Fully Disassembling Silent Hill for the PSX

that is italian, not spanish.

 

Hey sam hex, those italian sentences were extracted by you?

 

Sorry, I have no idea on either of these languages, was just a guess. So it is italian

@veggav: yes, I just copied a piece of the text I found on a quick check, you can easily check it out by searching the SILENT files on the disc for the words in a hex editor. If you are using Windows, try Hexworkshop go to search and try to search for a word in the text, you will see what you look for in the right column.

 

or run strings on it and have it output to a text file with > blah.txt

 

I suggested that earlier and it doesn't work right. You get parts of the text but it is truncated and incomplete.

 

I dont have the files to check it, but if its a complete string in the hex editor, strings should work.

 

Strings worked fine for me.

 

LMAO F%$!

you just did "strings SILENT blablabla.txt" ? that's it and you extracted all the text from the game?!

Very nice job!!
This is very very nice. I'll rebuild that since I know every sentence in the game.
There was a site, can't remember which, I think it was silent hill media that had ALL the sounds, all the background music, all the dialogs and all the animations recorded as divx.
So, if you have the texts and all that, you basically have the whole game.

Do you guys think would be possible a game shark hack to allow free camera?

 

string can only extract strings which are (null) terminated C Strings. It always has many false positive and it is usale to have missing. It is for quick checking of a file. From it's man page:

BUGS
The algorithm for identifying strings is extremely primitive.

It outputs a ton of stuff, but it has even holes in your post above + a lot of binary false positive like (`#"LX#$T`_ "(X@dTX`$x

Btw. would you mind use pastebin or something? I had to scroll a week now

 

There is a "beta" floating around the internet that has strings visible through a hex editor that suggests a debug mode of sorts. Never really tried pulling it apart to see what it really means.

And don't listen to Haunted, he is...special.

 

What is the name of the beta?

 

Yes, but dont you think strings output is much easier to filter/read than the ENTIRE file in a hex editor?

and I used -n 6, this will cut out most of the crap as it looks for strings over 6 characters.

 

Since the file is jsut a uncompressed sort of stacked archive like I mentioned earlier you can simply rip the texts out of the file, they are in there continously. It is as simple as scroll to the start and copy it to the end. Crap free.

Still it would be cool to get the byte order marks of know psx filetypes and beeing able to split the file accordingly. There is for sure more interesting stuff inside, not just the txt.

About the free camera thing asked earlier, I doubt this will work, if a fixed cam is used its likely the just worked the stuff out correctly from the current point of view and you will just run into a grapical mess with such attemps. Given the engine is even that advanced it knows camera positions.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAR0Kr4Fkt0

check this out.



Unfinished rooms in Alchemila. The guy found that using a game shark code to walk trought walls!

 

isn't that similar to what you are after? a no-clip mode?

nice to see an unexplored room

 

Strings outputs in order. If there is crap inbetween with strings, there is crap inbetween with a hex editor.

 

Yeah, walk trought walls I knew that was possible.

That video with the cam hack I saw that years ago so I think it's possible.
I think that with both hacks you could see A LOT of new stuff.

By the way this site http://alchemillahospital.net/ have all the textures of the game, so for now we have all the texts, all the videos, all the sounds, all the voices, all the music, all the textures.
The only thing missing is the hability to look free trought the game.

EDIT: Imagine how nice would be to apply that in Resident Evil 1 for the psx? ;D

EDIT2: It seems PEC can do the trought wall stuff.

This guy was creating the cam hack but never released it

 

Dude, strings just grabs everyhting it thinks is a C-String, thats not even meant as a tool to dump something entirely off a file, it's just for making rough guess on a file, even it's creators stat this in the man file and it makes mistakes, especially if it hits on special chars. :banghead:

In this case it's so goddman easy to grab the individual parts corretly and even find other files with no ascii content in a hex editor (images and other stuff), it's not on what is the easiest way to see some sentencese, it's about getting most out of it.