How to Romhack: Mega Man Legends 2

Mega Man Legends 2 Episode 1 translation patch: / mega-man-legends-10297...
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[@TannerOfTheNorth]

I'll be honest, I don't know much about coding (other than teaching high schoolers basic Python classes occasionally) but you make it really easy to understand. Honestly, I don't know if you have teaching experience or not but you could probably do it well haha

[@b213videoz]

Yep, you really explain things well

[@short_yeti2058]

This is amazing. I'll have to dive I to other videos. ROM hacks of MML 1 and 2 are something I'm tempted to learn. There's so much I want to do since we've been denied 3.

[@TMracer73]

Long time follower here. Im glad thats hacker like you works in PS1 games. PS1 library is vast and fragmented. Very few hackers in PS1 scene are heard about.

[@ProductofSeebach]

This was recommended off my Twitter feed, and was the first time I had ever heard of you. Thanks for this awesome video!

[@deonk]

Thanks so much for making these videos, the work is incredibly impressive! Six weeks sounds quite short for the amount of steps and curveballs the game threw at you and your team. I appreciate the details you go for when making a translation patch such as implementing the descenders/ascenders here or the beautiful texture translation work in Boku no Natsuyasumi. I hope we get a BokuNatsu hacking video sometime. Have a great day :)

[@denzelkrocker1673]

Love the onion analogy, funny way of explaining it but very effective and easy to understand.

[@freezingcicada6852]

Yooo. This shit is awesome. I like it cause it helps me visualize memory instead of seeing stack/heap boxes drawings. This might be a bad example, but Lets say you'd want to re-order something to be rendered. Common answer is to slap a whole struct into a linked-list/ references of it. But with a function pointer you could... just effectively re-arrange the function calls instead of re-ordering/re-alloc memory on the heap/stack.

[@Tatulak]

I had no idea the cutscenes had no subtitles! Outstand work. Maybe was easier to dub the voices in cutscene...

[@blacksunshine7485]

They will carve your name by fist alone in stone for the work youve done. Legend.

[@Fattydeposit]

What a fabulous video and soothing voice.

[@kion_dgl]

18:26 is my post 😂. Amazing video, more love for MegaMan Legends!!!!!

[@digiholic]

This showed up in my chrome "new tab" recommended feed of all places. I didn't even know that thing COULD recommend individual KZbin videos. Doubly weird in that this apparently isn't supposed to be public yet apparently? Anyways, this channel seems like an absolutely fantastic resource for the randomizers I work on. Maybe I'll see how viable MML2 might be as a multiworld randomizer?

[@unRealityFPV]

this man needs more recognition!

[@r3sparxmusic96]

Brother, please can you translate rest of the Boku No Natsuyasumi games? And also the Twilight Syndrome and Moonlight Syndrome games for PS1? I know I am asking way too much but I would seriously love to play those gems and I can't count on anyone but you for these games. Thanks for translating all the other gems. You are a legend in the Retro Gaming Community

[@frankjohnstone6102]

Thanks for sharing your expertise

[@DemiGodX]

it's so refreshing to see a romhacking video with narration and detailed breakdown of what's going on. even if people don't fully grasp it, it's enjoyable to watch. I've seen many romhacking videos in the past and most of them are terrible, they have weird techno music playing and text across the screen for us to read. some videos don't explain anything, they act like we're supposed to just know what they're doing. but your videos are really motivating me to get back into it. I have a question about rebuilding discs, would it be possible to add additional content to the disc? like say I want to add a new graphic file or bin, can i modify the exe to have it point to the new data I just added? i've heard of code cave but i was wondering if i can just add new data in instead

[@hilltopworks]

Yes, it's possible. On PS1, you would need to check the SDK for the file loading functions and use those, and also find empty room in VRAM to put the graphics and upload it there so you can render it later. This was actually done by Esperknight on the Linda Cubed translation to add a font for the cutscene subtitles.

[@type.silver]

Do you think you can do an undub bro?

[@DandyDNA]

I found a gameshark code for the original Mega Man Legends that makes the game look right in widescreen-no such cheat exists for Legends 2, which means you will see lots of object culling if using a widescreen hack. I'm wondering if the research here would be useful for making an equivalent code for Legends 2?

[@lp0pic]

Awesome stuff 🔥

[@SoggieWafflz]

Would this help someone translate rockman dash 1 and 2? There still aren't any undubs floating around.

[@RetroEmulationArchive]

thank you for sharing!

[@zander3312]

Where is a good place to go to ask questions about this kind of thing? I've hit a roadblock on my own hacking project and have no clue how to proceed, so having somewhere I can get some help would be really useful.

[@YTPRohan]

Can you make an English patch for "Not Treasure Hunter"? (Ps1)

[@The_Lesser_Evil]

Not a programmer but man, Roll is as cute as I remembered her

[@CebolaBros]

Is this supposed to be public? Your Patreon lists it as a locked post, but I found it by accident in your Game Hacking playlist. You might wanna remove it from the playlist until it is actually made public

[@CebolaBros]

That being said, thank you so much for the work put into these videos :) Easily the most easy-to-follow romhacking resources around, and I love how you teach these concepts in a way that could be applied to other games to

[@hilltopworks]

That's ok. Consider yourself a hacker for finding it in the playlist.

[@ocdbunny]

haha yay

[@majicweather4890]

" I assume you have knowledge of some assembly..." 😂 Ya, sure, like anyone knows assembly 😂