ROM Hack Ripping/Editing Phoneix Wright 2

[squee]

This is awesome

thanks!

 

[Gaisuto]

So do we know if this works with other games yet? I am dying to try this with Jump Ultimate Stars...

 

[BlueStar]

Here it is, all the animations from PW1 in animated gif format

Here's a load of sprites from 1,2 and 3
http://www.croik.com/PW/sprites1.htm

 

[rippon]

Probably not, Gaisuto, as most DS games use their own formats for images. This is doubly true for Phoenix Wright, which was originally a GBA game, so it probably stores images as tiles and palettes rather than as one solid image. I think we'll see a lot of custom game editors before we see a universal one. That, or maybe we might find that each developer reuses their formats, so we might see perhaps a Konami DS game editor, a Sega DS game editor, etc...

 

[zatelli]

Nice tool deufeufeu. Did you code it on your own? Sprites would look better if they were to be antialiased.
I'm sorry if this is somewhat irrelevant to this topic, but the US release is in stock at Play-Asia. I'm sure we'll see a dump of it very soon.

 

[OrR]

Today's update check :

004176 t you figured it out.yet?.......Why I m still sitting in that.prosecut
004316 or s seat ....32.... ..despite all these allegations.being thrown at
004456 me?...RQ. . .....Mr. Edgeworth ....................... .....The real
004596 trial today ............ ....hasn t begun yet ...NM. . ..........What
004736 !?.. What else is there left.to do?...Your credibility s been all.but
004876 ruined with this forged.evidence you were unaware of .Ema Skye found o
005016 ut she.unwittingly caused a man s.death ....NM. ..........And now ...
005156 .NMyou re telling me you.want to do more!?........ ..You ve gotta be k
005296 idding me .pal!.. ..You re missing the point .Detective ...EE.... ....
005436 Lana didn t murder Detective.Goodman . ....CC. .... .. .!.. She merel
005576 y stuck a knife into.his dead body ...QQ..That means the real killer.
005716 ....is still out there ...RQ. . .....What!?.. .. And we re going to ex
005856 pose.him . ..... .... No matter what it takes! ..........44.........
005996 This case has hurt too many.people .. It s time to bring it.to an end!
006136Â ........... ............. ..... ................February 25Â 12 52.Di

more to come

Ah, reminds me of the fond memories I have of hacking Pokemon games...

 

[Deleted User]

for Bluestar : I know, but they are fan made, by ripping graphics from emulators and editing them. If you want to edit some sprites for a future hack, you should use mine. For a viewing matter I know that it's already been done.
for zatelli : every tools are home made, yes... The window output of the program is using basic blitting functions of GDK, the gif output was a "morning coffee" hack of the first one.
for Gaisuto : when the tool I'm making for phoenix wright will be at some good point, I will try to translate, firstly, and then edit JUS. It was already on my mind. My tools can be reused I think, because beside some compressions of their own, and their definition of animations, every thing is shaped to the ds hardware, and so every game should have some things in common in the way they use graphics.
for OrR : yes, except that I can't really use any emulator here

there's no decent linux-based emulator with respect to debugging functions.

 

[Normmatt]

deufeufeu, why dont you just use wine and run desmume it has about the best debugging any free emulator has at the moment

 

[chuckstudios]

You... are... a... GOD.

*bookmarks thread*

 

[juggernaut911]

OrR:
I couldn't get pokemon hacks to work...

I'll try this with Touch detective when released...

 

[FAST6191]

Nice work all concerned, as for JUS the text is uncompressed shift_JIS (I believe I took a crack at it in the release thread) but the fighting move descriptions/naming threw me completely so I did little with it, for the record a hell of a lot of games from all companies still use both 4bpp and 8bpp GBA tiles so old GBA tile editors still work.
As for desmume and debugging I agree with Normmatt, it currently may not be up there with the various VBA debugging tools but it is certainly more than useable for hacking.

 

[Deleted User]

Yes at home I can use desmume, but at work I'd rather not use it. And it is more exciting to get things from the data only... You feel like some modern times Champollion

 

[Deleted User]

today's update :

Not really much, I know... Of course it's not a direct hex editing of the rom, it was made with this process rom->script extraction->script convertion to human readable form->reencoding->repacking of mes_all.bin->rebuilding of rom.
I used some of come back court (GS3 translation project), but as he hadn't reversed characters animations I had to reverse a bit the commands. That's what took long (besides lzss encoding is far harder than decoding...).
Also the progress of my phd is somehow slowed by this work, so this weekend might be the last time I work on this in a while. So expect some ugly but fonctional editor by the start of next week. Yet I can't promise anything, so you'll see

 

[MEstk]

Great job !

 

[Normmatt]

deufeufeu, You should release the source code so that other developers can port this app to other platforms

 

[Deleted User]

my code is already multi platform

when I will release it I will release it as a whole.

 

[Normmatt]

awesome

 

[rice151]

wow......Very nice work done for this!!
Thanks for sharing!

 

[emudojo]

Men you rock I will look forward to see your python code running under my suse box

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For sure I will learn a lot

 

[R-Unit 4]

tell me when ya done