(05-06-2021, 10:22 PM)Petie Wrote: I went ahead and removed your links for a couple of reasons. First, while it is perfectly fine to share files that you're working on for feedback here, huge dumps of unorganized files aren't terribly helpful. Second, we don't allow submissions on behalf of others so there really isn't any incentive for someone to go through the files you dumped and organize them if they can't submit them in the end. There are resources out there that can help you organize these yourself and if you're interested in learning, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about it than I am wound be happy to point you in the right direction.

Ton Wrote:If you helped organize and made a topic saying you were doing so, it would be no issue. Again, the problem is that a lot of people SAY they have the ok to upload someone else's work, but they generally don't. Anyone using your script would be doing their own rips. Thanks!

(05-27-2021, 04:29 PM)rufaswan Wrote: Hi! Just want to chip in something I learned from Ton.

As someone who is ripping and reassembling sprites from 8 different games, I also need help to organizing them. So I asked Ton about this, and this is his reply:

Ton Wrote:If you helped organize and made a topic saying you were doing so, it would be no issue. Again, the problem is that a lot of people SAY they have the ok to upload someone else's work, but they generally don't. Anyone using your script would be doing their own rips. Thanks!

So first, you must show us the proof that you rip them yourself, like sharing the tool/script you used to rip them.

If anyone want to help out, they'll just need to make a topic to say so.

And since you shared the tool/script, they can also use that to rip it themselves. It will be considered doing their own rip, and they can submit them later.

As for the dump, I can't really do anything about it because they are do not have the game data together with PNG. The game data will tell you how to reassemble back the sprites, and I'll write a script to automate the whole thing. I have no intention to do everything manually.

How does those game files looks like? Which console is it from? Steam? 3DS? Switch?
- Rufas

(05-30-2021, 03:56 PM)rufaswan Wrote: The data for Mighty Gunvolt Burst is encrypted, so it doesn't work.

(05-30-2021, 03:56 PM)rufaswan Wrote: Here is the decompression code, at my GitHub repo:
https://github.com/rufaswan/Web2D_Games/blob/master/tools/psxtools/pc_gunvolt_irlst-irarc.php

I can confirm the code works for 4 games:
- Mighty Gunvolt
- Azure Striker Gunvolt
- Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
- Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger iX

(05-31-2021, 04:13 PM)rufaswan Wrote: @RTB You are right! Blaster Master Zero also uses IRARC/IRLST format, so the script also works. That makes it 5 games now.



However, unlike Gunvolt, most of the sprites in BMZ have an extra 'TLPI' section, and the texture is incorrectly converted. I have no idea how to fix them.

@HellZero Step-by-step on how to use my scripts to rip and reassemble the sprites:

Step 1) Get PHP 7.0+ from its official site. You'll only need 3 files from the archive, "php.exe", "php7ts.dll", and "php.ini" (renamed from "php.ini-development"). My scripts doesn't need any PHP extensions.

Step 2) Download my GitHub repo. You'll only need "psxtools" folder under "tools/psxtools".

Step 3) Open cmd.exe (windows command line), run this on a IRLST file. Like the BMS before, it will extract and decompress the files to a new folder.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/pc_gunvolt_irlst-irarc.php  FILE.irlst

Step 4) You'll be interested in the extracted .17 and .7 files. Run this to generate the QUAD and texture file from the attachment on the post before.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/quad_pc_gunvolt_IOBJ.php  -gv/-gv2/gva/-mgv  FILE.17
-gv  = Azure Striker Gunvolt IDTAG
-gv2 = Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 IDTAG
-gva = Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger iX IDTAG
-mgv = Mighty Gunvolt IDTAG

NOTE: The script only works for files that has 'IOBJ' string in them.

Step 5) If you want to open with quad player, skip this step. If not, run this to render all assembled sprites as individual frames.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/quad_render.php  FILE.quad

Step 6) As I do not use any image library, those CLUT and RGBA files are actually raw pixel data. You can convert them into PNG by running:

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/clut2png.php  FILE.clut
php.exe  psxtools/clut2png.php  FILE.rgba

From here, you can make a sprite sheet from the resulted PNG.

You can also refer to the source code to understand how I do it.

Hope that helps!
- Rufas

(05-31-2021, 04:13 PM)rufaswan Wrote: @RTB You are right! Blaster Master Zero also uses IRARC/IRLST format, so the script also works. That makes it 5 games now.



However, unlike Gunvolt, most of the sprites in BMZ have an extra 'TLPI' section, and the texture is incorrectly converted. I have no idea how to fix them.

@HellZero Step-by-step on how to use my scripts to rip and reassemble the sprites:

Step 1) Get PHP 7.0+ from its official site. You'll only need 3 files from the archive, "php.exe", "php7ts.dll", and "php.ini" (renamed from "php.ini-development"). My scripts doesn't need any PHP extensions.

Step 2) Download my GitHub repo. You'll only need "psxtools" folder under "tools/psxtools".

Step 3) Open cmd.exe (windows command line), run this on a IRLST file. Like the BMS before, it will extract and decompress the files to a new folder.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/pc_gunvolt_irlst-irarc.php  FILE.irlst

Step 4) You'll be interested in the extracted .17 and .7 files. Run this to generate the QUAD and texture file from the attachment on the post before.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/quad_pc_gunvolt_IOBJ.php  -gv/-gv2/gva/-mgv  FILE.17
-gv  = Azure Striker Gunvolt IDTAG
-gv2 = Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 IDTAG
-gva = Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger iX IDTAG
-mgv = Mighty Gunvolt IDTAG

NOTE: The script only works for files that has 'IOBJ' string in them.

Step 5) If you want to open with quad player, skip this step. If not, run this to render all assembled sprites as individual frames.

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/quad_render.php  FILE.quad

Step 6) As I do not use any image library, those CLUT and RGBA files are actually raw pixel data. You can convert them into PNG by running:

Code:

php.exe  psxtools/clut2png.php  FILE.clut
php.exe  psxtools/clut2png.php  FILE.rgba

From here, you can make a sprite sheet from the resulted PNG.

You can also refer to the source code to understand how I do it.

Hope that helps!
- Rufas

(06-01-2021, 06:51 PM)Deep Weeb Wrote: Any way to do steps 4 and 6 in a batch? It's kinda cumbersome to do each one by one. 

Also when trying to decompress GV2's "cmn_demo.irlst" (where I assume cutscenes are being stored) it will get the following error message

Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

(06-01-2021, 10:13 PM)HellZero Wrote:

(06-01-2021, 06:51 PM)Deep Weeb Wrote: Any way to do steps 4 and 6 in a batch? It's kinda cumbersome to do each one by one. 

Also when trying to decompress GV2's "cmn_demo.irlst" (where I assume cutscenes are being stored) it will get the following error message

Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

I think... Well i don't surely knows how to do a batch. But surely you will get that error if you don't change the memory_limit in php.ini file.

(06-01-2021, 10:13 PM)HellZero Wrote:

(06-01-2021, 06:51 PM)Deep Weeb Wrote: Any way to do steps 4 and 6 in a batch? It's kinda cumbersome to do each one by one. 

Also when trying to decompress GV2's "cmn_demo.irlst" (where I assume cutscenes are being stored) it will get the following error message

Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388616 bytes)

I think... Well i don't surely knows how to do a batch. But surely you will get that error if you don't change the memory_limit in php.ini file.

(06-01-2021, 11:05 PM)Deep Weeb Wrote: Also, is this script exclusively for the PC version of each of these games? Because the PC version of Blaster Master Zero 2 seems to have further data encryptation (much like the PC versions of Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 1&2 and Mighty Gunvolt Burst). No file names, just random letters and numbers.