Hacking Working on a mod for Ys VIII (maidump) but i have trouble unpacking/repacking the xai file

[moonblood666]

So i intend to make an UNDUB for Ys VIII (US maidump version but for 3.60 users - I'm on an very old henkaku version, so I can't use the NoNpdrm version + DLC) by replacing the voice files with the JP ones but it seems that the games data is stored in a huge file called "rootast.xai"...

I found a tool specifically for this game's xai files, but I don't know how to use this syntax correctly or something's not working correctly:

https://github.com/yosh778/YsVIII-tools

Unpacker


Usage : unxai <input> <output>


Extracts all files from an input XAST archive into the given output >directory.

I tried every way possible to execute the exe with these parameters in the command line... But it doesn't work. Maybe i missunderstood the syntax of the command? Is there anyone who worked with that tool while the English patch for the JP version of Ys VIII was made last year and can give me some hints on how to use this? Do those brackets on "input" and "output" need to be there? Does it require the absolute paths?

 

[chaoskagami]

You realize that there's absolutely no reason to make an undub of Ys 8, right? The game has Japanese audio as an option right there in the Language settings. Set Text to English, and Audio to Japanese. I think you need the language pack DLC, but that's free and you can just use rePatch if maidump won't work.

Simply put, what you're doing is pointless since NISA already did it.

 

[moonblood666]

You realize that there's absolutely no reason to make an undub of Ys 8, right? The game has Japanese audio as an option right there in the Language settings. Set Text to English, and Audio to Japanese. I think you need the language pack DLC, but that's free and you can just use rePatch if maidump won't work.

Simply put, what you're doing is pointless since NISA already did it.

I'm doing it just because I'm on an very old Henkaku (only Vitamin and Maidumps work), rePatch doesn't work on it. Sadly no one maidumped the Dual Audio DLC nor does anyone intend to maidump the DLC. I know I could just update my Henkaku, but I really want to keep my old version on the PSTV.

If you know a way to get the DLC decrypted as Maidump or Vitamin dump I'd take that into consideration of course.