The Week at the Game Research Forum #12
April 7th, 2014 by Devilot
Another Week at the Xentax Forum. Aren’t you happy about it?
EDIT: Major system failure, lost 600+GB of data. Life sucks. Extremely angry. Spent saturday and sunday putting everything in place, that’s why I am late.
3D/2D Models
- Marlow Briggs: DarkMan wants to understand its obscure format.
- Webgl: success on both Chrome and Opera!
- Samurai Showdown: testing is done on these models yay! I still remember Amakusa at the Arcade, the girl with the magic ball weapon.
- Magic World II: CE needs help for those amazing NIF files.
- Webgl: figuresculptor has released a massive script! thanks a lot!
- Diablo III: amazing progress by TaylorMouse!
- Saint Seiya Online: someone help CE! OMG a game about the Saints! a game with the damn CAPES!
- Dead or Alive: work continues apparently. Porn galore.
- LOS2: fix found for UV maps of Lords of Shadows 2.
- 35$ Offer: Zaramot has given in to the dark side, and made some scripts 🙂
- .RES: First post of Darkman…
- SB: bug report and update.
- Ps3 EMB: lots of work being done here.
Audio File Formats
- ADPCM: a new version in the new Batman game?
Graphic Formats
- Mirror of Fate HD: progress is being done on the textures!
- SW TFU: textures need to be investigated.
- NTP3 to DDS: apparently there is this possibility.
- Dark Souls 2: a very small bit of insight about the textures of this game, TPF.
Game Archive Research
- ZuOnline: CE needs help in understanding this game’s archives.
- Legend of Wukong: and this.
- World Zero: and this!
- Dungeon Striker: and this! Gee, prolific is an understatement.
- Naruto Ninja storm: archive info posted and help wanted.
- XPAC Unpacker: released by Ekey. Congrats!
- DAT Unpacker (Anomaly): another release by Ekey!
- DAT Unpacker (Hydrophobia): again, prolific is an understatement!
- Lightning Returns: TRB Extractor worked on for two years. Kudos for persistence.
- Arkham Origins: ARA files should be investigated.
- Syphon Filter: resolutive necroposting for this PSP game.
- NASCAR 2011: more work on the script.
- CN Punch time: quickbms script made and working.
- Tomb Raider: interest continues after the 2013 release of the script.
Compressed files and methods
- Magic World II: compressed NIFs are the issue.
- .ARA: info on this? Completely unknown the format is.
- TDKR: cra0 should release a tool soon-ish. I didn’t even know the game existed, and I am a Batman fan!
Game Localization
- The Wolf Among Us: problem solved. Props!
- GTAV: test tools by Ekey. Getting better and better Ekey is.
- Goat Simulator: apparently it’s getting localized!
- Ground Zeroes: being worked on… lots of work ahead!
Noesis
- As popular as ever, the interest for this majestic tool never ends.
Other Tools
- Dissidia 012: I am persistent.
- Defiance tools uploaded to the tools section.
- Evolution Engine Cache extractor is still a work in progress.
- StarFox tools uploaded to the tools section.