----------------- Zelda 2 Text Dump ----------------- American Version Dumped by David Butler (davogones@hotmail.com) for The Legends of Zelda (http://loz.zeldalegends.net/) Last Revision: 8/6/02 -------------------- What is a text dump? -------------------- A text dump contains all the text in a video game, ripped straight from the ROM. I use a script to convert the ROM code into formatted, readable text, in either TXT or HTML format. Why is this useful? It is often useful, when theorizing about Zelda, to have exact quotes handy. These text dumps put all the text in the Zelda games at one's fingertips. A word of warning though: internally, the ROMs arrange the quotes in essentially random order. There is a little bit of structure: for example, though one person's dialogue may be split up into separate quotes, these quotes will generally be all together, in order. But if you wish to find a specific quote from the game, you will have to already know a few words from the quote so that you can search through the entire text dump. Any decent text editor should have a Search function, and you'll need to use it to find anything specific in the text dumps. ------------------------------------------------------ Where can I get the latest version of your text dumps? ------------------------------------------------------ If you downloaded this file off of a site like GameFAQs.com, you might have an out-of-date version. This is because I only submitted the text dumps to FAQ sites once, just so people would know that these text dumps exist. Updated versions can be obtained at my web site (The Legends of Zelda - http://loz.zeldalegends.net) in the Emulation section. Compare the revision date at the top of this document with the one in the files on my site to see if you have the latest version. --------------------------- How do you make text dumps? --------------------------- I include the following information for those who are curious. If you don't understand any of it, just skip ahead. The first step in making a text dump is to have a copy of the ROM. Then, if you have a quote from the game, you can search for the text. Newer games (like OoT, MM, and LA) use standard ASCII values for raw text, so it is possible to find the text using any common text editor. Older games (like LoZ, AoL, and ALttP), unfortunately, don't use ASCII standards, so it's necessary to do a relative search using a hex editor like Thingy. Then you can make a translation table that will allow Thingy to translate ROM text into standard ASCII text. (There are many freeware utilities available that will help you do relative searches and make translation tables.) To make things even more difficult, some games compress, or encrypt, the text. For example, in Oracle of Seasons the hex value "02 0E" translates to "Twinrova." ALttP uses compression and doesn't use standard ASCII values, so this is the most difficult game to dump. OoS and OoA use ASCII standards but have text compression. Fortunately, I already have TBL files for both of these games, so dumping is not as difficult as it could have been. ^_^ After you have found the text (and you're sure you've found ALL the text), copy and paste all the text you can find into a new file. This is what the DMP files on my site are: all the text I could find, copied and pasted straight out of the ROM. Once this is done, I wrote a PHP script to parse the DMP file and translate everything into a readable format (TXT or HTML). Making a program is the easiest thing to do in the long run (though something more powerful than PHP is usually preferable), because it takes a while to find out what all the codes in the ROM translate to. Using the standard Find/Replace function of a text editor is too much work if what you're searching for constantly changes. ------------------------------------- Further References / Acknowledgements ------------------------------------- • For more information on ROM hacking, and emulation in general, here are some good sites to visit: Zophar's Domain - http://www.zophar.net/ Romhacking.org - http://www.romhacking.org/ • A special thanks to EvilGiegue (EvilGiegue@hotmail.com), who helped me figure out how to hack ROMs. Without his catalyzing influence, these text dumps probably wouldn't be here today. Make sure to check out his text dumps as well, which are available on my site and on GameFAQs.com. ------------- The Text Dump ------------- AFTER GANON WAS DESTROYED, IMPA TOLD LINK A SLEEPING SPELL WAS CAST ON PRINCESS ZELDA. SHE WILL WAKE ONLY WITH THE POWER OF NO.3 TRIFORCE SEALED IN A PALACE IN HYRULE. TO BREAK THE SEAL,CRYSTALS MUST BE PLACED IN STATUES IN 6 WELL GUARDED PALACES. LINK SET OUT ON HIS MOST ADVENTURESOME QUEST YET... ©1987 NINTENDO PLEASE LET ME HELP YOU. COME INSIDE. I CAN RESTORE YOUR LIFE. STOP AND REST HERE. I CAN GIVE YOU MAGIC. COME BACK ANYTIME. I AM MUCH TOO BUSY TO TALK TO A STRANGER. HELLO! HELLO YOUNG FELLOW. SORRY. I KNOW NOTHING. EACH TOWN HAS A WISE MAN. LEARN FROM HIM. FIND THE HEART IN SOUTHERN PARAPA. ONLY THE HAMMER CAN DESTROY A ROADBLOCK. WELCOME TO RAURU GET CANDLE IN PARAPA PALACE. GO WEST. GORIYA OF TANTARI STOLE OUR TROPHY. YOU SAVED THE TROPHY COME SEE MY UNCLE. IN PARAPA DESERT USE THIS MAGIC TO SURVIVE I CANNOT HELP YOU ANYMORE. GO NOW. HAMMER... SPECTACLE ROCK... DEATH MTN. DO NOT GO SOUTH WITHOUT A CANDLE. FIND MAGIC IN A CAVE SOUTH OF THE CASTLE. TOWN OF RUTO I FOUND A MIRROR UNDER THE TABLE. I LOST MY MIRROR. OH! YOU FOUND MY MIRROR! FOLLOW ME. WITH THIS YOU CAN JUMP VERY HIGH. I AM ERROR. SOUTH OF KINGS TOMB IN MIDO IS A TUNNEL. IN MIDORO SWAMP FIND A HANDY GLOVE. EYES OF GANON ARE EVERYWHERE BE CAREFUL WATER TOWN OF SARIA IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE FIRE. NOTHING. RETURN THE CRYSTAL TO THE PALACE IN PARAPA. USE KEYS IN PALACES THEY ARE FOUND IN. TALK WITH MY FATHER BEFORE YOU LEAVE TOWN USE THIS MAGIC TO RESTORE YOUR LIFE. ONLY TOWN FOLK MAY CROSS THIS RIVER! YOU KNOW BAGU? THEN I CAN HELP YOU CROSS. NO ONE IS HERE BUT A CHURCHBELL WILL RING. THE ISLAND PALACE IN THE SOUTH HAS A RAFT FIND MAGIC IN A CAVE IN MORUGE SWAMP. HARBOR TOWN OF MIDO THE DOOR WILL NOT OPEN. ITS VERY QUIET PLEASE. MY DAUGHTER IS SICK. HELP HER! THE WATER OF LIFE! QUICK COME WITH ME. ASK ERROR OF RUTO ABOUT THE PALACE. THIS MAGIC WORD WILL GIVE YOU POWER. WHEN YOU JUMP PRESS DOWNWARD TO STAB. BAGU IS MY NAME. SHOW MY NOTE TO RIVER MAN. ZZZ... LET ME BE! MASTER IS IN WOODS N OF RIVER THIS IS KINGS TOMB STOP BY FOR AWHILE REVIVED! REST HERE. HOW ABOUT THAT? ITS MY SPECIAL MEDICINE. I KNOW NOTHING. PLEASE SAVE OUR TOWN! YOU MUST SAVE HYRULE! I CAN NOT HELP YOU. THE RIVER DEVIL EATS THOSE WHO ARE WEAK. JUMP IN A HOLE IN THE PALACE IF YOU GO. WELCOME TO NABOORU WANT TO GET SOME WATER? SEE A MAN IN DARUNIA BEFORE THE ISLANDS. I AM THIRSTY. YOU HAVE WATER. COME TO MY HOUSE. WITH BOOTS I COULD WALK ON THE WATER. EAST OF TRIPLE EYE ROCK AT SEASHORE. COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE READY. THIS MAGIC WILL MAKE YOUR SWORD SHOOT FIRE YOU KNOW ALL I CAN TEACH YOU. GO. THE DEVIL DOES NOT LIKE NOISE A POWERFUL KNIGHT LIVES IN THIS TOWN. MAGIC KEY READS... TREASURE OF KASUTO THE PALACE HAS A FALSE WALL MOUNTAIN TOWN OF DARUNIA IT IS SAID THE EAST OF NABOORU HAS... THERE IS SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR! RESCUE THE KIDNAPPED CHILD ON THE ISLAND YOU ARE A HERO FOR SAVING MY CHILD.COME THIS MAGIC WILL STRENGTHEN A SHIELD. WHEN YOU JUMP PRESS UP TO STAB. WE HAD TO FLEE KASUTO. THE OLD MAN WHO REMAINS HAS MAGIC. 22222 HIDDEN TOWN OF KASUTO LOOKS LIKE I CAN GET IN THE FIREPLACE. CALL FOR HELP AT THE THREE EYE ROCKS. THE HOLE IN PALACE IS ENDLESS TRAP. DO YOU HAVE THE 7 MAGIC CONTAINERS YOU DESERVE MY HELP. FOLLOW ME. THERE IS A SECRET AT EDGE OF TOWN. REMEMBER THE MAGIC WORD. KASUTO. STRANGE... IT IS DESERTED. THE TOWN IS DEAD. LOOK EAST IN WOODS. I CAN GIVE YOU MOST POWERFUL MAGIC. YOU ARE PERSISTENT FIND HEART OVER OCEAN -----------