Can I get a little help with this?

[Cobalt]

So I have a rom dump of the dialog from Phantasy Star.
problem is its in a bizarre format that needs cleaned up.

which I guess I could always do manually but theres 1857 lines of this stuff and that would take an absurd amount of time. I was hoping to write some code that would "re-write" the lines for me to save time, but I'm not sure just how to approach this.

he is a sample of what I need to work with,

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Dialogue_Index_0002:
.db "I", Dialogue_Apostrophe, "M SUELO. I ", Word_Know, Dialogue_NewLine
.db "HOW ", Word_You_Must, " FEEL,", Dialogue_NewPage
.db "DEAR,NO ", Word_One, " CAN", Dialogue_NewLine
.db "STOP ", Word_You, Word_From, Dialogue_NewPage
.db "DOING WHAT ", Word_You, Dialogue_NewLine
.db Word_Know, " ", Word_You_Must, " DO.", Dialogue_NewPage

Dialogue_Index_0004:
.db "BUT IF ", Word_You, "SHOULD", Dialogue_NewLine
.db "EVER BE WOUNDED", Dialogue_NewPage
.db "IN BATTLE,COME", Dialogue_NewLine
.db Word_Here, " TO ", Word_Rest, ".", Dialogue_Terminator65


I don't need to worry about the NewLine, NewPage  stuff just everything else. Just not sure how to get started, was wondering if anybody else here had any nifty ideas. otherwise I'll have to attack this by just manually doing all the conversion.

[SMcNeill]

Isn’t this a case of IF a fragment starts with Word_, then you just strip that off, capitalize the rest, and turn underscores into spaces?

Word_Know = “KNOW”
Word_You_Must = “YOU MUST”
Word_One = “ONE”
Word_You = “YOU”

[Cobalt]

Isn’t this a case of IF a fragment starts with Word_, then you just strip that off, capitalize the rest, and turn underscores into spaces?

Word_Know = “KNOW”
Word_You_Must = “YOU MUST”
Word_One = “ONE”
Word_You = “YOU”

how would I pull just those segments? Comma de-limited? Need to remove the extra quotations too.
I may just not be looking at this in the simplistic way its needs to be, and that is why its confounding me.

[bplus]

Seems like StrReplace$() function would fix most, eg replace "," and chr$(34) and "Word_" with nothing.

Could you show what dialogs are supposed to look like?

Here is that dialog in QB64 IDE using StrReplace$ (Search > Change Dialog):

Dialogue_Index_0002:
 I ' M SUELO. I  Know
 HOW  You_Must  FEEL
 DEARNO  One  CAN
 STOP  You From
 DOING WHAT  You
 Know   You_Must  DO.

Dialogue_Index_0004:
 BUT IF  You SHOULD
 EVER BE WOUNDED
 IN BATTLECOME
 Here  TO  Rest . Dialogue_Terminator65

Fix the rest in a text editor oh heck do the whole with text editor!

[Cobalt]

Seems like StrReplace$() function would fix most, eg replace "," and chr$(34) and "Word_" with nothing.

Could you show what dialogs are supposed to look like?

Here is that dialog in QB64 IDE using StrReplace$ (Search > Change Dialog):
Fix the rest in a text editor oh heck do the whole with text editor!

Yeah the text is supposed to be displayed 2 lines at a time, displaying "typewriter" style from left to right.
Image attached of layout.

Yeah I may have to manually do this, though gawd I don't want to spend the next 8-12 hours translating 1800+ lines! course if it take 8 to 12 hours writing a conversion program(s) whats the difference?

[bplus]

Yeah the text is supposed to be displayed 2 lines at a time, displaying "typewriter" style from left to right.
Image attached of layout.

Yeah I may have to manually do this, though gawd I don't want to spend the next 8-12 hours translating 1800+ lines! course if it take 8 to 12 hours writing a conversion program(s) whats the difference?

I think you can do 80% of work with mass removals, then I would CAPs the whole thing in another stroke ( Notepad++ can do that) or a filter sweep through a little Basic program.

I assume you have a StrReplace$ function, there is one that comes with QB64 in source files if you don't, or Steve or I have our versions.

I say 1 maybe 2 cups of coffee and you will be done. :-))