Dead or Alive 4 was for hardcore fans in some ways a step forward and in others a step back. So a few of us want to change how the game plays. There's a single file that's contains a majority of this data. In fact, it contains more than I originally thought. There's an official patch for the game that you receive when you connect to Xbox Live, this patch is just an updated version of the file in question: anm.afs. Some of you may already be familiar with the AFS format from the Dreamcast days, it's basically a container format like ZIP or something similar with no compression (I think). So it has each character's movesets. With the updated anm.afs however there were variables changed that were thought to be in the executable (which couldn't be modified without breaking its signature) but were changed in this file. Also a few additional moves were added with the update. Who knew? Neat shit. Basically the problem now is cracking the format of the files inside this AFS. You can see here how some of the data matches up here: So far we've managed to get a very basic modification done. A lot of it is guessing and not 100%. And the current app looks like this: So, yeah I'm stuck and haven't got any ideas. Here's two files if any one of you wants to have a look see and help me out. http://home.comcast.net/~doa4/alpha.bin http://home.comcast.net/~doa4/ayane.bin
Changing some of the properties of those unknown flags yields these results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqtNf5Jw7Q And just for shits and giggles I got a semi-playable final boss by file swapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7eDwzDmfQ
Well, posting 3 times in a row isn't going to help you get a response... What I've seen so far is rather interesting, though. I don't normally mess around with fighting games, but I can attest to the fact that swapping files can have some pretty favorable results. The best thing I can suggest when it comes to finding out unknown variables is just to change something drastically and test. Over and over again. Do it until you can find out something specific about that value, and how it affects the game. That's the bane of reverse-engineering, really—experimentation.
See I don't really want to do that since 99.9% of the file's format is unknown and testing a single variable would mean burning a single DL DVD+RW for an hour. I mean that's what I've been basically doing so far but it's really tedious and even when something is changed I'm still not quite sure what I've done. haha
Nobody said it'd be easy, though. :P There's not really much more you can do, to be honest. I hope you've got a lot of discs and a lot of patience. It's gonna be a long ride.
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Almost completely cracked. From oldest to newest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7eDwzDmfQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqtNf5Jw7Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41OY0nOLaPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz-l4-4JYNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRzqMXzhps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1iWjpl2cI8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1yddbWN-QI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1FWCcBWcI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0whARnVJes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4so8UDkjHo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uZwDt4nKdM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dA1fJZkKDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceC7jaJOzM
