Sonic Lost World (PC / Wii U) Hacking & Resources

The Quake Wisp is in the Wii U version, just saying. You find it in multiplayer only as a way of slowing down your opponent, so it makes sense that it's in the game.

 

Oh okay, I didn't recognize it and when I did a quick google I found a page that said it was only in the 3DS version. Guess that's not actually anything interesting then :P

 

Also, IIRC, Yacker is appears in on the map screen a lot. He's not named, but he's there.

 

Yeah, he's the one giving you extra missions to do IIRC? Either that or the one who sends and receives gifts like extra 1ups

 

Yeah, IIRC it was his name written out as a HUD graphic. I'm not sure if it's used anywhere, but Zoney seemed to think so and I don't remember seeing it anywhere.

It's not too super interesting either way, honestly.

 

A shame Lost World's physics appear to be hard-coded. I can imagine the gameplay being a lot more tolerable if it was changed to play more like Sonic titles of the past.

That said, the fact that you guys were even able to crack the game is fascinating enough.

 

Know what I just noticed? Link Sonic will only ever show a smile on the right side of his face. It doesn't adjust to the camera like the normal model does.

 

He never swapped mouths at all apparently unless the new update data make its only stay on one side now. Since it seems they only made the right side show up in the visibility files.

 

Impressive work as always Dario. Never thought Wii U hacking would get this far. I wish you the best of luck.

 

Let's do it, then! I used DiscU tool by crediar, patched with proper common key.
Sonic Lost World rip: [REDACTED]
Sonic Boom (look here how to extract it further): [REDACTED]

Besides game dumps, common key also allows to extract files from Wii U updates, which is a great help when looking for things exploitable.

 

one other fairly important thing that I don't think has been mentioned yet is that Lost World (and Boom, for that matter) has an unstripped executable. I haven't found any tools yet that can convert them to .elf and maintain all symbol data so they can be easily disassembled, but when there is one there should be a lot of information available from that.

 

The reason I posted it is because these rips can't be used to launch the game anyway (encryption information missing, etc). Sorry then.

 

Well, they can't be used right now. But it's pretty likely that at some point it'll be possible to run this stuff on Wii U.

 

Even if not it's still loaded with Sega's copyrighted content. There's a line somewhere, and I'm not sure where it is (after all, everyone's fine with SonicGLvl being distributed with loads of Generations assets), but I'm pretty sure distributing a full dump is over it.

 

I'm mostly looking to get my hands on the audio files from the game which are most likely .aax (or .adx), correct?

 

The audio is actually a different CriWare format, ACB/AWB. I'm not sure what the audio format contained in them is; I know at least a few of them do contain ADX files.

EDIT: crediar's just released his DiscU tool. If you can find a scene release of Lost World that comes with the encrypted title key, you can use that tool to unpack files from it.