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Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-08 17:41:00
im interested in it but i dont know much.  Seph 3D says that your short on them and id love to help cuz i love FF.  employ me! lol.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-08 18:57:00
First, you should find something you're interested in (3d models, music, etc.) and then post again. Then we will know what info you we can give you...

 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-08 19:15:00
oops. lol. i meant decoding file formats.

[edited] 248 2001-10-08 20:19
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-08 22:06:00
hehe I always wanted to do something like that, but I dont have the skillz.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-10-08 23:05:00
StD: What do you want to decode? That's what Alhexx is asking. Once we know that, we can give you information that will get you going in the right direction.

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Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-09 01:17:00
i uhhh errrr... whatever you want me to do
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-09 01:32:00
man, I hope your not applyin to get into the remake, tht statement doesnt work, trust me.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-09 18:49:00
I know you want to decode file formats...but which files?

 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-09 20:47:00
i think hes saying he wants to decode formats, but doesnt know how to do it.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-10 20:12:00
Quote

On 2001-10-09 16:47, Darkness wrote:
i think hes saying he wants to decode formats, but doesnt know how to do it.

Exactly!
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-10 21:19:00
yeah, same here. look of a post by 'Anonymous' about this. If youre planning on applying for the remake like that tho, your chances are very slim.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-11 01:51:00
oooh.  I don't know anything about the remake... or anything at all for that matter:D
Title: De-coding
Post by: Ant on 2001-10-11 12:48:00
With credentials like that I'm sure the remake will be snapping you up faster than I can say  :razz:
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-11 20:57:00
Hehe, you never know. he may be extremely good at something.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-12 00:39:00
Thats right i might be extrememley good at.... uhhh... at..... ya know...
Title: De-coding
Post by: ficedula on 2001-10-12 13:37:00
Take a look at http://qhimm.nextff.net/viewtopic.php?topic=486&forum=4 this topic ... it's about hacking file formats.
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-12 16:38:00
I STILL NEED A GOOD HEX EDITOR!
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-12 18:51:00
Like I mentioned before - I use Ultraedit 8 and Hex-Works...
BTW: there's a VB hex-editor called 'Hackman' on the web - for free

 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth the Dragon on 2001-10-12 19:32:00
hmmm. ill get one of those free editors and screw around... or look, not screw up my game  :grin: What do you do once you see a pattern?
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-14 01:16:00
you change something and see what it does, i think......
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-14 11:33:00
It's not THAT easy, but it's the way we do it. Like mirex mentioned in the other topic, we search for repeating values... In textures, a repeating value is the RGBA block. (?? ?? ?? FF)

Hehe..it's gonna be a long way until cracking a file format...
(Damnit, those Parasite Eve 2 CDF files are damn complicated... :grin: )


 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-15 02:13:00
alhexx> how did you start?
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-15 19:23:00
That's a good question. Let me think 'bout it... ah, yes:
It's was Ficedula's .p file description. I always wanted to view/convert the FF7 model files (especially yuffie...). So I joined this forum. I first wanted to seek for help and ask around if someone had made sth like a converter. But then I thought:

Hey, Alhexx, you're a programmer, right? On the web page of someone called 'Ficedula' there's a description AND you've got Milkshape. Why not take this description and try around?

Well, that's the way it started...

 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Sephiroth 3D on 2001-10-15 20:11:00
And now he's one of our foremost programmers!

I know sh*t about programming, so I'm trying to stay way from it. The 3D/Art side is good enough for me.

BTW: I've got the Cloud model done, and I'll be working on Tifa after school tonight. I'll probably do Yuffie, Cid and Barret next, followed by Cait Sith and Red 13. Then I'm going to re-configure both my Sephiroth 3D and my Xander models so they are the same format as the Game models.

Then it's off to reconfigure evil doers, such as Rufus, Scarlet, The Turks, and maybe the massive army of soldiers and commanders!

And when it's all done... I'll start work on Battle models. Hopefully Alhexx's battle model list will be done by then.

Sephiroth 3D

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Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-16 00:15:00
wow. so you started right when you came here? like in march-april?
Title: De-coding
Post by: Alhexx on 2001-10-16 18:27:00
Seph 3D: hehe...Yuki hasen't been workin on it yet... but I just kicked his ass today, so he'll be workin' on it (or at least I hope so)

Darkness: Yes, exactly. But I did know how to handle a hexeditor before. I have played around with some files, but my real 'Hacker Life' began with registering at this board... cool career, heh?

 - Alhexx
Title: De-coding
Post by: Darkness on 2001-10-16 21:00:00
i like it :smile: