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hi spore creatures gang.

I made Ian Stocker's soundtrack upload into a nice collection of audio files with embedded metadata

https://archive.org/details/sporecreaturesost

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can anyone extract usable assets from this .nds file (REWARD)

so there's this game called spore creatures for the nintendo ds. i want the assets from it. the problem is that the rom does not unpack neatly into normal formats that people have built tools for. it just spits out some .bin files. my understanding is that getting these to turn into files that other programs can parse basically requires writing a bespoke extractor. after several years, i am ready to admit that this is just beyond my ability. i am not a hacker and dont have the time or energy to become one for the sake of this One Thing. however, there are people on this website who Are real hackers. if the person currently reading this is one, i am begging on my hands and knees: please help me (and the two other people who have tried and failed to do this.)

you can acquire a spore creatures rom from all the regular avenues and unpack it with ndsheader. it makes three .bin files and one .sdat file. i HAVE the stuff from the .sdat, that all unpacks as normal with tinke. presumably all the graphics and maps and stuff are inside rom.bin, which is an impenetrable fortress to me. i'm not sure if it's legal or polite to directly offer to pay money for ripped game assets, but ummm , if you can get usable textures/models/sprites from that .bin and send them to me, it may incentivize me to give you a reasonable amount of united states dollars as thanks.

dm me for discord or email if you think you have the chops... peace out *disappears into the shadows*

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hah. guess I won't be recreating my complete save file as fast as I'd like

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Finally! All of the thumbnails I've made for my Spore Creatures DS playthrough!

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@princess-of-anons Here's everything I could find! From left to right, top to bottom, we have: strange Oogie, Babbops (red), Babbops (red, zoomed in), Babbops sporeling (orange), Shadock, Ohi, Webeek, Gorggue, Skriskrab, Salafend, Salafend sporeling, the product of a forbidden love, Buffballows, Buffballows sporeling, horror monster (Buff?), and Scrop! Along the way I also found an oogie sporeling, which was pretty funny, but just looks like an oogie.

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The creatures from Spore Creatures DS but they are appropriately scaled

EDIT: Added a (crappy) transparent version in case somebody wants to play dollhouse with the JPEGS or something.

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afternoon tea

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“Sly, assertive, aggressive. The Whiplies rule the open grounds and fight to keep the other creatures from entering their territory.”

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MEEP

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Gar’skuther, The Infector.

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Sporepedia - Planet Flubit

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Sporepedia - Planet Baysee

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Sporepedia - Planet Pangu