I've got a question for nightwulf or any of the other guru-types who frequent the boards.
What do you guys use and/or recommend to read the data in the RBI ROM? I've been wanting to look at the player ratings in the RBI 3 ROM, but I haven't come up with a good way to view the data. I've looked it a bit just with a hex editor, and while I managed to get a general idea of stuff (I found where the player data starts and ends, at least the batter data for a subset of the teams), but it was all in hex and therefore extremely hard to read, especially for text data (player names, mostly). Do you guys have a program that you use to see some of this data as text? I eventually will probably want to write a simple program to pull out the data, especially if I want to be able to easily access all of it, but it'd be nice for now to just be able to browse some of the stuff in the ROM, especially so I can find where the rest of the player data is stored (it's hard to find that kind of data just looking at a bunch of hex). Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks!
The key to that is to use a hex editor that supports table files. I'm not sure if I have my files anymore but bascially you make a text file that has one line for HEX-to-Character conversions. This involves knowing the hex alphabet RBI uses. Nightwulf probably has a better answer and can post his table file and/or character translations. Once you have that, the characters show up on the right and it's each to pick out the data...
For general ROM "browsing," Hexposure (available here (http://www.zophar.net/utilities/hexutil.html)) is about all I'll use. I've attached a basic table file which will work with Hexposure to display RBI characters correctly; just drop the ".txt" extension. I haven't looked much at the RBI3 ROM, and it hasn't been for probably over a year, but I'm pretty sure the same characters are used.
Edited: spelling > me
Nightwulf