[flarn2006]

I was poking through the files on the Steam release of Sonic Adventure 2, and I found a file called StageSelectConfig.ini. (It's in Resource\gd_PC.) This file looks interesting. I tried changing "isDLC" and "hiddenstage" to 1, but they didn't seem to have any effect on the stage select. Changing "isFullGame" to 0 didn't do anything in Stage Select either.

Anyone have any idea what this file could be for? There's comments, but they're in what I assume to be Japanese that isn't encoded properly. Can anyone maybe figure out what the comments mean? The "in_game_debug" feature seems especially interesting, but it's already set to 1.

[MainMemory]

flarn2006, on 25 November 2012 - 06:03 PM, said:

There's comments, but they're in what I assume to be Japanese that isn't encoded properly.

The comments are in perfectly properly encoded Shift-JIS, as is usual for Japanese developers.

[flarn2006]

MainMemory, on 25 November 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

flarn2006, on 25 November 2012 - 06:03 PM, said:

There's comments, but they're in what I assume to be Japanese that isn't encoded properly.

The comments are in perfectly properly encoded Shift-JIS, as is usual for Japanese developers.

Oh, I was expecting Unicode. Hold on, I'll try and run it through Google Translate...
EDIT: Well Google Translate was no help; here it is in the proper encoding in case anyone who knows Japanese feels like translating: http://pastebin.com/eBqR3C3i
All Google was giving me was stuff like '"Child-Kemotene Tsuyoo 醯 ¬ j" ェ brush mote modules Ya~yu Homa tight ゚ Pradesh 醴 ネ '

Also, the numbers for the different bosses at the bottom seem to match up with the level codes at X-Cult, only in decimal instead of hex. Does anyone have any idea what this file could be for? And what the hell does "Light Allergy" refer to?

This post has been edited by flarn2006: 25 November 2012 - 08:20 PM

[Morph]

Turns out it's actually Traditional Simplified Chinese.

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如要使用原游戏逻辑，请使用如下值：
If you want to use the original game logic, please use the following values​​:

Edit: derp; simplified not traditional.

This post has been edited by Morph: 25 November 2012 - 08:22 PM

[flarn2006]

Morph, on 25 November 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

Turns out it's actually Traditional Simplified Chinese.

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如要使用原游戏逻辑，请使用如下值：
If you want to use the original game logic, please use the following values​​:

Edit: derp; simplified not traditional.

What do the rest of the comments say? Google's not helping even if I set it to Chinese.
Thanks btw.
EDIT: Oops, I still had it set to Shift-JIS; it's really GB2312. Google's translation is still hard to read, but it's at least somewhat legible.

Google's translating the comment after the in-game debug setting (1游戏中开启debug设置模式，非1是关闭) as "1 game open the debug setting mode, non-1 is closed". I'm reading that as something like "1 enables the game debug mode setting; non-1 is disabled." But it was already set to 1 when I installed it.......any idea how to access this debug mode that's supposedly enabled?

This post has been edited by flarn2006: 25 November 2012 - 08:38 PM

[Trunks]

"hiddenstage" is undoubtedly Green Hill Zone. It's probably a boolean to decide if it shows up or not in Stage Select.

[flarn2006]

Trunks, on 25 November 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

"hiddenstage" is undoubtedly Green Hill Zone. It's probably a boolean to decide if it shows up or not in Stage Select.

Yeah I figured that too, but when I changed it to 1 it still wasn't unlocked.
Also, I tried changing isDLC to 1, but that didn't unlock the Battle DLC. I would think it's because it wasn't downloaded, but strangely if I edit the memory I can still access the 2P mini-stages like Planet Quest (that's the one I tried.)
Also, anyone happen to know how to extract and/or decompress the .PAK files in the gd_PC\PRS folder?

This post has been edited by flarn2006: 25 November 2012 - 09:58 PM

[darkspines35]

.pak files are a fairly simple package to rip from, but putting back into them isn't easy because the format isn't properly cracked yet. As for the StageSelectConfig.ini file, I believe it does absolutely nothing. Same goes for the LightAllergyConfig.txt file. I've messed with both and nothing happened.

[flarn2006]

darkspines35, on 25 November 2012 - 11:05 PM, said:

.pak files are a fairly simple package to rip from, but putting back into them isn't easy because the format isn't properly cracked yet. As for the StageSelectConfig.ini file, I believe it does absolutely nothing. Same goes for the LightAllergyConfig.txt file. I've messed with both and nothing happened.

Well that sucks. Are you sure?
Also, how new is the .pak format to the community? Any idea when we'll be able to put the files back into them? (Also, how do you rip from them?)