User:Kimbles/Shingata Medarot Hacking Notes

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Shingata is a remake of Medarot 1 using the engine from Medarot 2 Core. It's probably not even that bad.

Rough text locations[edit]

The ROM contains a *lot* of leftover content from 2 Core. Some of it is used (like the menu/battle-related text), but some of it isn't, like the entire dialogue script for example.

Address Text
45CE02 Debug menu text
464974 Menu messages
465AB8 Medal names, Cervo, Beet
465BC0 Attributes
465CAC Attribute descriptions (Medals)
465FE4 Attribute descriptions (parts)
466308 Skill names
466350 Target descriptions
466480 Medaforce names
466714 Medaforce descriptions
467000 Medaforce targets
46703C Skill descriptions
46718C Rotation option descriptions
(467238 = Part stats data)
468138 Medarot names
4683B4 Part names
468D7C Part model numbers
4697CC Part stat descriptions
4699A8 Action names + descriptions
46A338 Action names
46A5B4 Leg type descriptions
46A688 Leg type names
46A6C8 Terrain names
46CB14 Pre-battle messages
46D738 Post-battle messages
46E340 Medarotter names
46ED38 UI messages
46F30C Battle messages
470AB0 Head/Right/Left/Legs
4B240C Signs and objects
4B7234 Stuff obtained messages (unused copy)
4B7A10 2 Core dialogue starts
4F3C3F 2 Core dialogue ends (ends with Koishimaru event)
4F83B8 Stuff obtained messages
4FCDD4 Shingata dialogue starts
50A98F Shingata dialogue ends
50C590 YES/NO
50C830 Item names
50C9EC Item descriptions
50CE5C Map descriptions
50D0B0 Shop/saving text
50D2D4 Link stuff
50DBF0 Medaroad Race stuff
50DE9C More Shingata dialogue (cutscenes?)
50E698 Weekly Medarot (unused)
50EDEC Help topics (new to Shingata)
50EF38 Topic descriptions
50F1A4 Full explanations
510AAC Credits (end of text)