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For Beginners
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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• Melty Blood Type Lumina (outdated)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)

• Pat Editor by u4ick, incompatible with some modern game dds types

• 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 05/07/2024 courtesy of u4ick, works with Update 1.45

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.
• UNIB Data Tool compiled by pixloen. Includes batch file for easy usage.

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

• UNI2 Modding Primer / Documentation by Fatih120
• DGVoodoo Setup for Lumina (works with UNI too) by u/SK91_NO

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. Consider using alternative methods.

• UNICLR Color Modding Guide by Sera, AyanamiRei0

Where can I get help?

• French Bread Modding Discord
• 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