BrainBox Tools for Steel Battalion (43430002) and Steel Battalion: Line of Contact (43430009)
BBTools is bundled with the following software:
- Extract-XISO - Used to extract the file system from an Xbox ISO image.
- FFMPEG - Used to convert several obsolete media formats to more modern ones.
- Godot - Used to import and bundle game assets for use with Project Brainbox.
./bbtools <default.xbe>
./bbtools <game_disk.iso>
BBTools is a command line program that accepts a path to either an .iso, or .xbe file. If a path to a directory is specified instead, then BBTools will look for a file called default.xbe at that path. If an .iso file is specified, then its file system will first be extracted to a directory with the same name as the .iso file, minus the extension.
Before any operation takes place, BBTools will extract a self-contained archive containing necessary bundled software, along with a Godot project skeleton that will be used to bundle the game assets. All files generated by BBTools will be placed in the build/ directory including the final output .pck file.
NOTE: BBTools is designed to work with unmodified copies of the .xbe and implements the Xbox signature check to verify this.