Trillion: God of Destruction

April 26, 2016, 7:43 pm

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All right, since Vita games have been more or less cracked, I was hoping someone could help me get as much as possible from this game. Specifically, Trillion itself, if anything.

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Super Smash Bros REMIX! Spriters Needed

April 26, 2016, 8:35 pm

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To anyone who is experienced in spriting, I need someone who is willing to make sprites for every Smash Bros fighter with new movesets (And by "every", I mean EVERY) for my upcoming game. Contact me on Twitter if you'd like to help out. I'll give you the general ideas of what I want the movesets to be for each fighter. My Twitter handle is @0megaEx. In case it wasn't blatantly obvious, I need spriters who have experience making custom sprites from scratch. Don't worry, I will give credit to your work, because without you, I would never be able to get this done.

Hey there

April 27, 2016, 10:49 am

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Short introduction post after having already posted a tiny bit beforehand

Hey there, this is xdaniel, a 29 years old ROM hacker/hobby reverse-engineerer and programmer/general fan of games, anime, manga/etc. from Germany. I've been playing video games since... who knows when - probably 1990 or thereabouts, starting on the family Commodore 64 - and have been hacking them since ca. 1998/99, likely getting started with Pokemon RBY and GS. Over the years, I've been around various communities, like early German Pokemon hacking, or Zelda OoT/MM hacking, while now I'm more generally found around the "unused content / gaming archeology" parts of the internet, such as contributing to The Cutting Room Floor, both directly (researching and writing articles) and indirectly (creating tools that others might use).

I guess the reason I joined VG Resource is to kinda try and "bridge communities" a bit, if that makes any sense, as there seems to be a bit of an overlap between ex. these forums here and other sites that also have, say, research into game formats going on. Namely, while browsing VGR as a guest, I had noticed the threads about Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, and about how to extract sprites/textures from that game, while I had already looked into their format (GXT, used in many more Vita games) and written a tool for extraction a while ago. I don't mean this in an "advertising" sense, if anyone's thinking that right now, but more in a "let's be efficient and not needlessly duplicate work" kinda way.

Well, I hope you understand what I'm trying to get at, and I hope that I'll be welcome here

Help ripping dc universe online models

April 27, 2016, 12:25 pm

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Hi!
I have interest interest in ripping some models from dcuo, but i dont know exacly what i should do.
I already have umodel and found where the model files are, but what should i do to get them?
If anyone could givi me lika a tutorial, i then could add those models.
Thanks!

Xenoblade Chronicles X catex

April 27, 2016, 3:21 pm

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I've been wanting to view the graphics from Xenoblade Chronicles X, but they're all stored as .catex files.
Viewing them with a hex editor reveals there's several lines of duplicated bytes and apart from MTXT at the end of the file, there's no file header. There's nothing I can find on these types of files either.

Sample

Birthdλy Threλd

April 27, 2016, 5:21 pm

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Yo happy birthday Lemonray

Remember when you had that rad λ in your username? Oh yeah me neither.

Kingdom Hearts X and Kingdom Hearts Unchained X

April 27, 2016, 7:09 pm

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Hey, is there a way to rip either of these? Mainly Khux? Much help would be appreciated. If not, can someone please rip it for me? I would really like one or both of these games' contents.

StevenBirthday

April 28, 2016, 6:33 am

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(Original title donut steel)

Have a good one, person that posts cool doodles in the doodles thread!

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How long does it take to get approval?

April 28, 2016, 11:15 am

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I just uploaded audio from Pokemon Battle Revolution to the site, how long until it gets approved and appears for everyone else to download it?

I'm sorry I couldn't add a picture for the Battle Revolution page, could someone else add one when it gets approved?

AkumaTh's Works: Adam SOR Sprites

April 28, 2016, 3:59 pm

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While I have other things I should be working on, I couldn't help but start on this.



The original idea was to assemble the Adam Sprites I ripped from the SOR Mobile game. Then it occurred to me that the sheet itself is incomplete. So since Streets of Rage Remake isn't being ripped (for one reason or another), I figured I should try to extend the sprite sheet. Besides the assembled sprites, I started on the German Suplex animation. How do those poses look (since the other sprites are just the official sprite assembled)?

Which DVD-Rom for Wii ripping.

April 28, 2016, 4:51 pm

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So, I am trying to get a DVD-ROm that can extract WII ISO's so that I may extract the contents in them but I don't know which is the best for that. I have two ROM's I am looking at, and I will post them here. If you have any others in mind could you post the direct link to the item?

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-INTERNAL-IDE-...SwYudXGlMR

2.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-Height-CD-R...SwKrhVWjMH

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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?u...ds=rawdump

Where I was getting my ideas from was from this site. http://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/dvd-...ps.585348/
I also don't understand some of the firm ware lingo like UNK,UDMA2, and etc so if you could explain those it would help me out greatly.

Help Ripping Bass.EXE (Mega Man Network Transmission)

April 28, 2016, 10:17 pm

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I was looking for this model for a cosplay, but I noticed that Bass is the only model that isn't there. Is there no model for him?

Help Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tornament PS2

April 29, 2016, 1:42 am

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Can someone help me? how do I open .mdl files? I found this format to extract Yu yu Hakusho dark ps2 tournament.

Probably a dumb question but in regards to Xenosaga Episode 1:

April 29, 2016, 2:12 am

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I've seen several rips of various Xenosaga Episode 1 characters and somehow they seem to lack the level of detail/fidelity/whatever as what I've seen in-game during stuff like the x-buster cutscene. However said cutscene doesn't really appear to be a hand-drawn thing to me. I can't help but wonder if they use higher quality models for such occasions than they do otherwise, because it would chug the console down too much with other objects on the screen during other moments. Am I wrong? Do people simply not know?

I kinda think it would be cool knowing if there ARE higher quality models that can be ripped from said scenes, but just... haven't been for whatever reason, and if they aren't higher quality models, what exactly are they? They don't seem hand drawn because they seem to be true 3d models based on how their dimensions are displayed via camera angels and whatnot. I'm not an artist or a modeler, please forgive the noob terminology.

Skylanders: Trap Team 3DS

April 29, 2016, 9:30 am

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Hey guys, I need a little help here. I can't seem to properly get the ROMFS of this game. My 3DS is far too updated to extract files from, and I really want to look into this game myself. Can anyone PM me the files for this game?

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[Tutorial] Ripping 3ds models with rigging

April 29, 2016, 12:13 pm

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Hi, I'm just some dude ripping stuff, attempting my first tutorial.

If you find any typos, misinformation, grammatical errors, or want to chime in on any other methods feel free to, and feedback is highly appreciated.

I've been wanting to do this for awhile but was never sure if I could explain it well enough to understand.

First off here are some tools you'll need.

Access to Homebrew with (>=9.2) Braindump  or (<=9.2) Decrypt9
ctrtool (Not sure if there's a release thread for this)
Ohana3ds Rebirth
Neosis
Blender Source Tools if using Blender If using SMD export
Any Image Editing Software that supports transparency
Hex Editing Software
Text Editing Software

Steps spoilered to avoid the eye sore that it was without spoilers

Step 1: Dumping The Files

Braindump makes it very simple just select the game you wish to dump then congrats, however this doesn't work with most eShop exclusive games or at all with 9.6 crypto games.

Decrypt9 if you want to go down the route of just finding the rom online and decrypting it to dump. (If you can't be arsed to dump and convert the game to cia yourself or an eShop exclusive/9.6 crypto game which requires a certain files to decrypt)

Now once you have the ROMFS/EXEFS/CXI(Braindump) decrypted .CIA(Decrypt9) open up CMD.exe enter CD path to romfs/exefs/cxi/cia folder press enter, once there you have various command lines to use.

Braindump(Pre-release)

ctrtool --intype=romfs --romfsdir=romfsdir romfs.bin

ctrtool --intype=exefs --exefsdir=exefsdir --decompresscode exefs.bin

I use the pre-release version of Braindump so I just get the romfs & exefs instead of CXI, but I assume the way to dump the romfs/exefs from CXI is the same as CIA.

Decrypt9

ctrtool --contents=contents RomName.cia

You'll get one or two files with this contents.xxxx.xxxxxxxx the larger one should be the romfs so replace contents.xxxx.xxxxxxxx with that file name.

ctrtool -p --exefs=exefs.bin contents.xxxx.xxxxxxxx

ctrtool -p --romfs=romfs.bin contents.xxxx.xxxxxxxx

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-how...ms.383055/ for a more in depth guide.

Step 2: Checking for compatible formats.

Common formats compatible with Ohana3ds Rebirth

BCH
CGFX
BCRES
BCMDL

There may be some versions of these formats that may not work, and some may be in custom container which would require opening the file in a hex editor and removing the container if it's not already supported or compressed.

for more info https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-ohana3ds-tool.392576/

I'll use Persona Q as an example:

Delete everything above "CGFX" there also may be some QuickBMS scripts that will help, same applies for the other formats mentioned above.

Some may be compressed which you'd have to figure out what compression was used, I believe there also may be some QuickBMS scripts to do this.

Container

Step 3: Ripping

Now with all that out of the way, I'll be using a Pokemon model as an example.

Open the file in Ohana3ds Rebirth

Export it as DAE or SMD. OBJ doesn't support rigging.

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Export Textures as well only exported as PNG

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Now open the model in your preferred software, and grab the origin to make sure everything is weighted also check to see if some of the bones are pulling the wrong vertex's

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This one doesn't seem to have any issues, but if you do encounter any weighting issues it's a simple fix with Neosis.(I do this with most things regardless, I suggest you do to as if you don't sometimes the weights will be broken in other software)



Open Neosis, find the file, right click export, and export it to FBX, then back to the original format to fix these issues most of the time. (I've only had a few models where this method doesn't work)

Neosis Steps

Now repeat the first step and if the weighting is still broken you may need to fix it yourself or find another method.


Now for textures, this is mostly just for Pokemon textures, but may apply to other games. (Pokemon is currently the only game I rip from that requires this amount of editing, most other textures work out of the box or require the texture be mirrored on X/Y)

Apply the textures and it'll more than likely look broken like this:

Broken

Open the texture in your preferred image editing software. I'll be using Paintdotnet.

For the body and similar textures.


Copy the texture CTRL+A then CTRL+C

Double the canvas size horizontally

Canvas

Add a new layer paste the texture and flip it horizontally, or make a new image and flip the texture horizontally.

How the texture should look now

The eye textures are a similar process, I don't know how ones with pupils work, so if someone who does wants to speak up please do.

Make a new image with double the width and one the same exact size as the original.

Eyes 1

Select, and copy the first side of the eyes, then paste it into the same size blank copy and flip it horizontally.

Eyes 2

Now paste it into the image with double the width and move it into place, make sure to be pixel perfect, do the same with the eyes on the right, then repeat until it looks like the final image on the right.

Eyes 3

The Eye's normal maps are simple, just increase the canvas size to match the final eye textures, then copy the texture in all the blank spots as such.

Eye normals

Then repeat all this for the shiny textures and any similar textures.

And If All Goes Well

RTB's Explanation might be better.

RTB

Ooooooor you could edit the textures directly (except for the "normal maps"), double the canvas size horizontally and paste a mirrored copy on the right side of the texture, then you don't have to worry about modifying the UV mapping. Much easier in my opinion (and also makes it so that the normal map textures actually work the way they should!).

You may need to mess with the Eye's UVs, but I'll leave that to someone else with more knowledge of it then I do to explain it.

Step 4:Exporting

This will only be for exporting in Blender

Press A in the viewport to select everything, make sure to deselect anything that isn't the mesh and armature, then go to File > Export Collada (Default) .dae.

My Export Settings

Blender doesn't seem to like exporting from SMD sometimes, so the weighting my not work when importing the .dae to fix this repeat this with the newly exported .dae (this issue mostly occurs with Pokemon & Stella Glow models, and rarely I've found anything else)

Spoiler

Open Neosis, find the file, right click export, and export it to FBX, then back to the original format to fix these issues most of the time. (I've only had a few models where this method doesn't work)

Neosis Steps

Open it in blender again, make sure it works, apply textures, and delete any extra armatures that Neosis may have created then export again.

Check if everything works again then open the .DAE up in your preferred text editor and remove all instances of file paths.

File Path

If you want to include an FBX version use neosis to export the dae/smd to FBX with the flip UVs option enabled. (might not be necessary, but the UVs have always been broken when exporting to FBX without flipping UVs)

Step 5: Congrats, If you've done everything correct you should have yourself a submission worthy rigged 3ds model

Make sure everything works correctly, then render icons with transparency 148x125 & 750x650

Post on the forums asking for someone to check them before submitting, or just submit it and wait until someone gets to it.

I wrote this while the site was down last week, and wasn't really confident enough with it to release it(which I'm still not but w/e)
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This is just my method as I prefer blender, others may have better methods, so Please R8, H8, and Deb8 my M8s.


Hope this helped.

Atomic Bomberman Sprites

April 29, 2016, 7:36 pm

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I love Atomic Bomberman, I have the original game and have been looking at some personal projects to port a similar clone to linux but need the sprites and figured as I rip them I may as well share my work with the community in case other people were interested in similar projects

Atomic Bomberman is a little different than some other systems- its sprites are locked in .ani files which are similar to animated icons but no animated icon viewers open the files- it seems to be a filetype specific to this game, but no matter- Atomic Bomberman has a built in editor called fredit.exe that of course only works on windows 98 so I powered up my virtual machine with windows 98 and got it up and running but the exporter that is supposed the export the frames as .tga files doesnt work as it complains about it not being a 24 bit direct color something or other which I'm going to guess is an incompatibility with the display driver, but again I can work around that too.

So my current method of attack short of hacking together my own .ani reader is to just take screenshots and work my magic in gimp.

I want to do it proper - the ideal way would be to dump the contents natively with the built in exporter but if the screenshot way is the only way to do it I guess I can work with that.

My main question is what is the best practise for building spritesheets? Atomic Bomberman ani files can have over a hundred frames per animation.

My current plan of attack is to crop out the frames from my screenshots then use a plugin in gimp to array them (like gmic or iglo) and then I don't know if want to split the pages by each .ani file from the game or make a giant spritesheet... I'm leaning toward one sheet per animation maybe. 

Thoughts and suggestions?

Avengers Academy

April 30, 2016, 4:53 am

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Hi guys.

I'm planning on making a roleplaying game on Dreamwidth based on this stupidly addicting phone game, and I need the majority of the 2D inages from it: face sets, the little items you can collect, that sort of thing.

I already know the game has some base things that are downloaded to the phone/tablet, and the rest are streamed in via weblinks. I tried to capture this, but my phone sadly refused to cooperate with the software for some innane reason stupid iPhone. I'd greatly appreciate the help.

I'm mostly looking for the facesets of the minor characters: Nick Fury, Odin, Ares, Pym, ect. I wouldn't say no to the others, though, especially Tony, Jan, Loki, and Pepper. And also the little item images. I'd love to see all of the game ripped and put up on TSR/TMR because it is great and the models and art are very well done, but that would be up to the person doing the work.

Thank you in advance.

Generating Xorpads and Ripping from 3ds

April 30, 2016, 8:01 am

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Hello models resource! I have been trying to rip from 3ds but I can't figure out some steps. I don't have my 3ds with me so I can't generate xorpads and I just don't know how to do it. I've been looking for ever how to do it and I finally got some roms but I just hit a big bump. Any help would be appreciated. (I've got the files you need to put on you 3ds to generate the xorpads so here you go!)

  Copy to SD.zip (Size: 31.47 KB / Downloads: 4)

RPG Maker Help

April 30, 2016, 3:03 pm

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I'm Looking for a Free full version of RPG Maker For window 7 is there a way to Download one? I need answers. If so does anybody have an E-Mail address so I can contact the one who has it? Because I'm bored.