Hacking Wad Studio v0.0.0.2b12 Released

[buby78]

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

YES!!!! but you can use this one to http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=136458 if you just want to change the .dol.

 

[kedest]

ah excellent. thanks guys

 

[OSW]

Marcan deleted the wiibrew page!

Anyone have the megaupload link, or a mirror? Thanks

 

[wilsoff]

Marcan deleted the wiibrew page!

Anyone have the megaupload link, or a mirror? Thanks

Yeah, shame he deleted that. Oh well, I guess I can understand it. He didn't give a reason, so I'm not sure if it was just that it was WAD related, or if he just didn't think it was that safe or finished. Unfortunately I had some info on there that's gone for good.

I'm having trouble with my computer, almost every wad I make at the moment is banner bricking my Wii - even early versions of Wad Studio that definitely worked. I think my SD card must be corrupt or something. Given that, I haven't been able to test this version properly. So you may not want to touch this - it's up to you. Buby78 says it works.

It adds 00's to the end of the icon.brlyt and banner.brlyt (see tick boxes at the bottom) so there's a pretty good chance of a banner brick. It worked once for me, so I know the theory is good.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6PP136UL

(I'm spending too much time on this, so given icefire is about to release WADder v2, this may be the last version of Wad Studio. Although I'm intrigued what has stopped it working on my computer.)

Good luck, and be careful!

EDIT: found this on the deleted discussion page:
00:40, 22 February 2009 Marcan (Talk | contribs) deleted "Wad Studio" ? (Includes tools from the Nintendo SDK (TGA2TPL))
And I thought was made by Broly7, it was just a renamed version of tpl_converter 1.2.
Anyone have any info on this? I'm sure Marcan is right, but I couldn't find any reference to this.

More importantly, does anyone know of a legal tool that can create TPL files? Or could anyone write one?

 

[OSW]

When I tick "patch banner.brlyt" the packing process starts but XVI32 stumps on "hex string invalid"

EDIT: Ok, i tried to edit it manually and pack it. Now wad studio doesn't work! packing just freezes as if its doing nothing. I tried the old version again and its doing the same 0_0

EDIT: restarted my user account and it's working again (old version)
I'll try the new version again in a min. It might just be a false alarm.

EDIT: yep still the same hex string invalid on the new version.
I'll try my manualy edited byrlt wad now.

 

[wilsoff]

Damn it, I wish i could put this down. Ok, I totally over engineered the process of adding 16 zeros to the end of the file.

I've just discovered this can be done with:

copy input1.hex /b + input2.hex /b output.hex /b

the /b on each file makes it treat the file as binary rather than text. Which under initial tests does exactly what is needed.

Therefore this is a simple process of creating a new hex file with 16 bytes of 00 in it and using that in place of input2.hex above.

If you want to have a go at editing the .au3 source it should be a case of commenting out all of the stuff inside Func PatchBrlyt($binType) around line 500 and replacing it with these two lines.

D'Oh!


UNTESTED:

FileMove(".\images\brlyt\" & $binType & ".brlyt", ".\images\brlyt\" & $binType & ".brlyt.bak", 1)

RunWait("cmd.exe /k copy " & @WorkingDir & "\images\brlyt\" & $binType & ".brlyt.bak /b " & @WorkingDir & "\base\brlytpadding.bin /b " & @WorkingDir & "\images\brlyt\" & $binType & ".brlyt /b")

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

gottta know, how n00b proof is this *sweatdrop* Man ive been in a real question mood lately

 

[wilsoff]

gottta know, how n00b proof is this *sweatdrop* Man ive been in a real question mood lately

It's not very noob proof at all. If you've got TP hack save on your wii, twilight princess game, a gamecude contorller and the right options in starfall installed then you can recover. If people don't know what those things are they should stay away until a safer method is develpoed.

 

[tj_cool]

gottta know, how n00b proof is this *sweatdrop* Man ive been in a real question mood lately

It's not very noob proof at all. If you've got TP hack save on your wii, twilight princess game, a gamecude contorller and the right options in starfall installed then you can recover. If people don't know what those things are they should stay away until a safer method is develpoed.

Or just preloader installed and thats it, no TP stuff or controller needed

 

[buby78]

here's a little video.

 

[wilsoff]

Or just preloader installed and thats it, no TP stuff or controller needed

Yeah, I'm tempted by that, but also a little nervous - it seems tricky to uninstall. I'm hoping BootMii will be out soon. I figure Team Twiizers will make it super safe!

EDIT: I was trying to give this up, but it turns out I can't put it down. Here's a leter version of wad studio if people want to try it out. I added support for the following formats:

icon/banner: wad / (opening).bnr
sound: wad / mp3 / wav

option to attempt to fix distorted banners/icons - out of the images that i've found to be distorted this fixes about 80% of them. Try without these options first, and only use them if it comes out distorted when you install it on your wii.

Unfortunately I've had to remove the part that converts the images from tpl->tga and back again as I inadvertently used copyright code. Therefore if you want to edit the images of the animation you are going to have to figure out a way to edit the tpl files. There are ways! Possibly:
Gally's TPL converter v0.4 or
HowardC's tpledit2.0 - http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=100...p;#entry1341181 or http://www.speedyshare.com/638705771.html
texconv.exe / tpl_converter by Broly7 (apparently Ninty SDK)


I saw that comex has written a png 2 tpl converter as part of Benzin project written in c called gentpl - If you're reading, can I use that please?

Ideally I'd like a legal tga2tpl converter. If anyone knows of such software, or can write something please plesae let me know!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H7NXUWWR

Note: Not noob safe - could cause banner brick - not an issue if you know how to recover first

EDIT: Here's version 0.0.5.0: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YGRHEOIJ
updates: better image distortion fixing (99% compatibility?). Support for opening.bnr for icon/banner/sound. Tabbed layout. More error checking on input fields. Still no image conversion support

(You will have to find your own way to edit .tpl images for now)

 

[buby78]

how did icefire convert the tpl???? is the way he did it legal?????

 

[noobwarrior7]

your app is great. nuff said.

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

So can this app make animated banners and icons, can u use flash to make them?

 

[Don Killah]

Yes you can make animated banners and icons.
And no, you can't use Flash (that would be awesome, but you can't)!

 

[EnigmaXtreme]

Yes you can make animated banners and icons.
And no, you can't use Flash (that would be awesome, but you can't)!

Rats, well Im sure youll be able to eventually lol

 

[wilsoff]

Wad Studio 0.0.6.0 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KXA94116

Image editing is back!!

You will need to supply your own TexConv.exe. This has also been known as tga2tpl.exe, tpl_converter by broly7, and a couple of other things. Find it, rename it to TexConv.exe, and put it in the TexConv folder in the tools directory then it should work.

I've added a settings tab. I've tried to hide as many windows as I could, but this sometimes causes trouble with a couple of the applications. If you have trouble just press CTRL+ALT+DEL and it will give you the mouse back. Then try it with the "show all windows" setting checked.

On my machine it still makes a brick everytime with fun fun golf, and it used to work - investigating now.

 

[Don Killah]

Thanks for the update... but noob should stay away from this if they don't know how to use Preloader because of the last line of your post

On my machine it still makes a brick everytime with fun fun golf, and it used to work - investigating now.

 

[icefireicefire]

OK wilsoff....I'm going to steal your code for the fixing of blurriness.

I hope you dont mind

.

 

[OSW]

What's the difference between Icon/Banner Fix Type A and Type B?

Also, the program is giving me an error when i try to pack the wad. Something like "banner.bin has no been unpacked" or something similar.

But the unpacking part seemed to work ok, albeit a bit quicker compared to the old versions (i'm expecting this is how its supposed to be though, and the tpl/tga images were defintely extracted).