Tales of Hearts

[Azu]

http://www.crimson-penguin.com/GGD.php
Us this tutorials.
These are the settings. I used.

[Gaia]

Thanks, it should help rip this game a lot faster, thanks to in-game screenshots referencing the palletes. But then, where do I download it..

[Barubary]

I suppose this should come in handy; I unpacked, decompressed, and unpacked again as much as I can of the files.
Most of the 2D graphics are inside .DS3-files, which are archives of unnamed files. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out the format of those packs, so I cannot unpack them. Therefore if a file inside in compressed, you'll have to somehow manually extract the files and/or use a program like this to decompress them. (or just skip them for now)
Also, the .cdat-files are compressed using some sort of modified LZ77 compression which I don't know. If someone manages to decompress them (or even has an example decompressed and compressed file-pair), I'd greatly appreciate it. =)

[Azu]

Awesome. By the way, check these out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U1xq0G4OOA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Z-dHiXgoE

I know a few people who knows about LZ77 compression.

I think the E00-E06 of they characters. The seem to be compressed.

If you can get E001-E006 decompressed some more, we'd have the main characters. My gut tells me so.=P Beside that the other files have the enemies.

[Gaia]

Thanks for the tutorials and GGD, however, I can't seem to find the program DSLazy for downloadability. (I must have forgotten it)

[Azu]

Romhacking.net should have it. Or, you can download the unpacked TOh files in the posts above.

[Gaia]

Romhacking.net should have it. Or, you can download the unpacked TOh files in the posts above.

Seeing as I already downloaded from the unpacks above.. Nvmd. *looks for files using GGD*

EDIT: okay, I'm lost. Can't seem to find the characters, but I do find the pallete.

[Azu]

Any luck thus far?

[Gaia]

Any luck thus far?

No, can't find sprites anywhere, it's just static. Pallete was found, though.

[Azu]

In the "char" folder, ignore E001=E006. Those are the main characters, but they don't work for some reason, You just see pals. I think the main characters are compressed even more.
I used these settings for the other sprites.

Unless I can get someone to unpack these files,

[Azu]

Guess I should start Tiling these characters.

[Gaia]

Guess I should start Tiling these characters.

Eeeyup. I'm going to try to find rescources for DS Lazy, hopefully.

[Azu]

You won't need to use DSLazy since Barubary already unpacked them.

[Gaia]

You won't need to use DSLazy since Barubary already unpacked them.

Well, if I need to go back to ripping the main characters, then DSLazy's a must.

[Azu]

Won't do much good. The main characters seems more compressed than the sub characters and enemies are.