darkSpyro

need a way for a tool to give xp, coins, and upgrade paths on the new senseis...

I also have version 3.0 of Pyrofer's tool, and I've been wondering about how to acquire the key that the program seemingly needs to edit my Skylanders. I've used the Wii U Trap Team portal and that works with Pyrofer's tool, as it reads whatever figures or traps I put on it easily. I don't have any Superchargers or Imaginators figures to test with, though. Could anyone with the key needed talk to me over PM?

Yeah I'm having trouble with the key too. I'm not really experienced with programming and stuff so any help would be great.

use the key from a previous version. the "updated" wasn't publicly released. Probably wont.. Pyrofer has other projects than this that he's working own for himself. Busy Busy !!

Can someone go into detail on how I can reset the crystals using this?

Unless you have an older version of the tool, you can't. Pyrofer edited the Reset tool out of this some versions back.

So there's no way to reach those older versions? Its against the rules to direct me to one iirc but its not wrong to be asking isnt it?

Nah, there's no rule against it. You can find the links to them easy by searching the thread. The bad part is that the older versions are no longer uploaded to Mega, so you can't get them anymore.

Darklight183 also mentioned in another thread that you can overwrite the crystal with empty data for a riskier reset, but dunno how that works.

Alright, so I got an old version of the tool, but Pyrofer talks about some reset button that I don't see. Does that need the key that barely anyone seems to have? How would I find it? Is that against the rules?

According to Pyrofer the keys were out on the internet, but that was back when Swap Force was just released; those keys will be practically impossible to find now. I just remember that he said they were linked with Skylanders Editor but that's it.

How do you find the key through Skylanders Editor? It doesn't seem to do anything to any of my figures regardless of what it says it should be doing. How does that work?


I'm asking so many questions and probably seem really annoying so I'm sorry if I'm being too much of a bother.

I said they were linked, not necessarily with. Pyrofer never really went into detail on that regard anyway, thinking that would be linking to a hacking tool. I don't know how many people ended up finding the keys anyway...

Someone in the Imaginators board mentioned you can also backup a blank Crystal, then use that to "reset" later on the newer updates. Only going to help if you didn't use them all up, but it's a tip.

LOL !

tried to reset a crystal with my original backup, but imaginators keeps trying to reset it.. when imaginators resets the crystal it adds junk to the 00s lines on the hex. so.. im stuck

i hate how everyones like, secretive and not helping with anything and laughing out loud or going hint hint.. theres no forums or sites that have any decent information. the ones that did are gone..

People just don't want a c&d letter...

Try the following to reset the crystal

1. Have an Imaginator Crystal with an Imaginator already inside.

2. Place the Crystal on the Portal of Power connected to the PC.

3. Open SkylandersGUItool. The app auto reads the Crystal. It should say Checksum Error at the bottom left of the app.

4. Click on Developer> Fix CRC. This will fix the Checksum and display Checksums OK Error at the bottom left of the app.

5. Click to Portal > Write Figure. The progress bar will display and complete at the bottom right of the app.

6. Place the Crystal on the Portal of Power connected to the console game.

7. An error will display “Your Skylander may be corrupted. IF you keep seeing this message you may need to recover your toy. TRY AGAIN RECOVER”

8. Click Recover.

9. The Crystal will be reset to factory defaults.

People aren't intending to confuse or misdirect, it simply comes down to the publisher being VERY litigation happy. Rather than have people explore these toys openly they force it underground by sending legal letters to people when they discuss the reversing of the technology. We as common folk simply cannot win a fight against this global company with lots of resources, it would be very expensive for anyone involved.

It is a real shame that this is the case however it is what it is.

I've received the C&D order. NOT getting another..

Ditto

Quote: mR_CaESaR

People just don't want a c&d letter...

Try the following to reset the crystal

1. Have an Imaginator Crystal with an Imaginator already inside.

2. Place the Crystal on the Portal of Power connected to the PC.

3. Open SkylandersGUItool. The app auto reads the Crystal. It should say Checksum Error at the bottom left of the app.

4. Click on Developer> Fix CRC. This will fix the Checksum and display Checksums OK Error at the bottom left of the app.

5. Click to Portal > Write Figure. The progress bar will display and complete at the bottom right of the app.

6. Place the Crystal on the Portal of Power connected to the console game.

7. An error will display “Your Skylander may be corrupted. IF you keep seeing this message you may need to recover your toy. TRY AGAIN RECOVER”

8. Click Recover.

9. The Crystal will be reset to factory defaults.

Thank you for the help but mine actually says "Figure Read OK" for step 3? I try the Fix CRC but it says the data is encrypted. Man, I just really wanna reset at least one of my crystals smh

Ahhh you don't have the "example.key" file inside the base directory and /dumps directory do you?

Nope. I guess there's no way to get that... Back to the drawing board I suppose... (I cant get the Wii version of Giants for a while)

if you dont want a c&d letter, you still dont need to laugh at people.

ive tried everything. my crystal doesn't restore. its corrupted and blank now. and imaginators wont recover it. it shows the symbol for the crystal, and just tries and tries. when it tries to recover it goes from the blank backup i wrote to adding stuff to the 00 blocks. i didnt make a backup of when it had a character on it. i only have the backup of the blank crystal. maybe i didnt dump it right the first time and its completely hosed now..

im going to sit in a corner and cry cause im to stupid.

I've never laughed at people.

I'm trying to help out.

mr_casear, i appreciate it. youre one of the good guys. its other people who are doing the lol and crap like that..

Exosquad, NO one is laughing @ u. Point of it ALL, without the right example.key... u might corrupt your crystal permanently. A update may come and or it may not ! U can try what others have recommended. Bottom line.. its your crystal to do whatever with.

i have the right example key. i know how i corrupted the crystal. i backed up the blank crystal instead of a crystal with an imaginator on it. restoring the blank does not work. restoring a character does work.
i did things out of order and didnt backup at the right part. learned my lesson. hopefully someone makes something that can fix crystals, reset or restore them, without having character data on them.

im giving up on that crystal. till better things exist..

Do you have/have you tried the 3DS reset?

if the crystal is blank, SSA says "this toy isnt for this game" its only after a characters been written to it that you can reset using SSA. so.. if you have a corrupted crystal with no character on it, SSA wont work.

I've been able to "save" a blank crystal with the GUI, put an imaginator on it, then restore the original save and act as if I've got a new Crystal (ie. I receive the select battleclass screen)

Just write some garbage to the blank sectors on your crystal. The checksum will fail registering it as corrupt allowing you to reset it.

Quote: exosquad

hopefully someone makes something that can fix crystals, reset or restore them, without having character data on them.

im giving up on that crystal. till better things exist..

Have you tried following the reset procedure that mR_CaESaR suggested in post #467, above? That should reset your crystal to an empty and usable condition.

I can confirm it does the following, It allows you to backup and restore your figure in case of corruption during play.

If I backup a blank Air crystal, then use it to write over a full Earth crystal, will the Earth Crystal become an Air one?

i tried writing another character to that crystal, writing all zeroes to everything except the first two blocks (id blocks?) zeroing everything out, repeatedly. i just get an endless skylander corrupted "try again" or "recover" screen. it just doesnt recover.

ive tried mR_CaESaR reset method. but the crystal is blank, so ssa wont see it as a character, just "this toy isnt for this game"

i dont know exactly know how i did it now (especially since other people are saying they did what i did but successfully), but i corrupted that crystal beyond repair. i give up.

what type of crystal?

Quote: Oyjord

If I backup a blank Air crystal, then use it to write over a full Earth crystal, will the Earth Crystal become an Air one?

doesn't work like that unfortunately... there are read only blocks as part of the chip that identify it as "air" crystal.

Quote: mR_CaESaR

doesn't work like that unfortunately... there are read only blocks as part of the chip that identify it as "air" crystal.

Interesting. I assume that the read-only data also includes the mold of the trap?

Even when I reached out to a few people in this thread (via PM), I got no reply or help. Thanks for nothing.

Luckily I obtained a Wii copy of Skylanders Giants for 98 cents today. Booted on my Wii U in Wii mode and have been trying each class and restting crystals ever since!

Just in case I didn't post the most recent executable,

https://mega.nz/#!lBJEWTwS!NL2...D9mSa5_V2B-41Qw

This file requires the full zip which contains the directory structure and image files, it's just a .exe to update the app.
I have not worked on this for a long time but this should be the most up to date one I created.

btw, I have not tested this on Crystals. Use at your own risk!
Always do a backup of your Crystal right away before anything else. Copy that backup to a safe location.

WOW!!! You're back from the dead!!

I'm guessing there's no plan for you to re-visit this tool to look at the new way the checksums are written back to the figure is there?

I'm not sure what's changed from version 3 to this one, but I'll check it out.

Thanks again Pryofer!

Not had much interest in this tool since I abandon the game due to the total negligence in developing it. Zero gameplay improvements and in fact actual steps backwards.

Not picked up even the Starter for Imaginators so no way for me to do any work on it.

The tool would need a total re-write anyway. I took a look at it and I hate almost everything about it now. There was so much unfinished like the Heroic quests and stuff that didn't work quite right and there is no point fixing all that now.
I thought at least you guys deserved the last version I did though.

I mean, there has been a lot of talk about resetting figures so people might want to check out the button at the bottom right. Like I said, no way for me to know what it will do to a crystal so use at your own risk! It erases traps and removes any "special" flags on them so make sure you backup and don't use it on things you care about. I am not responsible for any messed up figures from use of this tool.

All fair enough mate.

I haven't been able to use the reset flag even with the example.key file.

The only way I've been able to personally reset the crystal is via the method I mentioned earlier (developer> fix crc, then portal > write), it then goes into the message in the game asking to reset the figure. Of course there taking a backup before a battleclass is created.

I forgot this tool never actually updated the figure by modifying the gold/xp etc (that was a different application ) and that's the application that would also need a complete re-write from what I've been led to believe. Something about checksums being calculated differently now... it's all jargon to me

Thanks based Pyrofer

Pyrofer,

How is ya? Welkome back ! Shout outz to ya !

CrS

Hey pyrofer! Long time no see.
You should totally play imaginators it makes up for supercharges being so awful! It's so much fun and a really good game. And we need a tool to back up, restore, reset crystals safely. We all loved your work.

I personally ruined a crystal beyond repair..but I bet a few hours of coding and you'd have something we would be amazed at and appreciate and love and everyone would be happy..

New! Improved! (not much!)

Now with 100% more crystal resetyness!

Warning, side effects may include resetting your crystals (when you click the button to do so).

ALWAYS BACKUP YOU FIGURES/CRYSTALS first and store that backup in a safe place.

https://mega.nz/#!ZBBS2QLI!3jd...8YB4Pn0MA5dVESw

After clicking the "RESET" button... WRITE back to figure or it WONT reset ! Check for "WRITE OK" !

Awesome work ! "pyrofer"... keep it coming !

The need to write to a figure after hitting reset is my solution to the "Are you sure?" pop ups. I hate them.
So unless you write to the figure nothing changes. Same goes for saving the data. Unless you hit save, it doesn't go onto your db backup.

I hope this slight change makes peoples lives easier.

BTW, I still can't recover a destroyed crystal. It's being worked on by others though.