Zouna Modding Resources - widberg/fmtk GitHub Wiki

The resources on this page may be more or less relevant depending on the game. You should read all of these resources to establish a groundwork knowledge of Zouna games. Most games are very similar so even if it doesn’t say the name of the game you’re modding, you should still check it out.

Reading List

• FMTK Wiki - Mostly the “For FMTK Developers” pages but it’s all useful
• XeNTaX Wiki - There are some links at the bottom you might find useful too
• Chum World wiki - Early BigFile format specification and some amazing object format specifications
• FMTK FAQ - See if your question has already been answered before contacting me
• Tron: Evolution Mod Documentation - Only the SecuROM and XLive pages are related to FUEL but its all cool

Watchlist

• The Story of Totem: How a Cancelled Dreamcast Game Became Flight Simulator 2020
• The True Story of BigSky Interactive - Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
• Inside Microsoft Flight Simulator - Xbox Ports, Performance, PC Optimisations - The Asobo Breakdown!
• Plague Tale, Flight Simulator : le studio français Asobo réalise les plus grands jeux vidéo

Tutorials

• Reverse Engineering/Game Patching Tutorial: Full Res Roller Coaster Tycoon with Ghidra+x64dbg+Python
• Reverse Engineering and Weaponizing XP Solitaire (Mini-Course)
• jeFF0Falltrades master0Fnone Class Series

Projects

The following projects may be useful in and of themselves or the source code may be useful in developing the tool you need.

My projects:

• dpc - Tar analogous utility to work with the DPC file format
• fuel-brute - CRC32 Brute Force Solver For FUEL
• fuel-map - It's just information about the map
• fmt_fuel - Noesis scripts for object formats
• blender_fuel - Blender scripts for object formats
• atk - Frida agent for asobo games
• fuel-save-editor - Save editor for Asobo's FUEL
• ImZouna - ImHex patterns for Zouna data structures

Other projects:

• Jellonator/chum-world - BigFile and object format unpacker for BigSky Zouna games
• QuickBMS - Asobo Ratatouille script - Semi-functional DPC unpacker for Ratatouille
• amrshaheen61/APT_DPC_Tool - A Plague Tale: Innocence/Requiem DPC tool
• SabeMP/zouna-templates-docs - 010 Editor templates for Asobo formats
• SamuraiOndo/fonts_zeditor - Fonts_Z Editor

Tools

Reverse Engineering Tools - Tools for reverse engineering various platforms