JoD - Documentation

Links to external research and documentation

File formats:

Cheat codes (Credits to Tundra/princefluffs from discord):

JoD proto .xml sound configs files (Credits to Tundra/princefluffs from discord)

JoD subtitles editing (Credits to KetrinDarkDragon)

Links to external research and documentation

JoD debug mode research on SonicRetro:

https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/nights-journey-of-dreams-debug-misc-research.24296/

All A-life props documented (credits to spyroid101):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wOcba2jBi0e9jokm2Y0qnDZGMlZfl2OxY25gqe1nmpE/edit?usp=sharing

File formats:

.one - compressed archive format. Can contain various data from models and textures, to cutscene subtitles

.tls - UI textures. Can be opened with brawlbox/brawlcrate if renamed to .tpl format

.brmdl - model data

.brtxt - texture data for the models

.brcha - character animation data

.brres - various model data

for more info on brres check BRRES formats documentation on vg-resource

https://wiki.vg-resource.com/BRRES

Cheat codes (Credits to Tundra/princefluffs from discord):

Moonjump gecko code:

2867E688 00000090

040782cc 4182002c

040782d4 41820024

040782dc 4182001c

e2000001 00000000

2A67E688 00000090

040782cc 4182019c

040782d4 418202d0

040782dc 41820730

e2000001 00000000

And the version for the prototype:

286672E0 00000090

04063124 4182002C

0406312c 41820024

04063134 4182001C

e2000001 00000000

2A6672E0 00000090

04063124 418201b0

0406312c 41820284

04063134 41820620

e2000001 00000000

Hold Z while midair after jumping to moonjump.

JoD proto .xml sound configs files (Credits to Tundra/princefluffs from discord)

The September prototype for JoD has some files that are uncompressed in .xml format.

hugeData>audio has ones filled with configurations for sound effects, and I found a list of sound configs for Lost Park (SE_B7_1100.xml), listing Mirage TVs, lake appearing, trees growing, which are all from the TV's effects, but trees growing is followed by "tree_burning", which I suppose means they may have burst into flames when the TV's effects wore off (Unless I am just forgetting about Lost Park flaming trees existing in the final game)

There is a sound cue for Nightopians called "AL_Attack". This and the flaming tree effect above both lead to dummy sound files, which is why they are not used.

I also found a sound cue for "voice_undualize", which actually does lead to a sound effect.

There is also this one, which is configured as "voice_summon"

There are configs for 4 eagle sfx, 2 clouds, and 5 magnet personas, but all lead to dummy sfx...

Cool detail though, the personas are in the order you obtain them, so if the cut personas followed this too, the order would have been: Dolphin, Eagle, Dragon, Rocket, Cloud, Magnet

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JoD subtitles editing (Credits to KetrinDarkDragon)

⚠️WARNING! I only tested it on one cutscene and don't know how consistent this method actually is

Tools needed:

ONEX (Optional. for unpacking original .ONE files): ⁠nights-datamine⁠

Heroes One Reloaded: https://github.com/Sewer56/HeroesONE-Reloaded/releases/tag/1.2.1

HxD hex editor (actually any hex editor will work): https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Extra: all files extracted and converted in needed formats + readable txt files so you don't need to use ONEX - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KX3nGCne18FA-e2gWPgszAd4r89Txxwd/view?usp=sharing

File path to subtitles in game folder

*folder to where you extracted the game files*\DATA\files\message

1. Have your .one files extracted to .bin format.

Have a backup copy of original .one files because you WILL need them

2. Open your .bin file in hex editor and edit the text to whatever you need. Preferably you should not edit JP language files because not only you will not be able to see the japanese text in hex editor, but it also will mess up later steps.

Be aware to keep dots/00 between the letters. Dismissing them might break something.

Save the file after editing. (screenshot example 1)

3. Open Heroes One Reloaded and press file>new. The "add files" and choose your edited bin file

Save it with the same name as the bin file.

4. "If if works, it's not stupid" part. You NEED to open both of your edited and original .one files in hex editor. The original .one file should have a header ThisIsOneFile...М...Default and lots of 00 00 00 00 and other data, while edited file should have completely different header and data coming after it. Compare the files, they should start to have same matching non-empty data (screenshot example 2). Then copy everything in UNEDITED .one from the header up until the the match and replace it into edited file (screenshot example 3)

Heroes One Reloaded cannot open JoD .one files. Not sure if it's because of different headers or not, however the packed data that it creates is readable by JoD so that's already enough for the game modding. Also after the header and empty data but before the compressed subtitles, there seems to be some other data. I might only assume it's relatable to some other part of cutscenes, because without it the camera and animations became slightly glitchy

Editing only non-JP translations bins is REALLY important because japanese text is what makes both original and edited files have bits of the same data that could be used for the navigation through the file. Basically when compressed back into .one format, the data containing japanese text does not change because the method used for the compression is the same. If you change the japanese text tho, the data for compressed parts will change completely and it will make difficulty knowing what should be copied and pasted from original file to modified one.

Additional notes:

Text uses Unicode 1200

EH - Helen story subtitles

EK - Will story subtitles

"JP" "EN" "FR" "GE" "IT" translation language prefix

Each translation is "layered on" previous language translation (no idea why they did that). So Italian translation file always has all previous languages included but not used.

For non-english letters, unfortunately I have no idea what hex is used to insert non-english characters. I suggest to compare the bin files with txt files that I have provided

Screenshot example 1:

Screenshot example 2:

Screenshot example 3:

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