I'm going to try touching N64 emulation again.

start your startwatches, lets see how long it'll be until I'm replying to this with "N64 IS THE WORST CONSOLE EVER AND CANNOT BE EMULATED"

well, gopher64 is a blurry mess
okay, bizhawk's mupen64 isn't blurry on the text, so this is... doable.
no ASCII or similar in the RAM dump, because why would anything be easy?
found shifted text in the ROM!
00=a
01=b
etc
@foone we've seen games do similar things, that can be interesting