Homebrew I permanently gave Wara Wara Plaza life again, injected it full of my personality, and you can too

[MikaDubbz]

here is a sample (theres some documentation all over 3dbrew) just look around at mii formats on the 3ds (wii u uses these too) encode the hex with base64

And that works when put in the .xml file? If so I'll add it to the first post.

 

[J-Lin]

i tried and it looks really close to the original encode

 

[MikaDubbz]

i tried and it looks really close to the original encode

Do the newly encoded Miis appear in the plaza when you add them that way or not though?

 

[J-Lin]

i did a special mii and it dissapeared i yet to try a real mii

 

[MikaDubbz]

i did a special mii and it dissapeared i yet to try a real mii

Well keep me updated. I'd love if we can add specific Miis we desire as well, but if it can't be done for whatever reason, I don't feel it's the biggest of concerns.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Yeah they're just bas64 encoded bytes. It is similar to the 3ds entry structure but not the same.
Take a look here: https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/include/nn/ffl/miidata.h
All the Mii's have a checksum at the last 2 bytes. If that checksum doesn't match the Mii the Mii won't show up.
Give me a few minutes and I may be able to create a quick checksum calculator for the structure.

 

[GaryOderNichts]

Alright I made a quick fixer that fixes the checksum.
Sourcecode: https://garyodernichts.github.io/garyhax/docs/assets/files/plaza_fixer.c
I attached a windows build to this post.
To edit a mii you would need to
- extract the base64 string from the .xml
- convert it to bytes
- edit the structure according to https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/include/nn/ffl/miidata.h
(Note that the variables are in bits not bytes)
- run the fixer fixer.exe bytes.bin
- encode the data back to a base64 string and put it back in to the .xml

I haven't tried it yet but the fixer generates the same checksums that are in a valid Mii from the xml.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Alright I made a quick fixer that fixes the checksum.
Sourcecode: https://garyhax.tech/docs/assets/files/plaza_fixer.c
I attached a windows build to this post.
To edit a mii you would need to
- extract the base64 string from the .xml
- convert it to bytes
- edit the structure according to https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/include/nn/ffl/miidata.h
(Note that the variables are in bits not bytes)
- run the fixer fixer.exe bytes.bin
- encode the data back to a base64 string and put it back in to the .xml

I haven't tried it yet but the fixer generates the same checksums that are in a valid Mii from the xml.

Impressive! If I have some free time today, I'll give this a shot.

 

[ghostbit]

Couldn't tell ya, why do you need to add comments anyway?

good way to keep track of base64 edits and similar

 

[J-Lin]

so what do i have to do

 

[GaryOderNichts]

so what do i have to do

To edit a Mii? I described the process in my post above.

 

[J-Lin]

im kinda an idiot when it comes to coding? could you dumb it down a bit

 

[GaryOderNichts]

im kinda an idiot when it comes to coding? could you dumb it down a bit

Anything specific you don't understand?
I can create a table for the Mii structure if you want.

 

[J-Lin]

- edit the structure according to https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/include/nn/ffl/miidata.h
(Note that the variables are in bits not bytes)
- run the fixer fixer.exe bytes.bin

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What do i do

 

[GaryOderNichts]

- edit the structure according to https://github.com/devkitPro/wut/blob/master/include/nn/ffl/miidata.h
(Note that the variables are in bits not bytes)
- run the fixer fixer.exe bytes.bin

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What do i do

Alright I created a table for the structure: https://garyhax.tech/docs/#/nand-files/wiiu-menu/1stnup
You need to save the bytes from the decoded base64 string into a file. (I called that file bytes.bin)
Next you open the file in a hex editor. I'm using hxd for that.
You now need to look in the table above. The variables are in bits. So 8 bits make one byte.
You now need to go into your hex editor and count the bytes and bits until the variable you want to edit is reached.
You can then use the data inspector to edit the bits. To edit the gender you would need to change the according bit to a 1 or 0.
After that you can save the file and open a cmd window. Make sure you have the fixer in the same folder as the bytes.bin.
Now enter the following command: fixer.exe bytes.bin
This will set the correct checksum for your edit.
You can now encode the file as base64 and put it back into the .xml.

Edit:
You could also extract existing Mii's from your Mii Maker save.
You would need to use this file: https://garyhax.tech/docs/#/nand-files/mii-data/ffl-odb
Then you can extract 92 bytes after the 8 byte header and paste it into a empty file. Then add 4 bytes for the checksum to it.
After you can run the fixer on that file and encode it as base64.

 

[J-Lin]

so i could just oh

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thank you! but i did a golden pants mii and they dont have golden pants

 

[GaryOderNichts]

so i could just oh

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thank you! but i did a golden pants mii and they dont have golden pants

But it shows up? Just without golden pants?

 

[J-Lin]

On WaraWara Plaza yes. but when i import into mii maker it has golden pants.
Also did anyone archive the xml file with nintendo tvii

 

[Deleted User]

On WaraWara Plaza yes. but when i import into mii maker it has golden pants.
Also did anyone archive the xml file with nintendo tvii

this one has got it I also tested it it for USA
or this if you find it hard
I got two discord servers my other server it got more people
you can contact me for help on my discord server
https://discord.gg/jYQjqB5

 

[JGSHEW]

Can someone help me? I deleted 1stNUP on the nand then put my version on. As you might expect, I got question marks due to the whole permissions thing. However, I've tried the chmod thing, I got on my screen "chmod returned 0x0" which I assume means success, yet I still get the question marks. Inspecting the properties of the file with ftpiiu, I can see that whenever I try to change the permissions of the file, it immediately switches back.

EDIT: Nvm, I figured it out. After running chmod, you have to run exit(), you can't just close python. I also tried with python 3 instead of 2.7, I don't know if that makes a difference though.