Metroid Prime hacking research

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Antidote: 2015-09-04 10:23:08 pm

2015-09-04 10:21:58 pm

Uh, no, I understood you perfectly. What I wanted you to do was put hecl into a path with spaces and try again.
We can't replicate the error on our end, so we need to see the error you're getting.

a cow that likes cookies

2015-09-04 10:34:10 pm

whaaaaat???... it works anywhere now!?

did I simply need to restart after installing everything, perhaps?

whatever it was, I can't recreate it now

Antidote

2015-09-04 10:49:30 pm

Weird, yeah no idea how that happened, it really shouldn't. Internally all of the path stuff handles spaces fine.

Odylg

2015-09-05 12:24:50 am

I run this here hotel of an evening

Just tried again, apparently the spaces thing was for the filename, not the path itself. I probably just changed the directory when I changed the filename, as a "just in case" type thing. And good to know quotes work.

http://imgur.com/qrho5HW
This shows the error dealing with the filename.

Antidote

2015-09-05 12:27:50 am

ah, yeah, that's expected. Arguments are space delimited, not much we can do about that. If you surround the path in quotes ("), it'll work fine.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 10:29:49 am

Hi , how do you introduce a ANCS in Blender.
How to compile a PAK ?

Antidote

2015-09-05 10:47:43 am

Those features aren't available yet.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 10:50:59 am

How did you have it you is not finished or is it just reserved for VIP ?

Antidote

2015-09-05 10:53:22 am

It's not even written yet, this is a prototype, not a full featured application.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 10:55:38 am

Okay , wait until then.

We can make you a gift or you want to do it voluntarily

Antidote

2015-09-05 10:56:08 am

We fully plan to re-target the original games.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 10:57:32 am

How does the original games , cds ?

Antidote

2015-09-05 11:02:04 am

It interacts directly with the ISO, how you obtain a copy is entirely up to you.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 11:05:48 am

As the game Mario Kart Custom Track?

Antidote

2015-09-05 11:08:19 am

I'm not sure what you mean, are you referring to custom content?

MrHostille

2015-09-05 11:09:28 am

Yes, you are not talking about the same thing?

Antidote

2015-09-05 11:11:37 am

Ah, eventually, we do plan on supporting custom content.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 11:12:20 am

You plan to do what?

jackoalan

2015-09-05 12:26:01 pm

Ok, to clarify how we've been making custom content so far, everything has been manually edited/inserted using a hex editor..

Not so much "VIP" functionality as an advanced workflow.. Extremely difficult to give you a tutorial without documenting every detail

MrHostille

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MrHostille: 2015-09-05 01:29:16 pm

2015-09-05 01:28:07 pm

Okay , it's not easy stuff , but with hexadecimal we get to something on an unknown file right?

Eg able to make viewers.

jackoalan

2015-09-05 01:38:14 pm

Hex editors can be used for many things.. We've been doing reverse engineering and data modification with them.

Once we determine the structures and fields in a format, they're documented on the wiki:
http://www.metroid2002.com/retromodding/wiki/Retro_Modding_Wiki

Then viewers, editors and other applications can be constructed using this information, or pure-manual edits can be made with a hex editor.

MrHostille

2015-09-05 01:40:01 pm

Okay, but you do that voluntarily ?

jackoalan

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jackoalan: 2015-09-05 01:41:54 pm

2015-09-05 01:40:57 pm

Yes, we're computer programmers independently researching the games we love

MrHostille

2015-09-05 01:43:13 pm

Yes, you do what you like ^^

jackoalan

2015-09-06 05:13:17 pm

New Prototype Release

https://github.com/RetroView/PathShagged/releases

This fixes an issue with CMDLs extracted without CSKR rigging data