ROM Hack [HELP] Unpacking Badge Images from Nintendo Badge Arcade ROMFS

[Sgt. Lulz]

Once unpacked, the current badge pack is located in /region_[REGION]/common/sharc/pc.sarc.
This package changes with every update, and badges that were once there may be missing an update later.
Alternatively, the game's save data has an archive called allbadge.sarc containing mostly badge files and what might be theme files.

Februarysn0w's allbadge.sarc file can be found in the 00001346 folder here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B6305612E3C95FBD!694&authkey=!ANwz34EVEYjGARc&ithint=folder%2crar

The magic bytes for the badges are 50 52 42 53 (PRBS) and the badge ID seems to be stored at 44 onwards. Below that, the collection ID (Badge ID in the japanese version) is written at 74 and multiple translations of the nice collection name are written starting from E0.


The format below that seems to be mostly similar to how badges are stored in Badge ExtData, although I'm not too sure.

According to user @nanika , the pc.sarc file from each update contains the badges for the week stored in binary .prb files.

The game switched from xml to binary blobs to save space so these were very easier to figure out beforehand. The "b" in all these extensions stands for binary since the xml versions aren't used anymore.
.crb (CRBS - 227 files) files are the backgrounds used for each Crane. Pull the header off and they're just normal textures. They were combined with frames at some point and ended up with cr meaning Crane.
.icb (ICBS - 372 files) files are Crane Icons, haven't looked into them but presumably the bottom screen icon textures when flipping through Catchers / Collection entry.
.cib (CIBS - 370 files) files are Crane Instances - they contain the placement, heaviness, stickiness etc of each badge of a Catcher / Collection entry. Also lists which Crane Icon/BgPanel to use.
.fob (FOBS - 240 files) files are Fixed Objects, basically permanent things that block you from getting the badges. Header+texture.
.cab (CABS - 32 files) files are Categories, the categories each badge is collected into. These are where the game pulls the "x/x" data from the Collection from.
.atb (ATBS - 27 files) files are Attachments, basically moveable things that block you from getting the badges. Header+texture.

Also note that the 'collection name' is actually the badge's name, over in Japan most badges have a name i.e., "Goomba (Stepped On)" instead of "Super Mario Bros. badge" but they were made completely useless for international release.

 

[Sgt. Lulz]

-snip, a single .sarc dump can't be relied on-

 

[redunka]

Japanese Badge Arcade has an update, which is way bigger than app itself.
And pc.sarc file of that update is about 40 MB, so probably that's where all other badges are stored.
I can share it if you want.

 

[Sgt. Lulz]

Japanese Badge Arcade has an update, which is way bigger than app itself.
And pc.sarc file of that update is about 40 MB, so probably that's where all other badges are stored.
I can share it if you want.

That'd be much appreciated.

 

[redunka]

That'd be much appreciated.

PM'd you, that's probably illegal to share it here.

 

[MichMaster]

Do you think there is a way to extract all of the badges? It would be so awesome to get the original ones rather than mess up installing custom ones >.<

 

[Sgt. Lulz]

There's two routes to be taken here:

The technical one:

Nah, not hard at all.

Already being worked on.

The cheap and long one:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-badge-arcade-badges-collection.405667/
Ditto.

A BOSS file containing the entire badge library can be found on Nintendo's CDN, as pointed out by @shinyquagsire23:

If someone actually bothers to implement BOSS decryption in Decrypt9 there's also https://npdl.cdn.nintendowifi.net/p01/nsa/OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K/data/allbadge_v130.dat?tm=2. Standard BOSS file, strip the header and you get the entire library of previous badges (for the US region, OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K is only the US npdl ID I believe) in a SARC. Same format that you described, most everything is Yaz0 compressed.

 

[MichMaster]

The cheap and long one would also be a bit hard since i don't think many people around here are willing to spend a lot to get all badges in a legit way, I hope someone proves me wrong though

 

[shinyquagsire23]

If someone actually bothers to implement BOSS decryption in Decrypt9 there's also https://npdl.cdn.nintendowifi.net/p01/nsa/OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K/data/allbadge_v130.dat?tm=2. Standard BOSS file, strip the header and you get the entire library of previous badges (for the US region, OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K is only the US npdl ID I believe) in a SARC. Same format that you described, most everything is Yaz0 compressed.

 

[Sgt. Lulz]

-snip, updated posts above-

 

[nanika]

I'm trying to unpack the Badges straight from Badge Arcade's ROMFS, but I've run into a bit of a dead end trying to interpret the files.
Once unpacked, (what I presume) is the badge package is located in /region_[REGION]/common/sharc/pc.sarc.
Alternatively, the game's save data has an archive called allbadge.sarc containing mostly badge files and what might be theme files.

Februarysn0w's allbadge.sarc file can be found in the 00001346 folder here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B6305612E3C95FBD!694&authkey=!ANwz34EVEYjGARc&ithint=folder%2crar

The magic bytes for the badges are 50 52 42 53 (PRBS) and the badge ID seems to be stored at 44 onwards. Below that, the collection ID is written at 74 and multiple translations of the nice collection name are written starting from E0:




The format below that seems to be mostly similar to how badges are stored in Badge ExtData, although I'm not too sure.

The actual pc.sarc file from the game seems to contain significantly more files than the savedata. Skimming over them, I can only hazard some guesses as to what some of these are:
PRBS - 1923 files - Badge files.
CRBS - 227 files - Stumped.
ICBS - 372 files - Something ID'd as 'CraneIcon_' files. No idea.
CIBS - 370 files - Not sure, seems like badge machine stuff.
FOBS - 240 files - Something to do with the badge machines themselves, apparently.
CABS - 32 files - No idea.
ATBS - 27 files - Stumped here as well.
RFIT - 1 file - Probably not important.

Totalling out to 3192 files.

If someone has any more leads, do leave a post, because most of us aren't exactly equipped to figure this stuff out.

The game switched from xml to binary blobs to save space so these were very easier to figure out beforehand. The "b" in all these extensions stands for binary since the xml versions aren't used anymore.
.crb files are the backgrounds used for each Crane. Pull the header off and they're just normal textures. They were combined with frames at some point and ended up with cr meaning Crane.
.icb files are Crane Icons, haven't looked into them but presumably the bottom screen icon textures when flipping through Catchers / Collection entry.
.cib files are Crane Instances - they contain the placement, heaviness, stickiness etc of each badge of a Catcher / Collection entry. Also lists which Crane Icon/BgPanel to use.
.fob files are Fixed Objects, basically permanent things that block you from getting the badges. Header+texture.
.cab files are Categories, the categories each badge is collected into. These are where the game pulls the "x/x" data from the Collection from.
.atb files are Attachments, basically moveable things that block you from getting the badges. Header+texture.

Also note that the 'collection name' is actually the badge's name, over in Japan most badges have a name i.e., "Goomba (Stepped On)" instead of "Super Mario Bros. badge" but they were made completely useless for international release.

If someone actually bothers to implement BOSS decryption in Decrypt9 there's also https://npdl.cdn.nintendowifi.net/p01/nsa/OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K/data/allbadge_v130.dat?tm=2. Standard BOSS file, strip the header and you get the entire library of previous badges (for the US region, OvbmGLZ9senvgV3K is only the US npdl ID I believe) in a SARC. Same format that you described, most everything is Yaz0 compressed.

j0ITmVqVgfUxe0O8 will get you the full one.

The technical one: Having someone attempt to figure out the badge format and write a tool for it.
This would probably take a while and might be slightly more difficult than the following method, but it involves less third-party assistance.

Nah, not hard at all.

As an aside, I'm not entirely sure about just how out of date this ROMFS dump is, as the all-badge gallery at https://imgur.com/a/wcl7W marks an amount of 3552 badges, which 1923 is about 1629(!) badges shy of.
-this is definitely an outdated dump. pc.sarc updates appear to be non-cumulative, so a dump of the latest update should contain all the badge files to date.-

pc.sarc files only contain the current week's badges.

 

[Sgt. Lulz]

-long text-

Nah, not hard at all.

Well, hell.
I'll get to updating my posts now.
Thanks for the great job.
I'm assuming Mega badges are being downscaled to fit by the program at the moment.

 

[Binebina87]

I was looking for something like this :-) Sorry to bump this.

So I downloaded the allbadge_v130.dat from cdn and now what do I have to do to extract the png files?

(I tried using the "j0ITmVqVgfUxe0O8" link but it didnt work...)

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Interesting. Despite the necro, BOSS decrypting is currently in Decrypt9 (apparently), so might be worth a shot putting the aforementioned file through Decrypt9.

 

[cearp]

I was looking for something like this :-) Sorry to bump this.

So I downloaded the allbadge_v130.dat from cdn and now what do I have to do to extract the png files?

(I tried using the "j0ITmVqVgfUxe0O8" link but it didnt work...)

don’t give up

 

[Binebina87]

don’t give up

I'm trying, but I actually have no idea what I'm doing lol

I decrypted the allbadge.dat with decrypt9. When opening it in HxD the most interesting thing I see is stuff like this :
pc/rt/Pr/Pr_Emblem_Circle_CharA44.prb.szs...
pc/rt/CI/CraneIcon_PokeExt_004.icb.szs..
pc/rt/CI/CraneIcon_Pokemon_003.icb.szs..
pc/rt/Pr/Pr_AnimalItem2_Item_421.prb.szs.

But I dont know what to do next :-)

 

[redunka]

Proper link for Japanese allbadge_v130.dat is "j0ITmVqVgfUxe0O9".
BOSS decryption and Yaz0 compression are easy parts,
bur we have to find a way to somehow extract/convert images from those PRBS files.
As stated in OP, format seems to be similar to how badges are stored in Badge ExtData,
so maybe creator of GYTB can do something about it?

 

[MrCheeze]

This sounds vaguely piracy related, so I think not.

 

[Binebina87]

This sounds vaguely piracy related, so I think not.

Sad to hear that.

However I tried my luck with the .rarc files using rarcdump.exe but it just gives me an empty folder (I think its because of the PBRS encryption)
So if anyone more skilled likes to try shoot me a PM and I can send you some of the rarc files :-)

 

[redunka]

PRBS is not an encryption, it is a name of file format. Those files should have .prb extension.

And that format is actually pretty simple, here is how badge data is stored in it.

For regular size badges:

Badge data starts at offset 0x1100 and has a size of 0x2800 (0x2000 for badge itself and 0x800 for its shape - exactly like in BadgeData.dat).

For mega size badges:

Again, each piece of mega badge has a size of 0x2800 and they start at offsets: 0x4300, 0x7500, [0xA700, 0xD900] - last two are only for mega badges that have 4 pieces.

Below every badge piece or regular-sized badge there is a data with size of 0xA00.
It's a badge preview - small icon that is displayed in Badge Case.
Same previews are stored starting at 0xCDCF80 in BadgeData.dat.

Of couse, it is possible to just copy/paste data from PRBS files to BadgeData.dat with hex editor, but it is extremely slow and inconvenient.