How to edit stages

[bossofthegame]

Well I'm trying to edit smashville right now. I've extracted STGVILLAGE_02.es.PAC and put it through SSBExtract, but it gives me .bin files. I don't know what to do with them.

[Joey90]

I think there is a sort of brief description in the SE guide, but anyway...

If you come across a .bin file when extracting something in SSBB it is compress using lz77 compression, you need to use a decompressor such as lz77ex.

Then you should end up with a .bin.out file when you finish, which you can extract using SSBextract.

To recompress it you can use ntcompress in exactly the same way that you go from .pac to .pcs, except with .bin wherever you had .pcs and using the four bytes 62 72 65 73 not the ones that you replace in the pcs conversion.

The tricky bit is that you need the newly compressed .bin to be the same size or smaller than the original, which relies on some luck in the compression process...

[jolti135]

Well, I'm interested in create my own stages too, so I followed the actions needed, but I'm stuck at the point of extracting the bin files. I tried with STGFINAL.PAC (Final Destination, but well, seems to be the same for all stages), and SSBExtract gives me three bin files (00, 01 and 02). I went then to lz77ex, and then I have three folders with .brres files and a .pac in 01, and a .elfs and a .reft in 02 folder. What can I do with them, how can I edit these files? Can't do this with ASH? I don't have the Syntax Error guide, so I'm very lost, hehe.

[Joey90]

What I do to extract a stage...

SSBextract the STGxxxx.PAC, which should produce a folder containg 3 .bin's

look at the sizes, and you will see that 001.bin (I think) is the only one with a significant size.

Extract 001.bin using lz77ex.exe

Copy the resulting 002.bin.out into a new folder, and copy in SSBextract then use that again, as if it were a .pac.

You should then get a folder with a whole load of .brres' and .bin's (and also one pac I believe)

Now you can either just SSBextract everything (don't worry about the .bins or the .pac) or if you ONLY want the textures I think you can just extract the largest brres (it should be the largest by a big margin)

Then you should get a familiar folder with Textures(NW4R) containg the relevant .tpls'


To pack it back in, you need to do it in reverse, using hex-editing (to reverse an SSBextract) and ntcompress (to reverse a lz77ex).


Again, if you get the SyntaxError Guide, then it will tell you what to do.

[jolti135]

Well, Final Destination textures opened, thanks to you, man, hehe. Sadly, this will be hard work, phew...

Ok, now I'll search this SE guide, so I can then repack the textures, and finally change the stage with WiiScrubber... If all goes alright, I will upload some snaps of the result.

Thanks again, and sorry 'bout my poor English. xD