Modding French Bread Games

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Introduction

Welcome to the French Bread Modding Wiki! This wiki is meant to provide a comprehensive documentation of the engine used in modern French Bread games, as well as basic examples and tutorials.

The guides and tutorials here should be considered a way to successfully make mods, but not the correct way. The techniques and methods used are simply what the author (pixloen) uses, but for others there may be better routes to suite the types of mods that you want to make.

Contents Covered

Games covered here:

• Under Night In-Birth Exe:late [cl-r]
• MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA

Games Partially covered here

• Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax

Games not covered here:

• Under Night In-Birth Exe:late / Under Night In-Birth
• Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

Assumed Knowledge

• Basic understanding of navigating File Explorer
• Basic understanding of batch files
• Basic understanding of programming

Note that French Bread uses Squirrel for most functions, but such code can be easily understood if you have JS, LUA, C and etc. experience. If others can do it, so can you!

Tools, Other Guides & Useful Resources

Game Rips

• Melty Blood Type Lumina (outdated)
• UNICLR (incomplete) (Londrekia's sprites can be found here.)

• Lumina Spriters Resource
• UNIST sprites from JustNoPoint

Basic Tools

• Hantei-chan, a HA6 editor
• CGlib, .cg extractor by u4ick
• CGTool, .cg compiler by u4ick

• FPAN Modding Resources all of the above

• Hantei-chan with jonbin (DamienIsPoggers, can convert to BlazBlue files, optional)

• Notepad++. Other text editors may be fine, but Notepad++ gets the best results due to it's SHIFT-JIS encoder.

• A hex editor. HxD is used commonly.
• .pat editor / visualizer. None are public, but you can use HA6 + hex editor as a close enough replacement.

• DDS decomp/compression tool. Found in the .pat cut-ins guide.

Game Specific Injectors / Extractors

MBTL

• MBTL Hitbox Viewer, injector
• MBTL BIN Tool, file extractor
• Current Cache for the MBTL BIN Tool as of 02/06/2023 courtesy of u4ick

UNICLR

• UNIST Unpacker, file extractor

UNI2

• UNI2 Unist Unpacker by u4, edited by pixloen (does not fully work atm)
• UNIB Data Tool actually designed for UNI2.

Written Guides & Documentation

• .pat Image Editing Guide by AyanamiRei0
• Detailed .pat documentation by Blake
• MBTL Music Modding Guide by Sera, Yvette & AyanamiRei0
• MBTL Unpacker Guide by koenji

• UNICLR Music Modding Guide by Sera
• UNICLR Old Palette Modding Guide by Sera
• UNI2 Palette Modding Guide by Sera and Hikari

For the following guide:

If you aren't tech-literate, it's recommended NOT to use Symlinks.bat as it creates Symlinks which can only be removed through command-line. Preferably, using Copying.bat or copy the files yourself by following these steps:

• Find _English/data/csel and grab your character's palette (e.g. Aka.pal)
• Copy and paste/replace over the same file found in _English/data/Character_0 (Aka_0 in this example)

UNICLR Color Modding Guide by Sera, AyanamiRei0

• DGVoodoo Setup for Lumina (works with UNI too) by u/SK91_NO

Where can I get help?

(organised from most active to least active)

• Melty Blood Server's #modding-tl
• MBTL Palette Gallery's Other Mods Category
• UNICLR Color Vault's #general 2
• Melty Blood Community Server's Type Lumina Modding thread (under #type-lumina)
• idk the under night reddit if you really must

Note: The community UNICLR server has a rule banning any discussion about modding due to French Bread (or just kamone)'s stance against it. While this makes the modding scene quite small, do respect the rule by not openly encouraging extensive mods of the game. (Pray that this rule gets lifted for UNI2. I'll make a bunch of QoL mods like subtitles and full 1440p support if it does.)

Credits

Members

• pixloen - lead writer, template creator, custom asset maker etc etc
• Blake / Blakieboo - music and pat information writer
• Bootysama - provided many of the assets that i used to study the engine and gave me useful advice or tips and might have written one or two things (general information checker too)

Contributors

• NerfNoobPls - MBTL section in HA6 Pattern Reference

Special Thanks

• Rion / u4ick - made basically all of the tools and programs and started the modding scene in general
• Melty Blood Discord - helped me mess around with .cg editing to port a singular satsuki sprite, starting my interest in modding french bread games, resulting in this mess of a wiki you're reading now