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| Description |
ALX is a very simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented command line tool to extract the game data from Skies of Arcadia, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Eternal Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia Legends. It is able to export and import the data to and from CSV files.
Features
[list][li]Character skills (Super Moves and Magics)[/li]
[li]Character stats (EXP curves, Magic EXP curves and parameters)[/li]
[li]Crew members[/li]
[li]Enemy ship stats[/li]
[li]Enemy skills (Super Moves and Magics)[/li]
[li]Enemy stats (action patterns, encounters, events and parameters)[/li]
[li]Items (accessories, armors, ship cannons, ship accessories, ship items, special items, usable items and weapons)[/li]
[li]Playable ship stats[/li]
[li]Shops[/li][/list]
Prerequisites
The commands respectively scripts in the bin directory require:
[list][li]Ruby 2.4.0+[/li]
[li]At least one extracted image of Skies of Arcadia, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Eternal Arcadia or Eternal Arcadia Legends[/li][/list]
The shipped and pre-exported CSV files in the subdirectories of share require:
[list][li]Spreadsheet application with UTF-8 support (e.g. LibreOffice Calc or uniCSVed)[/li]
[li]Editor for plain text (e.g. Notepad++)[/li][/list]
Download
[list][li]You can get the latest official release on the SourceForge project website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aex/files/latest/download[/li]
[li]You can also get the current development version from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Taikocuya/ALX[/li][/list]
Installation
Put the files to some directory where you want it. Pre-exported CSV files with complete game data can already be found in the subdirectories:
[list][li]share/dc-eu-dreamon (Dreamcast, PAL-E, Dreamon Vol. 20)[/li]
[li]share/dc-eu-retail-1 (Dreamcast, PAL-E, Retail Disc No. 1)[/li]
[li]share/dc-eu-retail-2 (Dreamcast, PAL-E, Retail Disc No. 2)[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-barai-1 (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, @barai Disc No. 1)[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-barai-2 (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, @barai Disc No. 2)[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-express (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, Dreamcast Express Vol. 6)[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-kuzokuban (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, Kuzokuban (Trial Edition))[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-retail-1 (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, Retail Disc No. 1)[/li]
[li]share/dc-jp-retail-2 (Dreamcast, NTSC-J, Retail Disc No. 2)[/li]
[li]share/dc-us-magazine (Dreamcast, NTSC-U, Official Magazine Vol. 9)[/li]
[li]share/dc-us-retail-1 (Dreamcast, NTSC-U, Retail Disc No. 1)[/li]
[li]share/dc-us-retail-2 (Dreamcast, NTSC-U, Retail Disc No. 2)[/li]
[li]share/gc-eu-retail (Gamecube, PAL-E, Retail Disc)[/li]
[li]share/gc-jp-retail (Gamecube, NTSC-J, Retail Disc)[/li]
[li]share/gc-us-retail (Gamecube, NTSC-U, Retail Disc[/li][/list]
The scripts require at least one extracted image of Skies of Arcadia, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Eternal Arcadia or Eternal Arcadia Legends. The directory structure should look like this:
[list][li]share/*/database (replace the asterisk with any name you choose) for CSV[/li]
[li]share/*/gameroot (replace the asterisk with any name you choose) for game data[/li][/list]
To obtain the game files, you need a corresponding image (ISO, GCM or GDI). Please do not ask for download links.
[list][li]GCRebuilder (Gamecube)[/li]
[li]GDRom Explorer (Dreamcast)[/li][/list]
Commands
All commands respectively scripts can be found in the bin directory.
[list][li]export.rb: Executes all export commands in bin.[/li]
[li]import.rb: Executes all import commands in bin.[/li][/list]
Links
* Skies of Arcadia Wiki
License
Copyright (C) 2019 Marcel Renner. ALX is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0. See LICENSE.md for the full license text. |
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