Finally the day has come

 

Awesome work guys hopefully it can get done

 

I'm in class right now so my ability to mess with things is limited, but I got somewhere on the aiff image format. Value at 0xa8-0xac seems to be the width and height. Starting at 0x1e0 seems to be PVR image data.

http://imgur.com/MKm25XE
http://imgur.com/gNntmlu

The exact PVR format needs to be determined though, but you can clearly see it decompressing and the general outline of the images. I think these are decompressed using 2bit or 4bit mode.

Edit: Also, just a guess, but I think the crbpj files are animation-related. So you may not need to modify those unless you are trying to do anything really fancy.

Edit 2: Now that I think about it, the crbpj probably defines boundaries for each individual part of the aiff image. Maybe.

 

Hi,
I did some testing around, and I think I know how to decode the AIF Files. The File is saved in Little Endian.
You can see this by opening it in a Hex Editor. At the beginning of the File you will find the Letters " FIA" --> "AIF " and "ATIV" --> "VITA"

The general Format seems to be a Variant of the IFF Format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format) or RIFF Format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format). More likely to be RIFF because of Little Endian.
You can Find the Offsets for the different Containers (with Keywords: "AIF ", "AMF ", "head", "buff", "addr" etc. ) right after these Keywords. So if your Keyword Beginns at 0x0000 and the offset is 0x0010 the Container goes until 0x0000 + 0x0010 = 0x0010. A Keyword as well as the Offset has a Size of 4 Bytes. Containers can contain other Containers and raw Data. The "AMF " Container is the biggest one. It Contains a "head" a "buff" a "addr" container and raw Data which seems to be an "Array" of data with 16-Byte entries.
Most probably this is not the File you are looking for because this "Array" is to regular (lots of same entries, e.g. "00000000 00000000 F7BEFFFF 00000000").

So the crttl Files are also ineligible because they only Contain aif File Names. (You can open it in a Text Editor of your choice. Enconding seems to be ASCII. With a newline char after every Filename and a "Null" Character at the End of the File)
The crttl Files and crbpj Files are in Big Endian.

Hope I could help a bit
--Masl

 

@AIDA (and anyone else) - if it's not too much work, if in your unpacking you could share the item list and item ids with me so I can add them to my save editor, that would be great
http://gbatemp.net/threads/release-supernova-phantasy-star-nova-save-editor.438000

thanks!

(i have a nearly finished inventory+box editor for atelier meruru that I worked on and didn't release yet because a little bug, but I can easily move that to nova)

 

i spoke on discord after writing that - thanks!

 

@masl I finished my tool earlier. It's able to decompress all but 1 image (a lone image with a weird image format). All of the other images decompress correctly. I posted it on their Discord, but if you're interested in checking it out:
http://pastebin.com/y8Z3GK4R

The lone image that doesn't decompress, pl_ah_8010_s_uu_xx.aif, I think might be 16bits per color but I feel like that's wrong, or it might be 16bpp. It's not a huge deal though since it's not a key image (just a model texture).

Samples:

 

Hey all - We (and by we, I mean Nagato) found a way to streamline the patching process - We were able to modify the title screen through using a very small CPK file. This means that, barring any issues we encounter, the english patch size will be very small, and will simply be "FTP this file over and play". \ o /

 

The game supports PSTV. R3 is for free aim and etc.

If there's gonna be stuff in Google Docs or something in near future, I can help a little with the translation. I've been playing the game recently and I've thinking some translations for items, quests, classes and names of NPC characters already. Good to see that AIDA and others are doing some magics for this game. I've used AIDA's PSO2/es translations a lot and I can say that they are better than most of Sega's official translations.

 

YAY! Good job guys I wish you success and good luck!