Last time, we looked at a problem that turned out to be far easier for hacking a PC game than a console one. Today, we’re looking at a problem that is really only an issue for PC games.
46 Okunen Monogatari
Romhacking utilities and notes developed as part of 46 OkuMen's English translation patch for 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinkaron / E.V.O.: The Theory of Evolution (PC-98). The game this patch targets is the Japanese-only prequel to the cult classic action RPG 46 Okunen Monogatari: Harukanaru Eden e / E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES). E.V.O.: Search for Eden, originally released in Japan as 46 Okunen Monogatari: Harukanaru Eden e(46億年物語 はるかなるエデンへ?, '4.6 Billion Year Story: To Distant Eden'), is a side-scroller video game developed by Almanic Corporation and published by Enix for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Initially released in 1992 for Japanese audiences, the game was translated.
46 Okunen Monogatari The Shinkaron Download
These older game consoles tend to have specialized graphical hardware that works in terms of sprites and tiles, so their graphics are stored in a similar way from game to game. The PC-98 is a business computer that’s really good at displaying high-resolution text, but graphics-wise, programmers had to roll their own solutions for everything. As a result, pretty much every developer created and used their own proprietary format for storing graphics. E.V.O.’s developer, Almanic, used a format called .GDT.