Hexing Help :P

[Leon]

I'm pretty sure somebody said I could ask for help on here

if not then remove this ^^

See, I got my grubby little hands on the textures, and all the other stuff needed, so, for my first attempt, I though I'd try a Purple yoshi (simple huh?) well, I edited the TGA, blah blah TCS and made them into TPLs (Face and Body are the only Textures edited)

And now, it comes to the Hexing part of it ... And I have absolutely no skills, or knowledge of how to do this :s I have Hex Editor Neo, I just .... have no clue how to use it for this



A Uber Noob friendly guide would be Amazing help, or even a demonstration (pictures) on how to do what comes next would be amazing help for me

Thank you so much ^^

EDIT: I saw It got moved ^^' ha ha, I'm sorry, I'll be more careful next time

[Vile Teady]

well its really easy one you figure out the patten
you first open the original .pac file then you open the .tpl files you edited(in different tabs of course)
you then go to the original .pac file tab...



then you click here and type in"TEX0" without the " then hit find. your screen should look like this



notice at the bottom it says TEX0....these are the text you want to replace....and



they ALWAYS go in ABC order like on here. notice PlyKirby5KEye.1.tpl is first then so on and so forth.



you should have done the same when making the tpl files...like here...you always want to do it in abc order..



then you go to your tab(in my case its 01.tpl and 02.tpl) skip the first four lines(Always do this!!!) and copy the rest



then go to your original .pac file. An in my case 01.tpl is the first TEX0 there..what you do is hit this button to go to the next TEX0 line and remember where the first TEX0 Line ends.



so remember that number in my case its 35f50.so click here to return to the First TEX0



Again Skip the first four lines, highlight everything in that TEX0 line besides the first four lines and paste over what you just copied from the 01.tpl..like so



if you did everything right it should end exactally at 35f50(The end of the first TEX0)
you do the same step with all of the tpl files when you finished your last one go to the very top and delete the first fou bytes(hit del or delete on your keyboard)



then you finally go to file>save as FitKirby04.pcs(in my case its kirby)
and thats all the hex needed to be done unless you edited textures with palettes.
what ever you don't understand let me know ^-^

[Leon]

Well, I Am greatly, greatly Thankful for this, I really, really really gotta thank you for your effort in this ^^

But, it is late as of now, and my brain, malfunctions at night, so ... I shall try this out tomorrow, and see what I can do, if I run into any problems, would you mind if I asked about them here? (Since knowing me, I'm bound to find something going wrong)


Thank you so much Teady ^^

[Vile Teady]

sure anytime...and if you do run into any problems ask them here ^-^

[Leon]

Do I just save it as a PCS there in Hex Editor Neo? or do I have to do a bunch of stuff with nTcompress? and all this other stuff? (using Pharrox' very vague guide)


If so, May I ask once more, for an explanation for how to do this? (I know, I'm sorry about all this) but I'm seriously confused whenever I look at Pharrox's guide)

[Vile Teady]

lol its ok...well after you did everything I said you then save it as a .pac file then you get nTcompress and copy it to the same folder you put the newly made .pac file and you upen cmd by going to start>Search and type in cmd...it should pop up...ok so you type in cd the you type in the directory of where you put ntcompress in for ex. cd C:\Brawl_Hacks\Kirby you do it just like that then you type this in ntcompress -l -o [character].txt -A4 -t1 -s -H Fit[Character]##new.pac but where it says [character] you put in the characters info like so ntcompress -l -o kirby.txt -A4 -t1 -s -H FitKirby04newnew.pac then hit enter. after its done loading you should see a .txt file. you open it up in word pad. and delete what I have highlighted here



then you should have ActivePerl installed...so you type this in cmd cd C:\Perl\bin then copy the .txt file you just edited and past it here C:\Perl\bin then type this in "perl -p -i.bak -e "s/0x//g" [character].txt" but where it says [character] you put in the txt file name. then you type this in when its done "perl -p -i.bak -e "s/,/ /g" [character].txt" and when its done you open the txt file in notepad select all copy and paste it in a new file in Hex Editor Neo. and then you open the original .pac file and copy the first four lines and paste it in your new file but paste it in lines 05-08 then you finally go to file>save as> a .pcs...and your done! isn't that easy? lol

[Leon]

ok, im not sure if this is normal, but after I wrote "perl -p -i.bak -e "s/,/ /g" [character].txt" I got the message "substitution replacement not terminated at -e line 1."

Is that normal?

[Vile Teady]

no where is says [character].txt yours supposed to but the name of the txt file you pasted in C:\Perl\bin...for ex. mine was kirby.txt so i would put "perl -p -i.bak -e "s/,/ /g" kirby.txt" so your supposed to put in the txt file name not use that exact name...lol its ok we all make mistakes XD

[Leon]

I think thats what I did, I'll try again now.
I also have another question, since I dont have "standard" version of Hex Editor Neo, I cannot Open Wordpad then copy and paste the info, is there any other way to do this?

(getting angry, since as usual everything is messing up for me XD)

[Vile Teady]

lol XD umm....you need to copy paste.....hmmm....you can try looking for a cracked version or somthing