[Pirate]

ZiNgA BuRgA has released his RCO manipulation tool which is compatible with PSP and the PS3. More information and download link below:

About Rcomage is a general RCO manipulation/creation tool, which I hope, will replace RCO Editor (and potentially rcotool in the future). It's a CLI (command-line interface) however I've provided a simple Windows GUI to save you from remembering commands (though you may need to trawl through an XML file).

It currently only has two main functions - "dump" (dumps contents of an RCO) and "compile" (compiles an RCO from a dump). For modifying an RCO, you would dump it, modify the dump, then compile it. A dump will consist of an XML file, which contains all the metadata of the RCO (basically, it's structure) as well as various resources, such as images, sounds etc.

How to use Well, as mentioned above, basically dump and compile is the only thing you can do. As for information on the XML structure, I don't really have the time to write a good guide, so I guess you'll probably just dump various RCOs to get an idea of how it works.(I'd be willing to assist if someone would write a guide for me :P) A quick idea of the structure is shown in the readme.

!! I strongly suggest that you don't use Notepad to edit the XML files.Suggested applications include Notepad++ and Notepad2 (or your favourite text editor; most should overcome the deficiencies of Notepad).

Notes Because I was silly when writing RCO Editor, it doesn't put in adler32 checksums for compressed images, etc, and thus, anything modified with it will generate a warning in Rcomage.Otherwise, should work fine. Also, Sony's GimConv, which is used to convert GIM images, is a little slow, so if you choose to perform the conversion (affects both dumping and compiling), expect to wait some time...

Unknown values If you go through dumped XML structures, you may notice a number of "unknown" labels for various objects (and some anim entries).Finding out what these values do is, unfortunately, a little time consuming and I don't really have that much time to test what each thing does.It would be great if people would volunteer to play around with these values to see what effect they have, and I can add the definitions to Rcomage. (thanks in advance )

Credits - highboy for his WAV <-> VAG conversion sample code - Z33 for sample GIM handling code and his various RCO tools as well as guides/investigations on various file formats - creators of 7-zip for their awesome implementation of deflate - supporting libraries: libxml2, iconv and zlib - geohot for help with PS3 RCO support - alpha testers, for discovering some issues and supporting theme development - everyone else supporting PSP customisation and homebrew scene (too numerous to name) - anyone I forgot to mention

[Download Rcomage v1.1.0]
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[Bloodshedder]

so what do i do with this?

[h@kdpl@net!!!]

it lets u make custom themes from scratch

[Bloodshedder]

so, no pirating here??

[h@kdpl@net!!!]

Originally Posted by Bloodshedder so, no pirating here??

OMG NOT 2 B flaming u but this reminds me of something in a separate thread: it's people like u that ruin this scene!!!
no offence but no , no pirating. even if you could, would you want to wait 4-8 hrs to download ? your connection probably b timed out b4 it was done. reminds me of good 'ol napster days... waiting 2 hours for a 5 minute song on a 56/kb connection. anyone else remember ? or am i just old now?

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by Bloodshedder so, no pirating here??

No this isnt even close to piracy

Originally Posted by h@kdpl@net!!! OMG NOT 2 B flaming u but this reminds me of something in a separate thread: it's people like u that ruin this scene!!!

lol

[Doggiestew]

Originally Posted by h@kdpl@net!!! OMG NOT 2 B flaming u but this reminds me of something in a separate thread: it's people like u that ruin this scene!!! no offence but no , no pirating. even if you could, would you want to wait 4-8 hrs to download ? your connection probably b timed out b4 it was done. reminds me of good 'ol napster days... waiting 2 hours for a 5 minute song on a 56/kb connection. anyone else remember ? or am i just old now?

Haha, YES, I remember the Napster days.
I would have to start downloading in the morning and, if I was lucky, would have a couple songs before going to sleep that night.
And back then, 56k was the best most of us had

Anyway, if you don't know how to use this, it's probably best that you do a little research with Google
No, it will not allow you to be a pirate, matey. Arrrr

[LeeZer]

i love these forums. they've made me laugh and cheer too many times. thanks x

[Bloodshedder]

i dont mind download 2 days a game,. ill just download the multiplatform witch arent bigger than 8 GB

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This thread is not about downloading games, or how long you are willing to waity on said game, please stay on topic, any further off topic posts will be removed

[Daniel Benoy]

Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin No this isnt even close to piracy lol

Yeah. I don't see a parrot or a peg leg anywhere around here, do you? :aetsch: