rac-modding-resources

A list of useful resources when modding and/or reverse engineering any of the Ratchet and Clank games.

Please note that some of the listed tools might be a Work in Progress.

If you are writing a RaC specific guide for any of the listed tools or RaC modding in general, and want a centralized place to share these, please put your guide in the guides folder and include it in the list below.

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• List of resources
  • Level editors
  • Reimplementations
  • Savegame editors
  • File parsers and archive extractors
  • Spreadsheets with various info
  • Reverse engineering tools
  • Miscellaneous
• Legal stuff

Level editors

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These level editors are also a good code reference for the file formats used in the games.

• Replanetizer - Level editor for the PS3 trilogy remasters. C# WinForms
• Wrench Editor - A set of modding tools for the PS2 games. Includes a level editor, asset pipeline, save game editor, and more. C++ Dear ImGui
• RatchetLevelEditor - Previous level editor for the PS3 trilogy remasters. C# WinForms

Reimplementations

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Reimplementations that work on modern systems and outside of Playstations.

• Clank - Open Source Medius server solution. Originally created for UYA Online Project. Java MIT License

Savegame editors

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These savegame editors can also be a good resource for a list of value addresses as used in savegames.

• Wrench Save Editor - Save editor for the PS2 versions of R&C, GC, UYA and DL. Included with Wrench. C++ Dear ImGui
• Slim's Editor - A savegame editor for the Ratchet and Clank games. Python 3 Windows Linux Dear ImGui GPL-3.0
• rac-savegame-editor - Old version of the savegame editor for the Ratchet and Clank series of games (PS2, PS3, PSVita). C# GTK3 GPL-3.0
• Ratchet and Clank Save Editor (Presumed source) - Save editor for all the Ratchet and Clanks C# Winforms
• RC-checksum - Ratchet & Clank save.bin checksum repair tool. Cross-platform

File parsers and archive extractors

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• Wrench Build Tool - Asset packer/unpacker for the PS2 versions of R&C, GC, UYA and DL. Included with Wrench. C++ Windows Linux
• ig-tools - Tools for modding and reversing Ratchet & Clank (PS4) Python C
• PSArcFS - A very crude and not very optimized FUSE handler for .psarc files. Supports ZLIB and LZMA compression. Rust Linux GPL-3.0
• PSARC reference and tools list - Doc about PSARC file format and links to tools for dealing with PSARC archives.
• wadutil - A utility to decompress Ratchet & Clank .wad files C Cross-platform
• rac-dvd-toc-parser - Simple Python script to get hidden files from PS2 disc image. Python GPL-3.0
• PIFconvert - Converter/parser for PIF files from PS2 editions. C Cross-platform
• racra-wwise - Scripts for extracting Wwise soundbanks for Rift Apart for PC. Python Cross-platform

Spreadsheets with various info

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• Ratchet & Clank Series Addresses - A compilation of all relevant memory addresses for the Ratchet & Clank series
• UYA savefile - Addresses and structure info for UYA savegame files
• Ratchet & Clank Builds - List of known release builds of various versions of the games.
• Ratchet & Clank Prototype builds - Spreadsheet containing Prototype builds and their estimated build dates
• Model IDs - Spreadsheet with Model IDs

Reverse engineering tools

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• List of reverse engineering resources - A curated list of awesome reversing resources.
• Ghidra - A software reverse engineering (SRE) framework. Cross-platform Apache-2.0
  • Ghidra Emotion Engine plugin - Ghidra support plugin for the PS2's Emotion Engine.
  • Ghidra PS3 scripts - A collection of scripts/loaders/plugins for ghidra used to aid ps3 reverse engineering.
• PCSX2 (Source code) - A free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator, with debugger. Windows Linux GPL-2.0
• RPCS3 (Source code) - The world's first free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator/debugger. Windows Linux GPL-2.0
• Cheat Engine (Source code) - A development environment focused on modding games and applications for personal use. Windows LGPL-2.0
• Scanmem & Game Conqueror - A debugging utility and GUI designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process. Linux GPL-3.0

Miscellaneous

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• MobyViewer - A tool to view the Moby table of games in real-time. C++ Dear ImGui
• RacREpo - Stash repository which contains scripts, tools and documentation. Public Domain
• RatchetHax - A Node.js based trainer and API for the Ratchet & Clank series. Cross-platform GPL-3.0
• racdoor - Software development kit for producing haunted Ratchet & Clank (PS2) save games. C Linux

Legal stuff

All mentioned trademarks are property of their respective owners.

This project is public domain under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license.