Hacking NEC PC Games

Who this book is for

This book may be of interest to you if you are wanting

• to hack a NEC PC game to change the way it plays
• to translate a NEC PC game into a different language
• to extract or replace NEC PC game assets
• to have an idea of how your own NEC PC game might be structured

The techniques in this book are broadly applicable to PC games made in Japan before Windows 3.1.

Topics covered

• common program designs of NEC PC games
• memory management in NEC PC games
• algorithms commonly used in NEC PC games
• common tools for hacking NEC PC games

Table of contents

1. Game Analysis
2. Recognizing play modes
3. Elements of a NEC PC Game
4. Memory Layout of NEC PC Games
5. Understanding the Operating System
6. Understanding Game Disks
7. How to hack NEC PC Games
8. Moving assets to HDD
9. Figuring out Image Formats
10. Area formats and Dialogue