Zelda 3 hacking

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i'd like to hack zelda 3, as a personal project, to edit the script. does anyone have any expertise with this?
 
Not I, but this might be a decent place to look if you haven't seen it already.

 
Romhacking.net is your friend. You might find some romhacking tools made for LTTP, it is one of the most hacked SNES games.
 
What do you mean by "script editing"? You can use a debugger to trace certain values and replace them with other values, but if you want to change code in a non-trivial manner, that is going to require a lot of knowledge of assembly, SNES ROM file structure, compression/decompression algorithms (in some cases) and the hardware. There are some cases where such tools are available that do all this work for you (FEUniverse.us has them for Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, I've used them myself), but they are rare. Not sure if those exist for Zelda 3.
 
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Nice profile by the way, I've always wondered if there's gonna be a female Link game
That would be cool
 
What do you mean by "script editing"? You can use a debugger to trace certain values and replace them with other values, but if you want to change code in a non-trivial manner, that is going to require a lot of knowledge of assembly, SNES ROM file structure, compression/decompression algorithms (in some cases) and the hardware. There are some cases where such tools are available that do all this work for you (FEUniverse.us has them for Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, I've used them myself), but they are rare. Not sure if those exist for Zelda 3.
the game's script, as in the story/dialogue.
 
the game's script, as in the story/dialogue.

What are you trying to do? Depending on what you are trying to do, it may or not be feasible. Like changing story text could be straightforward as long as it fits into the dialogue box, but more complex changes might require custom code.
 
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What are you trying to do? Depending on what you are trying to do, it may or not be feasible. Like changing story text could be straightforward as long as it fits into the dialogue box, but more complex changes might require custom code.
oh, I just wanted to make Link a girl. Shounen Captain magazine's Zelda 1 guide has been on my mind lately, and I was like "wait, isn't Zelda 3's Link the same?" and the idea came to me. if possible(and with permission, assuming it's not open source) I'd like to make a revision for the Triforce of the Gods Re-Localisation patch by OldManOfTheSEA. otherwise, the vanilla game is just fine.

ultimately I should have been more clear from the start, but that's my fault. thank you for your patience.
 
That should be feasible if it is just changing Link's sprite and male pronouns to female ones. It will require some digging into the debugger and some knowledge of compression/decompression algorithms as I suspect that Zelda 3 uses those. You could research some of the available tools that replace assets in the game to understand how they achieve that. But as a minimum you'd have to have a decent understanding of assembly code and using SNES debuggers (those are provided by the emulator).
 
That should be feasible if it is just changing Link's sprite and male pronouns to female ones. It will require some digging into the debugger and some knowledge of compression/decompression algorithms as I suspect that Zelda 3 uses those. You could research some of the available tools that replace assets in the game to understand how they achieve that. But as a minimum you'd have to have a decent understanding of assembly code and using SNES debuggers (those are provided by the emulator).
since Link has pink hair already, the sprite is fine. the focus here will be the text. there was, at one time, a Zelda 3 text editor, but it doesn't work anymore, i think.
 
By the way sorry for the random question, but will the hat or cap stays or replace with something else?
 
ALttP has pretty fully featured editors that should allow you to hit the ground running.
 
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