Sonic Next-Gen (2006) hacking help

You're modding Sonic 06? That game had potential. Hopefully you can fix the gameplay enough to take it from a "D" to an "A". That said, I've only watched Let's Plays, so I don't have a disk. If you list the contents of the disk, then perhaps I could identify any formats I recognize (even if it's only the .xbx file). If I ever get a 360 and softmod it (if they ever figure out how), I'll help you out.

 

From what I read over at Retro about 2 years ago, sound data is stored in .XMA, a variation of WMA that, last time I checked, was cracked only relatively recently, if that's any help for ya.

 

Most things are .arc compressed, the models are .xno, and sounds are .xma.
There's tools for extracting .xma but not encoding to it I believe, and the model tools are private, but all they do is extract them, so they aren't really that helpful for hacking.

 

None of them are.

 

The XNA Game Studio contains a tool to convert to XMA if I recall correctly.

 

I'm pretty sincerely doubtful that anyone, even people as bright as the blokes here, are going to disassemble the binaries for Sonic 2K6 and fix even ONE major bug in the game, let alone turn the game into some kind of masterpiece. While not impossible, the overhead for such a task is so great as to render anyone who's seriously attempting this at this point in time criminally insane. (I can't tell if that's a run-on sentence or not.)

 

Sonic 06 is just a shitload of lua files. We pretty much have the source code to a lot of things, the only thing that isn't LUA is the main executable.

Code (Text):

1. c_lockon = {
2.     type = shape_convex_box,
3.     near_x = 5 * meter,
4.     near_y = 50 * meter,
5.     z = 300 * meter,
6.     far_x = 10 * meter,
7.     far_y = 300 * meter,
8.     sort = lockon_sort_priority_and_distance,
9.     lockon = lockon_type_lockon
10. }
11. c_lockon_homing = {
12.     type = shape_convex_box,
13.     near_x = 5 * meter,
14.     near_y = 6 * meter,
15.     z = 13 * meter,
16.     far_x = 15 * meter,
17.     far_y = 13 * meter,
18.     sort = lockon_sort_distance,
19.     lockon = lockon_type_homing
20. }

There's a small piece of Sonic's code.

 

So I see that must be coding for using the Homing Attack. Hey, maybe we could just fix the HA to work like how it does in, well, every other Sonic game. =P

Hey, it's a start.


...or better yet, just rewrite ourselves a whole new engine for it in LUA format, straight from scratch. :v:

 

Yes, he found full debug, swapped characters around, and changed speeds. Among other things.

 

Here:
http://forums.x-cult.org/topic/2823-sonic-the-hedgehog-x360/

The only person I would ask about this is link he seems to be the resident "sonic hacker genius" for the current games. but lately, hes rarely seen I wouldve love to see his work on SU for the 360 if he ever did anything for it.

Just goes to show not all current gen. sonic hacking is impossiable, just really hard to pull off.

Try here for models:
http://forums.x-cult.org/topic/1390-3d-ripping-thread/

 

You're just looking in the wrong places. Link is very active, I talk to him on MSN daily.

Also hacking Unleashed is a very large no. The games format is nearly impossible to even READ, let alone edit them. The compression format is the biggest bitch I have ever seen, and every file in the game is compressed in said format. Multiple people, including Link have tried and failed. Not to be negative, but it would take a lot of skill, dvd-dl, programming knowledge, and hacking knowledge. And most likely the game would have nothing but texture modding at most, because I doubt they coded things in lua again.

 

What about the Wii version of unleashed?

 

There's no problem hacking it, it uses the same file formats as Secret Rings.

 

... No it doesn't (same file extension but completely different format).

 

I meant everything inside of the .onz/.one archives. They share the same model, texture, and sound formats.

 

Ah, ok. I must have read it too fast and read it wrong. In that case, then it's the same (probably true for a lot of Sonic Team Wii/GC games).