Game level data findings Thread - Star Wars: Rogue Leader 3D mod for Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

As you know there was a call for joining forces to develop Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D Editor, call for forming the Team to all interested modders, amateur level designers, computer science students and everybody who can contribute. At this stage it is important to complete decoding of game level files that can be extracted from the game data by using the RogueDat 1.0 utility. All findings revealed so far will be posted here.

Long time ago I had a chance to look through the Rogue Leader data files. It seems that they have the same structure with the Rogue Squadron except they have more bytes for storing the addresses, since the resource sizes grew drastically. If hopefully the model and texture data format is the same an idea might work: extracting high-quality models and placing them into the data.dat

Unfortunately I had no chances to test this idea and to see if it works yet :-(

the thread reply is working for me, it never has before i don't know what was wrong with it...

sorry i messed that up, i was going to tell you about a game cube emulator which lets you play rogue leader on the pc, the emulator its self is called dolphin and can be downloaded here Dolphin-emu.com . i have not had a go on it yet but it looks simple enpugh to install, and looks really good.

once again i have not got the hang of this sorry mate, every time i reply to a thread or try to edit it, it adds a new paragraph onto the thread so it looks a real mess....

Hey, thanks for this, airborneSn1p, you are very helpful as always. Thank you also for information, I have heard about Dolphin and it turned out that Rogue Leader has some sort of problem with it, since they have developed custom-made shaders or something which makes emulated graphics distorted or so. I would go for the idea of extracting Rogue Leader resources and trying to implant them into Rogue Squadron, but have no time right now. As for the forum postings, seems the system locks threads once they are inactive for some time.

right, thougth somthing like that, no wonder i could not acess it. also rogue squadron 3 is ok on Dolphin, but there is a lot of these black spaces where there is no graphics, just some weird lines and stuff. hopefuly Dolphin will be updated soon so that it can play games like that better but i hear they are having some issues. also i might not be on as much as i am doing exams at the minute

Hey mate, do you know any way of slowing down the rogue squadron game? my game is realy messed up. it used to do this some times but now it always happens. if you don't know what i am on about look at this video Youtube.com that is what my game is doing every time i start it up. any ideas of how to fix it?

I have it on WindowsXP and Rogue Squadron was on speed. But then I switched all the options in Display settings at the Compatibility page ON: Run in256 colors, Run in 640x480 screen resolution, and Disable visual themes. It worked for me then.

ok, i will give it a shot and see if it works. it worked 100% on my windows xp but i got hacked and a worm destroyed my hardrive.

hey mate. i did what you said, it did not work at first but then i put it on windows 2000 mode and it works 100%. thanks so much!!
im also going to put up how to play the game on xp, vista and windows 7 up as a tutorial as im not the first person on this site to have this problem.

hey mate again i have asked basicly the whole youtube rogue squadron 3d community to link the petition to there videos and youtubes and asked them to make videos for the petition, so far i have had two replys one from my mate Aenlasias saying:

and one from an other guy saying:

Hey, thanks for this, airborneSn1p3r, we have got 10 votes in couple of the days!

By the way, the another idea I mentioned recently is to implement Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike in some other game engine freely available e.g. UDK. More and more cutting-edge commercial game engines are giving out free versions for non-commercial use. What do you think?

i was thinking of that, i was looking at the unreal engine and thought it would be good, and our maps do not need to be that detailed as it is all fighting from the air so you could skip alot of the detail, in rogue squadron 3d there would be verry little working apart from the hanger and the ships as the maps would really make them self.

The only thing is we would need more people working on it,rebel strike is a really, really detailed games with ground missions so the work on it would hard and there would be lots of it. why dont you start a group on mod db and recruit people to help?

Also you should make a new news post when you reach 200 votes

As for 200 votes, you are right, I will send new message to LucasArts and post some news regarding it as soon as we get there. Regarding the modeling part of things, Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike have quite high-quality high-polygon models in them, but as a very lazy person I am thinking about some easy alternatives of doing it.

lol well i would be in the same boat, skining and all is ok but i could not work 100% at the game, unless well i had a team working with me to motivate me i could but thats not really going to happen . an easy alternitve such as dolphin would be really good.

i think remaking rogue squadron 3d would be easy though as you dont need much modeling to remake the maps, it would be the sounds that might be the issue i was thinking of replacing the old sound track with the movie versions, but as for the effects such as the chhueaa! noise made when you shoot your own men need replacing along with maby the voice acting.

also you are close to getting 200 votes on the pettion with 184

hey mate not very long left untill i finish my exams now, my last exam is on the 21st of june so then i can make my hq videos . also i am going to try and get some guy on mod db to avertise the petition on his group. also you have almost 200 votes, with 192