Posted: 2/26/2023 12:47 AM
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I'm curious: is there a general or game-specific way to yank answers out of a game? I've been speedrunning SNES Wheel of Fortune Deluxe, and have hand-wrote 4000 answers but I can't be sure where the list ends, and if there's a way to grab the set in one go, I'd be able to import it into a calculator I've made for the games. I kinda hope there isn't a way or I've wasted a bunch of time :D I have no ability for TASing in general so you may need to ELI5 if you can answer, thanks.
Posted: 2/26/2023 12:51 AM
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It would ultimately depend on how the game is coded and how the answers are stored in that code. Some games do have the answers directly coded in with hex values being equivalent to a specifical letter in the alphabet. But to my knowledge there's no generalization of this practice for similar games.
Posted: 2/26/2023 12:55 AM
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DrD2k9 wrote:
It would ultimately depend on how the game is coded and how the answers are stored in that code. Some games do have the answers directly coded in with hex values being equivalent to a specifical letter in the alphabet. But to my knowledge there's no generalization of this practice for similar games.
That's a relief, thankyou for letting me know! I found some stuff in the hex but it was divorced of its context and only partial lists.