Recruitment for High School DxD for 3ds [Wanted: second hacker and translators]

[ILOVEPIE]

Visual Novel:

 

Please post below if you are interested in helping.

Wanted:

• Translator(s)/Translation Check - must be able to proficiently translate from kanji hiragana and katakana must also have some experience with working in Shift-JIS encoding.
• Someone with Mobiclip Tools for Nintendo CTR (if agreements allow for you to re-encode video for this project)
• another hacker who has more experience with VN file formats, must be comfortable with potentially having to create new tools to extract/inject scripts and or text.

Status:

• Decrypting/Extracting game files - 100%
• Identify what files do what - somewhere between 20% and 50%
• anything else - 0%

Currently known specs of the game:

 

Audio engine:
CRI ADX2 for 3DS

Cutscene format:
moflex (mobiclip video for nintendo CTR)

Texture format:
CTR Texture Format

Text encoding:
Shift-JIS

Known text-containing files:
/text/TextData.bin - UI messages (such as "do you want to overwrite this save?")
/data/event/tutorial.dat - self explanetory.

known filetypes:
.acf (Atom Config File)
.acb (Atom CueSheet Binary)
.ctx (CTR Texture)
.h (C/C++ header file)
.moflex (mobiflex video)
.shbin (compiled 3DS shader)

unknown filetypes:
.awb
.enc
.bin (Binary File, but what's the format)
.dat (Data, but what's the format)

File name acronyms:
RAS - files for/concerning/about Rias Gremory
ISI - files for/concerning/about Hyodo Issei (player)
ASA - files for/concerning/about Asia Argent
KNK - files for/concerning/about Toujou Koneko
AKN - files for/concerning/about Himejima Akeno
YUT - files for/concerning/about Kiba Yuto

Characters that don't seem to have acronyms:
Raynare
Donnaseige
Karawarner (if appears ingame)
Miltelt (if appears ingame)

[Silvz]

Sorry to ask, but how do you intend to play it?

[ILOVEPIE]

Sorry to ask, but how do you intend to play it?

I can export it for use with a flashcart (there are working flashcarts for 3ds) or for use with a custom 3ds firmware.

[mantixero]

Sorry, I didn't see this post before I replied to the other thread in which you asked.

I could lend a hand if I had a script. That would be an enormous help. So far I haven't worked on any projects where I didn't have to play through to game first to find and screenshot as much text as I could (check my Twitter posts in my profile if you want to feel my pain).

[ILOVEPIE]

I'll send you a script for some of the loading messages etc. The file format isn't known yet so I can't give you a full script.

Edit:

Still looking for another hacker and maybe some more translators.

[ILOVEPIE]

*bump*

News:

Development is stalled a bit on this as I'm having issues getting IDA Pro to display text in Shift-JIS encoding.

[RinXD]

Are 3ds's region locked?

[xyz]

Are there any debuggers for 3ds?

Are 3ds's region locked?

Yes, you'll need a piracy cart to play this if it's ever done and released, some of them also disable region lock.

[Kelebek1]

There are some developer 3DS models, but you'll be paying out your arse if you wanted to get a hold of one, and even then it won't run unsigned or retail games, according to: https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-development-hardware.327858/

 

Welp, I'll look at a text file, but with no debugging whatsoever, and no way to test if the game works, don't expect too much.

[ILOVEPIE]

Yes, you'll need a piracy cart to play this if it's ever done and released, some of them also disable region lock.

It's called a flash cart and you can use a CFW if you don't have one.

Welp, I'll look at a text file, but with no debugging whatsoever, and no way to test if the game works, don't expect too much.

what do you mean by this?

[Kelebek1]

what do you mean by this?

 

You want someone to look at extracting/inserting the scripts right? I said I'll take a look at one of those files. But like I said, with no debugging or even testing to see if a reinsertion works, it's not going to be easy. I'll need a file though, I can't decrypt the game myself.

[xyz]

There are some developer 3DS models, but you'll be paying out your arse if you wanted to get a hold of one, and even then it won't run unsigned or retail games, according to: https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-development-hardware.327858/

 

Welp, I'll look at a text file, but with no debugging whatsoever, and no way to test if the game works, don't expect too much.

Eh, that sucks. I have gateway and a 4.1 3ds, but without proper tools I'm not sure if that'll be worth the time, sorry.

[ILOVEPIE]

I can export it in a format that gateway will run.

[Kirashi]

Is the project still alive?

[Mr Poltroon]

Is the project still alive?

As far as I know, yes. Though lack of actual team members doesn't help much. 

 

Either that, or check with Tiago, a global mod covering the Dev Boards.

How did you know?

[ILOVEPIE]

it's still alive but i can't edit the scripts until i get another hacker to go through the engine's assembly code with me so we can figure out the format. (doing dissassembly/reverse engineering on your own is hard)

[Kirashi]

it's still alive but i can't edit the scripts until i get another hacker to go through the engine's assembly code with me so we can figure out the format. (doing dissassembly/reverse engineering on your own is hard)

ok, I'm glad to hear that

Good luck and thank you for the hard work

[Ever17]

Great thing that you try it to translate, sad that i'm not a hacker and cant help you with it...

[Simplyalif]

Please tell me this project is still alive. 

I want to play this game so badly in English, literally searched on Google and this is the closest thing to it being done, that I could find 

[kadz1901]

Something tells me this project is really dead