Hi all! New here, kind of ripping my hair out over this...
Dipping my toes into having a little look around vita romhacking, really, and I decided to have a bash at Uta No Prince Sama Repeat LOVE on Vita. (I started with the original PSP version, but hit a massive brick wall. Gotten much further with the vita remake!)
Like, I really want to play this game, and nobody's done an english patch yet, so I'm willing to learn! and I am so very stubborn.
I've managed to extract and convert the NSAC encoded (shout out to quickbms!) database.dat, which is where I believe the script for the game is. Extracted textures, converted them, yadda yadda...
Inside there is a bunch of files, including memorial dats, which are like little bonus story snippets you earn through playing the game. Those are very easily viewed and copied using a hex editor as regular japanese, and I can do anything with those. yay!
My problem is that I'm looking for the main script??? Everything in my body screams that it, as well as the common route, are inside of these two files: common_story.dat and story.dat. I have absolutely no clue where to go from here, so I'm begging and pleading that someone here can point me in the right direction. Maybe a tool? God, I hope there's a tool for this. (Please note that I am utterly abysmal at writing code, and refuse to use AI to do it for me.)
I feel like I've gotten pretty far for a total newbie in the starting stages, and it would be a shame to fall here because I don't know to make these files readable.
There is a file called Story.did, but it's much smaller and doesn't give any indications that it contains anything...
Included is the folder created from opening the database dat, everything in there is what was in there!
Unless I'm barking up the wrong tree, and for some unholy reason it's inside the EBOOT file?? (which i doubt, but... stranger things have happened...)
Anyway, thank you for any assistance!!
Dipping my toes into having a little look around vita romhacking, really, and I decided to have a bash at Uta No Prince Sama Repeat LOVE on Vita. (I started with the original PSP version, but hit a massive brick wall. Gotten much further with the vita remake!)
Like, I really want to play this game, and nobody's done an english patch yet, so I'm willing to learn! and I am so very stubborn.
I've managed to extract and convert the NSAC encoded (shout out to quickbms!) database.dat, which is where I believe the script for the game is. Extracted textures, converted them, yadda yadda...
Inside there is a bunch of files, including memorial dats, which are like little bonus story snippets you earn through playing the game. Those are very easily viewed and copied using a hex editor as regular japanese, and I can do anything with those. yay!
My problem is that I'm looking for the main script??? Everything in my body screams that it, as well as the common route, are inside of these two files: common_story.dat and story.dat. I have absolutely no clue where to go from here, so I'm begging and pleading that someone here can point me in the right direction. Maybe a tool? God, I hope there's a tool for this. (Please note that I am utterly abysmal at writing code, and refuse to use AI to do it for me.)
I feel like I've gotten pretty far for a total newbie in the starting stages, and it would be a shame to fall here because I don't know to make these files readable.
There is a file called Story.did, but it's much smaller and doesn't give any indications that it contains anything...
Included is the folder created from opening the database dat, everything in there is what was in there!
Unless I'm barking up the wrong tree, and for some unholy reason it's inside the EBOOT file?? (which i doubt, but... stranger things have happened...)
Anyway, thank you for any assistance!!
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Truly that part seems like magic to me.
