ROM Hack Getting Sprites from Raden Legacy on Steam via .bin (AKA Raiden Fighters Aces on XBox 360)

[sebxb360]

So I grew up playing Raiden Fighters Aces on the xbox360, I still have the 360 and the disk but I recently got the steam version in the hopes that i can extract the sprites through the .bin files.
Long story short this has been a multi month adventure, so any help is needed at this point.
I'm just running out of energy at this point.

A tool, a direction to a decoder, someone who already has the sprites, just something other than the wiki that doesn't even scratch the surface of available sprites.

I can get into the data and view it in Microsoft Visual Studio but need something to take that data and translate it and I keep hitting dead ends or dead threads with no luck on my part.

What I see in MVS:
00000010 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F 1F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Do you even know what formats the sprites are in? I'd suggest running the bins through Tridnet to get some clues. https://mark0.net/soft-tridnet-e.html

 

[sebxb360]

Do you even know what formats the sprites are in? I'd suggest running the bins through Tridnet to get some clues.

Alright it says it's a 50%/50% match between ICN "MagicDesk Icon" & Z "Pack compressed Data(old)"

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Alright it says it's a 50%/50% match between ICN "MagicDesk Icon" & Z "Pack compressed Data(old)"

I would guess there's a very good chance that it's just a compressed Magic Desk Icon then. I've never worked with Magic Desk Icons before but there's some software that can open them linked on this page: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Magic_Desk_icon
You might need to run it in DosBox.

I don't think I've ever worked with zpack files before either. I would try using this tool (it's command line based) with the command

zpack.exe -x *.bin

Then open whatever is spits out with the programs that can deal with Magic Desk Icons.

If that doesn't work it's probably a more complicated file format. I don't know how I would progress but I'd start by looking more into Magic Desk Icons.

Edit: deark (linked on the archiveteam site) seems to be able to handle Magic Desk Icons and can run on modern systems without Dosbox.

 

[sebxb360]

I would guess there's a very good chance that it's just a compressed Magic Desk Icon then. I've never worked with Magic Desk Icons before but there's some software that can open them linked on this page:
archiveteam Magic_Desk_icon
You might need to run it in DosBox.

I don't think I've ever worked with zpack files before either. I would try using this tool (it's command line based) with the command

zpack.exe -x *.bin

Then open whatever is spits out with the programs that can deal with Magic Desk Icons.

If that doesn't work it's probably a more complicated file format. I don't know how I would progress but I'd start by looking more into Magic Desk Icons.

Edit: deark (linked on the archiveteam site) seems to be able to handle Magic Desk Icons and can run on modern systems without Dosbox.

I haven't used Command Line in a while, are you willing to walk me through the basics on how to properly use Deark, can you link zpack.exe or is that included in Deark?

(Sorry if this is annoying I just want to do it the right way)

 

[CompSciOrBust]

I haven't used Command Line in a while, are you willing to walk me through the basics on how to properly use Deark, can you link zpack.exe or is that included in Deark?

(Sorry if this is annoying I just want to do it the right way)

I haven't used Deark so I can't help with that.

I actually forgot to link the zpack tool in the other post (sorry)

Download this and extract is somewhere https://github.com/LeadRDRK/ZPack/releases/download/v2.0.3/zpack-windows-x64.zip
Open up Command Prompt and run

cd <path to zpack>

Where <path to zpack> is wherever you extract
For example:

cd C:\Users\sebxb360\Desktop\zpack-windows-x64

Move the .bin files from the game inro the same folder as where the zpack exe is
In Command Prompt run

zpack.exe -x *.bin

That should decompress the bin files. I don't know what the output file names will be though
Then you should be able to open the outputted files in Deark, if my assumptions about the .bin files are correct.

 

[sebxb360]

It is throwing an error when input zpack.exe -x *.bin and when I attempt to start the exe on it's own it doesn't open command prompt.

is there a step that I have missed or a dependancy I need?


'zpack.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.