ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

[SaraTravelo]

Never got any crash while changing my TPC picture, so yeah that's weird !
I don't know if Romfs builder encrypt it back, I don't think so... it's just meant to repack the romfs file.

ACNL have updates or it's still the 1.0 version ? Because HANS doesn't read update, and I heard that our EU/US games aren't the same as JP games (our games are "patched", because there was a duplication glitch on jp games). That could be the reason why it freezes

I think is a problem with Hans.
I've done modifications to my Pokémon X but I can't do the same with Animal Crossing, is always freezing in the title screen.

 

[MasterLel]

Check this : http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Glitch

"The English version of the game cannot use the glitch because the game automatically comes with the Japanese update v1.1, which cannot be removed."

As we know, hans doesn't read updates

Someone with a japanese game should try...

 

[EpicInki]

Never got any crash while changing my TPC picture, so yeah that's weird !
I don't know if Romfs builder encrypt it back, I don't think so... it's just meant to repack the romfs file.

ACNL have updates or it's still the 1.0 version ? Because HANS doesn't read update, and I heard that our EU/US games aren't the same as JP games (our games are "patched", because there was a duplication glitch on jp games). That could be the reason why it freezes

I did try check if there was any updates, all I could find was a 1 block data that I deleted, it was probably Streetpass access or something, not sure if there was any though. Even if there was, I don't think it would allow us on the game if HANS can't read the update. I'll check again though.
EDIT: If the problem is HANS then I guess we will have to wait or inform Smealum however I doubt he would have a clue since I don't think he owns the game to figure out why.

 

[Deleted User]

hope it works

 

[Reserved]

Hm. I have the same issues. It crashes right after the title screen is starting, after the Villager loads up. I tried a simple BCSTM edit and removed the first 1000 thingies with HxD, so it should be working...

There's no update data for Animal Crossing, either. I'm wondering if there's the update data on the cartridge itself, but isn't directly installed into the game? This would tie into what @MasterLel is saying, too. Anybody got any ideas?

 

[NeoKamek]

Is there something possibly wrong with the unpacker or repacker? Creating a new romfs from the results of the romfs extraction produce a different-sized file than the original, so clearly something isn't working correctly.

DISCLAIMER: This is my first foray into 3DS rom hacking so I may have no fucking clue what I'm talking about

 

[Ridge]

Anyone got a clue how to get the sounds from RomFS/Sound/ASR/ENG/*.bin files, if it's possible? Specifically, I'm trying to find the UI sounds but I haven't found them in GardenSound.bcsar yet.

 

[MRJPGames]

Check this : http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Glitch

"The English version of the game cannot use the glitch because the game automatically comes with the Japanese update v1.1, which cannot be removed."

As we know, hans doesn't read updatesr

Someone with a japanese game should try...

Hans doesn't load external update data, if it's included in the rom it will just load it as it is no longer an update but just part of the game at that point.

 

[ShrineFox]

Anyone got a clue how to get the sounds from RomFS/Sound/ASR/ENG/*.bin files, if it's possible? Specifically, I'm trying to find the UI sounds but I haven't found them in GardenSound.bcsar yet.

Try this, it worked for me.

Thanks for pointing me to the right romfs dumping tools, I finally got a full dump and found everything I'm looking for. Sadly I don't see a way to edit textures until Ohana3DS updates again. As for the music I think it is possible to repack it, but I'll wait to see if anyone finds a solution to the freezing first because I'm sure the same thing will happen to me if I try.

Is there something possibly wrong with the unpacker or repacker? Creating a new romfs from the results of the romfs extraction produce a different-sized file than the original, so clearly something isn't working correctly.

Yeah that does sound pretty suspicious, but I think that happened back when I worked with Yaz0 compression tools on the Gamecube. It never rebuilt exactly the same but still usually worked without crashing, so who knows

 

[MasterLel]

Can someone tell @smealum the problem ? I don't have twitter

 

[MrDavidPerson]

I am extremely interested in this, I will be keeping an eye on this thread.
Also does anyone with a complete file system dump know if Animal Crossing New Leaf uses color pallets
with the textures like in Animal Crossing City Folk because when I texture hacked Animal Crossing City Folk
the pallets gave me so many problems.

 

[Deleted User]

It's not the game that breaks. I tried using a unmodified romfs file and it still crashed at the title screen. It's either braindump, or hans.

 

[ShrineFox]

It's not the game that breaks. I tried using a unmodified romfs file and it still crashed at the title screen. It's either braindump, or hans.

Are we sure that isn't just what happens when you use an unmodified romfs with any game?
Either way I tweeted the thread to smea, hopefully he takes a look

 

[shutterbug2000]

Are we sure that isn't just what happens when you use an unmodified romfs with any game?
Either way I tweeted the thread to smea, hopefully he takes a look

Yeah, on 3dsdev smea says he doesn't own ac:nl, so out of luck there.

 

[AshleyCummings]

This is interesting!! I love to edit my town with the editor but would love to go further o.o ...oh and duplication trick works wonders I have U.S Animal crossing with all its updates ^-^ its just a drop in another town save and cut wifi trick easy once you do it a few times ( the game gets boring after having it from day one of being released and after many dropped from playing, me and my friend just started finding new ways to have fun so the the game didn't get boring, duplication for mazes and such and when the save editor was possible on 3ds hacks I edited the save to make the town unique and fun to play hide and seek in so many hidden spots o.o ..
I wish to change music and ALL building textures meaning shop ones too would love that o.o maybe even make the water a different color like ..pink ^0^ so many ideas...yet im a newb so I gots a long wait before I try anything XD

 

[Ar7ific1al]

As others have reported, modifying any of the files results in freezing as soon as the main menu loads.

As a side note, is there anything out there to (properly) edit the UMSBT files found in the script folders? I resorted to using Notepad++ to modify them. There is a lot of jumbled information not readable in NP++, but editing via HxD (or other hex editor) isn't very ideal.

 

[ShrineFox]

Yeah, on 3dsdev smea says he doesn't own ac:nl, so out of luck there.

I was just hoping he would at least know if HANS romhacks have compatability issues with games and that this isn't a lone occurrence, but if not that's a shame.

editing via HxD (or other hex editor) isn't very ideal.

Seconding this, right now it's my preferred method but the [00] between every letter is annoying to work around. Maybe somebody could make one, the format seems simple enough.

 

[Naked_Snake]

I can't help you about that, I'm still waiting for a new entry point to use HBL haha... But if we can decrypt something, we should be able to encrypt it back, it shouldn't be a problem

Ask @neobrain @smealum @Kaphotics

The problem is either with HANS or with the game (though ACNL not "special" and some people already did rom hacking before, like this guy : https://miiverse.nintendo.net/users/Mew_Mod )

hahahahahahaha i wonder if this guy got banned

 

[Mega-Mew]

With @scotline we are worked on the ROM a long time ago.
We can do:

Spoiler

Custom bfres

Custom Keyboard (romfs\Layout\Swkbd\message)

Corruption

Custom texture

And stuff like that

For example with this file we can change the ground
romfs\Bg\Data\grd_jmp.bin

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACNUKFJh6EElw



I will not say everything, so good luck for those who want to do some thing.

 

[Ridge]

Try this, it worked for me.

That's the tool I'm using, no luck. Also, for textures, tried using EveryFileExplorer?
Edit: I did unpack the GardenSound.bcsar, just not the mentioned .bin file.