January 28, 20242 yr Hello all, fellow gamers and game hackers. I am a big fan of SFEX serie and and especially Street Fighter EX 3 on PS2, and I want to extract the 3D models and skeletal animations and convert them to a common format. however the files are not easily accessible and they cannot be listed by the operating system, because the game use a custom file system and maybe it even read files from disc based on a numeric sector location (LBN). so please if anyone want to help me extract 3D models and understand their format or make a tool for that, I will be very grateful. by the way the game had full debug symbols so it should be reasonably easy for experienced reverse engineers to reverse engineer it. I dumped all SFEX3 functions names from IDA PRO in a text file that I attached to this post so feel free to read it and comment out if you find anything familiar. sfex3_functions_names.rar
January 28, 20242 yr Supporter Solution RetingencyPlan/AnonBaiter actually made a BMS script to extracting the ARIKA.DAT/PS2.DAT files, however only the JP demo/retail versions are supported. Here I modified his script a little bit to support the US version (You have to open the SLUS file) as well the script to extract the MDT/PAC files which the model files usually resides. You can download both of them here: SFEX3.zip However, this is only as far as I could do as for the convert/reading the model file itself that's going to require more work and I don't well-versed on that. Edited January 28, 20242 yr by BloodRaynare
January 29, 20242 yr Author Thank you very much! are there any way to open them and view 3D models ? Edited January 29, 20242 yr by reguest
January 29, 20242 yr Supporter 29 minutes ago, reguest said: Thank you very much! are there any way to open them and view 3D models ? Quote However, this is only as far as I could do as for the convert/reading the model file itself that's going to require more work and I don't well-versed on that. Maybe you can try Model Researcher Pro but don't expect miracles.
April 25, 20242 yr On 1/30/2024 at 4:09 AM, reguest said: OK, Thanks ! Hey, just wanted to know if you were ever able to open up the files?
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