ROM Hack [Release] msbt editor

[exelix11]

UPDATE: icySon made a better msbt editor, you can find it here

Hi, i was trying to do some edits to the super mario 3d land rom, and i found the text resources in a ,msbt format, as i saw this format is used also in the system settings app, and the eshop, also i saw somewhere that they are used in LoZ triforce heroes too (which i didn't test with this application).
So i made this simple app that can edit those files.

Changes in v0.3:
-Now msbt files without names are supported
-Values shown in hex instead of decimal
Changes in the v0.2:
-Showing string names
-New lines are supported
-Showing the byte data of the string (read only)
-Support for drag and drop
-Support for command line args (like setting this app as the default one for msbt files)
-The strings are alphabetically sorted
-Some other minor things

This can't create msbt files from scratch because those contains data about where that string appears in game.
Also i included an LZ11 (De)compressor, because i found some .lz files in the eshop rom that were compressed, so it can be useful.

Github: here (it's name is 3DLandMSBTeditor because it was originally meant to edit the MSBT files inside 3d land)

Enjoy

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

Awesome! Thank you <3

 

[hippy dave]

Great, thanks.

 

[I pwned U!]

Thank you! Now I no longer have to use a hex editor and press the right arrow key after typing each character!

By the way this is useful for all Nintendo titles from the past 5 years, not just SM3DL, LoZ TFH, the System Settings, and the eShop. SMG 2 and LoZ SS also use this format, and so do all of Nintendo's 3DS and Wii U titles.

Also, have you tried analyzing similarly named formats?

LoZ SS also had some MSBF files and a decrypted NSMBU update had a MSBP file in it.

 

[exelix11]

Thank you! Now I no longer have to use a hex editor and press the right arrow key after typing each character!

By the way this is useful for all Nintendo titles from the past 5 years, not just SM3DL, LoZ TFH, the System Settings, and the eShop. SMG 2 and LoZ SS also use this format, and so do all of Nintendo's 3DS and Wii U titles.

Also, have you tried analyzing similarly named formats?

LoZ SS also had some MSBF files and a decrypted NSMBU update had a MSBP file in it.

Smg2 format is different than this, there was already an editor for that but it doesn't work on 3d land files
And I don't have roms of those games

 

[Hiccup]

Thanks a lot!

BTW: Do you know why windows defender (not malwarebytes or virustotal so far though) thinks this is malware?

 

[exelix11]

Thanks a lot!

BTW: Do you know why windows defender (not malwarebytes or virustotal so far though) thinks this is malware?

I don't know, i use eset, maybe it just says that it's not common and MAY be a virus

 

[Hiccup]

It hasn't appeared in any of the virus total scans. So nvm

I've added a little issue to github by the way. Nothing serious.

 

[Hiccup]

Could you add support for message/string names? NWPlayer123's (Nikki's) editor has support for this, so maybe you could ask her for the source.

 

[exelix11]

Could you add support for message/string names? NWPlayer123's (Nikki's) editor has support for this, so maybe you could ask her for the source.

Editing string names will make the game not showing the strings
Edit: just checked, it doesn't edit names, just shows them i could add this

 

[Hiccup]

Thanks. Could you also make it so instead of displaying nothing, which could be interpreted as an error, it can tell you when a string has no text? Also could it tell you when a string doesn't have a name and tell you if there are not strings?

 

[exelix11]

Thanks. Could you also make it so instead of displaying nothing, which could be interpreted as an error, it can tell you when a string has no text? Also could it tell you when a string doesn't have a name and tell you if there are not strings?

I think i can, now i'm busy, when i'll have time i'll had these things

 

[exelix11]

Updated to v0.2 !
Check the first post

 

[Reserved]

Could you add support for the .umsbt files that Animal Crossing uses?

 

[exelix11]

Could you add support for the .umsbt files that Animal Crossing uses?

Not sure about what kind of files they are, i don't have animal crossing, if you PM me some of those files (at least 2 or 3) when i'll have time i'll look into them, if the format is similar i might add support for them,have you tried opening them with this program ?

 

[Shrinefox]

Not sure about what kind of files they are, i don't have animal crossing, if you PM me some of those files (at least 2 or 3) when i'll have time i'll look into them, if the format is similar i might add support for them,have you tried opening them with this program ?

Here's a couple samples... (1) (2)
They're "umsbt" so it seems reasonable to assume they're related to msbt. The editor can't open them

 

[ringo1206]

Can't seem to find any MSBT in the Sys Settings App...... Any Help?

 

[Reserved]

Well, the editor can open them. It doesn't crash or anything. It's just that they're garbled music notes.

 

[schrmh]

Can't seem to find any MSBT in the Sys Settings App...... Any Help?

Use BatchLZ77 to decompress message_EU_LZ.bin *, open it with EveryFileExplorer and export hud.msbt and mset.msbt files.
(* I don't know the US name of this file)

It's no problem to edit those files, but injecting them back is a problem for me (tried it with DARCTool; Maybe it does not work because there are many msbt files with the same name)
Does anybody know how to inject hud.msbt and mset.msbt back to e.g. the EU_German folders in message_EU_LZ.bin?

 

[DarkFlare69]

Why can't MSBT files be hex edited? When hex editing one, it doesn't work properly.