Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[gdkchan]

Anyway... If I lose all the data I gathered due for this, I call it quits. Consider this like the worst case scenario... I think that's reasonable to explain it even if I had to tell my own damn life. You all had the talent to rip anything and I cannot. I would give it a try. But... First.

I can't do hex editing, I can't make scripts. I can't comprehend common compressions for files like PAKs or SZS. Anything else. Just importing BRRES with viewer and converting with Noesis. But I will get the files from the 3ds roms I have already and share the raw files to you. At least even if I am a noob. I think I can help with the things I can.
I only need luck to have my HD undamaged.

You looked like a bit like me saying this... Heh... I only wanted to be recognized for doing something, i think that is what everyone wants at the end... Well, it started when I made a goal for myself, make a viewer for the XY models. Well, after some time I finished the basic viewer (didnt even knew that model had rigging at that time, it is like my 2nd try with 3d models), so after I finished the basic functionality, a friend said to me that I wouldnt be able to nake a viewer for ORAS because the format was different. This pretty much made me hunt for what changed on the new format, and after some hours my viewer was also able to work with the new format too! So I pretty much was feeling that I could be recognized for this work, be at least know at the scene, the first app to ever extract ORAS models, yay! Didnt took much until I figured out that *caham* RTB had already extracted the very same model from the ORAS demo several weeks before me... It was like a stab in the chest. But it was OK, his currently released script was only able to work with XY, and had their own problems. So, I pretty much worked on a basic GUI and some extra features for the first release, since it was just bare bones of a viewer at the time. It kinda worked for some time, but it had a small problem... the fuckin rigging... But it was very broken on RTB script at the time afaik, plus it had no support for ORAS, this, I guess, was what made ppl still use my software I think. Now, guess what? Yea, he released a script that he not only claims to extract rigged models flawlessly, but also have ORAS support. Ok, it will not take much to me and the contribution I made to be forgotten.

This made me start to rewrite the software. Without hacks. RTB script is pretty shite, first, if is a BCH script, it should open all BCHs without flaws, but well, he have separated scripts with different hacks to make them work with each game... I even tried to contact him, asking for help and trying to help him with whatever I could. But he never awsered my PMs, he just ignores, dunno why. He only awsered one and barely awsered what I said.

Anyway, what Im trying to say here Farlavor is, dont care too much about it. There is always people that can shine and others that cant. Life is painful, do stuff at your on peace and dont care too much. Also I dont think that REing custom formats cant be considered "talent", just need to learn the basic stuff, like endianess, pointers, bit manipulation and such. You get this over the time. Anyway, if you want to help me send me a PM