Tinke is a program used to view, convert, and edit the files of NDS games. In this program, it supports a lot of format files like images, text, sounds, fonts, audio, compression, pack and textures. Furthermore, it works with plug-ins created in NET Framework languages (C# and VB.NET), making it easy to support new formats. .NET Framework 3.5 is set up to run this program. Its features are: It shows the ROM header with the banner and edit it; shows and convert to common format a lot of files; able to edit a lot of image files from BMP files (NCLR, NCGR, NSCR, NCER), audio files from WAV (SWAV, SWAR, STRM) and fonts (NFTR); has a hexadecimal visor; it change the content of the files and save the new ROM; and it has a Multilanguage support. Specific plug-in for games are: 999, nine hours nine persons nine doors (BSKE); Itsu Demo Doko Demo Dekiru Igo (AIIJ); Blood of Bahamut (CYJJ); Dragon Ball Kai Ultimate Butouden (TDBJ); Ace Attorney Investigation Miles Edgeworth (C32P, C32J); Gyakuten Kenji 2 (BXOJ); Kirby Squeak Squad (AKWE), etc.
NARC Explorer
NARC Explorer
The NARC files are formed by applying the convention encoding standards, into these Nintendo DS archive files owned by Nintendo. Having a .narc extension, the content of these Nintendo DS archive files may consist of Digital objects and graphics, text with formatting attributes and layout elements and game level information among other pieces of information related to the associated Nintendo DS video game. It is more often than not bundled with a Nintendo DS ROM file, and these Nintendo DS archive files are included with custom compression specifications proprietary to Nintendo. These Nintendo DS games were created for the operating system of Nintendo DS portable gaming devices. The creator proposes users not to open or edit the content of these Nintendo DS archive files, since the data saved in these NARC files are utilized by the Nintendo DS portable gaming device and the associated Nintendo DS video game. The NDS Editor software can be utilized to open and view the content of these Nintendo DS archive files.
Puyo Tools used to be a dedicated supporter of the game Puyo puyo series. It is a collection of tools and libraries that can be utilize in many gaming applications. It is available in C# that supports formats compression (CNX, CXLZ, LZ00, LZ11, LZSS and PRS), archive (VDD, SNT, PVM, Unleashed ONE, ACX, AFS, GNT, GVM, MRG, MDL, NARC, Storybook Archive 1, Storybook TXD, Puyo Fever 2 SPK and TEX) and texture (PVR – native Dreamcast texture format, SVR – dreamcast format for Playstation 2, GIM - native playstation portable format, Compile BMP – GMP and GVR – Dreamcast Format for Wii and Gamecube). Puyo games are supported by Nexus. This works for windows operating systems but the hardware requirements vary for this depending on where the software is going to be utilized. The minimum hardware requirements known are Pentium 4 processor and 512 MB of RAM. Puyo tools latest version is 1.0.7 and .net framework 3.5 is required.