Possible End to ImagineDump
Well, I wasn’t banned, which was something quite surprising.
Encryption for the client files have changed quite a bit, which means I’ll need to waste time to reverse engineer the encryption used, in order to pull out the usual information.
Structure appears different as well, since there are quite a bunch of new files.
Figuring all these stuff out is something I’m not at all keen to do at this point, considering that Imagine is no longer a game that I’m actively playing.
The hours, or even days involved in breaking the new encryption is better served for other purposes.
This also effectively means that I don’t have the exact details on what was changed from this patch on.
The viewable online version of the dump on this site hasn’t been updated since 26th May, but the offline version used for my own purpose is of course updated till last week’s patch.
I might push those information up later.
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To certain GSes and players who claims that you can fish out information from the client files simply by opening it in a hex editor… thanks for showing just how ignorant you are.
Unlike stuff in \BinaryData\Client, stuff in \BinaryData\Shield is encrypted with a symmetric key cipher.
On top of that, certain files reference other files.
Good example, devils:
\BinaryData\Shield\DevilBookData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\DevilData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\DevilFusionData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\DevilLVUpRateData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\SkillData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\TriUnionSpecialData.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\CModelData1.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\CModelData2.bin
\BinaryData\Shield\CModelData3.bin
\BinaryData\Client\CIconData_Devil.bin
\BinaryData\Client\CIconData_Skill.bin
You need to write a custom script/program to:
1) Decrypt the files that needs to be decrypted
2) Cross reference data from one file to another
3) Go through the result, do some test and associate proper values to arbitrary fields.
4) Dump out the result in a human readable manner
This is something a plain hex editor is unable to do. Some stuff is easy to get. e.g. BGM information, but the rest involved a good bit of programing know-how.
If it’s so simple, why aren’t there more sources of such dumps for Imagine?
It also isn’t a coincidence that 真・女神転生IMAGINE 悪魔検索プログラム, 悪魔合体マニアクス and my site has similar info and problems across the board. e.g. lack of Seiten Taisei’s proper stats.
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…The irony is that if they actually had an active GM team, CAVE wouldn’t have probably needed to do this to combat bots, etc.
the imagine dump and your patch note ish awesome ^^ been reading ur blog to know wat happen exactly in jp side~~lose a realiable info source since now i guess :(
but well instead of letting those ppl taking those infos u work hard to extract from client w/o quoting and assume are theirs,guess ur decision ish right XD
thanks for supplying the patch note and the dump till now ^^ have fun in other game :D
Oh man, that sucks. I’m guessing this was used as a countermeasure for people who do, well, exactly that. They seemed really keen on hiding info, I still remember what they did during the Shiva and Vishnu event.
I’m curious to find out what they did. But yeah, this is a major bummer. Thanks for doing all you did Fi. Let’s hope the game will suck less later.
http://finella.nemissa.info/2010/03/25/cave-has-a-sense-of-humor/
Atlus says hai:
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/08/30/atlus_index_holdings_merger/
6 months old news is 6 months old.
http://finella.nemissa.info/2010/02/14/end-of-the-atlus-we-know/
selectively reading >___>;
On that note, don’t you just love how the so called THE “persona” team is making this new game that everyone thinks that’s gonna be “awesome”?! lol
Whether you like it or not, Persona 3 and 4 are popular and decent RPGs.
The only thing that irks me is people treating them as SMT games, which they are not.
Heck, they don’t even have the SMT tagging in the Japanese version. Neither does the two Raidou games…
but ofc you can leave to Atlus USA to slap a SMT tag on anything just to sell -.=
The only games that ever wear actual SMT tags as the main title are 1/2/3/if../NINE/SJ, but you’ll always see those people who claims that they know the series running around telling everyone how P3 is SMT X3
(where the funny thing is that only P1 was the one the EVER wore a “side story” tag that was lost ever since P2 XD)
P3 is a decent RPGs imo, as a RPG. But in no means, I can personally see that being a “persona”.
Update: Atlus is getting dissolved.
Oh well. So long and thanks for all the fish, I guess.
Atlus Co. Ltd as a standalone company has literally ceased to exist for a couple of months now.
It’s simply just a natural extension of what was announced 6 months ago.
Dissolved is frankly a bad word choice, as the Atlus branding is still trademarked and intact.
1) Take full control over Atlus to exert full management/IP/etc… control
2) Merge related subsidiaries together to cut down on overheads
3) ????
4) Profit by releasing a cellphone base P3 spin-off
just when you think they are not gonna spam P3D before the 3DS gets released, this thing pops up D:
Perhaps that Cellphone Spin-off of P3 will make it to the states, who knows… Would be rather interesting.