An exe within Pikmin

Inside of the game Pikmin, is an exe named sysBootup.exe. This exe looks like it is PC-side.

The only problem with the exe, is that when it is ran, it quits with the error 'A top level window does not exist'. I've been told I need an exe wrapper that Nintendo uses, but is there anything else I can do with this exe?

Or is there a wrapper I could use available somewhere?

 

Looks like it relys upon something else.
Decompile it or chuck it into dependancy walker and see what libraries it uses.

 

Ok, I loaded it up with Dependency Walker, and it gives me a list of DLL files, and two warnings;

Would I be able to post the exe here?

 

For the people I asked help (such as compile C++ and others) they said the program is corrupted.
The other files was probably remained in other Computers. A work similar to SVN system.

R3Z1NAT0R, if you open the HEX, you may notice many functions (dll's/exe), such as export MOD, export animations and others. This may used for testing after the game complete, if something was to be changed, the program had that function.
There is also some icons on the dll's (a odd looking Captain Olimar and a TexConv icon)
You can take a look on HEX for more information.

 

I looked at the build paths within the exe, and they all reference the sysBootup exe, but it gets from "C:/Development/DolphinPiki/DvdImage/sysBootup.exe" to "C:/Development/DolphinPiki/DvdImage/......tup.exe" or something to that effect. Will post the actual part when I'm at my desktop.

The functions in the exe certainly are interesting, it's just a shame that it might not be possible to use...

 

Also, there is still a shortcut in the path "\DataDir\objects\plants"
There is a "conversion" shortcut, that links to "Z:\conversion\courses\plants"
Conversion eh? Probably it's something with the Debug

 

Indeed there is. It'd be nice to have the harddrives this all came from, but that won't happen.

 

Z:\ is a DDH hard drive. On a PC linked to a DDH kit, Z:\ is mapped to the internal DDH drive, if the file exists on the DVD image you could just stick another H/D in, and map it to Z: and put the files on it.

 

Just share a folder, then on the same machine map a drive to your own machines share you just setup with the letter you need?

 

There are plenty of games with interesting files on them - "Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder" is one that comes to mind.. it has some interesting texture viewer tools/etc that I found fun to mess with.

 

Check the Pikmin thread for more information.