Monster Farm 2 Modify log 1-firstblood

Recently a friend shared the PlayStation simulator on Android, and I started playing the monster Farm on PS 2. This is a monster-forming game in which players nurture, train monsters, and compete.

Game production company is Tecmo, game Monster Model map and so very excellent, fit system is also I have seen the best (from a certain point of view, the end of the true goddess Rebirth).

The game features a special system that can generate different monsters from discs and even spawn rare monsters via the PS swap mechanism. So players need to collect a wide variety of discs (the simulator can use a disc image) to spawn monsters.

Although I started playing this game 10 years ago, I've been playing it off and on for a long time, and there are a lot of rare monsters that can't be collected. So long ago wanted to crack to collect all the monsters.

So I started filling out this 10-year-old pit.

First in the online blind, find NO$PSX simulator \ Debugger, try to run under, feel not very good.

After changing the PSX, feeling seems better, running and debugging are no problem, but completely do not know how to start.

The Assembly is MIPS, not familiar, memory can not be searched. Try debugging at random, and don't know for a moment how to find the function that spawned the monster.

So continue to look for information on the Internet, found the Slowbeef Han policenauts log.

The first step in Slowbeef is to find the text in the game, modify the text, and observe the changes in the game's interface. Text is usually one of the breakthrough points of the hack.

So that's also the first step I'm going to take, find some text in the game, and modify it.

When the game starts, it will let the player enter their own name, decided to change the name first.

The plaintext search is not available, using a Python script to do relative search, or not.

Suspect that the string in the game has been encrypted.

By observing, the thought of the text might be 2 bytes saved.

Modify the Python script, do relative search, and finally find the string.

Monster Farm 2 Modify log 1-firstblood