ROM Hack Pokemon Sun and Moon GARC files

[Giodude]

So apparently the sun and moon demo has been datamined to show that every pokemon exists within the game. This proves it can be unpacked. I've been using garc unpacker to extract a/0/2 to replace the playermodel, but i keep getting errors. I can unpack the ORAS files fine, so it must be an issue with sun and moon's GARC files. Has anybody gotten past these or know how to unpack the sun and moon garc files?

 

[goteniai]

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[Giodude]

Thanks for starting off this topic. I've tried on this as well. They are using Garc, but they seem to be using a new version of it as the header looks slightly different from the XY/ORAS headers. I haven't got a solution yet but I've contacted the author of pk3ds. Hopefully he/she can come up with something cool.

well i've got bad news: https://twitter.com/RandomTBush/status/788483134337617920

 

[goteniai]

Haha, my role is more of a translator, so it doesn't affect me that much. I'm sorry to hear that you cannot get your Great Maxie right at the moment xD.

Take a look at this:
https://github.com/kwsch/pk3DS/issues/28

 

[goteniai]

Hey guys, I've looked into the source code of GARC Unpacker and I've pretty sure I understand what's going on in the header. Give me a few minutes to see if I can make up a new GARC Unpacker.

 

[Giodude]

Hey guys, I've looked into the source code of GARC Unpacker and I've pretty sure I understand what's going on in the header. Give me a few minutes to see if I can make up a new GARC Unpacker.

either way, apparently it uses a different model format as well, but thank you im gonna need this too.

 

[Slowbeatle]

Hey guys, I've looked into the source code of GARC Unpacker and I've pretty sure I understand what's going on in the header. Give me a few minutes to see if I can make up a new GARC Unpacker.

AWESOME NEWS

 

[goteniai]

Hey guys, try this out. Up to now, I still don't understand several bytes. The new GARC has a longer header storing some extra stuff. But as long as I don't write back, it should be fine. And then I'll move onto the encryption part.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_vosH0Fm0yNkF5clZZSHlwOFE/view?usp=sharing

 

[Slowbeatle]

extracted files like a charm....not to extract those darn bin files to get the pokemon models

 

[goteniai]

extracted files like a charm....not to extract those darn bin files to get the pokemon models

I guess you can try the earlier pk3ds for the bin files. I can extract the font files already. xD

 

[Giodude]

According to the link i posted earlier. Importing models is possible, but we arent there yet

 

[goteniai]

Guys, I failed=.= Writing it back seems to be much more difficult. But I've sent my work to the author of pk3ds. See if he can come up with something.

 

[vgmoose]

Hey guys, try this out. Up to now, I still don't understand several bytes. The new GARC has a longer header storing some extra stuff. But as long as I don't write back, it should be fine. And then I'll move onto the encryption part.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_vosH0Fm0yNkF5clZZSHlwOFE/view?usp=sharing

Very cool! Thank you for this. I tried a small change to fix the header thing, but in the end it only worked on some of the italian garcs. What did I miss in my change? https://github.com/vgmoose/GARC-Unpack/commit/b39fa557351170089cb0640d384b7b536ff2571f (probably something to do with the bytes I ignored)

Guys, I failed=.= Writing it back seems to be much more difficult. But I've sent my work to the author of pk3ds. See if he can come up with something.

What about packing in particular makes it that much more difficult than unpacking?

Also, have you seen the other project that does both packing/unpacking by kwsch here? https://github.com/kwsch/GARCTool/blob/master/GARCTool/GARCTool.cs#L122 Maybe this can just be offset for the new header?

 

[goteniai]

Very cool! Thank you for this. I tried a small change to fix the header thing, but in the end it only worked on some of the italian garcs. What did I miss in my change? https://github.com/vgmoose/GARC-Unpack/commit/b39fa557351170089cb0640d384b7b536ff2571f (probably something to do with the bytes I ignored)

Cool! It's always nice to see others make contribution to this. Please take at a look at this page. I put my changed Form1.cs there.
https://github.com/kwsch/pk3DS/issues/28

What about packing in particular makes it that much more difficult than unpacking?

Also, have you seen the other project that does both packing/unpacking by kwsch here? https://github.com/kwsch/GARCTool/blob/master/GARCTool/GARCTool.cs#L122 Maybe this can just be offset for the new header?

The GARC-Unpack code also has the packing stuff. It's just that there's something new. You can take a look at the above page as well. Hopefully it helps.

 

[Jackson Ferrell]

I guess you can try the earlier pk3ds for the bin files. I can extract the font files already. xD

How'd you obtain the text files? And have you figured out a way to get the models yet?

 

[vgmoose]

How'd you obtain the text files? And have you figured out a way to get the models yet?

Here's a repo with some text files locations and instructions, using @goteniai's tool and xytext: https://github.com/vgmoose/sm-demo-text

For models it looks like Ohana has recently had some changes? So maybe it can be coerced into loading something, otherwise looks in progress.

 

[Sliter]

Haha, my role is more of a translator, so it doesn't affect me that much. I'm sorry to hear that you cannot get your Great Maxie right at the moment xD.

Take a look at this:
https://github.com/kwsch/pk3DS/issues/28

to what is the langauge you gonna translate? I want do it as well but I don't know how to get to the graphics and texts :x

Here's a repo with some text files locations and instructions, using @goteniai's tool and xytext: https://github.com/vgmoose/sm-demo-text

where are the korean, chinese and chinese? xD
ok, awesome that it'salready already extracted! Thanks!!
now I need to find the graphics!
And to import them again?

 

[goteniai]

to what is the langauge you gonna translate? I want do it as well but I don't know how to get to the graphics and texts :x


where are the korean, chinese and chinese? xD
ok, awesome that it'salready already extracted! Thanks!!
now I need to find the graphics!
And to import them again?

I translated XY and ORAS into Chinese. Btw, the new official Chinese translation for Sun and Moon sucks. I'm not sure if I'm gonna optimize it. But I'll replace the font for sure. The graphics are kinda tricky to get, but there's a general rule. When you extract files from the garc, if it contains the graphs you need to translate, you always end up with the same number of files as the languages. Maybe sometimes there's one or two more. And the extracted files should be compressed as well. See if you can use the old pk3ds to extract them. I have no idea how I can pack the new garcs. The old one cannot be used as I just tested it.

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Here's a repo with some text files locations and instructions, using @goteniai's tool and xytext: https://github.com/vgmoose/sm-demo-text

For models it looks like Ohana has recently had some changes? So maybe it can be coerced into loading something, otherwise looks in progress.

Nice job, man. I haven't gone that far yet. I'll definitely take a look at the text file and update my XY and ORAS.

 

[Sliter]

I translated XY and ORAS into Chinese. Btw, the new official Chinese translation for Sun and Moon sucks. I'm not sure if I'm gonna optimize it. But I'll replace the font for sure. The graphics are kinda tricky to get, but there's a general rule. When you extract files from the garc, if it contains the graphs you need to translate, you always end up with the same number of files as the languages. Maybe sometimes there's one or two more. And the extracted files should be compressed as well. See if you can use the old pk3ds to extract them. I have no idea how I can pack the new garcs. The old one cannot be used as I just tested it.

really? wow I'm a big fan of chinese pokemon fan translations!(even not being able to read it :x) I even admired the logos (do you have one for XY and ORAS? ) and how you guys ADD so much hanzi to the game without replacing existing font! I even wanted to make my platinum translation compatible with the Hanzi just because I admired it, even not really going to be useful there anyway XD.
And every pokemon game is translated, it is awesome hahah I want to follow your progress there if you don't mind.
Sorry for this fan hype XD
I don't know how different is the oficial translation but I heard some fans wasn't happy with some names changes :/

Well for the graphic/file hunting I'm totally noob at 3DS games so I have to learn the very starte of what I do when I get the decripted cia/cxi in hands :v

 

[goteniai]

really? wow I'm a big fan of chinese pokemon fan translations!(even not being able to read it :x) I even admired the logos (do you have one for XY and ORAS? ) and how you guys ADD so much hanzi to the game without replacing existing font! I even wanted to make my platinum translation compatible with the Hanzi just because I admired it, even not really going to be useful there anyway XD.
And every pokemon game is translated, it is awesome hahah I want to follow your progress there if you don't mind.
Sorry for this fan hype XD
I don't know how different is the oficial translation but I heard some fans wasn't happy with some names changes :/

Well for the graphic/file hunting I'm totally noob at 3DS games so I have to learn the very starte of what I do when I get the decripted cia/cxi in hands :v

Haha, we definitely have to replaced the font. xD We got rid of the Korean characters and some of the accent letters. And we only use the hanzi in our script instead of all the hanzi. Otherwise the font size would be too big to load. Even after this, we have to get the font height a little bit smaller…

Man, don't worry about this. I learned all of the things within a few days (2 or 3 days I guess) assuming I have some programming experience. This is our page for Chinese translation for XY. There is a ORAS you can find but it's not translated by me. The quality isn't so good, so people ask me to make another one. This one hasn't been done yet. Do not try to include hanzi as it would ruin your game =.=

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/4777183519?lp=5027&mo_device=1&is_jingpost=1

As for Sun and Moon, people in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan have different accents and word choice. So it's really hard to make a name with everyone satisfied. Hong Kong people are the ones who suffer the most. While I'm totally fine with the new name, the translated scripts really suck..... Some of them don't even make sense, and I can even guess out what Japanese sentence was before the translation. The English translation is really good though.