Substring Help?

[justin3009]

I know what they are and what they're used for, but my question is, what designates them to be substrings?  I've gone through the English and JP rom and noticed the US version has like...20-9F for substrings, while the JP has 20-3F.  I'm curious on this because I want to expand the substring list for more words, and also to help with working on getting the pre-release a basic translation.

[Geiger]

what designates them to be substrings?

Not really sure what you are asking here.

while the JP has 20-3F.

Actually, if you'll notice, the entirety of Alphabet 12 is also substrings.

[Vehek]

Well, that isn't true for the pre-release.

(...) and no 12xx substrings in pre.

[justin3009]

Yea.  I asked that because it seems to be that the substrings are marked off by a check in Temporal Flux.  While 20-9F in English has it, only 20-3F has it in the pre-release.  So I was kind of curious on that.

[Vehek]

0258B2   0258D3   CODE   N   "Routines load text character, and checks type"   2007.01.15

$C2/58BA C9 A0       CMP #$A0

I think the equivalents to this in the Japanese Pre and Final use a different value, making the substrings end in a different place.

[justin3009]

Alright, I'll take a look at that.  They're all usually in different places, so I'll try to find it.

[Vehek]

Japanese Final:
$C2/58C3 C9 40       CMP #$40

Pre-release:
At 025967.

Edit-I don't think changing these will let you change the new substrings in Temporal Flux.

[justin3009]

Yea, I figured that.  It just extends how far it'll read.  I copied and pasted the US's versions of the Subroutine character loading for 2F-9F into the pre-release, along with the spots in those areas.  So we'll have to actually change the letters themselves maybe for it to work...I'm still not quite sure.

Edit: Copied the US's code, re-edited some of it because of crashing, and now it reads all the substrings perfectly.  Doesn't show it in Temporal Flux (Obviously), but it works!