darkSpyro

Yes, that dump would be helpful!

It's possible his Giant's data area is corrupted as having never been used, but of course that doesn't matter in SSA!
Hopefully I can detect this like I did unused characters.
If you have an unused SSA figure (green base, never hit portal) that may help too.

No sadly I don't have such a character, If you would like I can check some other SSA characters who haven't been to giants land.
Also After I read wrecking ball I put him into giants briefly just to check and his level at least showed correctly, Let me Get that dump from him and fling it your way and then let me read him again now that he's been in giants land

I've been working on improving the editor myself and have most of the data figured out for SSA and SG, so I thought I'd help out.

Some bug's I've found:
When the sequence value for the data area rolls over it uses the wrong area.
The Hero Points value seems to be wrong.
I'm guessing the No. Killed value is from the quests in SG. If so, the max value is 1000.

If there's any other questions just let me know!

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Hi, Thanks for that, it's all VERY helpful but PLEASE delete it from this public forum.
If you want to discuss details with me please PM.
I wouldn't want you getting in trouble with Activision.

That goes for anybody who wants to contribute. Please do NOT post anything publicly. You will only be putting yourself in the firing line for no reason.

I hope I edited my post enough. Didn't want to delete all of it if someone else finds the same bugs.

I'm not from the US so I'm not to worried about Activision, but I don't want this forum or anyone else to get in any trouble.

Hi, thanks. In theory there was nothing wrong with what you wrote, but I think we should take a better safe than sorry attitude here

I was aware of and fixed the Hero points bug, I hadn't encountered the wrap bug on active block yet!
There is a number killed challenge on both SG and SF, I need to work out how to display all the extra data I have...

I am out of space now. The app is cluttered and ugly.

Most of the bugs are gone, we know where most of the data is and all I need to do now is make a pretty app to deliver it all.

I am open to suggestions.

How about using tabs? General, Challenges, Quests etc.

Yeah, I did consider tabs....

Anybody actually know how to code for windows? I am not actually a programmer and I'm making this up as I go along so my Visual Studio is more non-existent than rusty...

I wanted to have several windows so you could have the figure list in one and move it around away from the stats themselves etc.

.Net development is my bread and butter - please feel free to PM me.

Is your code in C# or VB.Net? I prefer C# but will "put up with" VB.Net if need be (after all, I just coded stuff for the Doom Spreadsheet of Doom in VBA).

Haha. C# and VB are not real languages, don't even get me started on .net

I have coded the whole thing in C++

Fine, I left C++ behind a long time ago but can "regress" back to it when necessary.

So what version of V/Studio are we talking about, then?

Hopefully my 34 dumps and 66 images help you out somehow Pyrofer
if you need anything else just let me know.

I'm Really excited for a full version of this

Only bug I've noticed is sometimes it freezes for me on launch and I have to reboot the computer.
Also I found I had to run it as administrator to get it to talk to the portal
(x64 win7 on my wife's machine as my machine is XP x64 and of course doesn't run it)

Ok, experimenting with tabbed interface.

UGH.

So, I have tabs and I can click on them, but having problem receiving the message that the tab has been clicked?
I had assumed the tab stuff would take care of displaying the correct content for you. No. You have to show/hide the contents of each tab yourself based on the message received.

Right, Had a go with tabs.

Just the exe (use the last link for full download then use this to "update" it)

https://mega.co.nz/#!1NYmyYwC!...ndvxx2_mszeKsUs

Several bug fixes in this one, please let me know how it goes!

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Ok, experimenting with tabbed interface.

UGH.

So, I have tabs and I can click on them, but having problem receiving the message that the tab has been clicked?
I had assumed the tab stuff would take care of displaying the correct content for you. No. You have to show/hide the contents of each tab yourself based on the message received.

Haha! I might send you the basically 8 line app it would take to create tabs when using the controls available in VS2012 - grin! All msg's handled and no fuss/no bugs.

Was just my lack of knowledge, nothing else.
Like I said, I am not a pro-developer.

Anyway, please check out the results of recent bug fixes and experiments with tabs as linked above.
Let me know what you think!

Feedback is important!!

Aaaand I finally fixed the "Monster Masher" quest...

Thanks guys for the help! You know who you are

https://mega.co.nz/#!tVYTSB6b!...2NElA6aeH_a2k20

This version should be bug free... If anything doesn't appear as expected PLEASE REPORT IT!

I have some dumps from untouched SSA characters (Spyro, Gill Grunt, Boomer), ripped using the older tool, but that shouldn't make a difference though. If you still need/want these, let me know in the PMs. I can also provide untouched rips of most of Giants and SwapForce.

The only really glaring bug for me is that nicknames still run off and/or show garbage when a nickname is not used.

I also see a typographical error in the menus Sort -> Aphabetically .

The nifty little tab thingy is nice. Seems to work quite flawlessly for any characters that have some of those done.

Can you send me a dump of a figure where the Nickname doesn't work please. All mine work fine with and without nicknames.

Fixed!

Horrible bugs in the Giants Quests fixed, correct data now displayed

https://mega.co.nz/#!gMBUDaAA!...qmHoJM7-2hBTi0c

Working on adding more quests now (Giants only). Will be a while before I get any of the Swap Force Quests done.

Hey Pyrofer, Check out the nickname of my chop chop if you want one that doesn't work
Your tool reports his nickname as "Erdrick R"
When His nickname should be "Erdrick Risen"
the isen is chopped off

I have none without nicknames to verify the other issue AWal is seeing but I can verify with chop chop at least (and some others IIRC) of the length issue

https://mega.co.nz/#!wUJCmSCC!...bo82xo5XJ0Bx6gM

Most Giants quests should work. Hats should work.

Missing character specific quests and haven't done SF ones yet.

Comments?

Is there a way to use this to check off Heroic challenges? it got old doing all of them on skylander number 20. Don't really want to do them manually for the rest.

No, this is a tool simply for backing up, restoring and viewing. It is in no way a tool to modify data on a figure.

Is there a reason why editing figures is frowned upon, other than the copyrighted activision key, which doesn't seem to be the issue anyway, because it is being used here?


AFAIK, Skylanders has no online competitive mode. I can see where hacking Pokemon is bad, but I just don't see it with hacking the toys that will pretty much be kept in 1 household.

Activision REALLY don't want people editing their figures.
If I have any hope of keeping this tool public I need to avoid upsetting them too much.

Also, it takes fun out of the game. If it's easy to cheat then you are tempted to cheat. It ruins the game.

You can easily cheat using the original command line tool that I didn't write, its out there on the net and will "upgrade" your figure for you.
I would bring nothing new by repeating that ability.

Hey Pyro Love what you've done with the tool, I see the current version even removed the text box to generate the key file...
My one question about the current version I see you have a black square on the left that looks like where an Image would go, Is this because you plan to add an image of each character?
If so cool Idea.

Anyway Keep up the amazing work, and To Crash 331, If I can do 32 Heroics, on 32 SSA figs, So can you, Yes it gets boring but It can be done.

But... can you do 32 Heroics on SSF figures?

Yes I can do 32 Heroics on Swap Force figures.
Yes, they get the stat boost, tiny as it is

Yes, the black box is for pictures. You have to make the picture yourself!

150x150 bitmap image. Name it exactly the same as the figure name appears in the app, put it in the folder that matches the figure.
saImage = Spyro's Adventure figures
sfImages = Swap force figures
lgImages = Legendary figure images
lcImages = Lightcore images.

I was talking to evileyeball - you can't do the heroics on SSF-only figures without cheating.

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Activision REALLY don't want people editing their figures.
If I have any hope of keeping this tool public I need to avoid upsetting them too much.

Also, it takes fun out of the game. If it's easy to cheat then you are tempted to cheat. It ruins the game.

You can easily cheat using the original command line tool that I didn't write, its out there on the net and will "upgrade" your figure for you.
I would bring nothing new by repeating that ability.

The original editor won't detect my Wii U portal. Your program will, for some reason.

My program uses standard Windows USB HID. The original I think goes through the SpyroWebPortal Driver.
I have not tested the WiiU portal, but it's nice to know it works

Original editor should work with most other portals, xbox one is the most problematic.

I thought thats what those folders might be for.
I just may have to get my camera out LOL

Just to let people know out of curiousity, the Tool WILL Work on a Emulated Windows 7 via Virtualbox, however, other the image folders, are they any other folders I need to make? Because for when I try to save into the database, I get a Figure Save Failed message

Yes, there is a "dumps" folder required for saving the figure data.

All the folders were pre-created in the right place in the "full" download I linked further up in the thread, I am only posting .exe updates rather than full thing each time.

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Yes, there is a "dumps" folder required for saving the figure data.

All the folders were pre-created in the right place in the "full" download I linked further up in the thread, I am only posting .exe updates rather than full thing each time.

Thanks for that, I got it to work, but now I can't find the Coin/Treasure option you talked about

The money transfer part was removed. I feel that making money is easy enough in the game that there is no need for it.
Also, I want a clear "no editing" line for this app.
Viewing only, sorry. The amount of Gold a character has is visible in the full stats once you have entered the key.

Hi, just to announce that work on this app has ceased.

Nothing to do with Activision. I am just not interested in contributing my time and effort any more.

I hope people enjoy the now "final" version.
If I can be bothered I may package it all up as a zip with the folder structure and instructions but to be honest, I can't.

Oh

Well I'm hoping its not because people on the board have pissed you off to much asking for too much.

I just want to thank you Pyro for all your work and the development of such a great tool. Its truly amazing and exactly what a lot of us here needed.

So thank you once again Pyro

Hey Pyrofer, if you re abandoning this, many thanks for building this
Does saving work properly now?
Also who knows maybe someone will want to carry on your application if you don't want to

I'm sorry to hear you lost interest in working on it. If I knew anything about programming or coding, I'd gladly pick up the project, but I do not. I hope someone does however, as it would be great to see this continue. At least I can say thank you for giving us this tool and taking the time to work on it.

I did find a tiny bug in the latest build, but it is hardly worth putting out another build over. Nitro Magna Charge's Bottom is still reading as a Dark variant, despite his top listing correctly as Nitro.

If you want I could continue development on this program since my current job is pretty slow.

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Hi, just to announce that work on this app has ceased.

Nothing to do with Activision. I am just not interested in contributing my time and effort any more.

I hope people enjoy the now "final" version.
If I can be bothered I may package it all up as a zip with the folder structure and instructions but to be honest, I can't.

I just now saw this. Hope this doesn't have anything to do with the custom figure thread that you got frustrated in.

I finally got around to checking this out. I noticed that when I do a "Raw Dump" and "Save Figure" with the latest version (2.1) it results in the same file contents (i.e. the encrypted contents). I have a copy of version 1.5 that I downloaded when it was available and the "Save Figure" menu item results in a decrypted file. Was this an intentional change?

I also notice that the quests for my Magna Charge Top are not being read or displayed properly. My Magna Charge has all his quests but only Badguy Basher is showing completed and six Giant quests are show zero completed. The other 2 quests aren't showing up at all. I'll have to look into it some more

^ Don't worry about it, since he's not going to fix anything.

I cant use my xbox 360 giants portal or my 360 dark swap force portal. What up with that?

Unfortunately, I fear that I have found this thread too late . . .

My young daughter has a skylander figure (Cynder), which was apparently corrupted upon arrival.
We're using the PC version of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, and unfortunately there is no way to reset a corrupted character from this game (in order to reset a character, it must not be corrupted--the game needs to be able to read it).

I've been lead to believe that Skylanders: Giants has the ability to "reset" a corrupted character, but we've tried to find a PC version of Skylanders: Giants, and although it appears that it was produced at some point, it is no longer sold or accessible. With no access to consoles/console versions of Skylander's: Giants, we're kind of out of options for now.

I've been able to back up my daughter's other characters, and when one occasionally (or inevitably) gets corrupted, I've been able to restore data from the .bak file, which has come in very handy. But since this character arrived corrupted, I wasn't able to make a backup in advance.

Which leads me to the reason behind this comment:
It wold certainly be nice if some program such as this (unfortunately no longer in development, apparently) could offer some tool to "fix" a corrupted character, or even reset it. As it is, I'm not sure how I should go about getting this figure fixed for my daughter. I've yet to hear back from Activision regarding warranty information (which may not apply to such a dated line of toys!). Short of receiving a cynder.bak file from an altruistic internet stranger, a program feature like this could be my only hope . . .

Any suggestions, advice, PMs, welcome. Thanks for your time--I hope I'm not too off topic!

To save you some more time searching, there is no PC version of Giants (or any other Skylanders game). Only Spyro's Adventure received a PC release.

Interesting thread. Does anyone here have backups of the following:

Lightcore Countdown
Lightcore Wham-Shell
Wind-Up
Grim Creeper (regular)
Thorn Horn Camo
Arkeyan Crossbow
Sheep Wreck Island
Groove Machine
Platinum Sheep

If so, PM me. Your help is greatly appreciated...

And most likely you would need to just contact activision and see if they will send you a replacement.