u/6dudnicolas

Hi, First of all i have to make it clear tha im not a Romhaker or a programer,

i am a artist who wanted to do some Parascientific Escape fanart, when is was looking for some of the Backgrounds and i noticed most of the Google results don't show or don't have the game's Backgrouns, i know this series is not the most popular or reminded 3ds tittles but i like this games and i wanted to draw some things i liked on my playtime (personally i like some old underrated games)

so i had the idea of getting the backgrounds myself, it was a boring process, I have almost none coding knowledge, i have am interedted with gamedev but for now nothing, this was a 3days process of me braking my head trying to know what i have to do to get somewhere, Now im gonna talk about i did to get the assets.

Getting the Assets:

The first thing i did it was getting the files, i used Azahar to extract the RomFS files,

1- https://github.com/azahar-emu/azahar

Second i used this python code to unpack the OBT files (Thank you ZeroSkill1),

2- https://github.com/ZeroSkill1/OBT.py

after that i used this program called BatchLZ77 to Decomp the unpacked files

3- https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/BatchLZ77

and the semi-final process i used Kuriimu2 to read the decompiled files and extract to PNG (I used VirtualBox with win10 because for some reason the linux verson didn't work with Linux Mint, i don't know if mint don't have some type of thing that make it works or is just my pc),

4- https://github.com/FanTranslatorsInternational/Kuriimu2

For some of the Assets i used Every File Explorer but this was a bad decision,

some of the assets was cropped and after i realized, i had to redo most of the process with kuriimu2, but it have some good use because some assets have a coloring issue on kuriimu.

(Opitinal)5- https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-every-file-explorer.373615/

i have to inform you that even with this process some file don't work (or at least i don't open than on kuriimu) so say that Most of the files are in this folder,

If someone know better how to get the rest of the files feel free to try, i don't intend to do more that that, and probably the 2th and 3th game can be open the same way, and do have in mind that i renamed some files because most of the assets uses the same mane like (base.420 or 320) and its not so organized, i was trying to do it in the most time optimized way possible.

Assets Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oGVZI2c4MJH5Mjvp3LPtmJ8yftviYtzD?usp=drive_link

That's it i hope someone can do the rest of the series with a better knowledge and make a better job than mine, Bye.