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DS Misc > Hacking Mario Kart DS textures...

#124978 - Killjoy42 - Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:02 pm

I hope this is okay to post here - I know it's not strictly homebrew but I didn't see anything in the forum rules prohibiting this...

I'm working on a hack for Mario Kart DS with another person and we're trying to figure out a way to extract .carc textures from the kiosk demo and put them into the final version of the game.

The problem, however, is that the course textures in the final version are seperate .CARCs files from the course .CARCs files - in the kiosk version, on the other hand, the course and its texture are in a single .CARC

Does anybody have any ideas how I would go about taking a .carc apart? Even info on the file structure would be helpful. Thanks.

#124979 - dexter0 - Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:16 pm

Chishm wrote an extractor a long time ago. It had a few flaws and was never fixed. It can decompress the CARCs into NARCs and could also break the NARCs down further however it can't open any NARC that contains folders. As far as I know he only released one version of it.
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#125083 - chishm - Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:45 am

dexter0 wrote:
Chishm wrote an extractor a long time ago.

It wasn't me that wrote that.
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#125090 - felix123 - Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:07 am

Is this tool by natrium42 useful?
http://85.17.105.43:1337/f/narcnxy.rar
In any case, keep us posted about your progress, please?
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#125133 - Dan2552 - Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:46 pm

I havn't played the kiosk demo one, are there any pics comparing the textures?