LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga Modding Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga Wii

[A Stick]

Here are the three questions I have on modding Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga.

1. How can I resize my character model to be larger? PC or Wii (doesn't matter) but I prefer Wii because I don't have the PC version.

2. How can I retexture characters (Wii)?

3. Here is my far fetched question. How can I edit the cantina map via blender?

 

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Edited January 10, 2018 by Cyrem
I answered my previous question

[Lair]

I know Wii game modding in general can be done since I've seen some overhauls of Mario Galaxy and NSMBWii, and I know you can mod Wii software to play ROMs, but I haven't got a clue how they do it - most I've ever been able to do is open pre-ripped Gamecube ROMs and listen to the music and voice files. But even though this is a Lego game you're talking about, I don't think this is the best site to ask about Wii modding, since afaik all our work has been with PC games; you'd probably be better off asking on whatever sites out there deal with modding Wii games, I don't even know where those are so I can't help much, sorry.

[Fluffy Cupcake]

I've been at the surface of Wii games modding, and I know that WiiScrubber can view and replace individual files in a Wii .iso.  If the formats are the same as the PC, chances are you may be able to replace the files no problem. If it is on the unfortunate hand there is a possibility the file extensions and file types may be the same, but they may slightly differ to be optimized for the Wii since it is a totally different system of its own.

 

One thing I'm not even sure of though is if we can even make custom models for the PC games yet.

[A Stick]

Well my wii is modded and I know that you can mod other games like mario kart. I have seen pictures of imported models for the pc version of lego star wars. 

[Lair]

Well you should find out how those people modded those games and try to do the same to your game.

[A Stick]

17 minutes ago, Ringtail said:

Well you should find out how those people modded those games and try to do the same to your game.

Your right. You don't know how happy I would be if I can pull this off.

[Fluffy Cupcake]

Well if you are doing it on an actual Wii and not doing tests on Dolphin first (which would mean replacing files the way I was saying), then Riivolution is the way to go as you don't need a modified disc/iso or whatnot as file replacing is live.

[A Stick]

14 hours ago, Xiron said:

Well if you are doing it on an actual Wii and not doing tests on Dolphin first (which would mean replacing files the way I was saying), then Riivolution is the way to go as you don't need a modified disc/iso or whatnot as file replacing is live.

I actually figured out how to mod the game via cheat codes. http://geckocodes.org/index.php?c=RLGE64

That is a baby step though. 

[Fluffy Cupcake]

That ain't modding, at least not how we define the term modding around here. That is, as you said, cheat[ing]. This is like calling using Cheat Engine on a game and saying it modding when all you're doing is changing live values in the game's memory and not file replacing, heck, the process of finding geckocodes and pointers in CE are essentially the same thing.  In short: You can't inject new content that way.

[A Stick]

5 hours ago, Xiron said:

That ain't modding, at least not how we define the term modding around here. That is, as you said, cheat[ing]. This is like calling using Cheat Engine on a game and saying it modding when all you're doing is changing live values in the game's memory and not file replacing, heck, the process of finding geckocodes and pointers in CE are essentially the same thing.  In short: You can't inject new content that way.

The term mod [modding] comes from modify.

mod·i·fy

ˈmädəˌfī/

verb

 

1. make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme.

    

    

   Did I not modify the values? Is that what you are saying. Because the codes are a little something called hexadecimal. Whether I found those codes myself or not, they still made changes to the game. Because hexadecimal is what manages all the values. And those gecko os codes take little more than copy and paste to use. Don't get me wrong. Im no hacking genius but didn't I say that it was a baby step. 

    

    

[The Ace Railgun]

cheat-code

Noun

(plural cheat codes)

1. (video games) A line of text or series of commands which can be used to change a game's behavior, alter a characters's looks and abilities, skip levels, or access other hidden features.

 

 

Cheat codes are different from actual modding. They are usually added by the developer, that, yes, can change values and add effects. While with modding, you add things that that were not originally in the game files, such as non-vanilla characters, levels, items, abilities, textures, and sounds.

 

[A Stick]

12 hours ago, The Ace Railgun said:

cheat-code

Noun

(plural cheat codes)

1. (video games) A line of text or series of commands which can be used to change a game's behavior, alter a characters's looks and abilities, skip levels, or access other hidden features.

 

 

Cheat codes are different from actual modding. They are usually added by the developer, that, yes, can change values and add effects. While with modding, you add things that that were not originally in the game files, such as non-vanilla characters, levels, items, abilities, textures, and sounds.

 

Cheat codes are added by the developers but the hexadecimal code isn't really up down, up down, left right, start. Cheat codes are achieved in game while hexadecimal is in the games files. Hexadecimal is the way computers understand math. As I said for a video game it manages all the values. I didn't enter these in game. I didn't enter them at all. I overwritten the existing values in the games files with these modified hexadecimal values.

[The Ace Railgun]

You know what, you can believe whatever the heck you want to believe, but most people aren't going to call that modding, unless you were adding brand new content to the game using custom code that replaced a model, or added a new model, added new gameplay, etc. Those are still just cheat codes of a different variety.

 

 

[A Stick]

33 minutes ago, The Ace Railgun said:

You know what, you can believe whatever the heck you want to believe, but most people aren't going to call that modding, unless you were adding brand new content to the game using custom code that replaced a model, or added a new model, added new gameplay, etc. Those are still just cheat codes of a different variety.

 

 

I tried to explain. OK

[Fluffy Cupcake]

3 hours ago, A Stick said:

I overwritten the existing values in the games files with these modified hexadecimal values.

Those codes look like they just change the game's memory and not actual files to me, as all codes on that site always have. I mean, I don't see anywhere on that page saying "this goes to this offset in this file".

Whatever the case, I'm on Ace's side with this.

[A Stick]

4 hours ago, Xiron said:

Those codes look like they just change the game's memory and not actual files to me, as all codes on that site always have. I mean, I don't see anywhere on that page saying "this goes to this offset in this file".

Whatever the case, I'm on Ace's side with this.

Well that game's memory happens to be a file and it automatically knows where the offset is. Oh and did I mention it was a baby step.

[Tcm0]

On 29.6.2016 at 0:27 AM, A Stick said:

Well that game's memory happens to be a file and it automatically knows where the offset is. Oh and did I mention it was a baby step.

What the others are trying to say: using generic cheat codes to change the amount of money, the unlocked stuff etc. are mostly changes of single values in the RAM; the stuff gets forgotten after closing the game (unless the cheat code gets loaded again) and cheat code engines are not designed to change major parts of the RAM. In addition to that, some ram might be overwritten during the game which would delete the cheat/cause corruptions in the game. Developing cheat codes is probably good to train assembly knowledge but that's about it when it comes to game modding.

 

Modding a game on the other hand means to unpack the game's files (so that you get a folder that you can open with windows with subfolders and images, sounds etc. which are used in the game) to edit them with a program that can open them and repack them into a new iso. The game iso itself now contains the new files, not the stuff that got loaded into RAM.

You might be lucky and find finished programs to extract wii iso files and other programs to work with the TT specific filetypes.

[McJobless]

You didn't make modifications to the game. You just cheated.

[Disguised Clone]

here's some of the library probably used in TCS from LSW1: 
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i have no idea how to use those variables in the character txts and npc scripts, but they should work