.mes files

[Rej12]

Hello there. This is my first post so far. :P And I have a question: Is there any way to extract text *from .mes files? (and vice versa)

[Asceai]

As long as you're not trying to hack anything that might be licensed to MangaGamer, sure! roxfan might know

[Rej12]

Really? Thats great! *But, umm, should I pm this person, or will he/she come across this thread eventually?*(xD) And no, Rezel Cross is not licensed by MangaGamer.

[Asceai]

Rezel Cross? I've never even heard of this eroge before. Who is it by? I can't see it under the list of Circus games, so I'm not sure it's even the same .MES format. Might be an unknown format after all.

EDIT: Searches on EGS for every possible combination of the name I can think of turn up nothing. More inf please.

[Rej12]

Well, I am sort of dumb, so I have no idea what Circus games are, but I am 100% sure, that text files of this game are stored in those mes files. Oh, and Rezel Cross is a psp geme, so its probably is not a "circus game"
P.S. I found roxfans mes extractor, but whenever I run it, command line window appears and disappears instantly, so I cant use it :/

[Asceai]

PSP game? Yeah, it's almost definitely a custom/otherwise unknown format of some sort. Sorry.

[Rej12]

Well, no big deal... I guess I'll have to stick with my jp dictionary. Thx anyway

[Asceai]

You could upload one or two of the smaller ones somewhere and someone might take a look - if they're stored in any sort of nontrivial way it would be very hard to do without the original game though.

[Rej12]

I hope its OK, if I post them here.

[zalas]

Originally Posted by Asceai

As long as you're not trying to hack anything that might be licensed to MangaGamer, sure! roxfan might know

Actually, I don't think MangaGamer uses CIRCUS's engine at all; Da Capo runs on Ethornell/BGI.

[Asceai]

Originally Posted by zalas

Actually, I don't think MangaGamer uses CIRCUS's engine at all; Da Capo runs on Ethornell/BGI.

Well, no, I was more referring to the fact that the original Da Capo ran under that engine, and messing with that (for the purpose of translation projects - there's typically few other reasons to want to extract and repack game text) might not be a good idea.

[roxfan]

These files don't match neither Circus nor ADVWin32 format, so it's something new. The format doesn't look terribly complex, but there's clearly some obfuscation. If you send me the executables, I might try to figure out something.

[Rej12]

Originally Posted by roxfan

These files don't match neither Circus nor ADVWin32 format, so it's something new. The format doesn't look terribly complex, but there's clearly some obfuscation. If you send me the executables, I might try to figure out something.

Really? That would make me very happy xD but, by executables you mean all the files in the iso?

[Asceai]

Originally Posted by roxfan

If you send me the executables, I might try to figure out something.

Hope you like mips!

[roxfan]

Originally Posted by Rej12

Really? That would make me very happy xD but, by executables you mean all the files in the iso?

I would guess all files besides resources/pictures/scripts... PM me the file list and I'll see if there's anything obvious.

Originally Posted by Asceai

Hope you like mips!

Mips? I'm pretty sure PSP runs on ARM, and I know ARM pretty well. Mips is a bit too verbose for my taste :)