Interest Check: LA Text Hack

Out of curiosity, I was working on a tool that allows for easy text editing of the game Link's Awakening, and with it working, I've started designing an actual hack.



Save the title (and possibly a few other graphics), it is a text-only hack, which will hopefully make it more manageable than one with lots of dungeon changes. The idea is to give everything in the game something humorous, or worth reading. Something that will liven the game up, poke fun at it, and maybe even twist the plot a little.



I want to see if anyone would be interested in playing such a thing. And if you want to add your own text somewhere in the game, or give ideas, I'd love to add them.

EDIT: Draft 1 is complete! I'm currently playing the whole game and making sure I'm happy with the text changes.

Instead of Link saying, "What? Illusion?" after reading the sh he could say

STOP YELLING YOU'RE HURTING MY EARS.

And you could be inconsistent with the amount of Meows in Madam MeowMeow's name, for example calling her "Madam MeowMeowMeowMeowMeowMeow."

And every chest could be delicious and flat.

I'd be more interested in the actual program. (Because Link Gets Laid was bad and I want to make something better.)

Fourth panel made me lol! Good job, sir.

This could be hilarious!

It could be really nice. You could make fun of the fact that every time you accidentally walk into a rock or pot, it pulls an OoT owl on you and makes you read several lines of text, not knowing that you've read it infinite times!

Edit: just saw the picture. My iPod makes it really small unless I save it, I just realized. 3rd panel is great!

Originally Posted by Disembodied Loaf

It could be really nice. You could make fun of the fact that every time you accidentally walk into a rock or pot, it pulls an OoT owl on you and makes you read several lines of text, not knowing that you've read it infinite times!

Yes, there will be plenty of long, boring strings of text. One of the library books is designed to make you instantly regret reading it. ^^ And also some speeches are deliberately short - such as the compass one.

Hey, this looks pretty darn cool. I'm curious, though. Are you ever planning on releasing this tool to the wild? 'Cause I'd love to be able to make a reMovie version of Link's Awakening, and something like this would make it crazy easy. And... well... also playable to those that wanted it.

Hahaha yes, that looks AWESOME!

Originally Posted by Zeroº

Hey, this looks pretty darn cool. I'm curious, though. Are you ever planning on releasing this tool to the wild? 'Cause I'd love to be able to make a reMovie version of Link's Awakening, and something like this would make it crazy easy. And... well... also playable to those that wanted it.

Well, at the moment it works. One program dumps the text, and another puts it back into the rom. It's fragile, though. I have to stay within character limits for each line, or else all the text will shift. With some more polish, though, I could release it.

This is what the dumped text looks like. "|" indicates the bounds I have to stay in (which are imposed by the rom), while "@" indicates the end of a line.

Nice idea, love it already. Especially the shortened compass text improves the game's quality already.

The bunnies in animal village all should be total pervs... "why is she singing? show us your boobs already" etc. Just an idea.

But I'm really looking forward to it.

One thing I'm starved for ideas is place names. Any help here would be appreciated

Tail Cave =
Bottle Grotto = Jug Temple
Key Cavern =
Angler's Tunnel =
Catfish's Maw =
Face Shrine =
Eagle's Tower =
Turtle Rock =
Wind Fish's Egg =
Mountain Bridge =
Sale's House O' Bananas =
Pothole Field =
House By The Bay =
Trendy Game =
Town Tool Shop =
Marin and Tarin's House =
Witch's Hut =
Yarna Desert =
Ukuku Prairie =
Mysterious Woods =
Mt. Tamaranch =
Tal Tal Mountain Range =
Signpost Maze =
Mabe Village =
Animal Village =
Cemetery =
Rapids Ride =
Koholint Prairie =
Toronbo Shores =
Martha's Bay =
East of the Bay =
Kanalet Castle =
Tal Tal Heights =
Tabahl Wasteland =
South of the Village =
Fishing Pond =
Madam MeowMeow's House =
Old Man Ulrira's House =
Weird Mr. Write =
Crazy Tracy's Health Spa =
Quadruplet's House = Only Child's House
Dream Shrine =
Telephone Booth
Signpost Maze
Seashell Mansion
Richard's Villa
Hen House
Village Library
Raft Shop
Warp Hole

Hahaha I really enjoyed the forth one man. Nicely done. Be sure to present more to ZU.

Crazy Tracy's Health Spa = Crazy Tracy's "Special" Spa
Warp Hole = Wonderland

Originally Posted by Milktea

Crazy Tracy's Health Spa = Crazy Tracy's "Special" Spa
Warp Hole = Wonderland

He can only edit text that is within its character limits. Wonderland is one letter too long, for example.

Tail Cave = Booty Bin
Key Cavern = Unlock Me
Angler's Tunnel = Hallway of Fish
Catfish's Maw = Mawfish's Cat
Face Shrine = Killer Face
Eagle's Tower = Raid For Eggs
Turtle Rock = Turtle Soup
Wind Fish's Egg = Gusty Whale Egg
Mountain Bridge = Don't Look Down
Town Tool Shop = Pricetag Zero
Yarna Desert = Hey A Desert

I hope this text edit hack is better than those text edit hacks that turn a game into something vulgar just for the heck of turning it vulgar. :3

How about for the Mysterious Woods:

Wait, What Woods

It's ten characters and fits the premise of the area.

Originally Posted by The Neverending Twilight

I hope this text edit hack is better than those text edit hacks that turn a game into something vulgar just for the heck of turning it vulgar. :3

Hahahahaha no way. And did you see how badly the text was aligned in that hack? That was a sloppy, sloppy job.

Anyway, I'm halfway done with editing all the text. Here are some more screens. Unfortunately you won't get a lot of the jokes if you didn't already play the game.

"it is a compass. That is all"

Good job!

Walking into a rock/pot: "Yeah, you know by now..." Those kinds of things really piss me off about the game. That's my only problem so far.

First draft is 3/4 done. Most of the remaining text involves the game's ending, boss text and Ulrira/owl stuff, so it needs to be a bit more cohesive in terms of the game's plot...