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=== AAMP ===
=== AAMP ===
{{tool section|rec_tool=aamp|category=Tools (AAMP)}}
{{tool section|rec_tool=aamp|category=Tools (AAMP)}}
=== BFRES ===
=== BFRES ===
{{empty section}}
{{empty section}}
=== BFEVFL ===
=== BFEVFL ===
Follow the instructions at [[Help:Setting up tools/EventEditor]].
Follow the instructions at [[Help:Setting up tools/EventEditor]].
=== BYML ===
=== BYML ===
{{tool section|rec_tool=byml-v2|category=Tools (BYML)}}
{{tool section|rec_tool=byml-v2|category=Tools (BYML)}}
=== RSTB ===
=== RSTB ===
{{tool section|rec_tool=rstb|category=Tools (RSTB)}}
{{tool section|rec_tool=rstb|category=Tools (RSTB)}}
=== SARC ===
=== SARC ===
{{tool section|rec_tool=sarc|category=Tools (SARC)|notcategory=Unrecommended tools}}
{{tool section|rec_tool=sarc|category=Tools (SARC)|notcategory=Unrecommended tools}}
=== Map units ===
=== Map units ===
[[Map unit]]s can be edited directly by modifying the map unit [[BYML]]s or with a graphical tool such as Ice-Spear.
[[Map unit]]s can be edited directly by modifying the map unit [[BYML]]s or with a graphical tool such as Ice-Spear.

Revision as of 18:52, 15 October 2018

Breath of the Wild uses a very flexible, custom game engine. Many aspects of the game are not hardcoded and are instead configured by a large amount of files. Since BotW uses a lot of Nintendo's own file formats, you'll need special tools to be able to edit them.

Common file formats

The most common formats that one would want to be able to decode and also modify are:

Common requirements

Many of the tools for these formats require Python 3.6+ (64 bit version) to be installed.

On Linux, Python 3 is surely already installed. Just make sure you have a recent enough version (3.6+). Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian stretch are too old; the latest Ubuntu LTS (18.04) and rolling distros such as Arch and Debian sid have 3.6+ in their repos.

On Windows, follow the below instructions for installing Python:

  1. Uninstall any existing Python version to avoid conflicts.
  2. Download the Python 3.7 installer (latest version as of September 2018).
  3. Run the installer: do a system-wide install and tick the "add Python to environment variables / PATH" option.
  4. Verify that py -3 --version works and gives the correct version (3.6 or higher). [help]

Tools

AAMP

Template:Tool section

BFRES

BFEVFL

Follow the instructions at Help:Tools/EventEditor.

BYML

Template:Tool section

RSTB

Template:Tool section

SARC

Template:Tool section

Map units

Map units can be edited directly by modifying the map unit BYMLs or with a graphical tool such as Ice-Spear.

For the first method, refer to #BYML.

For the second method, follow the instructions in the official repo for Ice-Spear builds.

Reverse engineering

To reverse engineer the game executable, it is strongly recommended to have a copy of IDA Pro 7.0+ because the main executable is fairly large and IDA is as of September 2018 the only serious option for analysing such binaries. It is also the only tool with a usable decompiler for AArch64 (Switch).

To get a copy of an IDC for Switch 1.5.0, ping leoetlino.