ROM Hack Any beginner guides to ROM hacking?

[DovyDove]

Nice to meet you all.
I'm not a programmer and the closest thing I've touched is Blender and Photoshop.

Basically, I want to learn how to change and alternate 3d models; like ripping them from the game, change it (like make a red dress blue etc.) and put them back in the game.

I tried googling for guides but I couldn't really find any.

Can someone link me some resources that will teach people like me about the basics?

And I never really modded before, just learning how to use Blender now, but I would love to make some mods in the future for my favorite games.

 

[Thelostrune]

It depends on which game you're going after

 

[DovyDove]

It depends on which game you're going after

I want to try out Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy, but I doubt anyone has ever modded or hacked that game before.

I just found this https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-every-file-explorer.373615/
is this a good start?

 

[Thelostrune]

Well yeah, but depends on what format things are in.

 

[DovyDove]

Alright after some trial and error, I made the romfs and found my files.
I used the Level-5 3ds archive tool to open the files (I chose the biggest files which were both in .fa and unpacked them)

now I see a bunch of folders and the files in it are mostly in .xc and .xv extensions.

I guess I need to unpack those too?

If anyone knows anything that would be cool, but I'll try to research more into opening them.

 

[DovyDove]

Now I'm trying to find out what characters or whatever encoding its using

computers are hard ;_;