Hacking Exporting Mario Party 9 models?

[Rylan]

Has anyone done this? It's MDL0 so I thought it should be easy enough. Perhaps I misread something somewhere because when I export the file structure of MP9 through Dolphin Emu, I am unable to extract the .lz files with lzh8 - I get a "file not LZH8" error, when I try with lzip I get the error "Bad magic number (file not in lzip format)."

I am attempting to get some brres and arc files. My end game is to try and extract a Blooper Beach model and create a Mario Kart track with it (which I am aware may not be possible, but I want to see what's in these files anyway haha)

 

[Rylan]

Also tried Lz77Mii
which says it's not lz77 compressed

lzip-1.11 which said:

map2.brres.lz: Bad magic number (file not in lzip format).
lzip: Deleting output file `map2.brres', if it exists.

puff8 which said:

C:\Users\Rylan\Desktop\puff8_00>puff8.exe map2.brres.lz map2.brres
puff8.c:49:analyze_Huf8: not 8-bit Huffman

and even tried romchu but got:

Expected type 2 romc, got 3

and the lzh8_dec.exe error was:

C:\Users\Rylan\Desktop\lzh8_cmpdec08>lzh8_dec.exe map2.brres.lz map2.brres
lzh8_dec.c:145:analyze_LZH8: not LZH8

I'm sorta scratchin my head over here, any ideas what I am doing wrong or is there something they've done differently in Mario Party 9 to the lzip compression?