You need:
- Image of WE
- AFS Explorer 2.0
- Tato´s PicDecoder 1.4
- CD Mage 1.02.1 Beta5
- Kits in bmp-format (size 512x256, color depth 8 BPP)
1. Open the image with CDMage in M2/2352 mode
2. Extract the FILEDATA.AFS to a folder
3. Open the FILEDATA with the AFS Explorer(read the note at the bottom of this post) -> don´t care about the error message, if it opens than it´s ok
4. Extract the kits you want to replace, kits are located in 150pl.afs/150pl_auto.afs/150pl_auto_uni.afs, you can see which number belongs to which team in my second post
5. Open this extracted kit with the PicDecoder
6. Go to "output/input" in the Decoder, then "import/export full Image" -> "Import bmp" -> open your edited kit (you remember, 512x256, 8 BPP)
7. Once you have this kit in the decoder you need the small version, click on the arrow right to "0 (512x256x8 shared palette)" and then click on "1 (256x128x8 shared palette)"
8. Go to "Betis" -> "Get low-res from hi-res texture" -> "simple" -> "ok"
9. "Window" -> "View Transparency" -> "Invert"
10. Then save as, use the name the Decoder suggests you
11. Go to AFS Explorer, open again the folder with the kits, click on the kit-number you´ve edited now, then "Import" -> READ THE SECOND NOTE
12. Now you have your kits in the FILEDATA.AFS, if you want to play with them now import the FILEDATA back to the Image with CDMage and burn
13. Scan for corrupted sectors with CDMage, repair and rebuild if neccesary
14. Happy playin
Feel free to ask questions here, but before doing this follow my instructions exactly, this is only a beta and there could be mistakes in it
Notes:
1. Make sure you reed the readme.html of the AFS Explorer 2.0 (7. Addendum -> important, without this step the importing won´t work !) , you have to regenerate the FILEDATA.AFS after importing
2. The size of the edited kit is always different to the size of the default kit. Mostly it´s smaller -> no problems, the program automatically fixes this one
But sometimes it´s bigger -> big problem
This is because the 150pl.afs, which contains all kits, must have the same size after editing like before. As I said the smaller kits are being updated automatically to the correct size, but the bigger ones you have to correct manually. It´s a little bit complicated, before importing go to "Advanced" -> "Modify reserved space"
Then open up the file-tree, search for the 150_auto_uni.afs, you´ll see the sizes of all default kits on the right, go through from the first to the last kit and reduce every .pa and .pb file that has a size of over 100000 to something around 90000-95000. After importing all kits go again to this screen, check if the 150pl.afs has the same size like before, the number should be black. If it´s green than the 150pl.afs is to small, no problems, make the same like before but now add some bytes to every kit, go on from 0 again, update every kit to 100000 until you have no bytes left. Then your FILEDATA.AFS has the correct size and you can go on with step 12
If the number is red, what normally can´t be, than you need to make some big kits smaller, search for the biggest one and bring them to a size of about 90000
The alternative solution is:
If you get the message that the imported file is to big click on "no", check the max. size of the default kit, go to the Pic Decoder, open the kit which is to big ->"betis" -> "reduce file size" and reduce the size of this kit to the size of the default kit. This will decrease the quality of the kit of course, I would go for the first solution, it´s not that difficult once you´re into it
- Image of WE
- AFS Explorer 2.0
- Tato´s PicDecoder 1.4
- CD Mage 1.02.1 Beta5
- Kits in bmp-format (size 512x256, color depth 8 BPP)
1. Open the image with CDMage in M2/2352 mode
2. Extract the FILEDATA.AFS to a folder
3. Open the FILEDATA with the AFS Explorer(read the note at the bottom of this post) -> don´t care about the error message, if it opens than it´s ok
4. Extract the kits you want to replace, kits are located in 150pl.afs/150pl_auto.afs/150pl_auto_uni.afs, you can see which number belongs to which team in my second post
5. Open this extracted kit with the PicDecoder
6. Go to "output/input" in the Decoder, then "import/export full Image" -> "Import bmp" -> open your edited kit (you remember, 512x256, 8 BPP)
7. Once you have this kit in the decoder you need the small version, click on the arrow right to "0 (512x256x8 shared palette)" and then click on "1 (256x128x8 shared palette)"
8. Go to "Betis" -> "Get low-res from hi-res texture" -> "simple" -> "ok"
9. "Window" -> "View Transparency" -> "Invert"
10. Then save as, use the name the Decoder suggests you
11. Go to AFS Explorer, open again the folder with the kits, click on the kit-number you´ve edited now, then "Import" -> READ THE SECOND NOTE
12. Now you have your kits in the FILEDATA.AFS, if you want to play with them now import the FILEDATA back to the Image with CDMage and burn
13. Scan for corrupted sectors with CDMage, repair and rebuild if neccesary
14. Happy playin
Feel free to ask questions here, but before doing this follow my instructions exactly, this is only a beta and there could be mistakes in it
Notes:
1. Make sure you reed the readme.html of the AFS Explorer 2.0 (7. Addendum -> important, without this step the importing won´t work !) , you have to regenerate the FILEDATA.AFS after importing
2. The size of the edited kit is always different to the size of the default kit. Mostly it´s smaller -> no problems, the program automatically fixes this one
But sometimes it´s bigger -> big problem
This is because the 150pl.afs, which contains all kits, must have the same size after editing like before. As I said the smaller kits are being updated automatically to the correct size, but the bigger ones you have to correct manually. It´s a little bit complicated, before importing go to "Advanced" -> "Modify reserved space"
Then open up the file-tree, search for the 150_auto_uni.afs, you´ll see the sizes of all default kits on the right, go through from the first to the last kit and reduce every .pa and .pb file that has a size of over 100000 to something around 90000-95000. After importing all kits go again to this screen, check if the 150pl.afs has the same size like before, the number should be black. If it´s green than the 150pl.afs is to small, no problems, make the same like before but now add some bytes to every kit, go on from 0 again, update every kit to 100000 until you have no bytes left. Then your FILEDATA.AFS has the correct size and you can go on with step 12
If the number is red, what normally can´t be, than you need to make some big kits smaller, search for the biggest one and bring them to a size of about 90000
The alternative solution is:
If you get the message that the imported file is to big click on "no", check the max. size of the default kit, go to the Pic Decoder, open the kit which is to big ->"betis" -> "reduce file size" and reduce the size of this kit to the size of the default kit. This will decrease the quality of the kit of course, I would go for the first solution, it´s not that difficult once you´re into it
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