Luigi's mansion

[jorge_bastos]

Hi there

i've searched the entire forum and couldn't find the answer.
How can I extract bmd files from Luigi's mansion?
I have this tool yay0 and sucessfully extracted a rarc file from a szp file. then I should take the rarc file and drag into rarcdump, but when I do this it just gives me an empty folder.

Any help?



sorry for my poor english

[Anton]

Maybe this RARC is not actually a RARC archive, if you recieve an empty folder.
Check it's header in any Hex-editor.
If it is rarc - you'll see "RARC" at the beginning of the file. If no - then it's not.

Also check, if your SZP is actually a Yay0 of Yaz0 archive (see it's header, too)...
Maybe it is a U8 archive or something else...

[jorge_bastos]

the szp file is a Yay0
the rarc file is ..0.|@

[Anton]

the rarc file is ..0.|@

so this is not a rarc...

[jorge_bastos]

that means its not possible to extract?

[Anton]

I guess so...

Maybe you'll need to find another tools.
I can't help, sorry (

[jorge_bastos]

if thakis were online ... ;)

[Anton]

Did you tried the tool "DarchD"? (Here (http://www.shedevr.org.ru/zelda64rus/tools/darchD.zip)).
(http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=49024&page=2 - you posted there about a trojan - but there is no any viruses).

[jorge_bastos]

now that I run vista the antivrus dont say anything, weird

however it seems that nothing happens when I drag the rarc file into it

[Anton]

you need to add a command line parameters, not drag...
see the included instructions in html file

darchD -x directory arcname


also you can try this tools:
http://code.google.com/p/puyotools/

Supported Formats of compression:

* Cnx
* Cxlz
* Lz00
* Lz01
* Lz11 (Lz77 format 11)
* Lz77/Lzss
* Prs

Maybe this helps...

[jorge_bastos]

that doesn't work :(

[Anton]

Well... Then... I don't know any other tools, sorry.

[jorge_bastos]

thank you anyway. just wondering if someone was able to extract those files

[Anton]

Ask Thakis.
Who knows... maybe he'll help.

[jorge_bastos]

yeah I did it, but he's always offline

[jorge_bastos]

so I talked with thakis. he said he isn't running windows anymore and he can't make me the executable file of his latest rarcdump. but he gave me the source http://amnoid.de/tmp/rarcdump.cpp .
can someone make a exe of this for me?


sorry I know my english could be much better

edit: he also said this tool is able to extract files from LM

[jorge_bastos]

ok I successfully compiled the rarcfile and i'm able to decompress the rarc file.
it outputs now some small bmd model files and some bin files. what do I need for extracting those?

edit: they're also mdl files, model files?

[Anton]

bmd viewer 2

could you please share this new compiled rarcdump?

[jorge_bastos]

of course http://rapidshare.com/files/275647964/rarcdump.exe

[Anton]

thanx

but I tried some szp from luigi's mansion (model/bat.szp for example).
no success.

szp -> yay0: got rarc file with this header:
10 03 40 03 (..@.)

rarc file -> your new rarcdump: got empty folder...

[jorge_bastos]

ok maybe you should replace your yay0dec.exe with this one http://rapidshare.com/files/275967490/yay0dec.exe.

give it a try this should work

[Anton]

doesn't work

when I drag szp on it, I see this:
http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090905/THUWOlUD4W.jpg

(I renamed the tool to "Yay0dec(new).exe")

[jorge_bastos]

I give you a folder with both tools and a szp file http://rapidshare.com/files/275988759/try_this.rar
just for testing work on this folder

it works for me.

[Anton]

same thing.
doesn't work...

BTW,
the original Yay0 is 68 kb, your is 32 kb
the original rarcdump is 76 kb, your is 80 kb.

whats your specs? (computer configuration).

[jorge_bastos]

running xp pro 32 bit since yesterday with service pack 3

[Anton]

same. but sp 2

[jorge_bastos]

hmm that's weird. it just should work well

[Lunaboy]

Because it looks like one of your programs (the Yay0 decoder or Thakis' extractor) doesn’t support the files, I've created an extractor for you.

The extractor is a console-program and can extract all files found in ARC archives (including the SZP archives from Luigi’s Mansion). If the archive is compressed or the files inside the archive are compressed individually, they will automatically be decompressed during the extraction. The extractor supports both Yaz0 and Yay0 compressed files. Because the extractor supports decompression, you can feed the archives in compressed form (as found on the disk image) directly to the extractor. Start the extractor without parameters to get more info about the usage.

Good luck :)

Because I get an 'Unable to move/copy file' error while uploading the attachment, I'm using RapidShare:
http://rapidshare.de/files/48427647/ArcExtract.zip.html

[Anton]

Lunaboy - thanx again for your help & tools!
But - there will be MUCH better to have not only EXTRACTORS.
The reverse process is more than needed, too!

The main goal of extracting something - is to editing it and put back in game, IMHO...

I still need a good friendly tool for correct packing RARC files...

[jth]

I have written a (R)ARC packer for Four Swords Adventures as a part of my level editor for the game(EFSAdvent (http://www.jaytheham.com/efsa/efsadvent_guide.htm)).
While it is capable of repacking the files that Lunaboys program extracts there is still the problem of returning those rarc files to the .szp files and possibly also compressing with Yay0 again(the game may work without the files being compressed).
From a quick look at the .szp files there seems to be a lot of data that is not part of the rarc and thus is left behind when the rarc files are extracted, or is this part of the yay0 compression?

[Anton]

Hey, your editor is nice work!

I'll explain why I need rarc packer.
In ZeldaTP, there is a file LogoPalUK.arc (in Root/Res/Layout folder).
It contains this at the beginning of the game:

http://zelda64rus.ucoz.ru/_fr/0/3672364.jpg

There are two *.bti files - first one (warning.bti) is the main text ("warning -...." etc..."), the second one (warning_pstart.bti) is "press any button...".

I successfully changed the first picture (made a title screen for a russian translation of ZeldaTP that I'm working on now):

http://zelda64rus.ucoz.ru/_fr/0/1715962.jpg

But I can't change the second one ("press any button to continue").
This two bti files are in rarc file which contains some other bti files.
My changed "warning.bti" file became the same size that original one and I inserted it to rarc in hex-editor.
But the second one (warning_pstart.bti) becomes much bigger, so I can't insert it in hex-editor - I need to repack rarc, containing all this files, then yaz0-it and then finally put back into ISO.

I used BTI tools by Lunaboy (can be found in this thread: http://emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=49228&page=2)

So all I need for now - is to CORRECTLY extract rarc, replace BTIs, CORRECTLY pack the rarc back and Yaz0 it. That's, basically, it...

[jth]

Well here's a current build of my packer RARC Packer (http://www.jaytheham.com/efsa/RARC%20Packer.exe).
To pack files just drag and drop the "root" folder onto the exe. In the case of LogoPalUK.arc the root folder is the one named "archive". It only goes two folders deep currently, but that's been sufficient for everything I've had to work with, let me know if you need more.
Also the format is not 100% reversed so it's possible that TP will check some aspect of the rarc that isn't built properly and won't work, but hopefully not.
You may find you don't need to compress the new files with yaz0, in FSA files can be compressed or not and the game reads them either way.

[Anton]

Thanx for the tool, jth!
I'll try it ASAP.

That's right, in LogoPalUK there is a root folder - "archive", and it contains another folder - "dat" with 7 *.bti files inside. You say two folders deep? So it should work then :)

Well, I think I'll better Yaz0 compress all needed stuff, same like original files are... Yaz0 archiver works just fine for me, it's not necessary to leave files deYaz0-ed, I guess.


it's possible that TP will check some aspect of the rarc that isn't built properly

There are no compression ratio in Zelda RARCs. Any.
Just Rarc header, then some data, then file list, then some data (may be empty (00-s), then the header of the first file, it's data, then the header of the second file, it's data, etc...

[jth]

By two folders deep I mean two inside the root folder, so it should handle it even if there was another folder inside "dat", for example.

I didn't mean there was any compression, only that there are a few parts of the rarc format that my packer assumes are always the same, though they might not be, which could cause problems. I doubt it will though, all the important things are working.

[Anton]

It works! Finally :)
Thanks a lot for the tool. Seems to be a correct packing.
Now my title screen is completely in russian :)

http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/091001/j6fRN5rgGf.jpg

[Lunaboy]

Okay...
I'd spent many hours on writing an ARC packer and now it’s ready to be released, I see this. :(

Mine is a little different from Jth’s packer:
1. It supports an unlimited directory-depth
2. It stores all filenames in lowercase text
3. It can optionally save to a user-given filename

All ARC archives I’ve seen until now are only using lowercase filenames and I don’t know if the game-engine is case-sensitive. Because of that my ARC packer converts all filenames and directory names to lowercase before saving them to the archive.

Since you’ve already got an ARC packer, I guess mine is not needed anymore.
In case anyone is interested in my packer, I’ve posted it here.

Because I get an 'Unable to move/copy file' error while uploading the attachment, I'm using RapidShare:
http://rapidshare.de/files/48457336/ArcPack.zip.html

@Jth:
I’ve tested your packer on my ArcPack test-directory and it’s working as it should be. You’ve also got the checksum generation of the filenames implemented. I know how difficult it is to write the packer. Great job!

[jth]

Thanks Lunaboy, it sure was a pain to write! Any chance you could post your source, or just the part that allows it to do unlimited folder depth? I'm pretty new to coding and I wasn't really sure how to implement that in my packer so I just had the folder packing code nested again inside itself ^^;

[Anton]

Thanks guys, both of you, for the great tools!

[thakis]

jth/Lunaboy: Any chance of posting the source somewhere?

[jth]

I've put mine here: http://jaytheham.com/efsa/downloads/RARC%20Packer.cs

[Lunaboy]

The archive-creation process of my packer can be divided into 6 steps:

1. Scan directory recursively to get info
2. Create headers and save them to archive
3. Allocate memory for nametable, DirInfo-array and FileInfo-array
4. Scan directory again to fill Info-arrays and nametable, and copy filedata to archive
5. Write Info-arrays (DirInfo and FileInfo) to archive
6. Free memory and quit

The packer scans the directory twice, first time to gather information and a second time to add the files to the archive and to make a map of the filesystem. To get unlimited directory-depth it calls the scan-function recursively. First it changes to a specified directory, next it scans through all items inside the directory and before returning, it changes back to the parent directory. When the scan-function hits a directory, it simply calls itself again. Each time the function is called, it will jump one directory deeper and each time it returns, it jumps out of the directory to its parent.

An example of how it works is shown below.



void DoScan(char *DirName){
SetCurrentDirectory(DirName);
for(Nr = 0 to NrItemsInDir){
if(Item[Nr].IsDir){
DoScan(Item[Nr].Name);
}else{
GetInfo(Item[Nr]);
}
}
SetCurrentDirectory("..");
}

--------------------------------------
Example directory-structure
--------------------------------------

TestDir
|__Arrow.bti
|__Bow.bti
|__Ilia
| |__Yelia.bdl
| |__Anims
| | |__Walk.bck
| | |__Stand.bck
| |__Yelia.bti
|__Medly
|__Md.bdl
|__Md.bck

--------------------------------------
Function calling
--------------------------------------

DoScan("TestDir"){
SetCurrentDirectory("TestDir");
GetInfo("TestDir\Arrow.bti");
GetInfo("TestDir\Bow.bti");
DoScan("TestDir\Ilia"){
SetCurrentDirectory("Ilia");
GetInfo("TestDir\Ilia\Yelia.bdl");
DoScan("TestDir\Ilia\Anims"){
SetCurrentDirectory("Anims");
GetInfo("TestDir\Ilia\Anims\Walk.bck");
GetInfo("TestDir\Ilia\Anims\Stand.bck");
SetCurrentDirectory("..");
}
GetInfo("TestDir\Ilia\Yelia.bti")
SetCurrentDirectory("..");
}
DoScan("TestDir\Medly"){
SetCurrentDirectory("Medly");
GetInfo("TestDir\Medly\Md.bdl");
GetInfo("TestDir\Medly\Md.bck");
SetCurrentDirectory("..");
}
SetCurrentDirectory("..");
}



I’ve posted the main.cpp file below.
This file alone will not compile, because it needs my cFile class (I don’t want to release the class yet).
You can use the code as a reference to see how the packer is working.

Because I get an 'Unable to move/copy file' error while uploading the attachment, I'm using RapidShare:
http://rapidshare.de/files/48468383/ArcPack_Src.zip.html

[jorge_bastos]

someone figured out how to open mdl files?

[jimbo390]

sorry for bumping this old thread but does someone still have the arcpacker because all the rapidshare links are dead?

[SebCroc]

I am EXTREMELY REALLY REALLY SORRY for bumping this thread, but this is very urgant... I need that new compiled rarcdump for the .szp files of Luigi's Mansion. I NEED it. Please, can someone, who still has it PLEASE put it up for me? Or if not, compile the source code into an .exe? I beg... Please, I REALLY need it.:cry: Could someone PLEASE reply?

[SebCroc]

Please? Could someone compile this into an .exe for me? :down: With a download link? Just anyone, whoever knows how to and can. I don't care who does it for me, but I NEED IT! THIS IS MY ONLY HOPE!!! PLEASE? JUST ANYONE?!?!

http://amnoid.de/tmp/rarcdump.cpp

[ExtremeDude2]

How much is it worth to you:D jk

[SebCroc]

How much is it worth to you:D jk

VERY much... Can you? :teehee:

[ExtremeDude2]

VERY much... Can you? :teehee:

No I was just kidding :D

[SebCroc]

Ok, then if no one wants to, then can someone tell me how to do it? I used that Microsoft Visual c++ 2010, and when I try to compile it into an .exe, it says it needs the 'openfile.h' and shows an error. I looked at the code, and it says that at some point it needs it. What do I do then? where can I get this 'openfile.h'? Do I really need it? Where can I get it? PLEASE HELP ME!!! :ph34r:

[Anton]

SebCroc, here's the tools + sources:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RV5WPESD

one is by thakis, second (with "new" in file name) is compiled by jorge_bastos
enjoy

also you can check my site (it's in russian) for other game cube/Wii tools that I've found:
http://www.shedevr.org.ru/zelda64rus/downloads.html#romhacking_gc

[SebCroc]

ATON YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! :king: I don't know how much I can thank you... I just do. You're AWSOME!!! :D XD

[SebCroc]

Also Aton, do you have the .szp yay0 decompresser by Lunaboy? That would be useful too...

[Anton]

http://amnoid.de/gc/index.html
it's by thakis.

[Sakurai]

Hi

I extracted some files from szp of Luigi's Mansion and edited them.
Next, I want to replace them with files before edit.
But I can't repack them into szp file.

Is there any tool for correct packing szp files?
Can someone tell me how to do it?

Please exuse my poor english.