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Sonic Adventure 2 Hacking

Discussion in 'Engineering & Reverse Engineering' started by Turbohog, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. Turbohog

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    Since this is now a general SA2 Hacking Thread, here's some helpful links. PM me if you think I should add/change something on this list.
    Tools:
    SA2 Mod Loader - MainMemory
    SA Tools - MainMemory
    Decryped Executable - MainMemory
    IDA 5.5 Database - MainMemory
    SA2 Cheat Table - flarn2006

    Notable Mods:
    MainMemory's Mods
    SA2B - Network Mod - Morph
    Sonic Adventure 2: Pro Edition - Dude
    SA2: The New Challengers - Neo
    No Upgrades for Sonic or Shadow - darkspines35
    Fusion's Chao Editor
    Trial Sonic Mod - darkspines35
    Better Buttons - Morph
    Stache Fix - Morph
    No LoD - Morph


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  2. Aerosol

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    What are the mlt files?
     
  3. Turbohog

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    Ah, I completely forgot to mention that. The MLT files contain all of the voices/sound effects for the game. The ADX files just have the music and such.

    Edit: Turns out I'm a fool. The only .afs file contains all of the voices from the cut-scenes. However, I think the MLT files still contain the sound effects used in the game.
     
  4. Glaber

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    personally, I'd like to know how to get at the DLC models.
     
  5. Azu

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    I'd like to see a Level editor, personally.
     
  6. MainMemory

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    A Sonic Adventure 2 level editor would 1. likely be written by me and 2. have about the same features as SA1LVL did: only being able to move geometry, and edit SET and CAM files.

    Unless somebody can figure out how to add data to a stage file. Also I'd have to figure out all/most of the chunk types in SA2 models.
     
  7. Azu

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    I though SA2 and SA has some similarities between them? I don't know if I heard it here or at X-Cult though.
     
  8. MainMemory

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    It has several similarities to SA1. The models however are processed almost entirely differently.
     
  9. Dr. Kylstein

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    I'm quite familiar with Python, but I can't find anything wrong with the highlighted line. What version of Python are you using? There are several in circulation.
     
  10. Turbohog

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    I'm using 3.2.1. I think the original code was written with Python 2 though and I edited some of the code months ago to work with new syntax and such.
    Edit: Turns out I'm a fool. The only .afs file contains all of the voices from the cut-scenes. However, I think the MLT files still contain the sound effects used in the game...so it'd be great to extract them.
     
  11. Dr. Kylstein

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    Python 2.7 is still supported, if that helps at all. It's still the default on Ubuntu. If I knew where to get the data, I might be of more help.
     
  12. darkspines35

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    A little late to the party, but I've been trying to break some ground in SA2B since I can at least hack it (sorry SA2 DC goers). Well, I did this.
    [​IMG]
    And this is a direct swap between Sonic and Super. Had to adjust IDs in his model to make it work, but hey, it worked, haha. I also have a big list of animations I was working on. Turns out the game uses practically the same animation format as SA1/DX. But just swapping some IDs in there does wonders for animation swapping.
     
  13. Ryuki

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    Well you just answered my dreams as an 11 year old. Fucking GameWinners.com and Supercheats.com telling me you'd unlock Super Sonic/Shadow by obtaining 180 Emblems and A ranking every stage. I'd never been so dissapointed in my life. >:

    Fuck it, I'm downloading Dolphin and hunting down an SA2B iso simply in the hope you write a how-to or make a release. I'd play the fuck out of it. /11yearold

    EDIT: Out of interest, how does this swap affect the cutscenes? Does the head freak out like in SADX?
     
  14. darkspines35

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    Well, I haven't watched a cutscene with it. And I would release this if it weren't so crash prone. Due to Super Sonic lacking pretty much every single model, except for his body, he crashes. A lot. I mean, I should have probably shown a picture of what happens when you jump. With the swap, since Super has his own normal model too for when you run out of rings, that model is now part of the jump ball model. So to get this to fully work with some animation swaps and whatnot, I'd have to port some data between models. You know what? I'll just do a video later to show the crashy crashy the game is. I do think if someone could make some codes to eliminate some of the things that are borked, like items, jump ball model, that after shadow model, and the jumping and homing attack models, he might just work entirely. But until then, it's just a showing off that it's possible. I'll also check on the cutscenes for you. I'm pretty sure they're the same since the game includes the character models in the event files.
     
  15. MainMemory

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    So I figured out why SAMDL fails to read SA2B models.
    The first piece of vertex data in Sonic's first model in SA2:
    29 00 19 00 6C 00 04 00
    The same data in SA2B:
    00 19 00 29 00 04 00 EE

    Not only is the chunk header treated as a word when our docs say it's two bytes (wouldn't be the first time), it looks like they switched the length and chunk type, and the index base and vertex count parameters. The floats following are the same in both (byteswapped obviously), so aside from one parameter being changed it's basically the same data.

    I'm not sure I have enough information to actually do anything about this though.
     
  16. darkspines35

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    What offset is that at if you don't mind me asking. I'd like to check it out myself, see what's up. I remember comparing the the data between the LSDash after shadow models and it seemed to match up.
     
  17. MainMemory

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    In SA2: [first model] -> 9A80 -> 9A68 -> 99FC
    In SA2B: [first model] -> 10F2C -> 10F14 -> 10EA8
     
  18. Chemical Heat

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    It has begun..
    But seriously. Awesome progress! Can't wait to test it out, or mod SA2B myself to play as Super Sonic without crashing :3


     
  19. qwertysonic

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    So have you tried any texture edits yet? I made a topic about a year back about it, but it never went anywhere.
     
  20. darkspines35

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0RZOD9fyY&feature=youtu.be
    There's the vid to go along with this.