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Ecco the LOLphin
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Ecco the LOLphin

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A new take on a classic adventure! Help Ecco to fix the mess he made by not listening to his brother, and maybe snatch a few penguins along the way.

Note: It is reccommended to be familiar with the original game's plot in order to play this version. If it is your first time with the series you may want to try the easier Revision 01 mod, available elsewhere in the workshop; or if you feel like cheating, pause while ecco's sprite is looking towards the screen, press "Right, B, C, B, C, Down, C, Up," and then set "unlimited life" to 1.
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Gordon Frenchman 15 Oct, 2018 @ 4:38pm 
Thanks a lot for your answer D-Pas and no problems for the delay! Looking foward your next works! ;)
D-Pad  [author] 15 Oct, 2018 @ 12:43pm 
Hi Denton, sorry it took me so long to reply! Thanks for the compliment. In order to modify the texts of the games, I use an advanced text editor (Notepad++, but I'm sure there are other alternatives as well) to view the ROM, and then I locate a word or phrase with the search function. Then, I just overwrite it. There are a few limitations to take into account, though:

1) Unfortunately, not all ROMs store the dialogue in plain text, so you must get lucky. That was my case with the whole Ecco series.

2) You must respect the amount of characters; you can't make a phrase longer or shorter than the original. This happens because changing the size of the messages messes with the ability of the program to locate their addresses in the memory.

None of these problems are insurmountable, but I'm afraid that they require skills greater than my own to solve.
Gordon Frenchman 24 Sep, 2018 @ 2:29pm 
That's actualy a pretty fun mod! Now sorry for asking, that mught sound stupid, but how do you do to translate the text exactly? I'd like to provide a translation of the game and I don't really know where to start so if you could explain me, that'd be nice from you! ^^
Rednax 23 Apr, 2017 @ 1:32pm 
O_O
Careful, I got a reputation. 19 Feb, 2017 @ 6:49pm 
it is r ecco mended
Briggs 6 May, 2016 @ 11:53am 
Ah, thank you. I really did appreciate those level names :)
D-Pad  [author] 3 May, 2016 @ 2:29pm 
TheStoneBanana: The Caverns of Hope website is a great resource for all things Ecco, look it up!

Vito: Thanks! Modifying Ecco's ROM this way was easy because all the game's dialogue is written in plain text inside the file; I just had to replace it with new text using a text editor. I'm afraid more complex hacks are out of my reach.
Briggs 3 May, 2016 @ 2:02pm 
I found this to be a pretty good modern updated interpretation of the game. :buddy_boulder:
Also, how do you make mods like these for this game?
TheStoneBanana 3 May, 2016 @ 12:25pm 
Is there anywhere that you have this ROM avaliable for download? I dont own Ecco on Steam here and would like to try out your hack.

(and yes, I do legally own a Genesis copy of Ecco)