[Tutorial] How to find and modify PokeMMO strings

[ClosedBox]

[Tutorial] How to find and modify PokeMMO strings

 

Note: Guide done with all ROMs in English.

 

What is this guide for?

This guide is to change any text from the game.

You want to shorten a certain string to avoid long texts, speeding up your healing time in Poke Center, quickly planting and harvesting berries, ignoring extra text on gym reruns, etc.

 

What do I need?

Having both  PokeMMO/data/strings  and  PokeMMO/dump/strings  on your directory.

Really suggest reading nuver9 guide to understand how the string files and language works.

 

Steps:

1. WIP

Depending on where string is found, you have to add the line to your _edits.xml files.

 

dump_BPE_en.xml -> z_strings_en_edits.xml -> Regular strings.

dump_BPR_en.xml -> z_strings_en_edits.xml -> Regular strings.

dump_CPU_0_en.xml -> z_strings_en_3_edits.xml -> Sinnoh strings.

dump_IRB_0_en.xml -> z_strings_en_2_0_edits.xml -> Unova strings type 0.

dump_IRB_1_en.xml -> z_strings_en_2_1_edits.xml -> Unova strings type 1.

 

 

And that's how you modify strings.

Retro-steps:

1. Add a_placeholder_for_enabling_unova_edits.xml file with default content.
2. Create the empty files for string modifications.
   1. Don't forget to modify the lang and lang_full to your language, for this guide I used en / English.
3. Find the string we want to modify from the dump files.
   1. Identify from which file it comes from, and copy the string row into its correct _edit.xml file.
   2. Modify the string inside _edits.xml file.
4. Restart PokeMMO.

 

In the end, your PokeMMO/data/strings folder should look like this.

 

And they won't be overwritten when a new update comes out.

 

Thanks for reading.

Edited August 16, 2023 by ClosedBox
Working on an update.

[nurver9]

 https://forums.pokemmo.com/index.php?/topic/150771-docs-localization-files-understanding-syntax-and-load-order/

 

 

 

 

[nurver9]

You're breaking everyone's games by reimporting region2 dialog.

 

You are displaying almost 48,000 lines of dialog straight from the ROM instead of for the MMO.

 

Not sure why you've chosen to actively ignore what @realmadrid1809and I have mentioned to you.

 

Users put way too much faith into OP's, because they just assume they know what they're doing / talking about.

[nurver9]

Your primary flags are also incorrect and this WILL cause issues with GEC.

[ClosedBox]

49 minutes ago, nurver9 said:

You're breaking everyone's games by reimporting region2 dialog.

 

You are displaying almost 48,000 lines of dialog straight from the ROM instead of for the MMO.

 

Not sure why you've chosen to actively ignore what @realmadrid1809and I have mentioned to you.

 

Users put way too much faith into OP's, because they just assume they know what they're doing / talking about.

Your post is better detailed, will have to give a better read to see what everything means on the .xml file

[shamorunner]

This is epic. Much appreciated putting this out o7

 

[MarkiFer]

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