STE

The STE editing menu.

STE (or Sonic Text Editor, known more often by it's initials due to the ability to edit other games) is a text editing tool, used for editing the text inside Sonic games, or any game that the user creates an STE compatible template file for. It was created by and is maintained by Overlord. He is rumoured to be considering making a new version of the tool - removing it's existing limits and finally reaching the point where adding new games is not limited by the application itself. The latest version of the tool available is 1.10, and also contains the last version of his SA:DX PC Text Editor tool.

An edit of Sonic 3D with STE.

An edit of Sonic 1 with STE.

As of 1.10, STE supports (at least partially) the following titles:

• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Wai Beta
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3
• Sonic & Knuckles
• Sonic 1 & Knuckles (Blue Sphere), as well as any ROM successfully Locked-On to a S&K ROM that makes a Blue Sphere game
• Sonic 3 & Knuckles
• Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island
• Knuckles' Chaotix (NTSC & PAL)
• Ristar (UE & J)
• Zero Wing
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut for PC

Potential future versions of STE may feature:

• A new GUI
• A more flexible template format
• S3D, S3&K & S&K editable credits in their templates
• STE template creation tool
• More complete SA:DX PC support
• More templates

You can download STE from Hacking CulT. At present the tool has no homepage.