[MainMemory]

I have figured out enough of the FONTDATA0.BIN and FONTDATA1.BIN files to make an editor. 0 is Japanese, 1 is ASCII/European. Left click to draw with white, right click to draw with black.

This is the text used for subtitles.

[Dude]

I have always wanted to be able to do that!

[TorchicBlaziken]

It would be cool if someone managed to hack Super Knuckles into the game.

[MainMemory]

Yes it would be.

In other news, SADXPCTools etc

SADXLVL2 now views and edits Death Zones, and you can change which characters they affect, a feature Sonic Adventure doesn't seem to use.

[Hendricks 266]

MainMemory, on 06 October 2011 - 05:00 PM, said:

I have figured out enough of the FONTDATA0.BIN and FONTDATA1.BIN files to make an editor. 0 is Japanese, 1 is ASCII/European. Left click to draw with white, right click to draw with black.

This is the text used for subtitles.

Could this mean that the font could finally be replaced with the one from the DC/GC versions?

[MainMemory]

If the files are there, and in the same format, there's nothing stopping you from simply replacing the files with the DC versions. Gamecube would be byteswapped of course.

Also for some reason, if I try to add Hot Shelter to Sonic's level list in Trial Mode, it doesn't appear, and makes Final Egg disappear too! However I can add Emerald Coast to Tails' list just fine.

This post has been edited by MainMemory: 10 October 2011 - 09:42 PM

[Hendricks 266]

Unfortunately, there are no FONTDATA*.BIN files in the DC or GC versions. Sega must have had some motivation to change the font which resulted in it being in a different format.

[MainMemory]

Hm, I wonder then if EFMSGFONT_ASCII24E.BIN et al are used in those versions, because I can't find any use of it in SADXPC (filling it with FF did nothing to any of the text). I do know the format of those files as well, but they don't have extra info telling you what image goes with which character.

[Hendricks 266]

The EFMSGFONT_* files are identical between the PC and GC versions. They do not exist in the DC version.

[MainMemory]

Oh. I don't have my SA1 image anymore, and I saw it in SA2, so I assumed SA1 had it too. Clearly SA1 is storing the font elsewhere then.

Edit: Maybe the EFMSGFONT files are SA2B leftovers...

This post has been edited by MainMemory: 13 October 2011 - 09:13 PM

[MainMemory]

I was going through the disassembly of chrmodels.dll cleaning up the last bits of undefined data (everything is defined as structs now) and I found an animation for Gamma not referenced anywhere: at 293474, he does his "selected" animation from the character select and returns to standing.

This post has been edited by MainMemory: 14 October 2011 - 06:36 PM

[MainMemory]

I've figured out the NB files, they're archives, and I wrote an extractor. This will create a bunch of numbered BIN files in a folder with the same name as the NB file, and an INI file.
The files with Type=1 are models, the address is (EndOfFile - sizeof(OBJECT)). They're in SA1 format.
The files with Type=3 are animations, without the first header. Nothing can open them right now.

This post has been edited by MainMemory: 16 October 2011 - 07:16 PM

[Dr. Mecha]

Need Something for the Steam "DreamCast Collection" version.

[MainMemory]

I do not have access to that version.

[Ch1pper]

Well, I just wound up wasting tonight messing around with the font for shits and giggles, nothing serious. Then I started the game to see how it had turned out, and...



Oh god, it's so unfitting! I didn't realize it'd turn out so... groovy. I'll probably mess around with it more tomorrow, or at some point just to make it less-retarded/more presentable looking in-game.


MainMemory, just a quick question: I noticed quite a few symbols (in the English font) that, in the contents table, were either blanked out or appeared as that "unrecognized language" box-character. Am I right to assume you just didn't get around to filling out everything? Just found it odd that unlabeled symbols were either blank or 'unrecognized', instead of all one or the other.

Anyway, nice job with this program. Fun little time waster, to say the least.