Ok, I wasn't sure where I should put this, so please feel free to delete it and tell me if I put it in the wrong place or just move it for me. Basically, I'm totally new to hacking/programming, so I know this will take a long time, a lot of work, a lot of trial and error, and a lot of reading. I'm ok with this :3
I've been just translating this game and posting it in a blog and in my Let's Play thread, but I'd really like to make a patch that would take out the Japanese text and put in the English text that I am translating. I know the text exists as plain text somewhere in the game files b