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[mgarrine]

IS there a tool to convert .bin files to jpg/bmp or any other readable pic format?
Often .nds roms are packed with various files...

between them there are .sdat files that presumably are used to compress mp3 or wav

and .bin file that are used in most cases to encode and compress image files

i need a program that can convert these files to readlable image file..


please help..

[bitblt]

NDS Top System might provide image support some day. Only if the official Nintendo development tools use a standard format.

Files like BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG are standard image formats. A BIN file can be any binary data.  If you know the bin file is an image, then it probably contains RGB values, or color palette indexes.  There may also be headers in the BIN files with various structure information.  Some BIN files may even contain libraries of images.  Various compression schemes may also be used like RLE and LZ.  It would take a bit of hacking to convert images back to standard bitmap format without knowledge of their structure.

BTW a member named omaemad found or created this . . .



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[omaemad]

ahh those images are taken via emulator since the emu would do all the decompression techniques in the same way the ds would do them

if u wanted to exract gfx use emus like dsemue

if u want to change gfx in a game then thats another story...

[bitblt]

That is cheating.  :lol:

[mgarrine]

is not so difficult to substitute resources in games...use two roms header/extractor one of this permit to rebuild the rom packed with your content,,,,i made this with fifa 2006 and fifa street, and elektroplantkton too...


but as bitblt says, bin files are jpg collections packed or compressed...

i was searching a way to obtain clean reosurces when i extract contents thar are not "clean", if you see my ds brain age cheat guide, you can see in that rom there were textual clean resources..and in other some roms there are clean jpg-resource...and music etc




but in most of the roms reosurces(wich i'm sure are jpg) are image files in bin format (as the bin files crerated by the previous version of the DRAW application)

most commons are also .sdat files for music resources----


for example Michigai museums rom contains wonderful sound and images but are compressed..!!! i wolud like to extract these images and sounds

thank you for the help- i'll try to continue my research.