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Posted on 02-25-12 02:20:30 PM

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Found this.

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=simg:CAQSZhpkCxCo1NgEGgQIAggFDAsQsIynCBo7CjkIARITygHIAdQB0AHJAdMB1QHOBNYBOBog5KdZkgeUQlWgGQfmc8rNYnn_1fPqek6S9mR-at-5pmmcMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgQur1ZjDA&tbm=isch&q=%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2+%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1+%E5%8D%A0%E6%8B%A0+%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&sa=X&ei=2glJT9nhC9KltweKu43vAg&ved=0CAoQpwUoAg&biw=1280&bih=681

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Posted on 02-25-12 03:18:44 PM

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Originally posted by verne94
These arcade games have been dumped recently.
I found 7 test courses that are .dat files, how can i open them?
More coming soon i hope...

Hmm, I didnt know there was mario kart arcade game out there...
I really need to visit a game room sometime to get familiar with some stuff. :\

Anyway to open up .DAT file try this:
http://advancedfileoptimizer.com/file-extension/dat/
Since you pulled that from a rom check the size of it and see how big it is.
Try .avi, doc., .bin to see if one of the programs on your computer may open it without error.

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Posted on 02-25-12 03:38:24 PM

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Since they are on the Triforce system, similar to the GameCube, i extracted the whole ISO with GC Tools. The dat files are from 19 kb to 1800 kb. Also i found the same images as the same test .dat files in the second game, because it is the same as the first with some new tracks and maybe characters...

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Posted on 02-25-12 04:19:29 PM

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Originally posted by verne94
Since they are on the Triforce system, similar to the GameCube, i extracted the whole ISO with GC Tools. The dat files are from 19 kb to 1800 kb. Also i found the same images as the same test .dat files in the second game, because it is the same as the first with some new tracks and maybe characters...

Cool, I'll leave it to you to get the .dat files open, it shouldn't be too hard, just the file extensions around some until you find a program that will open it with the correct data it may have.

Good luck for now.

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Posted on 02-25-12 05:49:57 PM

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Originally posted by Mike
Anyway to open up .DAT file try this:
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Originally posted by Mike
Cool, I'll leave it to you to get the .dat files open, it shouldn't be too hard, just the file extensions around some until you find a program that will open it with the correct data it may have.

Please do not post misinformation. Those files are in a proprietary format that can't be opened without a viewer written specifically for the game or the ability to force the game to load them instead of the regular data files. Unless Dolphin or MAME happens to start emulating these games some time soon, you're stuck reverse-engineering the format and hoping it's similar to other games.

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Posted on 02-25-12 05:58:07 PM

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Yeah, i don't know how to open the dat files, hex editor doesn't tell me anything interesting...

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Posted on 02-25-12 06:04:56 PM

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Do they have anything in common at the beginning of the files? They might be similar to formats from other Nintendo games.

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Posted on 02-25-12 06:13:36 PM

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Originally posted by oaa
Found this.

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=simg:CAQSZhpkCxCo1NgEGgQIAggFDAsQsIynCBo7CjkIARITygHIAdQB0AHJAdMB1QHOBNYBOBog5KdZkgeUQlWgGQfmc8rNYnn_1fPqek6S9mR-at-5pmmcMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgQur1ZjDA&tbm=isch&q=%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2+%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1+%E5%8D%A0%E6%8B%A0+%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&sa=X&ei=2glJT9nhC9KltweKu43vAg&ved=0CAoQpwUoAg&biw=1280&bih=681

The text in the search box is the "Russian school occupation crisis". I think that refers to this event, as searching it seems to result in similar pictures.

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Posted on 02-25-12 07:01:22 PM

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Originally posted by Joe
Originally posted by Mike
Anyway to open up .DAT file try this:
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Originally posted by Mike
Cool, I'll leave it to you to get the .dat files open, it shouldn't be too hard, just the file extensions around some until you find a program that will open it with the correct data it may have.
Please do not post misinformation. Those files are in a proprietary format that can't be opened without a viewer written specifically for the game or the ability to force the game to load them instead of the regular data files. Unless Dolphin or MAME happens to start emulating these games some time soon, you're stuck reverse-engineering the format and hoping it's similar to other games.

Could he try this just to be sure:

You can play *.dat files directly on your computer by the following players.

VLC Media player
BS player
To download these players go to google.com and search for them, For BS player you have to probably download additional codecs. That you can download at
http://www.divxmovies.com/software/
Since he found some pictures, those "might" be movie clips or not, I just want to be sure of it.

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Posted on 02-25-12 08:30:06 PM

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Originally posted by Mike
Since he found some pictures, those "might" be movie clips or not, I just want to be sure of it.

If you really want to be sure what they are, I can examine them.

verne94: Could you please PM me the dat files? I doubt I'll be able to open them, but I might be able to find out more about them that way.

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Posted on 02-25-12 09:44:00 PM (last edited by BMF54123 at 02-25-12 06:44 PM)

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Originally posted by Mike
You can play *.dat files directly on your computer by the following players.

VLC Media player
BS player

I'd like to reiterate that you have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about.

.dat is (usually) short for "data," and can represent any kind of binary data imaginable. The fact that VLC and other players support a .dat extension is virtually meaningless when dealing with video game data files, since they often use proprietary codecs and data formats very different from those found on standard desktop computers.

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Posted on 02-26-12 10:21:55 AM

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I always give this tip: Always open in HEX the file. The ".dat" file can be wrong.
Zelda Skyward uses .brstm, but the file is none.
As the Super Paper Mario uses .tpl, but the file type is none too!

A nice look of HEXing is nice. You can discover too if there is some text in those testmaps

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Posted on 02-26-12 06:58:42 PM

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All right, I've investigated the files sent to me by verne94.

grd_test.bin: This looks like a bunch of blobs of data, all starting at the same alignment, followed by a list of offsets that all point to addresses with the same alignment. Beyond that, I can't tell what it is.

test.bin: This is too small to make any conclusions.

tpl2_test_hidaka_test.tpl: This looks like garbage, which means it's probably compressed.

The various dat files: These all seem to be the same format; I don't have any idea how to interpret the data, but I suspect these are 3D models. They all have the text "scene_data" at the end of the file. Only test_course_obj.dat has additional strings, also at the end of the file. They are, in order:

scene_data

test_course_coconut_joint

test_course_f_ship_joint

test_course_kinopio_byebye_joint

test_course_kinopio_jump_joint

test_course_kinopio_sit_joint

test_course_long_load_joint

test_course_p_flower_joint

test_course_ph_01a_joint

test_course_ph_01b_joint

test_course_ph_01c_joint

test_course_ph_02a_joint

test_course_ph_02b_joint

test_course_ph_02c_joint

test_course_ph_03a_joint

test_course_ph_03b_joint

test_course_ph_03c_joint

test_course_ph_04a_joint

test_course_ph_04b_joint

test_course_ph_04c_joint

test_course_ph_pos_a_joint

test_course_ph_pos_b_joint

test_course_ph_pos_c_joint

test_course_poihana_b_joint

test_course_poihana_r_joint

test_course_short_load_joint

test_course_start_gate_joint

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