Should probably be on /wsr/ but I'll ask here anyway: I've been playing Shiren the Wanderer - Monster of Moonlight Village for Android recently, my main interest is the sprites of the game, they seem to be something like "graxx" files, no idea how open those as regular pngs or such.Does anyone here is willing to help with that? I can provide the files if needed ofc
>>1917983If you upload one of the files I can take a look but most likely it's their own compression. You might have more luck running the .apk in an emulator that can dump the assets.Which sprite(s) did you want?
>>1918991Ok there's some weird rabbit hole going on with this game, there are promo images along some really obscure Japanese Blog entries (text only) with some monsters that afaik don't appear anywhere from what i have played (pic rel)So checking the files is the only way to know 100% sure if those monsters are actually in the game.https://files.catbox.moe/obchu6.zipThat's the game files. Thanks in advance Anon!
>>1919008I'm trying some things but most likely I won't be able to open these files in any recognizable format.All I can say for now is the app was developed in 2010 and that image was uploaded in 2012. I'll update in a moment. Can you tell me more about which monsters you don't recognize? Those white eyeball things seem to show up in other images.
>>1919015>>1919008Okay, I think I understand a little more now.>https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8D%E6%80%9D%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3_%E9%A2%A8%E6%9D%A5%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3GB_%E6%9C%88%E5%BD%B1%E6%9D%91%E3%81%AE%E6%80%AA%E7%89%A9There are multiple versions of this game and its re-releases, including a separate version for smartpass users? An extra dungeon was added at some point but you should have access to it.I'd first check a wiki for the original version and see if you can find any of those monsters.>https://mysterydungeonwiki.com/wiki/Meta:Mystery_Dungeon:_Shiren_the_Wanderer_GB_-_Monster_of_Moonlight_Village
>>1919019Yeah so far there's 2 versions i know of: Moonlit DX (released for Docomp phones) and Moonlit for Android.The former has images with exclusive monsters and dungeons BUT Android released a year later, can't discard the fact the Smartpass version might be an update of sorts.>I'd first check a wiki for the original version and see if you can find any of those monsters.Afaik there are at least 4 monsters in Android not present in the original GB release which i have verified myself (then there's at least another 3 monsters according to a JP blog)
>>1919022If I check the gb wiki for the final dungeon, specifically floor 29 like that image I can see purple slimes and super gazes which are present. The karakasa looking things I'm not sure about, I think it might be a hell reaper but in the remake, probably due to censorship?, they changed the sprite to something cuter. That would be my guess.
>>1919023I doubt that's the case, Reapers appear in the Android version just fine (you can actually see the scythe of one on the top left), the umbrella thing is the odd one (along that red thing barely visible on the left of my first image)Take this pic for example: that's a Firepuff (small dragon thing) it doesn't appear in the original release but it's in the Android version.There's also the fact that there are some promo images from DX but with the Android version UI, making things confusing.
>>1919025Yeah, that makes sense. Those umbrella guys are referred to as hat urchins in other shiren titles, they're a type of cyclops.I'm checking now to see if I can find more info on the smartpass version. Your version is listed as:>1.04.30
>>1919027Pretty sure is a Rainy Doll (a Teru Teru Bozu) it appeared in a few games but only the 3D ones, that's why the sprite version is so special to me.Still thanks for looking into the game anon, really appreciated. Even if that particular monster isn't in the game there has to be more according to both my experience and that JP Blog entry from someone that played the android version all those years ago
>>1919027Checking the Archive it seems the latest version of the APK was 1.6... FUCK
>>1919030I'll see if I can find a download for that version in a bit. I'm still searching through some jp talk about ケロぼうず系 type enemies, but as you said before, so far it's just shiren 2 and 3 references.
>>1919039Ah nice. Yeah the Rainy Doll and some other monsters have sprite versions that never appeared in the main games, only the Keitai phone games which most are lost media right now... don't remember which keitai game pic rel was from but Rainy Doll along other monsters seem to be on almost every phone game to my knowledge.There doesn't seem to be anything pointing towards added content throughout the updates, only bug fixes and such
>>1919041I've managed to extract the table info for the graphics files and got a garbled mess, but at least image data is coming through, I don't think it's encrypted or anything so I just need to get rid of the noise.There's a decent chance once I do this we'll find that your version doesn't have this creature, not sure what happens then.
>>1919025I also want to point out this Firepuff didn't spawn naturally, rather was summoned by another monster (Schubell, a small monster with a bell) so maybe there are a lot of monsters that don't spawn normally in the game but can be forced by Schubell monsters
>>1919046Awesome, that's great.
90% sure the sprites are just reused from the other mystery dungeon games
