NPC_Tool - Animal Villager Customization

[Keola777]

Yes, SonicHyuga, I did try that. To my astonishment, it didn't work, and I checked to make sure that the .exe and the .dll were in the same directory. Running it in compatibility mode for XP Service Pack 3 didn't do anything special, however I can try again. Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Upon running it in Compatibility mode in ANY OS, It didn't give me the GBATemp.dll error. However, it would say that nothing changed even when I swapped out the PALLETTE.bmp colors. Now no matter what I do (other than Windows 7, which, of course, is still giving me the .dll error anytime the pallette is changed.


UPDATE: I originally typed Service Pack 2 in the first paragraph. I also explained more about the situation than I did before.

[nago]

Hi, DsPet -- I'm a little new here, but I was doing some digging on Animal Crossing and your posts kept showing up in Google a lot.
Sorry to resurrect a thread, but this might be the best place to ask

Do you have any information to share on the NPC format stored in the ISO?
In general, it seems to look something like...

struct npc_record {
  uint16_t      index;               // Ordered NPC Index No.
  char           header[32];         // 32 Bytes of ????
  char           name[8][18];        // Name in UTF16 in 8 regions
  char           phrase[10][22];     // Phrase in UTF16 in 10 languages
  uint8_t        race;               // Race ENUM, 0 = cat, etc. 
  uint8_t        month;              // Birth month, Jan = 0x01, etc.
  uint8_t        day;                // Birth day.
  char           footer[5];          // five unknown bytes
  uint8_t        personality : 4;    // Personality enum
  uint8_t        unk_nibble : 4;     // Unknown nibble: always 0x5, 0x6, 0x9 or 0xA.
  char           unknown;            // Always 0x00 or 0x80.
} __attribute__ ((packed));

I was wondering if you had any information on the unknown (to me) portions of the struct --
In particular, the 32 bytes in the header, the 5 bytes after the birthday, the byte at the end, and the nibble after the personality.

Observations:
footer[0] is a number 0x00 - 0x27, excluding 0x15.
footer[1] and footer[2] are always 0x00 through 0x09.
footer[3] is 0x01 through 0x0e
footer[4] is 0x00 through 0x0b.
unk_nibble is always 0x5, 0x6, 0x9 or 0xA.
unknown byte is always 0x00 or 0x80. Is this a binary flag on the high bit for something?


I don't have any particular end goal, I just decided on a whim to start browsing through AC:CF files to see what I could learn in case any decrypted dump of AC:NL ever existed ...
(Maybe this would be good practice. I've never reverse engineered anything before.)

[XAlucarDX454]

i havent been on here in years.. has anyone managed to save most of the bitmaps that were uploaded. my old drive crashed and i cant get any of the stuff i made and posted. and a lot of it seems to be no longer on the site... anyone archive a lot of this?