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Mempak Editor - Note importation is bugged

Open radorn opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

I exported a number of notes from several MPKs images and built a new MPK from them. When I transfered this new MPK to an Controller Pak none of the games recognized their notes. So I opened the MPK in a hex editor, and found out that the note entry table was wrong, as none of the note entries had their respective 4 letter game IDs. Furthermore, it seems the importer doesn't like periods (.) inside the filename. San Francisco RUSH's note name is "S.F. RUSH . " but, when importing it back, the new note becomes "S RUSH .F". The imported notes show up in a Controller Pak manager/menu, but the games won't use them because the gamecodes are broken, if there aren't other problems beyond what I can tell.

On the bright side, the notes it exports FROM GOOD MPKs do seem to be good, as I could use a different tool to import them and generate a good MPK file where the games could properly recognize and load their notes: bryc.github.io -- github.com/bryc/mempak

radorn avatar Nov 27 '19 01:11 radorn

I exported a number of notes from several MPKs images and built a new MPK from them. When I transfered this new MPK to an Controller Pak none of the games recognized their notes. So I opened the MPK in a hex editor, and found out that the note entry table was wrong, as none of the note entries had their respective 4 letter game IDs. Furthermore, it seems the importer doesn't like periods (.) inside the filename. San Francisco RUSH's note name is "S.F. RUSH . " but, when importing it back, the new note becomes "S RUSH .F". The imported notes show up in a Controller Pak manager/menu, but the games won't use them because the gamecodes are broken, if there aren't other problems beyond what I can tell.

On the bright side, the notes it exports FROM GOOD MPKs do seem to be good, as I could use a different tool to import them and generate a good MPK file where the games could properly recognize and load their notes: bryc.github.io -- github.com/bryc/mempak

Do you know a good save I can import? The raphnet tool corrupted my legit n64 memory card and it just loads up with error now.

neomerge avatar Apr 24 '21 19:04 neomerge

I no longer have any of this stuff, sorry.

radorn avatar Jun 09 '21 21:06 radorn