Mr Driller W - WiiWare

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whadrect74
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Mr Driller W - WiiWare

Post by whadrect74 »

Hello, I hope someone can help me.

I am trying to extract the graphics from Mr Driller W.
It's the last Mr Driller game for consoles, from 2009, a 2d game.

The graphics files all end in .tpz, when I open them in a hex editor, I cannot recognize anything.
I have attached 2 samples of the .tpz files.

The previous game, Mr Driller Dill Land, uses .tpl files for the graphics and this tool can extract them - http://szs.wiimm.de/wimgt/
I assume tpl and tpz must be similar.

I have seen 2 different people creat a sprite sheet for 1 or 2 characters from the game, so it must be possible to get images out of the tpz.
https://www.spriters-resource.com/wii/m ... eet/70830/

As for the audio, it is14/bnsf files stored in .nub files, with the names of the files in .bin files.
For example, bgm.nub and bgm.bin, there are already tools to extract sounds from the .nub files, and from the .bin we can get the file names.

Thank you to all the helpers on this site! :)
aluigi
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Re: Mr Driller W - WiiWare

Post by aluigi »

Simply compressed with the Nintendo compression:

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comtype lz77wii
get SIZE asize
get NAME basename
string NAME + ".tpl"
clog NAME 0 SIZE SIZE
whadrect74
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Re: Mr Driller W - WiiWare

Post by whadrect74 »

Aluigi, thank you very much!

(It worked perfectly) :)