#FF Brave Exvius IOS

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vivid knot
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Hello all.

So as what seems to be popular the last few months, a long standing mobile game is closing down, this time being Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.  The purpose of this post is two fold: one, to get help ripping the game, and two, to spark interest in others preserving as much of this game as possible.

I play this game fairly regularly, so I have quite a number of the gatcha characters (over 700), and I want to do my part adding to what's already on the Resource.  The problem is, I play the game on IOS, and I don't know the first thing about ripping something from the IOS version of a game.  Any advice, be it linking to tutorials or programs, is extremely welcome.

Also, I'd like it if others could get in on trying to save what they can of the game.  This one is very near and dear to my heart, and the fact that it's closing down with the story not even being finished irks me to no end.  This game has been running for 9 years and there is a lot of content, so any help others can provide to save what assets can be saved is very much welcome and encouraged.  I myself am already working toward preserving the script itself by hand, as that's all I can do at the moment.  But there is also maps to rip, monster images, character walking and battle sprites, battle backgrounds, just to name a few things.

Thank you for reading this, and thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

tidal nacelle
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If your phone doesn't have any kind of jailbreak set up, I'm guessing you won't be able to see the files, that's the first hurdle. How big is this game? I'd think maybe 10+ GB since it's been around a while. Personally I've used palera1n jailbreak, and Filza file manager to send a .zip wirelessly from iOS to PC, but you have to research your phone model's options, and iOS update/version compatibility with the game and with various jailbreaks. Storage might be kind of tough if zipping an already big game, but there are other options like Apple Conduit 2 (I think that's the name?) for usb to PC file moving. I never got around to trying that though so don't know how difficult it may or may not be.

If you don't want to jailbreak anything you could try using an emulator to figure out the addresses the game downloads all the assets from. With that approach you can usually download android or iOS assets right from the source to your PC. There's a python tool called ResDownloader in the UnityPy discord, with a spot for requests for .py files to download everything for specific games. I've followed along and played around with it a couple of times successfully. It's also a good way to download everything for games that might only download stuff little by little to the cache as needed.

There's also an older tutorial by chrrox at xentax called "Mobile Game Asset Download". I haven't tried it myself but seems to be the same idea, if you'd rather experiment on your own instead of try the other tool above. Not sure if the link will work but seems to be working for me while typing this: https://forum.xen-tax.com/viewtopic.php@p=131909.html

vivid knot
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Thanks; I'll try the emulator route, since I don't want to mess with my phone that much.

pearl steppe
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I'll try to see what I can get with this game. I have an android phone with "admin" privileges so I'm pretty sure I can get the game's files.

Problem is I haven't played the game so I can give you the files but you'll need to guess / find what is what then (if you know the game then that will be easy).

I'm mainly a sound resource guy so if you can help me I'll upload the sounds of this game to the sound resource too.

I'll try to download this game tomorrow or this weekend and see what files the game have.

EDIT : game downloaded, files are easy to rip which is why Spriters resource has already lots of content. I'll upload the sounds.

vivid knot
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Awesome. Any help preserving this game is very much welcome.

pearl steppe
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Download link for all the files : https://mega.nz/file/pZtgSSzS#88qypb5oneBSQLTK5ZYS0gSCN7XX4IVH4XU4k6-M3GY
Download link for all the sounds as wav : https://mega.nz/file/8dlgHCLS#2U0ar2fJhP-0e6WqDkF39nGl5RBsW742dCc2JM6kcK0

For the first link 99% of the files are in .cpk, they are easily extractable with YACPK : https://github.com/Brolijah/YACpkTool. You'll end up with directly usable png.
For the audio vgmstream is fine. If Skyla, you can tell me what sound categories are there that would be perfect (just telling me what the category is, like se_battle = battle sfx, mhxr = some monster hunter event ?)

300.47 MB file on MEGA
5.16 GB file on MEGA
vivid knot
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Holy shit. Yeah, I'll poke this as soon as I get the chance.

pearl steppe
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I mean Skyla or anyone familiar with the game, only problem I'm playing FF5 right now, I'm afraid of spoilers if I dig further into this game lol but no pressure indeed.

vivid knot
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Sorry for taking awhile to get back to you, @pearl steppe I was busy going through the data/being sick. I can tell you none of the sounds should spoil you on FF5, as any LB voices would be in videos, not in sounds.

vivid knot
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Okay, so new ripping question: I have the JP version of the game downloaded and running through BlueStacks 5. How do I go about ripping asset files from that?

pearl steppe
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I'll do it if you want but otherwise you need root / admin privileges in your phone (on bluestacks iirc you need to edit the .conf or .ini file).

When you have root privileges, you need a file explorer that lets you go in hidden folders (I use fx file explorer).

You enable root access in this app and then you can browse the game data (in this case it is in /data/data).

vivid knot
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Oh, no, I mean I have Bluestacks on my computer.

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I looked around the Bluestacks folders, but I'm not sure where game data is saved.

pearl steppe
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Yes, you need to enable root / admin privileges in your bluestack android config, and then you need inside the android check the files (only accessible with root) inside

Usually it's /data/data, whereas normal user only has access to /sdcard0

vivid knot
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Okay, I have no idea how to do that. Do you have a guide or something?

vivid knot
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Okay, I found a tutorial on rooting Bluestack. I'm not sure where to go from here.

vivid knot
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Oh, wait, I can read. You said what you use to browse hidden files XD;;

pearl steppe
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Another thing to note is that I didn't find how to copy from hidden files directly to your own pc so you need to copy twice.

I've thought of zipping once and copy twice which would make copying faster but I've noticed zipping is prohibited on fx file explorer so as I said you need to copy twice which means you need on your android free storage twice the size of the game...

vivid knot
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Okay; that shouldn't be a problem.

vivid knot
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Okay, so I tried copying it, but it keeps coming up access denied.

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nvm, I figured it out.

vivid knot
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Well, one, I did the thing!

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But now I'm running into CPKs that spit out garbage images that don't open?

plush meadow
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Try changing the file extension from .CPK to .ZIP and see if it opens in something like WinRAR or 7Zip.
Almost every mobile game (both Android & iOS) use renamed .ZIP files to store their data.
My old iPad 2 is jailbroken and has a bunch of old games that are long gone from the App Store. I've even modded a few and they still run with the changes I've made

vivid knot
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Well that's cool.

And I'll give that a try.

vivid knot
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Okay, changing it to a .zip file didn't work. I grabbed a screen shot of the error that YACpkTool throws up when trying to decompress these:

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(I get this same error with the one Bleach game I've been trying to hack through.)

pearl steppe
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I'll dl and share the jp version this weekend if I don't forget

vivid knot
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Okay.

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It's region locked, fyi. I had to go through a different app to get it installed.

ember valve
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Don't know if it is late, but they is other way of getting the full game data, but Japanese one.

Is by getting the game with "Andapp", a Japanese PC Installer for Apps. It let you have the full game and easy to extract without needing to use android emulators.

I remember finding this info on this Reddit post when I did unpack the game data a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBraveExvius/comments/8rylkn/ffbe_jp_pc_version_install_guide/

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vivid knot
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Ohhh that's interesting. I'll look into doing that.

ember valve
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It does work like a charm. I did for get the Videos the game uses and it got around 8gb of pure data. But for my lack of knowledge of that data I couldn't do anything.

Hope this even help others for get the game data and do whatever they can with it, either for extract anything or even making an offline of the game on the far future.

vivid knot
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So I did this (and it's really amazing, ftr; runs so much cleaner and faster than it does through BlueStacks) but I can't seem to find any sprite data. The only CPKs I was able to find were the ones for the layout. Is there another place where data is downloaded and saved, or am I just being blind again?

pearl steppe
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I've downloaded the game this weekend but my jp version is like 13gb so copying and uploading will taks a while

ember valve
vivid knot
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Okay, but where is the file for the sprites?

ember valve
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That is the thing: I don't remember😂 . It was a long time ago, but is mostly of give a try and extract one of each?

vivid knot
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Well, I extracted all the cpk files I could find within the game's folder, but none of it contained sprite data.

vivid knot
vivid knot
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Bump.

pearl steppe