Vanillaware Ripping Project

[rufaswan]

Hey guys! How are you all doing?

Special thanks to @Cloud2333, when debugging some errors from Unicorn Overlord, we end up discovered a lot more. For a start, remember Mix-and-Match update (https://www.vg-resource.com/thread-38430...#pid667163)? Vanillaware have added a bitflag to switch between required texture. There are no need to seoerate weapons into multiple textures anymore.

And most importantly, Vanillaware also added colorize. So now, there are also no need for multiple textures for multiple colors. In fact, you can freely pair any color you want. Red hat + Green dress + Blue shoes + Cyan gloves...

So this is "Customize" update!



Quad Player is updated to v0.5:
* Added Colorize Menu, for user selected custom colors.
* Added Keyframe Attributes, to turn ON/OFF of a group of keyframe layers.

Also added Quad Keyframe Debugger. Originally planned for Quad Player for Desktop, but gives up when designing the Animation table. You can use this to turn ON/OFF any layers you want for discovering what certain data in the game file means.

Here are some samples for you guys to play around
https://www.mediafire.com/file/849adj9yf...00.7z/file

Have fun!
- Rufas

[havoc]

First, thank you mate for what you have accomplished here. Truly impressive.

I am playing Unicorn Overlord (what an incredible game) in an emulator and I want to mod it to somehow get rid of the battle outcome UI, where you can see the result of the battle beforehand.

I am guessing that what I need to do is to get to the GUI file and change the whole sprite's alpha to 0, or tint it black or whatever... I will try out stuff when I get there. Right now I have accomplished to unpack the CPK, and then I've used your psxtool to convert "Interface_Battle_00.mbs" into "Interface_Battle_00.mbs.v55", and then into "Interface_Battle_00.mbs.v55.prediv.quad".

However I'm not understanding the last step to turn this prediv quads into the final asset. Can I ask you to steer me in the right direction?

Also, knowing what I want to do, am I heading in the right direction?

Thanks a lot!

[rufaswan]

I am playing Unicorn Overlord (what an incredible game) in an emulator and I want to mod it to somehow get rid of the battle outcome UI, where you can see the result of the battle beforehand.

I am guessing that what I need to do is to get to the GUI file and change the whole sprite's alpha to 0, or tint it black or whatever... I will try out stuff when I get there.

Hi @havoc! There are many ways to mod these modern games nowadays. You don't even need to edit those original game files at all. For one, modern emulators have texture replacement feature, you can make a texture pack to replace these GUI textures with dummies instead. Try ask around the emulator forum to learn how to do that.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index...ndo_Switch

Or, since modern games can also be updated, you can make a patch instead. @Cloud2333 is making these Green Background patch to help discovering things on Unicorn Overlord. It is just simply mounting an external cpk with the emulator.

https://github.com/rufaswan/Web2D_Games/issues/12

I do not know the exact steps or tools to do these things. Again, try ask around the emulator forum to learn how to do that.

Right now I have accomplished to unpack the CPK, and then I've used your psxtool to convert "Interface_Battle_00.mbs" into "Interface_Battle_00.mbs.v55", and then into "Interface_Battle_00.mbs.v55.prediv.quad".

However I'm not understanding the last step to turn this prediv quads into the final asset. Can I ask you to steer me in the right direction?

Also, knowing what I want to do, am I heading in the right direction?

The last step is to turn those texture UV from 0.0 ... 1.0 back to 2D image px unit. Load the .PNG then the .PREDIV.QUAD, you'll get the normal .QUAD file that can be opened with QUAD PLAYER.

Code:

php  psxtools/quad_prediv.php  0.png  1.png  2.png  .prediv.quad

Hope it helps!
- Rufas