BlueAngel, Magician, Alpine & Universal Ext ROM Tools

[bal666]

Hi folks,

I wasn't going to release these until I'd finish the help file, but as they've already filtered out - I thought I may as well; and this thread will contain the latest release(s).

Firstly, as always when playing with ROMs be careful as you may end up killing your device - use these tools at your own risk!

These tools are Windows GUI based and allow you to:
• View and modify ROM file header information
• Decode Extended ROM files (e.g. ms_.nbf)
• Extract FAT16 image from ROM files
• Extract embedded splash screens
• Remove extraneous data surrounding FAT16 images
• Encode FAT16 images to ROM files
• Insert splash screens into new ROM files

But you'll find not all functionality is available for all devices.

I'll post the help file (with a user guide) when it's ready, but in the meantime feel free to have a play and help me test the apps :wink:

Bal

[clustered]

We at here very proud of you bal666!

great job.....keep it up!

[bal666]

I'm not doing a Windows GUI again ... had to learn MFC ... and yuck!

But thanks for the vote of confidence!!

[bal666]

By the way, if anyone knows what the ROM header fields called Unknown really are, I would very much like to know.

And yes, I've recently realised that the field I call "Device ID" is actually the memory location the ROM should be dumped to (well that's my current thinking anyway)...

Cheers
Bal

[hawkeyetim]

Your a star Bal66

Thanks

[shaice]

great app!

thank you bal!!



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[hawk_mate]

Hello bal666,

Thanks so much for this great program .. I tried it with my imate PDA2K and it encodes the files and decode it correctly .. The thing is , how I can modify the .fat file or edit it ?! ,, I found a program to unpack .fat files but not to pack it back again .. I hope you can tell us how we can manage the *.fat file m8

Thanks again m8 for this nice program and best wishes & regards :wink:

[cornelius]

Great....great tools bal666!!!

hawk_mate
You can add or delete cab file and modified Ext ROM by your own using *.fat files, you can mount it using extra drive pro, and use lika other disk....

[Yzord]

Is this a tool for exposing the Extended ROM on my magician? Sorry for the n00b question, but i dont get the start post.

[bal666]

Hawk_mate,

cornelius is right - use Extra Drive Creator Pro (you can download a demo version), or if you use linux then you can mount the file as a fat type.

If you use extra drive creator then turn off the recycle bin for the mounted drive - otherwise you'll have fun deleting files from it!!

I will finish the help file, and it contains all of this info...

Yzord,

nope, it won't expose the extended rom - it will allow you to modify the image file (ms_.nbf) that's used when flashing new roms to your device.

I think there may be a program around that will allow you edit the extended rom on your device (do a search, cause I don't really know!).

Have fun
Bal