Hmmm... Try looking in the pv_db_en.txt file in the pv folder, there's an option around the start of each section marked "pv_0xx.short_play_time=xx.x" which is recorded in seconds, for example pv011 is "pv_011.short_play_time=67.0"
Ah, ok. I think just shortening the songs themselves should be enough then, right? Since I changed the intro video & music and it adjusted the length accordingly and didn't just cut off, it might work the same in-game.
I've tried, but I can't seem to be able to open them. I can only open the spr_ae files at the moment. Although it looks like lots of the files in the nwbin folder are animations (visibility, material, skeletal, etc)
Yeah they're the animations for the PV's, aet is more the animations for the graphics and special effects.
I see. In that case, I'm still not sure how to edit those files, but I have found a couple similarities between them and some of the spr_ae files which mean they may have similar structures.
Could you tell me those similarities in PM (if you can currently)?
I looked a bit closer and it doesn't look like I was onto something after all... For the spr_ae files, all I had to do was fix the header so that it was recognized as a ctpk file, and I thought I found a similar header in the aet files but I was wrong. I'll keep digging and let you know if I find anything.
okay cool, I wanna see if i could somehow recreate the songs as 3ds models, but i imagine that will be next to/ impossible, seeing as all the models are seperate, (hair, body, legs, etc)
Do you think it has something to do with the header data you deleted to get the ctpk file? I doubt it but it's possible, right? Maybe for whatever reason some bits of data are befor the header.I think my method for extracting the ctpk files is flawed. It seems like it doesn't extract all the images in the file. For example, spr_ae_button:
There are multiple references I can find such as...
-SCR_AE_BUTTON_BTN_Y_AY, which looks like it should be the Y button icon
-SCR_AE_BUTTON_BTN_X_AY, which looks like it should be the X button, etc.
Along with the rest. But when I extract the ctpk file, all I get is this:
which are the graphics for the 4 buttons on the bottom screen. But it only has 1 variation of the A button, instead of all the different colors, which I spsuect should be in the same archive but aren't.
Another clue is that the extracted image is 323 KB, but the original file is over 1.3 MB.
EDIT: Tried FEAT as well since it can extract ctpk files, but it still didn't extract everything.
Could be. Under each of the filenames there was some data, but I assume it just points each filename to the corresponsing data later in the file. It's too small to contain any image data itself.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Maybe for whatever reason, (maybe to prevent extraction I guess?) they put some pointers beforehand so when you deleted it the extractor doesn't know it's there.
That's definitely possible too. Except that the filenames are only there so that the game itself knows where each file is located without needing an extra bit of code outside the file itself. Might not be the case, but that's my take on it anyway.
