHack/Mother-2-to-EarthBound-Uncensored-patch/page/2/

It’s already done up to the Dusty Dunes Desert.

@tintinophile691: The problem with building off a patch is that CoilSnake was not configured to extract data from patched roms, only clean ones. I’ll see if it will work, but I may have to start from scratch, since that patch was made using PK Hack.

Aw, cool! I remember hearing about how things were tough for EB hacking thanks to the weird text system (in fact, I’ve read a LOT about the subject, and no one’s ever had anything terribly good to say about it. xD). As soon as I saw this on Twitter, I knew something great had just happened for the fan community.

The only hack I’ve played through so far was that recent Christmas one, Holiday Hex. If making a short thing like that isn’t so hard to do hacking-wise, I might give it a try. I have a tiny bit of experience with ROM hacking already, for Pokémon Blue Version anyway…

I’m lead to believe, however, that I need to know this CCScript language in order to use the tool, is that right?

@BusterTheFox

Well you don’t have to learn CCScript language but it definitely makes life a lot easier than having to learn all the control codes and going into text editor to apply them. CCScript is a lot more user friendly and it’s actually not that hard to learn.

Here’s where I learnt the basics of CCScript:
http://starmen.net/pkhack/ccscript/Tutorial.html

Here are all the command references:
http://starmen.net/pkhack/ccscript/Reference.html#2.8

As for me, I made a lot of hacks but never actually released them in the PK HACK forums; this is mainly because I wasn’t satisfied with them and my hacks were nothing in comparison to others. I need to learn more about how to make cut-scenes, like how Hallows End does it. Eventually, though, I plan on making a mini hack much like Holiday Hex.

^^ If you guys have questions, feel free to post on the PK Hack forums… lots of friendly people there who want to help others.

@Tomato Does this mean someone can fully translate most of Mother 2 in M1+2???????

No, that’s something completely different.

darns. i got excited there for a minute.

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!

Tomato, you should know how much I have been struggling with Earthbound’s script. I drop into pkhax every now and then to see if someone managed to do this, but wow, now it’s actually happening!

I suppose I’ll have fun trying this out and helping to find any issues.