SofthouseChara-Aoi-Tools

Tools for anyone trying to work on a SofthouseChara Aoi Engine game (each game needs to change some settings regarding the Box/VFS files though)

Extracting VFS files:

python aoi_vfs_cli.py vfs-extract --vfs box.vfs --name ev0000.box --outdir outfolder

python aoi_vfs_cli.py vfs-extract --vfs box.vfs --outdir out_all

Extraacting Box files:

1. Extract+decrypt .box file

python aoi_cli_v3.py box-extract --box ev0000.box --name ev0002.txt --out ev0002.dec

2. Dump the bank

python aoi_cli_v3.py bank-export --input ev0002.dec --out ev0002_bank.tsv

3. Edit ev0002_bank.tsv (UTF-8). Keep the first TWO columns (offset, len) unchanged; edit only TEXT.

4. Repack with longer lines allowed (rewrites pointers), then encrypt + repack .box

python aoi_cli_v3.py bank-repack --input ev0002.dec --tsv ev0002_bank.tsv --out ev0002_new.dec

python aoi_cli_v3.py encrypt --input ev0002_new.dec --out ev0002_new.enc

python aoi_cli_v3.py box-replace --box ev0000.box --name ev0002.txt --input ev0002_new.enc --out ev0000_patched.box

Does this work? I don't know yet, I'm still trying to get the scripts dumped perfectly with all the commands intact, you can try though.

IPH Image handling

Garbro can batch dump the iph files into pngs if you need to see what each iph file is. https://github.com/crskycode/GARbro .

Copy the iph_image_tools.exe and ipf33.dll inside the folder where you will work with the iph/png files and then run a command prompt on the executable though there with either these commands:

iph_image_tools.exe iph2png test_image.iph

iph_image_tools.exe png2iph edited_image.png