Well, I might as well make this topic early.
You know when you're playing a game and you see some really nice artwork, or hear some awesome music, but can't find it online no matter how you look?
Well, maybe this can help. If not, try looking here: TL Wiki Tools
Guaranteed to work for .xp3 files, if you're looking for a way to extract some obsure game data this probably won't help! This is just for those people who've never really come across or used these types of thing before.
You can see some of the pictures I've extracted in my photo albums!
Susie:
[spoiler=Susie]
Susie is... well I don't know much about it, but it's a graphic viewer. It is in Japanese but there is an English menu option.
With the plugins I have included it can open .xp3, NScript Archive, Leaf Archive, ToHeart2, tlg and VisualArts (G00, PDT) files.
Obviously this won't work for all games, but seems to work fine for games with .xp3 or .nsa files. I havn't tested it with all games so I can't confirm what it works on, but this will work if you want to extract some juicy pictures from Fate/Stay Night or Tsukihime.
I was going to extract images and BGM from all the games, but I expect it'll be alot faster if I tell you guys about these tools and let you extract what you want.
If you reply about some other ways of extracting game files, I'll try to include it here.
Download here: Susie347b
Anyway, when you've downloaded it you need to run susie.exe
After that, if the menu is still in japanese follow these instructions:
1. Click the down arrow, click the first option and then click on the lone option. Obviously if you're doing this it'll be in Japanese, but the options are in the same place
2. Go to the 4th option down, and then you should see a box on the side with two checkboxes, one for English and one for Japanese. Click the English one.
3. Close susie.exe and restart it, the menu should now be in English.
To extract the files click the top button in the toolbar, and then navigate to a directory with graphic data (such as a .xp3 file) and open that. A box should open showing all the images as thumbnails. BGM files (eg, .OGG) may also be in there, depending on the file you opened.
It might not show any files, which means they're in a format Susie doesn't recognise. If this is the case, I know a possible solution for .xp3 files. Other types I havn't really looked at.
xp3tools
[spoiler=xp3tools]
Can be downloaded here: Insani xp3tools
As per the readme included, it is a command prompt xp3 extracter/repacker, though there are some issue with repacking.
The readme included pretty much explains everything, but incase it isn't so clear I'll give an example of what I'd type in command prompt
comments are between s
F:
cd games
cd xp3tools-20060708
xp3-extract.exe F:\games\example.xp3 F:\games\example
The same works for repacking, merely using xp3-repack.exe and switching round the .xp3 and folder locations.
Crass
[spoiler=Crass]
Download from: Crass Blog or TLWiki Tools - As you can see there are many more extracting tools but I havn't used them. Anybody interested is welcome to check them out.
Crass is much simpler to use than xp3tools and less likely to go wrong. After downloading, run CrageGUI.exe and then Show Adv. Then just tick the checkbox next to Source File or Source Path, then Dest. Path and select which files you want to extract and where to. Then press Execute and watch the text float by.
I've only used Crass for extracting .xp3 files that xp3tools couldn't, but TL Wiki says so I encourage some people to try it and tell me what happens. There's also something about it being able to repack archives, but again I havn't tested this.
Well, first guide I've ever written, so I hope it helps atleast some people out. xp3tools and Crass you're probably more likely to have heard of, and I only recently heard of susie (wasn't looking for it, really though). I managed to download a group of susie plugins off a yahoo.jp answers site, but there may be many more around.
Maybe I should have got somebody more proffesional to write something like this... Well if you feel I've done a crap job, feel free to pm me suggest improvements (or even write your own guide)