How to get rid of opening splash?

[PlaguedHikikomori]

Hello,

tried to delete that annoying green splash at the beginning, and just noted Karoshi have it too.

Tried to find out if that string was somewhere in the C# code, but atm nothing found.

Could it be hardcoded in EBOOT.BIN?

Thanks

[nkrapivin]

Yes, it is hardcoded into the runner, as a DXT4 (or DXT5) texture.

[LiEnby]

Yes, it is hardcoded into the runner, as a DXT4 (or DXT5) texture.

At what offset? I could add an option to change it by patching the executable. I've worked with DXT compression before so

[PlaguedHikikomori]

Yes, it is hardcoded into the runner, as a DXT4 (or DXT5) texture.

Had this thought too, but either the runner and the compiled .iso will show true gibberish when dropped in a DXT3/5 texture viewer. When the other texture of the game are clearly visible.

Also tried to make a couple hex compares, and setting some breakpoints in ppsspp when the texture splashes, still nothing easily editable found.

[LiEnby]

You probably would need to decrypt the EBOOT.BIN file into EBOOT.ELF then encrypt it again with sign-np.

PPSSPP has an option to do the decryption iirc Also the DXT texture is probably at a specific offset within the elf .

[PlaguedHikikomori]

EBOOT.zip

Here's the picture-free runner, if some other people need that. Well done guys.

[LiEnby]

nice! @PlaguedHikikomori id like to add the option to change ti to chovy-gm at some point tbh