Ni No Kuni (US) Save Modification

Yeah I saw that pattern while I was writing my item editor, although the way I have my item database set up it's not particularly useful. For inserting items I'll need to make sure I follow the pattern, but I noticed the same:



It starts with 01 01, then the left column increases by 16 bytes while the right one increases by 1 each time. After A1, the bag changes and it starts over at 02. While useful to know, I'm not sure what the significance is for the right most column if the left one does practically the same.

I'm also noticing the sequence FEFFFE quite frequently throughout the save, it seems like it could be used to denote the start of a new block or structure. I need to confirm with some other saves, but if the location of the sequence is consistent across each I could use it to break a save into chunks for my tool.

On a semi-unrelated note, does anyone know anything about DDS files? I'm trying to extract some content from the game files and so far I've gotten right down to the DDS textures, except they're split into two files: the grayscale texture and the color palette. For example, the texture looks like this:



And the palette is a 256x1 line with random colors. I get the concept is that the grayscale is supposed to combine with the color palette when the game is being rendered, but I need to figure out how to do that and then save it to a usable image format. So far I haven't seen anything that can do this for me, or maybe I've pointed myself in the wrong direction. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

EDIT: Also thanks for checking the EU structure, I'll make an edit so it's known in the first post.

 

lol thanks I guess

I updated the main post with more detailed information on the familiars. I'm gonna spend some time tomorrow to try figuring out how the skills data works, and what I can transplant into there if anything.

 

Thanks, blue_ceberus, every save helps. I think I've found a consistent pattern with the FEFFFFFE sequence thanks to your save helping me confirm. The sequence is the 4 bytes followed by a byte identifying what the block contains. For example, searching for FE FF FF FE 1B takes you to the start of your inventory list. FE FF FF FE 0D goes to the start of your familiars list. Your guilders is located 24 bytes before FE FF FF FE 80 (4 bytes for the guilders, then 20 bytes until the sequence).

@FalconDickPunch what happens when you try to decrypt? I've been noticing that some saves I put into Bruteforce say it's already decrypted, so i have to move the SYS-DATA file outside the save folder, re-encrypt so it will let me decrypt again, then move the SYS-DATA file back in and proceed as normal. If I don't move SYS-DATA, Bruteforce tries to encrypt and already encrypted file, jumbling it up even more.

@sahran99 glad it worked out for you

 

It is possible, however I've never done it myself so I wouldn't be comfortable giving instruction on how to do it. There are others on the forum that have done it, perhaps they would be of more assistance.

I haven't started poking around for that yet, but I don't imagine it would be hard to figure out in a sitting. When I know more I will update the thread. I've made a breakthrough in other sections that I'm focusing on at the moment so I might not have anything on it soon.

Glad it helped!

It does, the game only resets your EXP to 0 when you level up but your level is retained. If you set your experience to something high, and your level to 70, when you fight and level up you'll be 71 and all your stats should follow it. Your experience will go back to 0 but it doesn't affect your level or anything. The game doesn't work with overall experience, just experience for level. So for example going from level 1 to level 2 might take 400 EXP, and then it resets to 0, then level 2 to level 3 will be 450 EXP and then resets to 0.

 

Yes I never said otherwise, I apologize if my words seem misleading. You're wrong in that the level is cosmetic, as certain characters learn different things at certain levels, so setting your level to something high and leveling up will make the character learn something new, like Esther's songs. The game tracks different things through the level.

 

There is but I don't know everything about the Familiar structure yet, so the information I have isn't enough to insert familiars.