Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

[Roxasguy]

Hello! I have been trying to rip models and music from the notorious GameCube game, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Now, I opened this in Dolphin, and viewed the image file in the Filesystem tab, and the game is mostly composed of TPL, ARC, GBL, and ACT files. From what I see on the internet, ARC files are archives containing the files like models.

I downloaded yaz0dec.exe and rarcdump.exe, and dragged the ARCs into yaz0dec. Nothing happened. Then, I dragged it into the rarcdump.exe, and a folder was created called, "%filename% _dir" with nothing inside, then rarcdump crashes.

Any advice? Any way to extract the music, models, and textures from this game? So far, I'm stuck with using 3DX Ripper. It works for interior maps, but the exterior(in the valley) doesn't rip completely. When I say "completely", it doesn't extract all of the terrain(most likely because of some sort of occlusion culling).

If I didn't give enough info, let me know and I'll answer.

Thanks in advance.

It's been a while since I looked at the game, but I don't think these are Nintendo proprietary ARCs. The TPL files are, and can be converted. The model format looked like a variant of the F-Zero GX model format, however it doesn't import to anything. Try using Ninja Ripper, maybe you can piece the maps together with multiple rips because it tends to rip models in their native position.
Could you post an arc file?

Thanks for the reply, guys. I'll upload an .arc from the game for you, and I'll also give this "Ninja Ripper" a try. I used 3DX Ripper, but it never extracted the full ground mesh of the Valley. (It's fine that it doesn't always get the buildings, I can always rip them individually later and add them to the ground mesh. But it'd be a huge pain to have to try and piece together the Valley. Especially since 3DS Ripper captures at an angle.)


Here's the cat.arc file, extracted from Dolphin 4. I'm pretty sure this contains the geometry for the cat models(As is the obvious assumption). Hope you can access Drop Box.