You may remember the Quest adventures Catacombs and Cornucopia, on the off chance that it may work I applied the same technique here (see below). It worked as far as the verbs and nouns, but unlike the Quest games I have been unable to decode the location descriptions and game messages.
I imagined that the steam and space station repair rooms were one and the same, Alex's comment and instructions confirm this.
Decoding the Games
I use a freeware hex editor called XVI32, it has the advantage that it can run scripts.
In this particular case I loaded a copy of Powerstar.rom into the editor and then ran a script I had developed for the Quest adventures. The script contains a series of commands (ADR 0 just means move to address zero, i.e., top):
ADR 0
REPLACEALL A0 BY 20 20
ADR 0
REPLACEALL A1 BY 21 20
ADR 0
REPLACEALL A2 BY 22 20
(etc. until)
ADR 0
REPLACEALL FF BY 7F 20
For further decoding I created an additional script:
ADR 0
REPLACEALL 21 BY 61
ADR 0
REPLACEALL 22 BY 62
(etc. until)
ADR 0
REPLACEALL 3F BY 7F
As can be seen, this results in a better decoding than the one I gave above:
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