Chrono Cross Relative Alphabet

General Information[edit]

Chrono Cross[edit]

HUGELY important for a variety of things. While some games conveniently use a straight ASCII scheme for storing English letters, Cross (mostly) uses a "relative alphabet" -- one in which a hexadecimal index is assigned to a specific character, enabling the game to store English alphabet entries as well as thingies like the yin/yang element symbol. Tech names and descriptions are stored in the game executable in this format. For example, if you wanted to find Serge's default name in a hex editor ("Serge"), you'd run a search on 0x 44 50 5D 52 50. Voila!

(Note: the relative alphabet used by the Japanese version was completely different and does not follow the tables below.)

Letters

Char	Hex	Char	Hex	Char	Hex	Char	Hex
A	32	a	4C	N	3F	n	59
B	33	b	4D	O	40	o	5A
C	34	c	4E	P	41	p	5B
D	35	d	4F	Q	42	q	5C
E	36	e	50	R	43	r	5D
F	37	f	51	S	44	s	5E
G	38	g	52	T	45	t	5F
H	39	h	53	U	46	u	60
I	3A	i	54	V	47	v	61
J	3B	j	55	W	48	w	62
K	3C	k	56	X	49	x	63
L	3D	l	57	Y	4A	y	64
M	3E	m	58	Z	4B	z	65

Numbers

Char	Hex	Char	Hex
0	28	5	2D
1	29	6	2E
2	2A	7	2F
3	2B	8	30
4	2C	9	31

Punctuation and Symbols

Char	Hex	Char	Hex	Char	Hex
_	20	|	66	?	6E
(	21	!	67	_	6F
)	22	"	68	[	70
-	23	$	69	]	71
,	24	%	6A	.	72
+	25	&	6B	'	73
.	26	*	6C	#	74
/	27	:	6D

From: Script.cpt