I accidentally built a tool to let you search a binary file in UTF-16, and the gimmick is that it searches in UTF-16 Big Endian and Little Endian at the same time.
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@nycki I am flattered by the comparison.
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after approximately an hour and 15 minutes my program finally runs, and successfully does what I wanted it for:
To locate the word "Thailand" in the Katamari Damacy PS2 ISO. -
It's at decimal offset 1880088 if you were wondering.
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Damn it, that's not it!
Even with that overwritten (as Shailand), the King of All Cosmos still says "Thailand"
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@foone oh shit are you hacking on katamari damacy? i love that game! the soundtrack is fucking excellent
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@[email protected] stupid question: did you replace all instances or only one (or was there only one?)
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@ada tthere was only one!
unless there's a bug in my search code, which... hang on.
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@ada I think there was, but I fixed it, and it doesn't matter.
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@Viss ayup
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@[email protected] surely they wouldn't be using utf-32
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@[email protected] If i were to make an educated guess, it's probably in some compressed chunk and you replaced the fallback string.
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@ada pretty sure it's compressed, but there was a bug that meant I didn't find it. I may have fixed that!
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Nothing. Either it's encoded in a different way than the one I'm using, or it's saying "Thailand" inside a compressed object I'm not decompressing.
Or both.
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ugh. do I write a half-assed relative searcher or do I go find the decompression code and apply it elsewhere... or maybe I get the debugger out and try to learn MIPS assembly at 11pm?
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there are many options! all bad!
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@foone MIPS assembly is so easy a baby could do it
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@shac I did do it when I was a baby! in college!
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I found a font through texture-dumping, but it's missing some characters that show up in the text, so... I think this is a different font.
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mmm, nope found another piece of it. It's just a font engine that uses multiple font sources
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I bet they've got some rich-text composing system where their text is saved as like (font1,'T'),(font2,'h'),(font2,'a'),(font2,'i'),... instead of 'Thailand'.
