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[SleepyK]

yep !

 

[nube]

I have an inquiry about hexing and the .dat/.usd files. How do I discover what happens at ____ offset? How do I find out which file corresponds to ____ in the game? (Other than the obvious Pl****.dat and Gr****.dat)
For example, this:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8888/gfrsdd.jpg
How did Qual know which file to replace, and at what offsets to change stuff?
(btw, what happened to him anyways)

 

[SleepyK]

it's in the tutorial in the first post.
you extract all the textures
turn the original textures into tpl
find where the texture begins in the tpl (i forgot the offset)
find in dat
make note

 

[nube]

So to find offsets for anything with textures, I go .tga (unedited) > .tcs > .tpl then match it in hex workshop with the original .dat? Should all of the data in the .tpl hex file match with the .dat, or just part of it?

 

[SleepyK]

all that info is in the guide. the actual texture in the tpl starts at a specific offset.

 

[nube]

oops i must have missed/forgot that part when i read the guide before. thanks

 

[Ryucloud]

Dont want to sound like that guy but does somene just makes textures and gives them to people

 

[SleepyK]

why would you do that
plus that's extra illegal

unlikely because
1) modding a wii is incredibly easy
2) all the info up here is free
3) all the downloads and links are free
4) anyone who is interested in this usually sees it at a tournament or on youtube, so they ask the guy with the hacks/post a comment on youtube. we're not all pb+j, trying to profit off of others.

 

[Campii]

hacked melee

Thanks Sleepy =D

I guess it would be a bad idea to post a dl link to an iso here, but yea, if anyone wants a version of Sleepy's hacked iso, with some textures and audio and whatnot, PM me. And thanks for the tip D1

 

[D1]

You might get banned for this. Its best you take that link down and just tell ppl to pm you if anything.

For those interested in Campii's ISO you can hit him or me up since I DLed it b4 the link was taken down. Its a modified version of SleepyK's w/ happy hardcore music and some texture hacks for the lazy ones out there.

 

[nube]

I've been getting this error almost every time I try to convert from TCS > TPL using texconv:

I didn't get this before; only recently has the TCS > TPL process given me an error. Anyone know how I can fix this?

 

[libertyernie]

What I do when that happens is open it with GIMP, right-click the (only) layer, press Add Alpha Channel, then save and close.

 

[Ryucloud]

why would you do that
plus that's extra illegal

unlikely because
1) modding a wii is incredibly easy
2) all the info up here is free
3) all the downloads and links are free
4) anyone who is interested in this usually sees it at a tournament or on youtube, so they ask the guy with the hacks/post a comment on youtube. we're not all pb+j, trying to profit off of others.

lmfaoooo at the pbj roast na that came out the wrong way man it just that is there like premade ones for the lazy guys

 

[Ryucloud]

thanks sleepy =d

i guess it would be a bad idea to post a dl link to an iso here, but yea, if anyone wants a version of sleepy's hacked iso, with some textures and audio and whatnot, pm me. And thanks for the tip d1

i dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Ryucloud]

You might get banned for this. Its best you take that link down and just tell ppl to pm you if anything.

For those interested in Campii's ISO you can hit him or me up since I DLed it b4 the link was taken down. Its a modified version of SleepyK's w/ happy hardcore music and some texture hacks for the lazy ones out there.

i dooooooooooooooooo

 

[Kyu Puff]

New School: Steelia rises again. He put batch files in the texture packs called "TexConv.bat". When you double click, it'll run TexConv.exe for each texture and make TPLs for all of them. A nice time saver.

What's supposed to happen here? I double click TexConv.bat, it runs TexConv.exe quickly (so I can't see what it's doing) and when it closes it doesn't seem like anything changed. Which files am I supposed to edit?

 

[Steelia]

What's supposed to happen here? I double click TexConv.bat, it runs TexConv.exe quickly (so I can't see what it's doing) and when it closes it doesn't seem like anything changed. Which files am I supposed to edit?

Depends on which pack you're using; I know I didn't put clean TCS in all packages... Which character color are you working with?

 

[Kyu Puff]

Green Sheik; you said there were no TCS but it looked like all of them were there...

 

[Campii]

What's supposed to happen here? I double click TexConv.bat, it runs TexConv.exe quickly (so I can't see what it's doing) and when it closes it doesn't seem like anything changed. Which files am I supposed to edit?

i noticed a similar problem with red falcon tbh. i may just give it another try in a couple of days though with neutral falcon. i actually like nintendo's blood falcon

 

[SleepyK]

if someone pm's me the link to campy's iso, i'll add it to my email.


if i can freakin remember the password

 

[Ghetto]

Sup all,

I'm getting the hang of this, and I think I'm close to getting some textures done. Having a little trouble and I'm confused on a step. So for step 6, where you copy the hex data from the new tpl file (that you made using TexConv.exe after editing the targa) to the Pl****.dat file, I'm confused on how much of the data you overwrite. What I've been doing is taking the entire new tpl file (except for the first 4 lines) and copying that over all the data between offsets provided in S.'s PlaceMints! file.

I.E. If texture 02 is at offset 0001d860 and texture 03 is at offset 00021860 I will copy all of 02.tpl minus the first 4 lines over all the data from 0001d860 - 00021860. I have a feeling this is wrong. It lets me use Gamecube rebuilder to replace the DrNr.dat file with the newly overwritten one, and it doesn't give me an incorrect size error, but when I try to play it on dolphin, whenever I use the character that I've edited the texture, it just stays on the "Loading" screen when I select a stage.

Is this a dolphin issue or a hacking issue.

Thanks!

 

[nube]

Is this a dolphin issue or a hacking issue.

When dolphin fps drops to zero and stays there (a.k.a. when it freezes), its almost always because of incorrect hexing. At least in my experience.

 

[Ghetto]

The music still plays, but I have a feeling it's a hexing issue.

In the case of the hexing issue, how should I overwrite the data in the Pl****.dat file? What portion needs to be overwritten?

 

[Junpappy]

You just need to overwrite from the offset of whatever texture you edited. So in your example, for texture 2 you just copy the data from the tpl (minus the top four lines) and paste it starting at 0001d860. The offset of the next texture doesn't matter because if you have it set to overwrite then it won't affect the number of lines in your final dat file.

 

[Eternal Yoshi]

...............................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT-4RofyV9I

Soon, if all goes right, this will allow Melee hacks to become more widespread........

Hopeully someone else will pick this up....

 

[Ghetto]

Changed hex editors, the last one I had didn't allow me to "overwrite" the data. This one does, should probably make things a lot easier to work. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The thing that's giving me the most trouble now is the Backup Loader for the Wii. It's a killer install.

 

[Gardevior]

if someone pm's me the link to campy's iso, i'll add it to my email.


if i can freakin remember the password

Did you ever get it, SleepyK?

 

[The Good Doctor]

I PMed D1 to have him send it to me but yet to get a reply...
T.T

 

[S l o X]

Forwarded Campii's link to you via PM, The Good Doctor.

If anyone feels they have a tourney legal .iso with decent music and stuff, would you mind uploading it? My D:/ drive got deleted (more or less) and don't want to start downloading everything again.

Haven't made Campii's yet so I can't say but hopefully it'll do but I'd rather have a backup, in any case.

 

[ConnorTheKid]

I have one but it has Lady Gaga all up on it (idk if you consider that decent music lol).

 

[KAOSTAR]

what hacks have been done that aren't tourney legal?

 

[The Good Doctor]

I have one but it has Lady Gaga all up on it (idk if you consider that decent music lol).

Dude, that sounds sexy as hell.
As long as the texture hacks are good as well send it my way

what hacks have been done that aren't tourney legal?

Any game that Zelda is < M2

< means less than btw, i dont want you to become confused

 

[S l o X]

I have one but it has Lady Gaga all up on it (idk if you consider that decent music lol).

send :D

and by tourney legal I meant with specific colors like Orange Falco on Red falco, or purple falco on blue falco and not red so if teams happen then . . . yeah you get the point. I mean, nobody is gonna be playing doubles on these (?) at tourneys but I think it'd be cool if there was an .ISO like that.

 

[L/A/W]

Whenever I try to run any of the homebrew apps the wii freezes. Any help?

 

[nube]

If it's Gamecube Launcher that freezes your wii, is it because you have a gamecube controller plugged in? You can't have any GC controllers plugged in the wii while that screen is loading.

Anyways, I'm currently updating my rainbow FD:

 

[L/A/W]

The MIOS patcher blacks out whenever I start it. I just got the CIOS thing to work recently, but the MIOS patcher still blacks out and freezes my wii.

 

[L/A/W]

Can somebody help?

 

[SleepyK]

how did you start your wii hacking

 

[L/A/W]

I started with Brawl hacks, so I started by getting bannerbomb and then putting geckOS on my homebrew channel

 

[SleepyK]

so i'm guessing you'll probably just have to update your cioses first