Hi everyone, I would like to make an English translation of a non-English game made with Games Factory around 2000-2001 (e. g. replace all the text in the game with English-language one). Is it technically possible if I only have the game.exe files and not the source code?
Thank you in advance!
Very unlikely, without proper tools it would be quite a pain...
"Quite a pain" - but still possible? What would I need for that?
It might be possible that strings are exposed as plain text on the binary file, but messing with that might break the exe, and you may not be able to change everything nor adjust position and font size.
So there's no point in trying... Would be better to just try contacting the author.
I just checked, there's actually a .gam file, and I can edit it with stuff like Notepad++ and Vim - but if I make even the smallest edit in the text, the .exe file doesn't open. Could it be possible to work around that somehow (or maybe just produce a new .exe file from the edited .gam file?) Thanks!
Of course, Notepad++ isn't adequate to edit machine code.
You may try a hex editor, still, no guarantee that it will work since it most certainly move stuff around and the app won't be able to find things anymore.
Have you checked if you can open this gam file on Fusion?
Thanks a lot, with hex editor it works!
I have one more question: is it possible to replace some of the images in the game? Say, if an image has non-English text in it, can I somehow replace it with an English-text image?
Thank you very much!!!
Idk any definitive way of editing a image from an built exe... That would be much more complex
Or maybe edit it from .gam somehow and build a new .exe?
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