Hi,

Are there any tools out there to extract all the text (dialogue and journal entries) for this game?

Thanks.

I haven't tried exactly that, but there are some really nice tools for extracting data from MM6 - MM8 available here (under "Others Trainers and Editors"):

http://www.portailsmm.com/comm/downloads.html

Thanks both.

I'll take a look at the links, but only a bit later since I still want to check other things in the game first and don't want to come across any spoilers from the extracted text.

Once I'm done I'll mark one of those as solution. In the meantime, if anyone still has anything else, let me knowl

rmeakin's link had some editors, but they didn't work on text files (images, animations and similar worked though). Sarisio's worked perfectly. I got all the text I need.

Some funny unused strings. like : "If you see this text tell James. Ooops text" or "I don't work! Tell James" for strings #0 which shouldn't appear in the game (and probably get defaulted to, if the proper string is missing).

Maybe James was one of the people working on the game?

That's what I thought. There is James Dickinson under designers. Probably him. No James in programming.

There is other text that by the looks of it should be said, but due to a bug wasn't. Your allies should give you extra hints, but in my game at least after some time, they just repeated same text.

Similar problem was with MM6, Oracle stopped giving hints after getting Memory Crystals, while those hints are present in game files.