Fan Italian translation of EarthBound Beginnings (MOTHER).
The text box contains max 22 characters in a line.
Every overworld sentence begins with * and the following lines with a space .
Newlines are represented by the hash #.
Pauses by _.
The string ends where the characters | or § appear.
Example:
*Hi, how are you# today?#_*Fine, hopefully!#|
Result:
These combinations are read by the game as variables, then remember to treat them as if they were at their maximum length, written in brackets:
¹÷[ => Ninten (7)
¹£@ => Party Leader (7)
¹x[ => Lloyd (7)
¹8[ => Ana (7)
¹¡] => Teddy (7)
¹|` => Complement (7)
¹°` => Subject (7)
¹Ì× => Favorite Food (11)
¹%` => Item (11)
¹⁴` => Object (11)
¹É& => Target (12)
¹à& => Enemy (12)
¹®& => ?? (11)
¹°[ => Player Name (17)
³ followed by 4 characters => Number (5)
All the lines in names.txt can't be longer than 11 characters, | doesn't count.
The battle text uses different formatting rules: sometimes it's just plain text without *s and other times it is indented by one space at every line.