ZenHAX

I've been searching for a way to get the textures/sprites out of these files for a bit, and since it's a Nippon Ichi Software game, I tried many of the existing tools for prior titles. Unfortunately none have gotten the job done. I managed to extract the 'fad' files from the bigger 'dat' archives, but haven't gotten past that point. Was hoping someone here could help me out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/smrxg0fxtc9c6 ... N.zip?dl=0

Well.. this is interesting

It looks like YKCMP but possibly a newer version, the existing tools don't seem to like it, and it seems to have an additional header at the start

This should get you started,

goto 0x24
get STRING_END long
goto 0x30
get STRING_START long

xmath STRING_LENGTH "STRING_END - STRING_START"
log "stringtable" STRING_START STRING_LENGTH

# workaround for getting entry count
goto 0x50
get FIRST_OFFSET long

set ENTRY_COUNT 0
xmath ENTRY_COUNT "FIRST_OFFSET - 0x40"
xmath ENTRY_COUNT "FIRST_OFFSET / 0x20"


goto 0x40


for i = 0 < ENTRY_COUNT
   getdstring NAME 8 # not always populated
   get LENGTH long
   get UNK1 long # Not populated if WIDTH and HEIGHT are populated
   get OFFSET long
   get UNK2 long # seems to be in the header of the subfiles, at 0x10, in case of NMPLTEX1 files
   get WIDTH long # image width, 0x58 in subfile
   get HEIGHT long # image height, 0x5c in subfile

   if UNK2 != 0
      # image file

      string NAME + OFFSET
      string NAME + "_"
      string NAME + WIDTH
      string NAME + "x"
      string NAME + HEIGHT
      string NAME + ".nplmtex"
      
      print "name: %NAME% offset: %OFFSET% length: %LENGTH% unk1: %UNK1% unk2: %UNK2% width: %WIDTH% height: %HEIGHT%"
      log OFFSET OFFSET LENGTH
         
   else 
      # general files
      print "name: %NAME% offset: %OFFSET% length: %LENGTH% unk1: %UNK1% unk2: %UNK2% width: %WIDTH% height: %HEIGHT%"
      log OFFSET OFFSET LENGTH
   endif


next i

The script certainly results in files...not sure what to do with any of said files once I have them though. It looks like it just segmented the original file sort of randomly...

They are split correctly, it appears to be a modification on the format mentioned in these threads
https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?t=8503
https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=20754

At least we're getting somewhere. Unfortunately I have no clue on any of this sort of thing, so I wouldn't know what to do next even with them split like this.

I've got dds files from those files using old version of fadEx utility from Liar Princess thread but all files look like pseudo-random mess. I have no idea what it means but I can guess it has something to do with swizzling? So I'll attach an example of those files and image of how it looks in case it helps anyhow

https://my.namejeff.com/p0XEtKtf.7z