An expansion and improvement romhack for Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
In progress. This repository does not represent any finished product, as it is designed to facilitate working.
Guide to folders:
Added assets: assets not originally in AJ
Documentation: documentation for various aspects of AJ romhacking
Extracted materials: rips of AJ's file structure, all taken by me except for SFX (from Sounds Resource) and the soundfont (from iteachvader on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UL8lE-daMM)
Helper programs: tools I've written tailored to making romhacking AJ easier
Modified binaries: modified binary files, the end result of romhacking and what replace the original files in the file structure
Patches: all patches created up to this point
Guide to extracted materials folder:
AJ soundfont: the instruments the game uses in its music
cpac2d.bin: contains the game's 2D assets
cpac3d.bin: contains the game's textures and models
Extracted script: the game's script in the form of decompressed binary files
Extracted script backup: a duplicate folder I made in case I mess up while text editing
Readable script: the game's original script in a readable format, obtained with phoenixtools
opdemo: probably not needed, but images making up the case intros
saigen: probably not needed, but images making up the 3D visualization sections in court
SFX: a rip of the sound effects in the game
arm9.bin: the game's main code in binary format
mes_all.bin: where the game's entire script is stored in compressed format
sound_data.sdat: the binary file containing all the game's music, sound effects, and other files relating to sound
Programs used in this project:
ImHex (hex editor)
Tinke (DS file system viewer)
no$gba, DeSmuME, and melonDS (DS emulators)
deltapatcher (creates and applies .xdelta patches)
Ghidra (disassembly tool)
CUE's DS compression tools (compresses and decompresses common DS compression schemes)
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