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Documentation of the files and game structure of Atlus' surgery game for the wii, Trauma Center: Second Opinion

Trauma Center: Second Opinion documentation

This repository contains data about the structure of files used in the surgery game released by Atlus for the wii with the name "Caduceus Z: Futatsu no Chou Shittou" in Japan, and "Trauma Center: Second Opinion" elsewhere.

Extracting the game files

The game contains a variety of file formats that may need to be extracted.

Extracting the rom

Use the Wiimms ISO Tools to extract the game.

wit x --source <The rom file> <Destination for extracting>

Every relevant file should then be inside <Destination>/DATA/files

Extracting .pak files

Use the PackTools provided by the Atlus Filesystem Library to extract the .pak files.

PAKPack.exe unpack <The .PAK file>

Extracting .tpx files

  1. Download the tpxtopng tool provided by Akaiji
  2. Open the application
  3. Drag and drop the .tpx files into the application window
  4. Click on the "Convert" button

Extracting .bm2 files

This part might be a bit tricky since .bm2 files seem to have different formats and encodings that may need to be tested.

Use the AtlusScriptCompiler tool provided by Atlus Script Tools to extract the .bm2 files

AtlusScriptCompiler.exe -Library tc2 -Encoding <Text encoding> -OutFormat <Version of the file> -In <the .bm2 file>