MrCheeze | OoT Language Change SRM @MrCheeze | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
With this, you can change a US copy of OoT into behaving exactly the same as a Japanese copy. You can also load "glitch languages", although they mostly behave the same as english - only a few textures will be corrupted. The effects of this SRM will persist on game over, starting a new file, etc. However, they are not saved to the cartridge when you turn the console off.
On a technical level, this SRM works the same way as all fish overlay SRM - we jump partway through a certain function in the fish overlay, and depending on where the overlay is allocated on the heap, we're able to write to a different part of the save context. Actually, we've started a spreadsheet to track the parts of save context that we might want to write to with this SRM, and the heap manips that have been found already: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17BLPrpJRf7Vf01lYhXPKu1VumFAkxbGxyrww8ux5aZc/edit#gid=376145157
With this, you can change a US copy of OoT into behaving exactly the same as a Japanese copy. You can also load "glitch languages", although they mostly behave the same as english - only a few textures will be corrupted. The effects of this SRM will persist on game over, starting a new file, etc. However, they are not saved to the cartridge when you turn the console off.
On a technical level, this SRM works the same way as all fish overlay SRM - we jump partway through a certain function in the fish overlay, and depending on where the overlay is allocated on the heap, we're able to write to a different part of the save context. Actually, we've started a spreadsheet to track the parts of save context that we might want to write to with this SRM, and the heap manips that have been found already: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17BLPrpJRf7Vf01lYhXPKu1VumFAkxbGxyrww8ux5aZc/edit#gid=376145157
