olivercomet / epfexplorer

File editor for the EPF DS games, as well as other First Playable Productions titles.

A tool for extracting/modifying the files of First Playable Productions DS games; mainly designed for EPF and Herbert's Revenge.

Current features:

• Opening and editing .ARC archives (Both EPF and HR)
• Opening and editing .RDT resource data files (EPF. HR is viewing/exporting only.)
  • Exporting sprites to PNG sequence, GIF, or (for folders) sprite sheets.
• Editing TSB/MPB and NBFC/NBFS/NBFP tiled images. (Both EPF and HR)
• Exporting and reimporting Lua scripts.
• Editing save files. (Both EPF and HR)
• Exporting audio clips to .wav (PCM or ADPCM format wav, openable if FFMPEG is installed)
• Exporting music tracks in .XM format, with all sample data
• Opening and editing the game's DLC mission (download.arc)

The custom missions 'The Lost Signal' and 'The Way Home' can be found in the 'Useful stuff' folder of this repository.

With thanks to

• Fireboyd78 for creating a C# port of unluac (originally by tehtmi)
• No$GBA for its invaluable debugging tools
• DSDecmp for its LZ10/11 compression features
• MCJack123 for their contributions regarding instruments and samples, and PCM audio.
• NGif

epfexplorer's Issues

RDT 8BPP support

Herbert's Revenge sfx.bin seems to have broken at some point

A few feature requests and a minor bug

Currently, to export XM files, one needs to do them all one by one. A button to export all would be nice.

(these next two might be for @MCJack123 to look into)

Vibrato seems to be a bit slower than it should be (see Gadget Room).

Reducing the file size of the XM's to only have the samples needed, would be nice. (Jack has told me this would need a decent bit of rewritten code or added code, however, so, not sure how viable this is).

*.sav doesn't appear in the File Explorer File Formats dropdown.

It's really confusing having it not appear as it makes it look like *.sav's can't be opened, which can confuse people using the tool.

Oh yeah and a tutorial on how to use the tool would be nice. ;P

A simple container format for RDT subfiles so that entire sprites can be exported and reimported with ease

Problems with ripping music from Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay

When I try to rip the music using EPFExplorer everything sounds off and even the mixing is broken

Exporting the Sample Collection gives samples at the wrong sample rate

The samples within the XM themselves are at the correct rate, however.

A way to reimport the centre...bounds etc config file, and a way to edit the baked sprite movement

The Way Home needs to be updated to be compatible with EPFExplorer again

The Lost Signal has already been done

Need to be able to add new sprites to a folder in RDT

Opt into hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is opt-in this year and as such you must add the hacktoberfest topic to a repository

Question About the extracted .sequence files from music.bin

Hey! I found your tool after doing some searching on Github. NGL this tool is really good so far, but I have a question about the .sequence files. What audio format do they use? I tried importing the files into Audacity as raw data with different settings but haven't got anything that sounds like normal audio. I tried opening them with HxD to check the file header but each file had a different header. So either some of the files use different audio formats or they all use a headerless audio format. I'm planning on using SoX to try out different audio formats that the files might use but if you know what audio format they use please let me know!

Thanks!
-Winonamac

(lmao I wrote that like I'm writing an email)

P.S. While looking on Github I found this attempt at Reverse Engineering the Club Penguin Games I'll link it here in case it might help you.

Need a tutorial on everything

Hello, i need a tutorial on everything this program has, especially with music editing and missions

XM reimporting may need to be adjusted to account for the changes made in MCJack's PR

Finish the mission editor switch statement with mpb/tsb filenames in it

The one with BEACH0, BEACON0, etc

Can't find specific Elite Puffle sprite

I can't seem to find a certain sprite for the Elite Puffles. It's the sprite when they're blinking. I doubled checked if I missed the sprites somewhere in the files, but I couldn't find them. I had to rip the sprites the old fashioned way (taking a bunch of screenshots).

This is the sprite I'm talking about, by the way:

Simply Minesweeper (DSiWare) - Not working

Greetings. This game appears to use all files that are .arc, .rdt and .bin, figured I would use this tool but it doesn't seem to work properly. (e.g. some rdt files won't open at all, broken sound files)

Would it be possible to add support for this game?