IMPORTANT: if an entry is removed from the JSON after running the script once, a clean EBOOT should be used. If 'address' is not given, the address of the string right after the previous string (aligned to 8 bytes) will be used. 'address' must be a valid file offset in the input eboot, and can be either written in hex (as a string) or in decimal. 'text' is the new string that will replace the old string at 'address'. The JSON file should have only 1 object called 'strings', which contains an array of objects,Įach with 2 elements: 'text' and 'address'. Set the encoding when reading the json and strings in the eboot (default is cp963 for Japanese text) a ALIGN_VALUE, -align-value ALIGN_VALUEįorce alignment of the segment before the empty segment to the value given s, -unsafe patch strings without checking if their address was found multiple times (might provide a slight performance boost) u, -update skip adding strings that were added in a previous run (does not check for conflicts) v, -verbose show info about each string entry that is patched j, -json-help show help info about the JSON file format and exit

h, -help show this help message and exit Json path to JSON file with the new strings (use -json-help for the format info) Requires a decrypted EBOOT.ELF, and a JSON file with the new strings, and file offsets of the original strings that will be replaced. Support for adding new segments might come in the future, if necessary. This script works only with ELF files that conveniently have empty, unused program segments.

Please open a new issue if you find any compatiblity problems with other PS3 games which already have an empty segment. This has been tested only on Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan and Ishin. This script uses binary-reader, so just use pip install binary-reader before running the script.Ī compiled PyInstaller version is also provided in the releases. The original strings are not removed, but they're basically unused because their pointers will be pointing to the new strings. This script works by using an empty program segment (that must be originally in the eboot) to store the new strings inside, and update the string pointers in the eboot. Made with the purpose of allowing longer strings than what's originally allowed. A small python script that updates string offsets in PS3 EBOOTs.

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