[PSP] Neopets Petpet Adventures: The Wand of Wishing (.dat)

[redgraves]

Hi all,

First off, I just wanna apologize for constantly coming in here and asking for scripts/tools indirectly ;; I know it can be annoying, I just have 0 clue how to code these things myself and last time I tried to do anything like it, it didn't go very well. Haha…

That said, I have 0 clue where to start with this game. I extracted the game and there isn't much. I presume the files are in this big .DAT file (see below) since it's by far the largest file on the disc. Any help in unpacking this would be GREATLY appreciated since I like to try manually extracting before something like NinjaRipper. 😅

If it's not in the .dat file, there are some other filenames like .pmf and .prx on the disc as well. Let me know if I need to send them.

To note: This is NOT The Darkest Faerie. Different game and console. I'm aware there are tools for that one already.

Samples here.

Thank you for the help!

[shak-otay]

Hi, no one wants to download 300 MB for just one or two samples, imho.

[redgraves]

1 hour ago, shak-otay said:

Hi, no one wants to download 300 MB for just one or two samples, imho.

I can add more if needed but I'm not really sure what else I can add? The only other files are the .pmf ones in a folder called movies (I assume these are cutscenes) and the rest seem to be stuff for the firmware (the .prx files).

The filesize is that large because presumably all the game files are in that .dat 😕 I don't know how to get it smaller or unpack the dat, which is why I posted here.

Edited 8 hours ago by redgraves

[shak-otay]

One big .dat file? Sorry, must have missed this.  Maybe you could use a filecutter to cut the .dat after 3 MB?

[redgraves]

11 minutes ago, shak-otay said:

One big .dat file? Sorry, must have missed this.  Maybe you could use a filecutter to cut the .dat after 3 MB?

Yeah its the bigfile.dat in the sample .zip folder.

As for your idea, maybe? I'm not sure if that would work 🤔 I could give it a try. Do you have a tool you recommend? Never used one before.

There is an .IDX file detailing everything in that .dat so I'm pretty sure the files are in there. Going off what I can read, the models appear to be in a weird .at format.  I recognize some character names.

Edited 7 hours ago by redgraves

[redgraves]

Also if it helps, here are the rest of the files in the Modules and KModules folders. Might help with opening the .dat? I really wish I knew where to start or what to look for.

 

[shak-otay]

The files are too small to contain 3D models. (prx might be a compressed format, though)

For cutting the .dat file you could use HxD which is a good hex editor.

(Load the .dat file, select a block from 0 to 0x2DD000 and copy it to a new file then save that.)