ROM Hack Pins graphics from The World Ends With You

Anorhc · Apr 19, 2008

So I thought I'd give ROM Hacking a shot. Turns out I bit off more than I could chew. The amount of information that is available for it is astoundingly confusing and frankly, I've just about given up on it. What I wanted to do is get images all of the badges/pins in the game. I tried extracting and looking up the unpacked files. Nothing in there seems to resemble images/sprites types. I tried running it through an emulator but the graphics aren't showing up for the badges (just my luck). And now I'm searching around to see if I could take screenshots of the game on my NDS. It's bothering me since I've seen sprite sheets of the characters put not the badges/pins.

Are you guys willing to point me in the right direction here? You don't have to do the work, I just want to know the easiest and foolproof way to approach this so I could actually learn how to do these things myself.

DarthNemesis · Apr 19, 2008

Do you mean these?

They're in a bunch of different .bin files, with Badge in the filename. You'll know you've got one if you open it up in a hex editor and you see circles.

Each segment starts with "pack" and has a palette near the end. Open up the file in Tile Molester and use the following settings:
- View > Mode: 2-Dimensional
- View > Codec: 4bpp linear, reverse order
- Image > Canvas size: 4

Then use Navigate > Go To and keep trying different numbers until you find an offset where the entire badge shows up in a single piece. Use Palette > Import From > This File and enter the offset (in decimal) of the palette that you found in the hex editor (should be a multiple of 16), and size = 16. Finally, export to your desired graphic file format using Edit > Copy To.

I've never played this game so I don't know how many badges there are, but obviously this is a rather tedious process.

Heran Bago · Apr 19, 2008

DarthNemesis said:
Do you mean these?

They're in a bunch of different .bin files, with Badge in the filename. You'll know you've got one if you open it up in a ~~hex~~ tile editor and you see circles.

Fixed one small thing. Great guide there! I didn't expect it to be that easy. Oh squeenix.

Anorhc · Apr 19, 2008

Thank you, DarthNemesis. That very clear and concise! I appreciate you taking the time to show me how to work this.

I'm going to get started ASAP. (304 badges... Joy!)

Anorhc · Apr 19, 2008

Hrm. I'm having a difficult time trying to get the correct color palette for this. In the file you've used, the hex editor is giving me an offset of 03A7BA00, which in decimal form is 61323776 (a multiple of 16). I tried that out, but got some weird colors (even weirder than what it started out with). Is there something I am missing or misunderstanding about the palette?

DarthNemesis · Apr 19, 2008

Anorhc said:
Hrm. I'm having a difficult time trying to get the correct color palette for this. In the file you've used, the hex editor is giving me an offset of 03A7BA00, which in decimal form is 61323776 (a multiple of 16). I tried that out, but got some weird colors (even weirder than what it started out with). Is there something I am missing or misunderstanding about the palette?

The file's not even 7kb, how'd you get an offset that huge? The palettes for the file I used (Apl_Tak/Grp_BtlBadge.bin) are at offsets 992, 1856, 2720, 3584, 4448, 5312, 6176, and 7040.

Porkdish · Apr 20, 2008

I realise you guys are having fun hexing, but for folks who just want the pins I grabbed 304 pins from the screen saver from the japanese website.
The full PNG is 7.1 megs (24 bit + alpha channel). It does not have the 'player' pin the characters get at the start (it has a red and black version of it but not the black and white).

JPEG Preview:

All 304 at above size
(7 megs, not there for long)

Anorhc · Apr 20, 2008

DarthNemesis: Ah, I get it now. *facepalm* I've been looking at the wrong offset. I got it under control now. Thanks!

Porkdish: Screensaver? Wow. This will be very useful to display for hi-res pins. Thank you for that!

Crescent · Apr 20, 2008

Porkdish said:
I realise you guys are having fun hexing, but for folks who just want the pins I grabbed 304 pins from the screen saver from the japanese website.
The full PNG is 7.1 megs (24 bit + alpha channel). It does not have the 'player' pin the characters get at the start (it has a red and black version of it but not the black and white).

JPEG Preview:

All 304 at above size
(7 megs, not there for long)

lol
overkill
thanks pork

Porkdish · Apr 21, 2008

QUOTE said:
Screensaver?

Official game site (jp) : http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subarashiki/

Scrsvr1

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Scrsvr2

promo art)
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The Viztard · Apr 21, 2008

they all pretty much look...awesome...>.<
nice job...

gbands · Apr 21, 2008

nice

i'm going to print some JotM pins to turn into real pins. thanks for these pork.

RyuKakashi · Apr 21, 2008

by the way, the one that's suppose to be a smiley face is upside down in that huge png

gbands · Apr 21, 2008

there are 2 smiley face buttons. the one upside down and the upright one.

RyuKakashi · Apr 21, 2008

ah my bad, i never realized that. hehe cool

Kirby102 · Apr 22, 2008

gbands said:
nice

i'm going to print some JotM pins to turn into real pins. thanks for these pork.

lol, I'm going to do that as well

But I want to do them with the Player Pins and the O-Pins (red/black Player Pins)

Anyone with these two hi-res'd graphics?

It seems that I tried looking on how to make these badges... I thought there were empty button badges that you can make yourself... but all of them you need a badgemaker machine

bunnybreaker · Apr 22, 2008

Kirby102 said:
gbands said:

nice

i'm going to print some JotM pins to turn into real pins. thanks for these pork.

Click to expand...

lol, I'm going to do that as well

But I want to do them with the Player Pins and the O-Pins (red/black Player Pins)

Anyone with these two hi-res'd graphics?

It seems that I tried looking on how to make these badges... I thought there were empty button badges that you can make yourself... but all of them you need a badgemaker machine

There are places you can send designs to to get badges made up. I don't know what country you're in, but I'm in the UK and there's http://www.badgesforbands.com/ , http://www.awesomebadges.co.uk/ and http://www.skadonsbadges.co.uk/ for example. I've never used any of them, but a few friends of mine have used badges for bands and recommend them.

tajio · Apr 22, 2008

thanks for the badges gonna print them all

onto real badges my dad friend owns a printing shop which has a badge machine HAHAHA and i get the badges for free hehee. thanks by the way now i've got TWEWY badges i'm a real Fan

The Viztard · Apr 23, 2008

haha yea im gonna just print em...and put em wherever i like...haha, thanks Crescent.

The Viztard · Apr 23, 2008

wait...should i just print them in the zoomed format in the link of pork's (not crescent like in my last post...sorry bout that,) post? http://members.optushome.com.au/crunchyinm...ewy_pins_ss.png And should it be on photo paper or just normal paper?

Thanks in advance people.

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