TPL Files in Ps2 Game by gabriel marques at 1:16 PM EST on January 5, 2012
Hello Guys! I have a project to translate the game Saint Seiya for PS2. 99% is already complete,missing only edit a message and then save the game into my language.
I guess what I need are in archives .TPL , since they were the only file format in the game where you can not open for edit or view...
Someone has already worked with this type of file? Know a program to visualize the file or edit tpl files? Please help us because now missing 1% to complete the project.
Some information about the help they need on the texts of Kiki(Save Text):
In GAME ISO PAL in English, a part of the text is this: "Seiya, do you want to save ..." If you find where and how it is stored snippets, is enough.
The texts that are easy to find (the ones we have translated) are loose (without compression) in files .Bin which in turn are released (uncompressed) in file .AFS These texts are encoded with "UTF16 Little Endian".
Thus, to find any text, just do a search on the entire AFS using this encoding. It ran several searches using two different software and always get the same results: find all the texts that we have already found, but find no talk of Kiki. This leads me to believe that the phrases are compressed Kiki somehow.
50% solved! I finally found a program that displays the TPL files of the game. The program name is Noesis and can be found at the link below: http://oasis.xentax.com/index.php?content=downloads
I can view and export the image contained in the TPL file to be edited to .PNG format , but I can not re-insert the edited image into the TPL file again...
Without checking, I'm not sure if this is the same format used in some Wii and DS games, but the Revolution SDK includes some tools for converting to and from TPL which may work if you can find them.
EDIT: Should be tplx for extracting TPLs, and texconv for packing them.
thanks for the tip my friend! I found the program but it asks for password to unzip .... I'm trying to find the password or another link. I'll post the result
1 - Most programs to edit TPL files, are somehow related to the Nintendo Wii system. Some of these programs recognize and export the TPL file to other formats, but can not reenter a modified file in the container TPL. When trying to execute the action you reinsert an image, a message appears that says "this program does not work with files of multiple texture"
2 - The program Game Graphic Studio opens some TPL file types similar structure (with extension FJF) but not the files that we need to edit.
Any information about editing these file types will be of great help to us.