Hacking ripping wiiware sprites

[sabatino]

is there a way to rip wiiware sprites?
from a game with 2d graphics like toki tori?
can someone explain here how to do it, if there even is a way?

 

[arctic_flame]

Unpack the ROM, run it in an emulator.

 

[sabatino]

Unpack the ROM, run it in an emulator.

wiiware, not vc

wiiware isn't a rom, it's a full game

 

[noONE]

Unpack the ROM, run it in an emulator.

I think you read it wrong.. he's asking to rip sprites form WiiWare games.. not Virtual console.

No, as far as i know, you can not rip WiiWare sprites..

 

[sabatino]

Unpack the ROM, run it in an emulator.

I think you read it wrong.. he's asking to rip sprites form WiiWare games.. not Virtual console.

No, as far as i know, you can not rip WiiWare sprites..

when i open toki tori in tile molester, i just get weird shapes

when i unpack the wad, and try to open the unpacked files, i still get the weird images

maybe i need to unpack it even more?

 

[jeklnoo]

you have to know what you're doing. If you lack a clue, then you just have to wait/hope for someone else to write a simple tool for noobs to use.

 

[sabatino]

you have to know what you're doing. If you lack a clue, then you just have to wait/hope for someone else to write a simple tool for noobs to use.

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

but finding the game sprites in a wiiware game isn't simple i think

 

[sabatino]

my analysis of a random wiiware game (wad):
(did it on an other game toki tori was too big, my pc couldn't handle it)
gameX.wad:
00000000.app->nothing special here
00000001.app->nothing special here
00000002.app:
GAME.DAT-> probably where all the sprites are located (header: 52 53 41 52...)
INFO.DAT-> nothing useful
00000003.app->nothing special here
00000004.app->nothing special here
00000005.app->nothing special here
00000006.app->nothing special here
00000007.app->nothing special here
0001000157444d50.cert->nothing special here
0001000157444d50.tik->nothing special here
0001000157444d50.tmd->nothing special here
0001000157444d50.trailer->nothing special here

 

[WB3000]

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

Because all of those have emulators?

 

[sabatino]

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

Because all of those have emulators?

yes

ps: i suck at hex editting, can someone provide me a good tutorial for learning?

 

[WB3000]

yes

ps: i suck at hex editting, can someone provide me a good tutorial for learning?

Well, you not alone on that, I've never done it by hex either. GAME.DAT seems to be the entire game, so that's where the sprites would be.

 

[sabatino]

yes

ps: i suck at hex editting, can someone provide me a good tutorial for learning?

Well, you not alone on that, I've never done it by hex either. GAME.DAT seems to be the entire game, so that's where the sprites would be.

i know, but how do you rip em

they must be in game.dat in a special format, and to get them out you need hex editting skilz

 

[dsfgd]

tell me the game and maybe i can rip it or tell you how to do it,
it's not really hard for me (i'm a programmer),

toki tori as an example isn't in a special format, all Sprites are in PNG or Wallpaper in JPG,
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5271/06...08203850tm6.jpg

 

[jayparadox]

Most WiiWare data is encrypted in a ASH file, where nothing appears to be understandable.
A decryptor would be good, and it would allow game translations, image modifications and control over everyting the game has.

 

[Jacobeian]

you have to know what you're doing. If you lack a clue, then you just have to wait/hope for someone else to write a simple tool for noobs to use.

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

but finding the game sprites in a wiiware game isn't simple i think

geez... you can extract sprites from roms because these systems are well documented and we know the sprite storing formats (binary speaking) for each of them...


but wiiware games are just like any other gc or wii games, there isn't such things as sprites for these systems, everything is probably put in tilemap textures and more probably compressed in a proprietary format that nobody knows... also, you could eventually extract textures files from a game disc but from a dol (which wiiware games are), it's just impossible to guess where texture data are stored

 

[sabatino]

tell me the game and maybe i can rip it or tell you how to do it,
it's not really hard for me (i'm a programmer),

toki tori as an example isn't in a special format, all Sprites are in PNG or Wallpaper in JPG,
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5271/06...08203850tm6.jpg

the game i like the sprites from is toki tori

but the example i made was from dr. mario, because it was only 15 mb my pc could handle it

with toki tori my pc just hangs

is it much work to rip em?

 

[Xeronage]

you have to know what you're doing. If you lack a clue, then you just have to wait/hope for someone else to write a simple tool for noobs to use.

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

but finding the game sprites in a wiiware game isn't simple i think

Because people made tools for those. Real rippers can make their own tools and understand how to find the images in hex.

 

[sabatino]

you have to know what you're doing. If you lack a clue, then you just have to wait/hope for someone else to write a simple tool for noobs to use.

i can rip sprites from:
-n64
-nes
-gb( c )
-gba
-ds
so i know what i'm doing

but finding the game sprites in a wiiware game isn't simple i think

Because people made tools for those. Real rippers can make their own tools and understand how to find the images in hex.

then i aint no real ripper

i suck at hex editting like i told before

 

[dsfgd]

the game i like the sprites from is toki tori

but the example i made was from dr. mario, because it was only 15 mb my pc could handle it

with toki tori my pc just hangs

is it much work to rip em?

just unpack the WAD with WADTool, then unpack *.002.des (00000002.APP) and you get all files, they are png and jpg, so it's no work to rip them ^^

for Dr. Mario, it's an easy format, not much work to extract files out of this Game.dat

but what do you mean by "my pc could handle it" ? use a prog like Winhex and don't use common ROM ripping Tools.

 

[sabatino]

the game i like the sprites from is toki tori

but the example i made was from dr. mario, because it was only 15 mb my pc could handle it

with toki tori my pc just hangs

is it much work to rip em?

just unpack the WAD with WADTool, then unpack *.002.des (00000002.APP) and you get all files, they are png and jpg, so it's no work to rip them ^^

for Dr. Mario, it's an easy format, not much work to extract files out of this Game.dat

but what do you mean by "my pc could handle it" ? use a prog like Winhex and don't use common ROM ripping Tools.

when i extract toki tori, i get an overflow error, because my pc is too weak

can you maybe zip/rar it and upload it?

edit:
i think i got it now

used an other tool

edit2:
yup got em all

they look great