User:Kimbles/Shingata Medarot Hacking Notes

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

Rough text locations

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)