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Sonic 65
Posts: 13/18		 You know its endpoint by adding its starting point and the size of the data =P

Also, this method can ONLY work in a shrunk file (Dolphin shrinker or GCTool shrinker) anyway. If you put it in a non-shrunk file, data gets messed up.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 89/190		 Well, how do you know when it ends, and what if you want to fit in a smaller sized rom? Would you have to expand it? Or just replace the spare old rom data with 00's.
Sonic 65
Posts: 12/18		 It's not really that tedious. All you need to do is search for the first $200 or so bytes of the original file in the ARC, and when you find a match just replace the data.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 87/190		 Ah, the long tedious way ;;
Sonic 65
Posts: 11/18		 ARCs actually have no compression at all. You just have to search for a little bit of the original data in the ARC, and when you find it just replace the old data with the new data.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 85/190		 I have a question. I used rarcdump to dump the contents of Famicom.arc, as it is much better to do this, but how do you recompress it back into an .arc file?
Sonic 65
Posts: 10/18		 You have to wait a little. Games are slow to boot in Dolphin.

This also reminds me; for the best speed possible in Dolphin, you should enable the 'Use dynarec' option. It makes everything much faster.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 80/190		 I was gonna try out that patch, but I can't actually get Dolphin to work. I've got a 128 mb onboard graphics card, and it says it should work great, but I'm always left with a white screen.
1337_Ac3
Posts: 33/90
Originally posted by Sonic 65
You use GIMP (actually, you can use GIMP instead of ddsview) to edit the files.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

You'll also need the GIMP DDS plugin.

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/

After you have GIMP set up with the plugin, you can load, edit, and save DDS files.


Dude, i use mac already got GIMP.. v2. Gotta download that DDS plugin now Damn i'm getting excited.. Just gotta wank some and i'll be at hacking super mario sunshine to the max, if i dont get stuck
Sonic 65
Posts: 9/18		 You use GIMP (actually, you can use GIMP instead of ddsview) to edit the files.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

You'll also need the GIMP DDS plugin.

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/

After you have GIMP set up with the plugin, you can load, edit, and save DDS files.
1337_Ac3
Posts: 32/90
Originally posted by Sonic 65


This is a picture of an Animal Crossing .bti texture file (converted to dds) being viewed in ddsview. Here is a howto on how to view these textures:

1. Get szstools 1.0 and btidump from http://www.amnoid.de/gc/index.html.

2. Put forest_2nd.arc in the same folder as szstools 1.0.

3. Use rarcdump to dump the contents of forest_2nd.arc.

4. Put the texture you want to view in the same folder as btidump.

5. Using btidump, dump the .bti into a .dds file.

6. Get a .dds viewer (they're easy to find).

7. View the .dds you got from btidump, and you'll be viewing the texture.



Then how to edit them? Convert .dds into lets say .bmp, edit and make .bmp into .dds?? (No i'm totaly new to the stuff in this thread).
Sonic 65
Posts: 8/18

This is a picture of an Animal Crossing .bti texture file (converted to dds) being viewed in ddsview. Here is a howto on how to view these textures:

1. Get szstools 1.0 and btidump from http://www.amnoid.de/gc/index.html.

2. Put forest_2nd.arc in the same folder as szstools 1.0.

3. Use rarcdump to dump the contents of forest_2nd.arc.

4. Put the texture you want to view in the same folder as btidump.

5. Using btidump, dump the .bti into a .dds file.

6. Get a .dds viewer (they're easy to find).

7. View the .dds you got from btidump, and you'll be viewing the texture.
Tanks
Posts: 30/596		 I got the bit torrent for the iso, all i got to do is download it then get the hacking stuff. I really want to be one of the firsts in the next generation of hacking.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 73/190		 Well, I have the ISO now, so I'm gonna get a headstart in the world of GC hacking
Celice
Posts: 259/355		 Or any thing you pay for normally and would otherwise be considered "illegal" >.>
Kingpin
Posts: 391/709		 If the torrent lets you download roms, yes.
KeiiChi Kun
Posts: 72/190		 Wait, wait, so, is linking to torrents banned?
Sonic 65
Posts: 7/18		 Tanks: Yes, you can.

I also think I've found the actual emulator used to run the NES games in Animal Crossing. It's 1.UNP (if you decompress famicom.arc with Yaz0 Kit), and is an ELF file. It doesn't seem to run in any emulator, though...

On another note, I've inserted Pac-Man in place of Soccer in Animal Crossing. I haven't tested it yet, as the framerate in Dolphin is too unbearable for me to finish working in Nook's shop so I can start saving. Here's an IPS:

http://freewebs.com/super2k/ACNES.ips
Tanks
Posts: 24/596
Originally posted by Sonic 65
I don't think I'm allowed to post links to ROM sites, so you'll have to contact me by PM if you want an ISO or something.


Can I/we contact you via PM whenever your on about this, cause I can't do it now?
Ailure
Posts: 1547/2602		 Just google for pirate bay.
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