This is a collection of command-line tools for viewing and editing file formats used in AliceSoft games.
First install the dependencies (corresponding Debian package in parentheses):
- bison (bison)
- flex (flex)
- meson (meson)
- libpng (libpng-dev)
- libturbojpeg (libturbojpeg0-dev)
- libwebp (libwebp-dev)
- zlib (zlib1g-dev)
Then fetch the git submodules,
git submodule init
git submodule update
(Alternatively, pass --recurse-submodules when cloning this repository)
Then build the tools with meson,
mkdir build
meson build
ninja -C build
All of the tools are accessed through the single alice executable. Running
alice or any command without arguments will print the relevant usage
instructions. E.g.
alice
alice ain
alice ain dump
The currently implemented commands are:
alice acx build - Build a .acx file from a .csv
alice acx dump - Dump the contents of a .acx file to .csv
alice ain compare - Compare .ain files
alice ain dump - Dump various info fram a .ain file
alice ain edit - Edit a .ain file
alice ar extract - Extract an archive file
alice ar list - List the contents of an archive file
alice ex build - Build a .ex file
alice ex compare - Compare .ex files
alice ex dump - Dump the contents of a .ex file
See README-ain.md
See README-ex.md
See README-acx.md
- Non-ASCII file paths aren't handled correctly on Windows. You will have to rename any files with Japanese characters in their name before using these tools on them.
- aindump only supports dumping to a single file, which can be quite large.
The source code is available on github.
You can report bugs on the issue tracker at github, contact me via email at nunuhara@haniwa.technology, or find me on /haniho/.
- Fix encoding issue when using the
ar packcommand on Windows
- Change naming of ain v12+ instructions/types to better reflect their semantics
- Implement ain v14+ versions of various macros
- Automatically dump .ex/.pactex files when extracting archives
- An archive's table-of-contents can now be overridden when extracting
- The ain edit command now processes files in the order given on the command line
- The ain edit command now accepts a --jam option for patching the code section
- Many improvements/fixes to the (experimental) .jaf compiler
- Various bug fixes
- Add
ar packcommand for creating AFAv2 archives - Fix issues with ALD files on Windows
- Support indexing string table by value when using
ain edit -tcommand
- Combine all commands into the single binary 'alice'
- Fix issue with the Dohna Dohna trial version .ain file
- Fix issue with unescaped carriage returns characters in output
- Improve error messages
- Add acxdump/acxbuild tools for editing .acx files
- Support extracting .ogg files from afa v3 archives
- Fix crash when extracting CG archive from MangaGamer version of Sengoku Rance
- Support dumping/editing .ain files for Hentai Labyrinth and Evenicle 2 Clinical Trial Edition
- Fixes issue when dumping ain files with ascii-incompatible encodings
- !!! Breaks bytecode compatibility with previous versions !!!
- Removed
--inline-stringsoptions from aindump and ainedit - Strings are now inlined in
S_PUSHinstructions, etc. - Added a few more bytecode macros
- Added alice-ar tool for extracting archive files
- Now supports ain files up to version 14 (Evenicle 2, Haha Ranman)
- Improved ex file compatibility, now works with Rance 03, Rance IX and Evenicle 2
- aindump now emits macro instructions by default (makes bytecode easier to read)
- Most error messages now include line numbers
- Added
--input-encodingand--output-encodingoptions to control the text encoding of input and output files - Added a
--transcodeoption to ainedit to change the text encoding of an ain file - Fixed an issue where the
--splitoption to exdump would produce garbled filenames on Windows
- Added exdump and exbuild tools
- Fixed an issue where non-ASCII characters could not be reinserted using
ainedit -t
- Initial release
- Supports dumping/editing .ain files up to version 12 (Rance X)