hacktools

A set of utilities and tools for rom hacking and translations.

Installing dependencies

Most dependencies are optional, and can be installed with pip install 'hacktools[name1,name2]' or pip install 'hacktools[all]' to install all of them.

Dependencies list

• nds: needed for NDS roms and compressed binaries.
• psp: needed for PSP ISO/BIN signing.
• iso: needed for PSX/PS2 ISO.
• graphics: needed for most functions that deal with graphics.
• cli: needed by tools that use CLI/GUI.
• armips: needed for common.armipsPatch.
• xdelta: needed for common.xdeltaPatch.
• ips: needed for common.ipsPatch.

Supported platforms and formats

External dependencies not included are marked as (through *dependency*)

NDS

• ROM
• NCGR/NSCR/NCER/NCLR images
• NBFC/NTFT/NBFS/NBFP images
• NFTR fonts
• NARC archives
• Textures in NSBMD 3D files

PSP

• ISO
• GIM/GMO images
• PGF fonts
• PMF header for MPS movies
• BIN signing

PSX

• BIN/ISO
• TIM images

WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color

• ROM banks
• Assembly (through NASM)
• Raw and tiled images
• Sprites

GameBoy

• ROM banks
• Assembly (through wla-gb and wlalink)

Wii

• ISO (through wit)
• TPL images
• ARC archives (through wszst)
• BRFNT fonts (through brfnt2tpl and wimgt)

Other / Generic

• CPK archives
• ARCH archives
• LZ10, LZ11, Huffman, CRILAYLA and RACJIN compression/decompression
• ARM/MIPS binary patching
• xdelta patch creation
• IPS patch creation