Beat-em-up/Action game Zako (7 Viewers)

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

 

[burom]

I found a disk image for Target Terror on the Wii, but I've hit a wall in extracting the files. Turns out the individual animations are saved as ".bikswap" files, but neither RAD Video Tools nor Dragon Unpacker can make heads or tails of them.

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

I found a disk image for Target Terror on the Wii, but I've hit a wall in extracting the files. Turns out the individual animations are saved as ".bikswap" files, but neither RAD Video Tools nor Dragon Unpacker can make heads or tails of them.

Well, you certainly are one step ahead of me. Maybe someone has a solution to this problem.

I managed to extract the sprite sheets of the roller girl from Streets of Fury:

Spoiler: Sprites

 

[EvilDraconis]

were those just in the files, or did you have to go through work to extract them?

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

were those just in the files, or did you have to go through work to extract them?

I just used a XNB to PNG Converter to get the sheets. Nothing fancy.

 

[EvilDraconis]

hm, always wanted to look at the sprites to see if the game had any ryona potential. are there any grabs or stuff in that? every bit of gameplay i watched made it look insanely simple and never had any hope

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

hm, always wanted to look at the sprites to see if the game had any ryona potential. are there any grabs or stuff in that? every bit of gameplay i watched made it look insanely simple and never had any hope

Those are all the game sprites available, I am afraid.

I found a disk image for Target Terror on the Wii, but I've hit a wall in extracting the files. Turns out the individual animations are saved as ".bikswap" files, but neither RAD Video Tools nor Dragon Unpacker can make heads or tails of them.

I came across the same problem as you. Does anybody have a clue as to how to convert this odd files? I see some zako potential here...

Inside the ISO, in the AVI folder, there is a BigActors folder, with some solace: the videos of the civilians, the terrorist complete incoming/exit sequences, the samples of two unused terrorist outfits (can't say unused terrorists, since the actresses are already among the enemies). Oh, and at some point you can apparently shoot the news anchor in the head and at the belly:





The good thing is that the game sounds are ready for use.

I uploaded the relevant files here:

MediaFire

 

[kubi mage]

Yeah I looked at them as well, but whatever a .bikswap is it's not a common file format. Which is odd since the Wii seems okay with reading it, so they're probably either encrypted or compressed in some way. There are slightly larger versions of the files in the resize directory, so I'm guessing they were scaled down as well.

The "big actors" files are all from the Target: Force version of the game, which is E-rated so there's no blood or death animations. So that's probably why the deaths aren't in that folder and some enemy and civilian types are excluded entirely.

EDIT:
Hmm, the game has a macro folder which seems to contain script for enemies and levels. Does the game work okay in Dolphin? If the bikswap thing doesn't get figured out, maybe an alternate route could be modding the game to have all female zako, assuming the script doesn't need any special parsing for the game to use it.

 

[Weoooo]

I get the feeling the .bikswap is just a collection of the .bik movies that the game uses for its animations. No clue how to dang open it though, and it seems the internet hasn't even heard of that file format until now.

 

[burom]

I got it, turns out the .bikswap is just a .bik with the bytes in the wrong endianness.

I made a Python script to convert files/folders, and I'll upload the thing to Mega anyway.

[Python] import os, shutil def flipchunk(iterable, inc): chunks = [iterable[x:x+inc - Pastebin.com

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

Kudos to burom!

Pardon for the annoyance, but it's been a while since I last used Python. May I ask which is the usage for this script? It would be very appreciated. Thanks!

EDIT:

Yeah I looked at them as well, but whatever a
Hmm, the game has a macro folder which seems to contain script for enemies and levels. Does the game work okay in Dolphin? If the bikswap thing doesn't get figured out, maybe an alternate route could be modding the game to have all female zako, assuming the script doesn't need any special parsing for the game to use it.

I was in the process of modding the game, but it doesn't seem to be necessary after all...

 

[burom]

Pardon for the annoyance, but it's been a while since I last used Python. May I ask which is the usage for this script? It would be very appreciated. Thanks!

Open a Python shell in the folder above the folder with the bikswap files, import os and shutil, define each function (copy, paste and run each "def" block), and run the main() function with the folder as the argument.

Or just use these: MEGA

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

Open a Python shell in the folder above the folder with the bikswap files, import os and shutil, define each function (copy, paste and run each "def" block), and run the main() function with the folder as the argument.

Or just use these: MEGA

Thanks. A lot.

 

[burom]

The TakeOver on Steam

Since it's in Unity, sprites are pretty easy.

MEGA

 

[Abaddon the Destroyer]

Nice indeed!

I have been tinkering with Target: Terror files in an attempt to assess whether a mod can be made, but as I build an ISO, Dolphin rejects it. Is there any special consideration to be had in order to compile a Wii ISO? Thanks!

 

[kubi mage]

Nice! Good job burom.

Wow, they even left some unused enemies and civilians on the disc too. I definitely don't remember this "britred" zako, they probably cut her out because she wasn't wearing sunglasses like the rest of the enemies.

 

[colasc]

Abaddon the Destroyer Can't you put these pictures into a spoiler? It's a pain to scroll down Jesus Christ.

 

[wj1905]

Thanks for those extracts! Here is something new, or rather, old - a horrible game called Dark Vampires. It's a shooter, but you are stationary and the game is severely broken. But there are some sexy vampire chicks there. The video is from a hungarian reviewer of bad games.


Oddly, the Hungarian version seems to have been dumbed down - in the German one, you can actually move and the enemies also shoot. The game is still crap mind you, but there are different zako types too.

 

[wj1905]

Those are all the game sprites available, I am afraid.


I came across the same problem as you. Does anybody have a clue as to how to convert this odd files? I see some zako potential here...

Inside the ISO, in the AVI folder, there is a BigActors folder, with some solace: the videos of the civilians, the terrorist complete incoming/exit sequences, the samples of two unused terrorist outfits (can't say unused terrorists, since the actresses are already among the enemies). Oh, and at some point you can apparently shoot the news anchor in the head and at the belly:

The good thing is that the game sounds are ready for use.

I uploaded the relevant files here:

MediaFire

Thanks for the extracts, but could you use Mega please? Mediafire is not only terribly outdated, but I cannot download multiple files in one go unless I am a paying user... and why pay for a service Mega already provides better and for free? Meaning all these 1MB bik files take ages to download one by one.

 

[Weoooo]

Nice work everyone! This is some great stuff!

If you look around a bit, you can find DARK VAMPIRES to download. I found it here. It works, but it's pretty bare bones. It's a bad game. The female sounds and models are good, though. I like the death animations, but it's a shame the game unloads the corpses. I bet you could replace the GODDAMN LOUD gun sounds with quieter ones without much trouble so you can hear better.