Hey guys, I've been trying to extract the .bin files in the HMDS Rom for several days now and still feel like I'm missing some information on how to do it.
The .nds contains several folders that all contain .bin files (aside from the sound files, which are .sadl, sarc, and sdat, but I'm not worried about the sound data right now). An example of the file structure is that the folder "chara" contains files like "animal.bin", "boy.bin", "enemy.bin", "character.bin" and "extrachar.bin". I believe these are packs of other files per .bin file.
I've tried reading the hex code in a hex editor and yet I can't conclusively find anything that looks like a header that contains the file sizes, count, etc or anything like that.
Could these files be encoded or compressed? How would I go about finding that out?
In animal.bin, there is definitely a pattern of F3 30 F8 41 appearing frequently, but I don't know what it could be. Here is an example of what animal.bin looks like at the beginning.
The .nds contains several folders that all contain .bin files (aside from the sound files, which are .sadl, sarc, and sdat, but I'm not worried about the sound data right now). An example of the file structure is that the folder "chara" contains files like "animal.bin", "boy.bin", "enemy.bin", "character.bin" and "extrachar.bin". I believe these are packs of other files per .bin file.
I've tried reading the hex code in a hex editor and yet I can't conclusively find anything that looks like a header that contains the file sizes, count, etc or anything like that.
Could these files be encoded or compressed? How would I go about finding that out?
In animal.bin, there is definitely a pattern of F3 30 F8 41 appearing frequently, but I don't know what it could be. Here is an example of what animal.bin looks like at the beginning.
