Hacking Sm4shCommand -- Smash 4 Moveset Editor

[Sammi Husky]

Hello people of the temp, the first functional smash 4 moveset editor. With it you can view and edit fighter, weapon, and item scripts.


Usable Features

• Basic code completion
• Features a Multi-tabbed text editor.
• Basic Syntax highlighting.
• Supports parsing animation files to retrieve script names.
• Expandable event dictionary (Events.cfg in startup directory)
• Customizable event syntax keywords and descriptions. (Events.cfg)
• Supports opening full characters or single files individually.
• Marking of changed actions in the tree view.
• Exporting event lists as plaintext.
• Tooltips when hovering over commands.
• Exporting full character dumps as .txt.
• IDE features like Projects and "Workspaces".

Planned Updates

• Realtime error checking of the code box.
• Adding new event lists to files.
• Creating entirely new ACMD files.
• Creating entirely new MTable files.

Source Code: https://github.com/Sammi-Husky/Sm4sh-Tools

Downloads:

• Stable Build - Latest official release. More stable, but missing latest developements.
• Nightly Build - Built from latest commit to master branch. Includes latest features, but less stable.

Spoiler: Screenshot

Spoiler: FAQ

• How do i use this? What files do i open?
• You can either open individual fighter files (File->Open->file..) or you can open the full fighter folder at once. Just browse to the folder containing the character's AnimCmd files. (File->Open->Fighter..). The fighter files consist of the effect, expression, gfx, and sfx .bin files as well as the motion.mtable.

• All i see is a bunch of numbers! How do i know what scripts belong to what animations?
• View->Parse Animations. Browse to the characters animation directory. For the 3ds, this is the motion/fighter/[fighter name]/. On wiiu, it is fighter/[fighter name]/motion.

• Where do i get these files? I extracted the game, but all i have are two large files called dt and ls.
• Those are the archives that the game stores all of it's files in. Unfortunately, we have to extract this in order to edit any files. Download and use the DTLSExtractor from this thread.

• What about updates? how do i unpack those? Help!
• To unpack update files, simply use the DTLSExtractor from command line with the resource file as the only parameter. This will place update files in the "data" folder matching the resource file's name.

 

[pedro702]

nice its the beggining of a psa xD, i loved ssbb modding lets hope ssb4 is the same.

 

[Zedd91]

Project M for Smash 4?

 

[Sammi Husky]

I updated the main post. Refactored it a bit, added a FAQ, Download Section, and information on how to unpack the DT file. The download is in OP. Just run it from the command line.

DTLS <dt file(s)> <ls file>

 

[Zedd91]

I can not believe that this does not receive more attention, because they could hack sm4sh mechanics. sm4sh and it is one of the best games of the wii u to attract more attention.

 

[Dantarion]

Good job! Have people been testing files ingame for you Sammi?

 

[Sammi Husky]

Good job! Have people been testing files ingame for you Sammi?

Thanks! and nope, not as far as i know at least :c Though using the 3ds i've been looking into repacking the DT archive. Only hit a small snag (compression length was wrong) but after writing the dtls extractor i have a pretty good grasp on the structure. The only thing left i need to do is write a good way to map the string section in the resource files correctly.

Any developments on your end? Last i checked you were working on mscsb scripts.

 

[Mega-Mew]

DTLS crash here when I extract the dt00

And crash also when I want to extract the dt01

 

[Sammi Husky]

DTLS crash here when I extract the dt00
And crash also when I want to extract the dt01

The app extracts both dt00 and dt01 at the same time, it doesnt support extracting from just one at a time. Type in

 dtls dt00 dt01 ls

 

[Sammi Husky]

New version of DTLSExtractor. It's now able to unpack sm4sh wiiu patches. I've added a FAQ to the OP with instructions as well. Just use dtls extractor with the resource file for the region you want to unpack as the only parameter. e.g

dtls.exe resource

or

dtls.exe resource(us_fr)

The extracted files will be in the matching "data" folder. You can also just drag the resource file you want to use onto the .exe, it should extract it just fine that way.

 

[soneek]

I'll try to get my patchlist and resource editor finished soon. I'd like to see research make more progress, even though I can't personally test stuff indefinitely.

 

[Dantarion]

Thanks! and nope, not as far as i know at least :c Though using the 3ds i've been looking into repacking the DT archive. Only hit a small snag (compression length was wrong) but after writing the dtls extractor i have a pretty good grasp on the structure. The only thing left i need to do is write a good way to map the string section in the resource files correctly.

Any developments on your end? Last i checked you were working on mscsb scripts.

Haven't been working on it much. WiiU scene needs fully working breakpoints before I really can give into it. I will build an SD loader and then I am pretty much done...Zzz

 

[Mega-Mew]

The app extracts both dt00 and dt01 at the same time, it doesnt support extracting from just one at a time. Type in

 dtls dt00 dt01 ls output

It crash again
(With DTLS 1.2)

 

[Sammi Husky]

It crash again
(With DTLS 1.2)

Whoops, sorry about that. I fixed this issue actually, i just uploaded the wrong binary. Go ahead and re-download, it should be fixed now.

Haven't been working on it much. WiiU scene needs fully working breakpoints before I really can give into it. I will build an SD loader and then I am pretty much done...Zzz

An SD loader would be much easier to deal with. I've looked around in the code a bit to see where the game hooks into the archive, but i couldn't make much of it.

I'll try to get my patchlist and resource editor finished soon. I'd like to see research make more progress, even though I can't personally test stuff indefinitely.

This is probably the easiest way to go besides an SD loader, though, how do you get the game to read your update data? Or are you simply editing and replacing the existing installed update data on the system? Im not really up to date on what is possible in the wiiu scene nowadays.

 

[mariosonicds]

There is sd cafiine, which the patch system should work with. https://gbatemp.net/posts/5680630/

 

[Sammi Husky]

Progress Sorry for the shit quality, obviously my potato needs replacing. So last gen.

 

[cavolo]

Seems to be a good program, I'll see for futur updates !

 

[Sammi Husky]

Updated the OP! You can get the new version of the DTLSExtractor there. To patch game files, put the files you want to patch into a seperate folder, but mimicking the original filestructure.

Example, if you want to patch in a moveset edit for captain falcon, you would put the changed ACMD files in <yourpatchfolder>/animcmd/fighter/captain/.

Then all you do is run

DTLS.exe -r dt ls <yourpatchfolder>

i don't have a wiiu to test with, but this should work with cafiine, albeit probably slow because it would have to replace the entire DT archive

 

[Mikenuun]

SmashSet for name maybe ?

Anyhew great work, i'll try again later this week because yesterday was National Race Attack Failed day

 

[mariosonicds]

Alrighty, its trying to patch the resources file???

Spoiler: Pic

I will try other files but the fact of it is, the wii u will only load the patchlist/resource files from the update for attack data. So there isn't much room to do much on wii u unless you can make a patches for wii u update files, or @soneek will release his script to do the same.