To verify what I found in the file was correct, I even Google translated the text – which lined up perfectly! With that in hand, I found a video of Clannad’s opening on PC and on PS3 and found one of the initial text lines that start the novel – “I hate this town”. Then I was clued in that I needed a hex editor that understand Japanese text (Shift-JIS), which I found at and their tools section. Originally, I couldn’t make any sense of the files. Most archives were just hundreds of files, though the sys archive was actually files inside folders.Īt this point, I opened the first file from the scr archive, which were. Then, using the psarc.exe tool I was able to extract the contents of the PSARC archives. Each file had a different SDAT file size, of course. I compiled the make_npdata tool from the source on Github and decrypted the. I got most information from the PS Dev Wiki, especially the PSARC page.
psarc.sdat files were PlayStation archives (PSARC) that were encrypted with no key (SDAT). Inside the folder layout, the only place with large files was PS3_GAME/USRDIR/data with six large files. I wanted to learn a little about this world so I decided to dip my toes in the water and learn about the file formats and tools needed to even get a proof of concept done, and I was fairly pleased with what even a total newbie can accomplish.įirstly, I got and saved the PS3 game-data of the title Clannad, which I chose because it’s a visual novel (all text) that was translated to English on the PC (and, apparently, in the upcoming PS4 port). One of those things is text hacking (or even translation) for games not in your language.
And that’s led to some interesting things that one can do with it. Oh, and it’s been “jailbreak-able” for more people recently with the last exploit. It still serves a purpose as a Netflix and Amazon device nowadays, and has had a long and interesting life. The Sony PlayStation 3 was a big deal when it came out in 2006, though I didn’t get one until late 2009.
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