ROM Hack How to convert .3ds to romfs.bin?

Deleted member 414661 · Sep 7, 2018

Okay, thank you for the first bit, I just typed in the second exactly as I posted before and it says "error could not open input file!"

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@Dionicio3, could I possibly PM you the .3ds file and you could do this for me? I'm trying to figure this out but it seems ctrtool isn't working with a .3ds file.

Dionicio3 · Sep 7, 2018

Astragon said:
@Dionicio3, could I possibly PM you the .3ds file and you could do this for me? I'm trying to figure this out but it seems ctrtool isn't working with a .3ds file.

No, that would be against the rules.

I'm also not too familiar with ctrtool errors, I'd wait for someone more knowledgeable to come in and help

Deleted member 414661 · Sep 7, 2018

Dionicio3 said:
No, that would be against the rules.

I'm also not too familiar with ctrtool errors, I'd wait for someone more knowledgeable to come in and help

Even PM'ing a file in question isn't allowed? That's pretty f***ing harsh.

Dionicio3 · Sep 7, 2018

Astragon said:
Even PM'ing a file in question isn't allowed? That's pretty f***ing harsh.

No it isn't, its disallowed because its illegal

lone_wolf323 · Sep 7, 2018

Astragon said:
Even PM'ing a file in question isn't allowed? That's pretty f***ing harsh.

Not really. There is to be no warez or copyright materials on here or in pms. Which is still techinally on here. I dont see why it would be harsh at all.

Deleted member 414661 · Sep 7, 2018

lone_wolf323 said:
Not really. There is to be no warez or copyright materials on here or in pms. Which is still techinally on here. I dont see why it would be harsh at all.

Alright then, what do I do exactly? I don't know how to make the MHXX Citra file into a romfs for the mod tools to work. I'd love it if someone else could do it for me.

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

Hey, necroing this ancient thread because I'm running across a similar problem. I've followed the steps as best I can from this thread, and I've got both my .3ds file and ctrtool in the same folder (Users\Windows\Documents\Romhacking), but when I try to run the command there's no effect, just the attached prompt. Is there some obvious little mistake that I'm missing?

phonz · Dec 31, 2019

BigPigeon said:
Hey, necroing this ancient thread because I'm running across a similar problem. I've followed the steps as best I can from this thread, and I've got both my .3ds file and ctrtool in the same folder (Users\Windows\Documents\Romhacking), but when I try to run the command there's no effect, just the attached prompt. Is there some obvious little mistake that I'm missing?

Try looking at what you typed into command prompt

hehe
You're not passing the arguments to a program, you're just telling command prompt to access the files.

try again with "ctrtool" at the beginning of your string since I assume that's the program you are trying to pass the .3ds file too.
ie. "ctrtool Awakening.3ds -n 0 --romfs=romfs.bin"
No quotes.

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

phonz said:
Try looking at what you typed into command prompt hehe
You're not passing the arguments to a program, you're just telling command prompt to access the files.

try again with "ctrtool" at the beginning of your string since I assume that's the program you are trying to pass the .3ds file too.
ie. "ctrtool Awakening.3ds -n 0 --romfs=romfs.bin"
No quotes.

Glad to get some help on this! I'm new to the technical side of romhacking but I'm very keen to learn.

Still missing something. Here's my command line and the error result below. Is this signifying an error with my .3ds file?

phonz · Dec 31, 2019

BigPigeon said:
Glad to get some help on this! I'm new to the technical side of romhacking but I'm very keen to learn.

Still missing something. Here's my command line and the error result below. Is this signifying an error with my .3ds file?

Hmm working fine for me here, using this release -> https://github.com/jakcron/Project_CTR/releases/latest

trying putting quotes around Awakening.3ds. so the command would be
ctrtool "Awakening.3ds" -n 0 --romfs=romfs.bin

If that doesnt work, you may need to run command prompt as Admin, or move the files to a directory that doesn't have any access restrictions if your user account is unable to run as admin.
(like just make a new directory at C:/3ds/ and work from there)

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

That's the release I'm currently using. Still not working though. Could the problem be with the .3ds file itself? It runs just fine on Citra.

phonz · Dec 31, 2019

BigPigeon said:
That's the release I'm currently using. Still not working though. Could the problem be with the .3ds file itself? It runs just fine on Citra.

Sorry, i updated my response.
You may hafta run Command Prompt as admin

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

Still negative. I moved the files to the C drive, ran Command Prompt as Admin and tried both with and without quotation marks. Attached below.

phonz · Dec 31, 2019

BigPigeon said:
Still negative. I moved the files to the C drive, ran Command Prompt as Admin and tried both with and without quotation marks. Attached below.

haha then yeah im not sure.
You could try running without the "-n 0" in the commandline argument, see if that gets yeh anywhere. Other than that im tapped for ideas

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

phonz said:
haha then yeah im not sure.
You could try running without the "-n 0" in the commandline argument, see if that gets yeh anywhere. Other than that im tapped for ideas

No worries, thanks for your help I really appreciate it. Removing the -n 0 had no effect either, btw.

BigPigeon · Dec 31, 2019

Bit of a breakthrough here: I tried using -p instead of -n since my .3ds file is already decrypted, and it advanced to the usage menu. See attached.

So where do I go from here to create a .bin file that I can use?

phonz · Jan 1, 2020

BigPigeon said:
Bit of a breakthrough here: I tried using -p instead of -n since my .3ds file is already decrypted, and it advanced to the usage menu. See attached.

So where do I go from here to create a .bin file that I can use?

remove the 0 after "-p 0"
"-n 0" is to specify the partition, -p has no options associated with it.

BigPigeon · Jan 1, 2020

phonz said:
remove the 0 after "-p 0"
"-n 0" is to specify the partition, -p has no options associated with it.

The command fails without the 0 in it. See attachment.

It looks like -p should be what I want since I'm trying to extract a .bin without decrypting (since I'm already decrypted), but I'm really not sure what I'm missing here. Shouldn't this command create a romfs.bin in the directory that I'm working with?

The Real Jdbye · Jan 1, 2020

BigPigeon said:
Still negative. I moved the files to the C drive, ran Command Prompt as Admin and tried both with and without quotation marks. Attached below.

I'm guessing the .3ds file is in a different folder than ctrtool. Either move it into the same folder just to make things simpler, or instead of typing the path to the rom, you can drag and drop the file onto cmd to paste in the path automatically so you're sure it's correct.

BigPigeon · Jan 1, 2020

The Real Jdbye said:
I'm guessing the .3ds file is in a different folder than ctrtool. Either move it into the same folder just to make things simpler, or instead of typing the path to the rom, you can drag and drop the file onto cmd to paste in the path automatically so you're sure it's correct.

Nah, that's not it either. The files are all together, see attached, and have been the whole time.

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