{"slug": "show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku", "title": "Show HN: Documenting an Obscure Japanese Wii Game – and-Kensaku", "summary": "A developer has reverse-engineered the TR2 game file format for the obscure Japanese-exclusive Wii game And-Kensaku, disabling signature checks and enabling edits to the game's phrase files. The project, which uses the AI assistant Claude, allows modification of the game's content, including its most famous mode where players choose the most popular Google search result. The developer aims to fully document the game and potentially release an English patch.", "body_md": "I have been using Claude for the past couple of days this week to document and modify the TR2 game file format for an obscure Japanese-exclusive Wii game called And-Kensaku, or 安藤ケンサク. And-Kensaku is a game related to Googling. There are a few game modes, but the most famous one asks you a question and gives you two answer options, and you win if you choose the most popular Google search. I have been able to do the following: 1. disable signature checks on the files, and 2. allow edits to the Phrases.tr2 file, making it possible to modify the content of the aforementioned game mode. I wanted to go on this little adventure because reverse-engineering file formats is an extremely difficult (at least for me) and time-consuming task, and I wondered how well Claude would do at it. Right now, not everything about this game is documented, but I would like to fully document it and maybe release an English patch.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420247](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420247)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/TylerJaacks/AndKensakuResearch", "published_at": "2026-06-06 00:48:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-06 01:17:16.673160+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Claude", "And-Kensaku", "Wii", "TR2"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-documenting-an-obscure-japanese-wii-game-and-kensaku.jsonld"}}