I keep trying these big budget F2P games and I get where you're coming from. They all just feel like "content"

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A cheap adapter maybe. I'd say a USB 3.0/1 hub with a microSD card would be the most reliable

microSD to USB adapter

Gonna dive in this weekend

Scene logic is holding up, sometimes the character PNGs don't load in but it's random, will continue to investigate. Main thing now is getting half width English rendering in game. There's no font table, all glyphs are drawn real time (like Killer7 or Blood+) but it's not as complex as those systems

Update!

Actually I've just remembered this great video, hope it helps! youtu.be/0tUxVSms4Q4?...

Here it is in its 240P glory!

I don't want to dissuade you, I got really lucky with a couple of educated guesses and some of the text was stored in plain SJIS. But for Kattobi Tune in particular theres functions in the exe which cause rendering errors. No matter the game you're diving down a rabbit hole. A fun one tho!

It varies on the game & platform. PS1 has a lot of info & tools online to get you started but nothing is plug and play Ive spent hours staring at memory dumps & wrote my own scripts to extract & insert data. ATM I need to figure out how to disable + rewrite engine features
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