General Subjects Documents
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| Name | Description |
| Czar Dragon's LZW Compression Doc | Shows examples and explains how LZW compression is used. |
| Definitive Guide to ROM Hacking for Complete Beginners, The | This doc is more of a FAQ that tells you how to teach yourself how to rom hack. |
| Jair's ROM Hacking Tutorial | Great doc that covers most topics of translating and hacking. |
| Nemesis's LZSS Compression Doc | An explanation of the LZSS compression scheme sometimes seen in PSX and SNES games. Warning: This document is en français. |
| SNES ROM Hacking | Good explanation of how to add Game Genie-type features into the ROMs themselves. Uses examples and explains for both HiROM and LoROM games. |
| The Name Tables Doc | When tiles are used in two different places it can cause a problem. Name Tables allow you to fix that. |
| The PlayStation hacking doc | As before, this is mostly catered to ROM hackers who have experience. If you're a complete newbie to the subject of game hacking, go play with some NES games or something first. |
| The ROM Hack Document | Horribly outdated but one of the first ROM hacking documents. This file still has a lot of good technical information that you won't find in other documents, so I recommend reading it anywayz. |
| The ROM Hacking Translating for anyone Vol 1 The ROM Hacking Translating for anyone Vol 2 | This runs through the process of rom hacking/translating...volume 1 is the basics and volume 2 discusses more advanced techniques. |
| Title Screen HackingMade Easy | How to hack title screens the easy way. This doc descibes a very detailed yet easy method of hacking title screens. |
| Zdawg's NES ROM Hacking Document | Covers such topics as table creation, Japanese text dumping and script extraction/insertion w/ formats for beginners & dummies alike. |