Talk:Densetsu no Starfy 3

Byte comparison list between v1.0 and rev 1

I'm trying to make one with the FC /b tool for the command prompt. It generated a file but it's taking a while and unfortunately it seems to be getting quite large for us to look at. :( On the other hand, if a change seems suspicious hopefully it may help (e.g. a set of Shift JIS bytes being changed could indicate a typo fix or similar in the later version).

I'm wondering though if I've been approaching this in the wrong way. Maybe the large file could be due to pointer changes/then making the chain result of affecting other pointers. For looking to see if v1.1 fixed a typo, I made a Densetsu no Starfy 3/Text dump for v1.0 with WindHex; so hopefully the same could be repeated for v1.1, and then we could look through both to see if there are any changes. ^^

Perhaps a Starfy disassembly repository could be started; since the pointer problem may be less of an issue; the pointers would be dynamically generated after reassembling the ROM with a SYM file reference, though despite working with disassemblies (just the Pokémon ones), I feel unconfident with them and don't know how to start one. (hmm)

Another idea but harder could be to just do a lot more work, and maybe look through both revisions with a debugger until we find the changes. I'm not sure what else though, and I reached out to Jul asking how to find revision differences somewhere (but unsure of the link at the moment). Is it OK if I ask, do you have any other ideas Dimedime (Talk)? Thanks. Torchickens (talk) 03:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)