ROM Hack [Release] MSBT Editor Reloaded

[IcySon55]

I have finally returned from my two week vacation and have some time now to look at this.

Could I get sample MSBT files from Art Academy? Thanks.

Edit: The trick with supporting all the files at the same time is having a method of detecting which UTF the file is.

 

[piratesephiroth]

I have finally returned from my two week vacation and have some time now to look at this.

Could I get sample MSBT files from Art Academy? Thanks.

Edit: The trick with supporting all the files at the same time is having a method of detecting which UTF the file is.

I added a link in the post

https://a.cocaine.ninja/nqtpfs.zip

 

[piratesephiroth]

And from what I saw here, I think the byte at 0xC defines the encoding (0 for UTF8 and 1 for UTF16).

 

[IcySon55]

I did notice that 0xC seemed to determine the encoding. However, looking at the Art Academy files, specifically the English ones, the files seem to be ASCII but 0xC is still 0x00 (UTF8)...

It does not. The Japanese files in Art Academy also show 0x00 at 0xC and they are double byte.

 

[piratesephiroth]

I'm pretty sure they're all UTF8. They need special characters for the foreign artists' names

 

[IcySon55]

If you look at the actual content in the files (in TXT2) for Art Academy, the text is straight ASCII single byte.

Edit: Oh no... Art Academy is using UTF8 for the Japanese files, and the files are set to BigEndian but the Japanese characters themselves are LittleEndian and terminated with a single null byte! This puts all even strings out of alignment while the odd ones work fine. These files are horrible!

 

[piratesephiroth]

If you look at the actual content in the files (in TXT2) for Art Academy, the text is straight ASCII single byte.

Edit: Oh no... Art Academy is using UTF8 for the Japanese files, and the files are set to BigEndian but the Japanese characters themselves are LittleEndian and terminated with a single null byte! This puts all even strings out of alignment while the odd ones work fine. These files are horrible!

yeah, I could view all files fine after forcing utf8.

 

[IcySon55]

Aaaaand I figured it out. v0.8.4 incoming. Note that editing the files might not be that convenient as the number of sub strings is a bit high.

 

[IcySon55]

MSBT Editor Reloaded v0.8.4

• Added support for UTF8 encoded MSBT files.
• Now supports Art Academy and Detective Pikachu.

 

[lonemoonHD]

Does anyone know if Mario Kart 8 messages work? By the way, amazing program @IcySon55, how cool of you.

 

[IcySon55]

Does anyone know if Mario Kart 8 messages work? By the way, amazing program @IcySon55, how cool of you.

Thanks!

If Mario Kart 8 uses UTF8 or UTF16 (both little and big endian) encoding then it should work just fine.

 

[lonemoonHD]

Thanks!

If Mario Kart 8 uses UTF8 or UTF16 (both little and big endian) encoding then it should work just fine.

Oh, Mario Kart uses UTF16. Just looked it up. Thanks for the reply! :3

 

[Hiccup]

@ IcySon55
Could you add support for the MSBTs in Miitomo?
I've sent you a PM.

 

[IcySon55]

MSBT Editor Reloaded v0.8.5

• Added support for the ATO1 section.
• Now supports Miitomo.

 

[IcySon55]

MSBT Editor Reloaded v0.8.6

• Added support for managing UMSBT archives.
• Now supports Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
• Fixed a few grammatical errors.

 

[soneek]

One thing that we could use assistance with is the checksum algorithm for sound labels, which is essential for being able to add new text entries to msbt files. So far I only have it figured out for strings with 3 or less characters, but the formula for that is based the ASCII codes for each character in the string. I posted about it at Zenhax a little while ago, so refer to that thread for my current progress.

 

[IcySon55]

@soneek I do wish I could help you with this. Unfortunately this kind of reverse engineering is beyond me. If you ever do get it figured out completely, I'd gladly implement adding new labels to MSBT files in my editor.

 

[Hiccup]

Its a long shot, but would this help? http://rhcafe.us.to/?page=wiki&id=MSBT_(File_Format)

 

[IcySon55]

@Hiccup If that information is correct, then it most definitely will blow the lid off this problem!

I will have to implement reading the the LBL1 section more accurately using the information and then test the new reader on all of the different MSBT files that I know about (which is a ton as you know). ;

 

[Hiccup]

I'm glad it helps. Be sure to credit the contributors to the page though