Public Release Decompressor/Compressor for Rareware Games / Text rips

[slaphappy]

Airman, try this.

Download Sub's latest files to get the most current exe (Sub kindly made the decompress game available). Create a new directory on your computer and copy your bk rom to it. Run the exe and click the bottom button for Decompress Game (it seems you are picking decompress file at the top). Select the rom file in the directory you just created. The process will chug through the entire rom and your directory will be filled with all sorts of bin and txt files. Look at the txt files - and don't expect every file to have game text in it.

Originally Posted by hatrickpatrick

Hang on a sec - the egg text from BK is in there? Someone should definetely look into this

Is there any way we can figure out when/where it's supposed to appear?

Purely speculation, but that text might be there as a port of the special item objects. So when you collected a true secret egg, it would behave exactly the same as BK's, giving you the same result. So the object mod for NTSC BT seems to be the direction to continue pursuing. Not saying there is an object corresponding to 063B or 063C still there, but that text at least gives the indication there was at one time.

[kirbyfanner]

So what does this thing do? Allow you to edit text in BK?

[Airman]

Oh.....Its all coming together now..silly me I need to read more properly

[kirbyfanner]

I think its a text editor....
but it asks me to open .bin files.

Anyways, while waiting for an answer, im looking at this one piece of code from Spaceworld, i guess:
ERR, YOU GO FIRST KAZOOIE. �‰THE TEAM BEHIND THE AWARD-WINNING BANJO-KAZOOIE RETURN WITH AN ALL-NEW EPIC ADVENTURE, FEATURING EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE BEAR AND BIRD DUO. 
�xA WHOLE CAULDRON-FULL OF NEW FEATURES AWAIT, INCLUDING REFINED TEXTURES, DOLBY SURROUND, 16:9 ENHANCED WIDESCREEN MODE, �oREAL-TIME LIGHTING, AN EXPANDED INTERACTIVE SOUNDTRACK AND MORE MINI-GAMES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A BROOMSTICK AT! 
€·TOOIE FEATURES OVER 125 NEW CHARACTERS, PLUS THE WELCOME AND NOT-SO-WELCOME RETURN OF A FEW FAVORITES. AND YES, THE JINJOS ARE BACK AND STILL HAVEN'T LEARNT TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE... �¢CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS OVER A SERIES OF MORE THAN 10 MULTIPLAYER GAMES FOR UP TO 4 PLAYERS, INCLUDING THE HILARIOUSLY UNIQUE EGG-BLASTING FIRST-PERSON SHOOTOUTS! €;WELL, THAT'S IT. WHY NOT PLAY SOMETHING FROM THE GAME NOW?

[Airman]

Wait, So once I have like the 6000 files in the Directory what do I do with them? , Also whats Inject into game do?

[kirbyfanner]

Again waiting for an answer *ahem* *hint hint*
I found something involving the Grey Jinjo home:
ISLE O' HAGS
#( JINJO VILLAGE ) �BOTTLES' HOUSE ‚KING JINGALING'S
THRONE ROOM Æ’GREEN JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE „BLACK JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE …YELLOW JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE â€*BLUE JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE ‡%SHOULDN'T BE HERE
JINJO FAMILY HOUSE ˆBROWN JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE ‰ORANGE JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE Å*PURPLE JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE ‹RED JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE Å’WHITE JINJO
FAMILY HOUSE

I know its been found already, i just thought it may be useful to point it out.

Now THIS is important! You know how when you walk into the lair, it says "Gruntilda'S Lair (enterence)"? I found this:

GRUNTILDA'S LAIR
#( ENTRANCE ) ‚!GRUNTILDA'S LAIR
#( TOWER ROOM )

so theres two parts....

can i have a cookie now?

AHH...YOU FIND BIG HIDDEN FEATURE SPELL! MUMBO TURN BANJO INTO T-REX, CRUSH WITCH EASY! 



005C8348:

 „LCHANGED MIND, T-REX SPELL TOO GOOD FOR THIS GAME. MUMBO KEEP FOR NEXT GAME! 




this is odd

[SubDrag]

This tool is a decompressor and compressor (think of it like WinZip). What you choose to do with it is your business (it can be used for text edits, views, to compress models, anything, I provide the source).

He does say that T-REX comment in BK (if that text is from BK).

This can be used as a text editor, if you notice there is a compress feature, and also inject into ROM feature. You can basically look at the .txt files, see which one you want (by name), open up the .bin version in a hex editor, edit it, save it, then inject that file into the ROM at that location.

[kirbyfanner]

Ok, so i CAN edit the ROM's text? By just editing the text in a text file...and then...enject it into the ROM?

EDIT3: I think i got it now....


Technically, you can make your own sandcastle cheats. If only we knew which BIN file they were in.....



NEW PROBLEM!
THIS time, i don't know where each text file is!!!! Or what its name is!!

[runehero123]

Heh Heh, so could we add our own models to the game with this?

[kirbyfanner]

Again, i have no clue what im doing. I decompressed a ROM, got flodded with files, dont know which file has each text, find some, try to enject them in a ROM, ROM's size quadtroples, can't run, get mad, delete all 6,000 something BIN files.

[runehero123]

Maybe someone should create a tutorial...

[kirbyfanner]

That would help
ALOT

[SubDrag]

If you look in the first post, you'll see I have a listing of text by address. If you use those addresses, you can open up a .bin of that address in a hex editor such as hex edit or hex workshop, edit it, then inject it back into the ROM at that address.

[runehero123]

But, this could be used for more than just text, Right?

[SubDrag]

Sorry guys, I made a bug in inject ROM, please redownload the decompressor and try again. You must specify the address and then inject an uncompressed file to that location.

Yes, this can compress anything into the ROM, models, setup files, anything. Text is just easiest. You can use the source I provided to do anything, new levels, anything.

If your ROM is like 2x the size, it's likely because you accidently injected a ROM into a ROM. The order is file to inject, ROM in, ROM out.