Text hacking

[pksage]

All right, apologies if there's a topic on this somewhere that I missed.

Would it be possible to edit the songlist/tag-at-beginning-of-song/results screen/etc text to match up with, say, a custom-added song? It looks like all that text is rendered on the fly, meaning that if some string somewhere was changed to something else it wouldn't cause any issues. This would make custom songs a lot more...real.

I personally know next to nothing about this. Could some hunting around with a hex editor find these values? Have they already been found and deemed unchangeable? Does changing them crash some other part of the game? It'd be really nice to be able to see what custom song you're about to play in a way other than the audio sample.

[pksage]

All right, apologies if there's a topic on this somewhere that I missed.

Would it be possible to edit the songlist/tag-at-beginning-of-song/results screen/etc text to match up with, say, a custom-added song? It looks like all that text is rendered on the fly, meaning that if some string somewhere was changed to something else it wouldn't cause any issues. This would make custom songs a lot more...real.

I personally know next to nothing about this. Could some hunting around with a hex editor find these values? Have they already been found and deemed unchangeable? Does changing them crash some other part of the game? It'd be really nice to be able to see what custom song you're about to play in a way other than the audio sample.

[Riz]

[Riz]

[quackadilly]

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[Kariodude]

I'm also curious about changing the text on the loading screen. I know for a fact I have seen it done before on a YouTube video, but I haven't seen anything about changing it here on the forums.

[Kariodude]

I'm also curious about changing the text on the loading screen. I know for a fact I have seen it done before on a YouTube video, but I haven't seen anything about changing it here on the forums.

[Riz]

The youtube video you probably saw with changed text was likely either *Trippolette or Graveyard Shift. In the cases of these songs, they were already present on the disc, and were "activated" by means of an ARMax/Codebreaker/etc. "patch" that actually changed the names in the setlist *after* the game was loaded and running, and the script files decrypted, by changing the data in memory. This method also imposes a serious limitation, in that the length of the string for the song name you want to appear must be exactly the same as the one you are replacing.

Because the setlist data is (probably) in the encrypted scripting files, there is no way to change them for a normal (hacked) load. An ARMax/etc style running patch is the only way (if it's possible at all).

Riz.
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[Riz]

The youtube video you probably saw with changed text was likely either *Trippolette or Graveyard Shift. In the cases of these songs, they were already present on the disc, and were "activated" by means of an ARMax/Codebreaker/etc. "patch" that actually changed the names in the setlist *after* the game was loaded and running, and the script files decrypted, by changing the data in memory. This method also imposes a serious limitation, in that the length of the string for the song name you want to appear must be exactly the same as the one you are replacing.

Because the setlist data is (probably) in the encrypted scripting files, there is no way to change them for a normal (hacked) load. An ARMax/etc style running patch is the only way (if it's possible at all).

Riz.
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