Alright boyz, here's the scoop:
My poor, destitute cousin is not allowed to play video games with cussing. No acceptions. So, when I gave him FF7, he was crestfallen that he could no longer play such an awesome game (his mom found out). Being the curious programmer that I am, I though to myself, hey, why can't I just edit the text with a hex editor or something, right? So I asked around at forums.hackthissite.org but, even though everyone thinks they are a hacker there, they are all noobs who suck. So I was looking around in the different data files, with XVI32 but couldn't find anything. Thats when I found this site (by accident) and got ahold of lgp extractors, etc. and.... COSMO (in-game text editor). Now you are probably thinking (way ahead of you buddy, just press alt+f,left, enter on "move" and hold left) but you are wrong! COSMO works wonderfully and I can successfully edit the text. Now here's where efficiency comes in. There are like 800 files that I have to root through searching for damn, hell, etc. and for some reason, some flevel files have the same text in them, and in order for it to work, I have to edit all of them for it to take effect.
Q1. Do I really have to edit all of them or just one?
Alright, anyways, then I saw the Search/Replace "tool" and though "Sweet, now I can just put * for the files to search type damn for search and dang for replace" and press scan. BUT GUESS WHAT??? All that happened was a little message saying "Initialising" (ficedula, it's spelled Initializing in case you didn't know, but I've already changed it in the source for myself" And what the gay? nothing happens, I don't think, I haven't waited longer than 10 - minutes.
Q2. Is is broken? If so how can I fix it?
Now at this very moment I will type my third, and most important section. (Sorry that I blab so much, Its just that I hate it when people talk like this (like at hackthissite):
I m a no0b can uhelp me i need help cause iam ano0b?
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OK... *deep breath* *cracks fingers*, Say I completely change flevel so it is cussword free. flevel is like 128 mbs before you mess with it and I don't want to have to burn a new ff7 install CD with the modifyed flevel. My friend at school said something about a patch... and how it is just a file that tells the computer the differences between file1 and file2. Is it possible to make a swearword patch? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I know C++ and VB.
Thank you, This forum ROCKS!!! It took me a month of uselessly trying to hex-edit lgp file before I found it...
Well thank you... All help is appreciated... Sorry for the lengthy post... heh heh
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