Push Hacking Further

[Ombra]

I'm new to this forum and i really love the game so i started checking all the foum sections and stumbled accross this one... wich i personally like 'cause of hobby of messing around with file formats on games.

So i tought... having custom songs and all in the game is cool but why not pushing it even further and understand all the other file formats?

It would be cool to have custom songs with the names and all. I don't know if somebody is willing to go on with it but if you are interested i would like to know.

Btw, i was looking at file structure of the game and i saw a couple of interesting files under the \..\..\system\run\config\gen\ folder wich are not listed in the other \config\ folder:

bankedit.dtb
bankedit_tool.dtb
milo_tool.dtb
sysutl.dtb
uiutl.dtb
vagutl.dtb
xbutl.dtb

Maybe by relinking these files to others used by the game we can access some interesting stuff.

What you think guys?

[Ombra]

I'm new to this forum and i really love the game so i started checking all the foum sections and stumbled accross this one... wich i personally like 'cause of hobby of messing around with file formats on games.

So i tought... having custom songs and all in the game is cool but why not pushing it even further and understand all the other file formats?

It would be cool to have custom songs with the names and all. I don't know if somebody is willing to go on with it but if you are interested i would like to know.

Btw, i was looking at file structure of the game and i saw a couple of interesting files under the \..\..\system\run\config\gen\ folder wich are not listed in the other \config\ folder:

bankedit.dtb
bankedit_tool.dtb
milo_tool.dtb
sysutl.dtb
uiutl.dtb
vagutl.dtb
xbutl.dtb

Maybe by relinking these files to others used by the game we can access some interesting stuff.

What you think guys?

[DarkCalx]

from my understanding (i may be wrong) the dtb files are either encrypted or password protected or something. so until we can crack those open, we're still kinda in the dark as far as renaming custom tracks
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You will walk in fire, earth, water, and air, through temptation, and at last into despair and desolation.
Listen to my 'Computer Generated Dance Music'

[DarkCalx]

from my understanding (i may be wrong) the dtb files are either encrypted or password protected or something. so until we can crack those open, we're still kinda in the dark as far as renaming custom tracks
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You will walk in fire, earth, water, and air, through temptation, and at last into despair and desolation.
Listen to my 'Computer Generated Dance Music'

[Ombra]

Yes DarkCalx,

i was looking at them and they look indeed compressed or encrypted.

Yesterday night i was trying to get some uncompressed data out of the RAM with PCSX2 but i can't find the memory mapping of the PS2 anywhere. That should give us a starting point to know exactly what's going on with those files.

Btw, somebody with ASM skills can easily track the routine in the SLUS and find out what is really going on. Is somebody willing to try??

[Ombra]

Yes DarkCalx,

i was looking at them and they look indeed compressed or encrypted.

Yesterday night i was trying to get some uncompressed data out of the RAM with PCSX2 but i can't find the memory mapping of the PS2 anywhere. That should give us a starting point to know exactly what's going on with those files.

Btw, somebody with ASM skills can easily track the routine in the SLUS and find out what is really going on. Is somebody willing to try??