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Hi, people! I generally hate asking for favors (and leave it up to my sig) but this time I need something ripped for a purpose, and not just because I need it done. I'm planning to write an essay (you can see my other essays in the "other creativity" forum if you're interested) based on Undertale/Earthbound/Citizens of Earth and I need some samples of graphics from all three to do it. I don't need everything. The Vice President, some enemies, maybe a few NPCs... if you want to do more, I'm sure as hell not going to stop you, because the game is actually great to look at and I think its graphics would be a good thing to rip either way. Plus, it'll be nice to choose from a bunch of stuff rather than a sample size.

The game is available for several platforms including 3DS and XBox. Thanks for any help. I REALLY appreciate it.

Installed this game again to take a look, in pc all files are compressed as .fc files.

Beyond that I know nothing, I will try poking at the files a bit, see if something comes up, but I'm an amateur.

Here are sample files for anyone who's willing to take a look at them:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ucih0e...eFiles.zip
It's the smallest ones from the lot, I can upload others if needed, levels.fc file is 140 mg and animationscompressed.fc is over 1 gb (don't ask for this one ). There is a zlib1.dll file in the folder.

If anyone can make a quickbms script or something I can do the sorting/sheeting/uploading.

Unfortunately these don't seem to contain any real graphics, simply stuff like animation info, pointers to files, etc. They're not compressed either, which is why offzip didn't produce any results.

I'm afraid you'll probably have to upload some of the larger files, since those are more likely to contain the data we're looking for. For any really big files (such as animationscompressed.fc) you can split it into chunks using a file splitter and just upload the first and last chunks (they should still be of a reasonable size though, I'd say 5MBs at least). The only problem with this is that I won't be able to properly test any program/script I come up with.

Here are four chunks, 3 at 100mb and the last one that came out at 6
http://www.mediafire.com/download/44q2mq...Chunks.zip

Here is the levels.fc file, it was 140 mb but compressed down to 10mb, so I guess this one doesn't have graphic data either:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l55lxx...Levels.zip

Besides animationscompressed.fc the only other file of meaningfull size is music.fc(300mb), so I guess all graphic data is in the animations file.

animationscompressed.fc is 4 gigs, it compressed down to 620mb using rar5, it's still a bit much for my upload speed, but I can upload it if it's needed.

Here's the complete animationscompressed.fc file, 7zip compressed it down to less than 500mb from 4gigs:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/mnecyc...sed.7z.001
http://www.mediafire.com/download/skxdqh...sed.7z.002
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q75tvz...sed.7z.003
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mx9qrt...sed.7z.004
http://www.mediafire.com/download/622ety...sed.7z.005


Splitted because I have trouble uploading large files, split using default 7zip splitting.

Agh, I'm unable to find any graphics data in either of these, at least uncompressed. AnimationsCompressed.fc seems like our best bet, but I can't identify how it's compressed. Pretty sure it isn't RLE compressed either, since there are a lot of repeated bytes.

Here's a list of the files in the game folder, everything is on there except a couple .inis for config.

Dunno if seeing the dlls could give some clues as to how the file stores data. If you need any more files just ask, beyond this I can do little more than cheer from the sidelines.

Thank you guys so much for looking into this! I hope the code gets cracked soon!
I know the 3DS topic has some image files that someone found. Maybe that can help?