Hacking MVC3 DLC on the disc?

[synce]

So I see that the game has 36 characters with 2 announced as DLC... But on the disc's backup I see 38 arc files in the "chr" directory with the format _00, _01, etc which I assume is for alt colors, plus one more with just _00 which I assume is the (unplayable?) boss. I know there are complicated ways of extracting .arc archives, can anyone confirm?

 

[Zetta_x]

Try switching the file names to see if the game renders the new named files, the game can naturally use these files.

 

[synce]

Interesting idea! I'll "rotate" all the files, bbl with results

Update: sadly it wasn't that simple. Changing the files only made the characters invisible and unmovable

 

[Seyiji]

0000 - cpu dummy
0001 - Ryu
0002 - Chunli
0003 - Gouki
0004 - Chris
0005 - Wesker
0006 - VJoe
0007 - Dante
0008 - Trish
0010 - Spencer
0011 - Arthur
0012 - Amaterasu
0013 - Zero
0014 - Tron
0015 - Morrigan
0016 - Leilei
0017 - Felicia
0018 - CViper
0019 - Haggar
0020 - Jill
0021 - SpiderMan
0022 - Captain America
0023 - Wolverine
0024 - Magneto
0025 - Hulk
0026 - She Hulk
0027 - TaskMaster
0028 - IronMan
0029 - Thor
0030 - Dr Doom
0031 - Phoenix
0032 - Shuma
0033 - Modok
0034 - Dormammu
0035 - DeadPool
0036 - Storm
0037 - SuperSkrull
0038 - Sentinel
0039 - X23
0041 - Galactus

 

[8BitWalugi]

0000 - cpu dummy
0001 - Ryu
0002 - Chunli
0003 - Gouki
0004 - Chris
0005 - Wesker
0006 - VJoe
0007 - Dante
0008 - Trish
0010 - Spencer
0011 - Arthur
0012 - Amaterasu
0013 - Zero
0014 - Tron
0015 - Morrigan
0016 - Leilei
0017 - Felicia
0018 - CViper
0019 - Haggar
0020 - Jill
0021 - SpiderMan
0022 - Captain America
0023 - Wolverine
0024 - Magneto
0025 - Hulk
0026 - She Hulk
0027 - TaskMaster
0028 - IronMan
0029 - Thor
0030 - Dr Doom
0031 - Phoenix
0032 - Shuma
0033 - Modok
0034 - Dormammu
0035 - DeadPool
0036 - Storm
0037 - SuperSkrull
0038 - Sentinel
0039 - X23
0041 - Galactus

So, which ones are DLC?

 

[Eckin]

try swaping anything from characters that are already unlocked (like ryu and viper) before trying to change to anything that may not work (like jill and shuma)

that way you'll know if the problem is the method or if the characters are just not on disk (which is unlikely knowing Capcom, since RE5 and MM9 DLCs were already on disk)

@8bitwaluigi
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[2wirends]

yeah. I don't think simply changing the file names would make it work.

I tried it.

 

[synce]

Tnx sey... both on the disc wow... its Jill and shuma BTW. 9 was frank I guess