Hacking Wad Studio v0.0.0.2b12 Released

[OSW]

Guess what happens if you open a wadder made channel.

Inside the banner images there is a file called ZlphaahplA.tga

It is an invisible image inside the banner that says
"This BANNER is property of PaRaDoX.
Do not use without permission."

I guess icefire uses a PaRaDoX channel as a base wad. I hope he has permission lol.

 

[wilsoff]

You are absolutely welcome to use my stuff but next time please ask first.

@HowardC - I sincerely apologise for using your tools without asking, I checked your docs and it says:

"This application is free for personal use. This application may be distributed publically so long as it's free, the original docs are included, and credit is given to "HowardC", the author. This application may also be packed with other tools, so long as the liscense agreement is still upheld."

Thank you for your kind permission now. And next time I will be sure to ask!
QUOTE(adr990 @ Feb 18 2009, 07:31 PM) Is this a app for reskinning the animation? (Illegal)

Or making a new animation?(Legal)

Last step:
Opens NotePad for me 0_o

This is for reskinning animation. My understanding is that this is legal if you own the original WAD and you do not distribute what you create with it.

It's supposed to open notepad, it uses it to write scripts to allow tpl_converter 1.2 by broly7 to convert the TGAs back to TPL. If it hangs there please report the bug in full at http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wad_Studio and I'll see what I can do to fix it!


If people haven't already checked out the page at http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wad_Studio please do so, it contains important credits and information, that I should have included in the zip file. It will be there next time. A lot of people have put far more work into the tools behing Wad Studio than I have put into Wad Studio. It's important they are named and people know who they are.

 

[OSW]

I found out that the game Lonpos has a simple non animated widescreen icon (2 images at 170x96), so that is useful to me for finally making unstretched widescreen icons (as opposed to wadder).

Now I'm simply looking for a game which has a non animated banner, or at least very simple animation, with a full simple widescreen background. Unfortunately I haven't yet found a wad that has a simple image that takes up the whole background image. Most are complicated...

I haven't tried packing it though so I hope that icon won't go distorted...

EDIT: Pirates wiiware has a single 4:3 banner image and icon. not even a transition! lol
Too bad it wasn't widescreen

 

[Don Killah]

Thanks for the infos buby, please check your pms.

 

[OSW]

got a problem....took a wad and just replaced the dol using this program....put same wad in for both banner and icon....I end up with bad-looking banners, looks like every other horizontal line has been shifted a few pixels...wads still work no bricks, but channel banner text is unreadable and images unclear because of this...no clue why this happened to me...using newest "Fixed" version.

edit: I think this is the "fuzzy images" glitch:
"Some channel icons appear fuzzy once they are repacked. If you get this try a different template WAD."

but I really want to use the channels I have... :-/

Same issue, I used Brothers in Arms banner (extracted from the wii iso, packed into a wad).

 

[wilsoff]

got a problem....took a wad and just replaced the dol using this program....put same wad in for both banner and icon....I end up with bad-looking banners, looks like every other horizontal line has been shifted a few pixels...wads still work no bricks, but channel banner text is unreadable and images unclear because of this...no clue why this happened to me...using newest "Fixed" version.

edit: I think this is the "fuzzy images" glitch:
"Some channel icons appear fuzzy once they are repacked. If you get this try a different template WAD."

but I really want to use the channels I have... :-/

Same issue, I used Brothers in Arms banner (extracted from the wii iso, packed into a wad).

Yeah, it's a pain. All we can do for now is keep a track of the compatibility on http://wiibrew/wiki/Wad_Studio and hope someone smarter than me can figure it out. Maybe HowardC (if you're not too annoyed with me

)

 

[noobwarrior7]

its almost definitely got to be a compression issue.

 

[icefireicefire]

I am going to release WADder v2 pretty soon (one stupid bug left). It is pretty much the same, but a bit more reliable.

@wilsoff: we should work together

@OSW: Check all "custom channels" on this site. They ALL have that PaRaDoX image in them.

@HowardC: A sorry from me too (I didn't include the docs!)

. Will do in the future. Thanks for commandline support back (and ignore my pm

)

 

[noobwarrior7]

PS: since I installed wadder, autoinjectuwad (and just injectuwad) produce bad wads with broken title-id CP00

just throwing that out that whilst icefire visited.

 

[icefireicefire]

unrelated

 

[wilsoff]

its almost definitely got to be a compression issue.
I've found an answer at http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.p...d7fd27be81f1f00
QUOTE(nanook @ Jan 30, 2009 7:57 am)There was 2 types of blurred that I encountered.

1. Very dark banner and hard to see.
- This was fixed by the c.exe stuff you detailed above.

2. The image is kind of blurred/distorted, in blocks of 4 pixels almost.
- You fix this by adding 16 null bytes to the end of the blyrt file in the item that is corrupt (icon.bin or banner.bin). The U8tool should add this, but it looks like some files need it and some don't and the exact rules are not known. The the rule is: If it's distorted add the bytes, if it's fine leave it alone.

But I can't get it to work. I was using Fun Fun Minigolf and I've tried adding 32 zeroes and 16 zeroes and no joy either way. Banner Brick eveytime.

I've written the script to add bytes to the end, so if anyone can figure out how to make this work it can be incorporated easily.

EDIT: turns out the banner bricking was nothing to do with adding bytes, my computer just can't make working wads with v0.0.3.4. To fix corrupted images simply add 16 bytes of 00 to the end of the file, add to the end, don't overwrite the exisitng bytes. Some images need 32 bytes of 00 to make them work. Wad Studio 0.0.5.0 has a working fix for both of these. Unfortunately it no longer has image conversion support. two reasons - 1) it turned out it was using illegal code, 2) since 0.0.3.4 didn't work on my computer I started to re-write it and have got back to the image editing bit. I'm hoping a legal tool will turn up.

 

[buby78]

ok so i gave this a try. i opened up a wad that the banner was distorted. opened banner.blyrt and in the last row of zeros (well not the very last one but the last long row i think it was 17 pears zeros)it has something like 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 so i changed the 06 to 00. packed it all up and it works now.

EDIT
looked at the channel and i notice that it has some french text. so i looked at banner.brlyt and i had edited the french one 06 to 00 so the french text came up the ESRB.

EDIT
i edit the 06 in the engish one no more french text.

 

[buby78]

i think wilsoff has fix the problem with blurred/distorted banners and icons!!!!!

 

[Don Killah]

[...]
I read that you tried the same and using c.exe instead of gbalzss.exe was the key to success in your case.

Here's what I've done lately (and gives me the best result so far):

- extract opening.bnr with U8Tool (by HowardC)
- extract banner.bin with U8Tool
- extract icon.bin with U8Tool
- downloaded your "c.exe to gbalzss.exe" (and copied it in my tools dir)
- copied c.exe in my tools dir
- renamed gbalzss.exe to gbalzss_orig.exe
- renamed your .exe to gbalzss.exe
- packed banner.bin with U8Tool and clicked yes in your tool to use LZ77 compression
- packed icon.bin with U8Tool and clicked yes in your tool to use LZ77 compression
- packed opening.bnr with U8Tool

This way I'm getting an opening.bnr exactly as you've mentioned 8 bytes less than the original one.
But mine doesn't work properly (confused!). The images look somehow blurred.

Would be great if you can provide me with your exact steps or tell me what parameters you use with c.exe? Maybe this helps.
Manually packing of files I created with U8Tool (no compression) through c.exe -l -o banner.bin banner_uncomp.bin doesn't work. They don't even have the LZ77 string in it if you look inside.

Haha, I feel your pain... There was 2 types of blurred that I encountered.
1. Very dark banner and hard to see.
- This was fixed by the c.exe stuff you detailed above.

2. The image is kind of blurred/distorted, in blocks of 4 pixels almost.
- You fix this by adding 16 null bytes to the end of the blyrt file in the item that is corrupt (icon.bin or banner.bin).
The U8tool should add this, but it looks like some files need it and some don't and the exact rules are not known.
The rule is: If it's distorted add the bytes, if it's fine leave it alone.

You can use the banner.bin and icon.bin from ANY source that has a banner. Just swap the graphics out

Getting the alpha transparencies is another challenge. The trick is to use HowardC's TPL tool, something like:

1. Open the tpl file
2. While open, go in to the temp folder for the app and copy out the TGA file
3. Open the TGA in a graphics app that supports channels (Photoshop, Paintshop Pro etc)
4. There will be a channel called "Alpha 1" or something. That's the transparency
5. Create your image and make sure the alpha channel is correct. This will allow you to have partially transparent images
6. Use the TPL tool to convert the TGA back to TPL

Let me know how you get on. I hope this helps a few people, I've been meaning to write it up for a while.

Cheers,
Nanook

Seems to be working for them, yet i did not try.
Edit:
source - http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.p...d7fd27be81f1f00

 

[OSW]

How/Where did you find this out?

 

[Don Killah]

Followed the link provided earlier by Wilsoff and decided to copy/past the relevant content to make it easier for us to get the info (no need to read the whole content).

Edit:
A new version is out (0.0.3.4):

Revision History
0.0.3.4 - 21 Feb 09 - Added support to fix distorted banners and icons. This has only been tested by a couple of people, so please beware and report your findings. This is probably the last version as Wadder 2 should be out soon and should also be legal and replace this app.
0.0.0.2b14 - 19 Feb 09 - Fixed issue that inadvertantly launched Windows Media Player. It turns out ALT+SHIFT+P restores WMP from the mini-player on WMP11 and above. The 0001b12 used ALT+P to activate packing in U8Tool. 0001b14 onwards use ALT+p (lowercase) which resolved the issue.
0.0.0.2b12 - 18 Feb 09 - Initial public release

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wad_Studio

 

[buby78]

did he post the new wad studio 0.0.3.4????? the download link is for the old one. i tested the new 0.0.3.4 and its pretty good. it has the fix for banner and icon. so if you made a channel and the banner or icon did not work just run the program again and just pick the wad that you made for all 3 option. then skip step 2 go to step 3 fill in the info. now if the banner was fucked up just click on the banner patch option or if icon then pick icon patch. now you got a animated icon and banner.

 

[Don Killah]

Check the link, it's a megaupload share title this way:

NomFichier: wadstudio.zip
Description: wad studio 0034 - possible icon/banner fix

 

[kedest]

I just want to replace the dol in a wad (to update a gc backuplauncher channel to xi)
can this application do that?

 

[tj_cool]

I just want to replace the dol in a wad (to update a gc backuplauncher channel to xi)
can this application do that?

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136458