How to hack roms without a hex editor
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Yes, it is possible. And in my opinion a heckuvalot easier.
All you need is MS-DOS Editor (win95 version) and a program called
Font Mania (which I have on my page) so that you can change the
characters. Also, it's a lot easier in Windows because you can
just press Alt-Tab to switch programs.

First of all, you need to make the font. The easiest type of
rom to make the font with is nesticle, because you can view
the pattern tables. So start by going into nesticle and
picking view pattern tables. Then press Alt-Tab and type "FM"
to get into Font Mania. Press Tab in fm to view it's char
tables. Now, copy the nesticle pattern tables into fm.
For example, if "A" is #8A in nesticle, you'd draw in the
letter "A" in char 138 in fm. When you copy all the text you
need into fm, save it as something (it doesn't really matter)
then quit. You can quit nesticle too. type "edit/64 whatever.rom"
and when you scroll down you should be able to see at least most
of the text. If other chars appear in it, the rom uses dual
tile thingy whatevers and you'll have to guess what they are in
FM. It probably won't be that hard if you know much about the
rom. As for SNES and GB and other roms, you'll have to know
their pattern tables already to copy them into fm. There's
a program called searchr, I never tried it but I think that it
find the pattern tables for you. Anyway, I hope that helps a bit
and I hope it's easy enough to understand for all you losers
out there, if I find out new stuff I'll update it so... umm...
yep, that's it.