This is a collection of command-line tools for viewing and editing file formats used in AliceSoft games.
Building
First install the dependencies (corresponding Debian package in parentheses):
- bison (bison)
- flex (flex)
- meson (meson)
- libpng (libpng-dev)
- libturbojpeg (libturbojpeg0-dev)
- libwebp (libwebp-dev)
- zlib (zlib1g-dev)
Then fetch the git submodules,
git submodule init
git submodule update
(Alternatively, pass --recurse-submodules when cloning this repository)
Then build the tools with meson,
mkdir build
meson build
ninja -C build
Usage
All of the tools are accessed through the single alice executable. Running alice or any command without arguments will print the relevant usage instructions. E.g.
alice
alice ain
alice ain dump
The currently implemented commands are:
alice acx build - Build a .acx file from a .csv
alice acx dump - Dump the contents of a .acx file to .csv
alice ain compare - Compare .ain files
alice ain dump - Dump various info fram a .ain file
alice ain edit - Edit a .ain file
alice ar extract - Extract an archive file
alice ar list - List the contents of an archive file
alice ar pack - Create an archive file
alice cg convert - Convert a CG file to another format
alice cg thumbnail - Create a thumbnail for a CG file
alice ex build - Build a .ex file
alice ex compare - Compare .ex files
alice ex dump - Dump the contents of a .ex file
alice flat build - Build a .flat file
alice flat extract - Extract the contents of a .flat file
alice project build - Build a .pje project file
Editing .ain files
See README-ain.md
Editing .ex files
See README-ex.md
Editing .acx files
See README-acx.md
Editing .flat files
See README-flat.md
See README-alice-ar.md
Building projects (.pje)
See README-project.md
Known Limitations/Bugs
- aindump only supports dumping to a single file, which can be quite large.
Source Code
The source code is available on github.
Reporting Bugs
You can report bugs on the issue tracker at github, contact me via email at nunuhara@haniwa.technology, or find me on /haniho/.
Version History
- Fix issues with extracting .dcf and .pcf images from Dohna Dohna
- Add option to
ain dump to dump HLL stubs for xsystem4
- Add GUI viewer (“galice”) for archives, ain files, ex files, and more
- Implement support for AAR archives
- Implement proper DCF image support
- Implement PCF image support
- Add
cg thumbnail command for thumbnailing AliceSoft’s image formats
- Fix issue that prevented opening Healing Touch ain files
- Various compiler improvements
- Implement file size check for AinInput and PactInput in .pje files
- Implement support for pact archive modding
- Fix issues affecting .flat files
- Add
--function option to ain dump for dumping a specific function only
- Add
ex edit command for making incremental edits to .ex files
- Allow listing .txtex files as part of .pje build process
- Allow specifying archive source directories in .inc files
- Allow (limited) directory wildcard patterns in .inc files
- Allow specifying .jam source files in .inc files
- Implement bytecode injection feature for .pje builds
- Fix encoding issue when using quoted strings in manifest files
- Support extracting DLF and ALK archives
- Fix issues with Japanese file names on Windows
- Allow using quoted strings in archive manifest files
- Various improvements to the .jaf compiler
- Add “BATCHPACK” manifest format for
ar pack command
- Support ain v1 files (Mamanyonyo)
- Add tools for editing .flat files (
flat extract and flat build)
- Support bytecode function replacement (.jam) via .pje project files
- Support building archives and .ex files via .pje project files
- Add
project build command for building .pje files (replaces ain edit -p)
- Add
cg convert command for converting between CG types
- Various improvements to the (still experimental) .jaf compiler
- Fix encoding issue when using the
ar pack command on Windows
- Change naming of ain v12+ instructions/types to better reflect their semantics
- Implement ain v14+ versions of various macros
- Automatically dump .ex/.pactex files when extracting archives
- An archive’s table-of-contents can now be overridden when extracting
- The ain edit command now processes files in the order given on the command line
- The ain edit command now accepts a –jam option for patching the code section
- Many improvements/fixes to the (experimental) .jaf compiler
- Various bug fixes
- Add
ar pack command for creating AFAv2 archives
- Fix issues with ALD files on Windows
- Support indexing string table by value when using
ain edit -t command
- Combine all commands into the single binary ‘alice’
- Fix issue with the Dohna Dohna trial version .ain file
- Fix issue with unescaped carriage returns characters in output
- Improve error messages
- Add acxdump/acxbuild tools for editing .acx files
- Support extracting .ogg files from afa v3 archives
- Fix crash when extracting CG archive from MangaGamer version of Sengoku Rance
- Support dumping/editing .ain files for Hentai Labyrinth and Evenicle 2 Clinical Trial Edition
- Fixes issue when dumping ain files with ascii-incompatible encodings
- !!! Breaks bytecode compatibility with previous versions !!!
- Removed
--inline-strings options from aindump and ainedit
- Strings are now inlined in
S_PUSH instructions, etc.
- Added a few more bytecode macros
- Added alice-ar tool for extracting archive files
- Now supports ain files up to version 14 (Evenicle 2, Haha Ranman)
- Improved ex file compatibility, now works with Rance 03, Rance IX and Evenicle 2
- aindump now emits macro instructions by default (makes bytecode easier to read)
- Most error messages now include line numbers
- Added
--input-encoding and --output-encoding options to control the text encoding of input and output files
- Added a
--transcode option to ainedit to change the text encoding of an ain file
- Fixed an issue where the
--split option to exdump would produce garbled filenames on Windows
- Added exdump and exbuild tools
- Fixed an issue where non-ASCII characters could not be reinserted using
ainedit -t
- Initial release
- Supports dumping/editing .ain files up to version 12 (Rance X)
