Nokonoko-Estate-Exporter

A Mario Party 8 HSF-to-DAE exporter. While Mario Party 4 through 8 are all developed by the same publisher and use the same (or a similar) file format, this tool specifically focussed on compatibility with Mario Party 8.

Support

Currently supports exporting specific information to DAE. These files can be extracted from the game's .bin files using mpbindump

HSF:

• Meshes, including duplicates that reference the same geometry
• Vertex colors
• Vertex normals
• Textures

Unsupported

HSF:

• Cameras
• Lights
• Armature/bones/weights
• Animations/motions

ANM (Animations)

• Anything

DAT (likely used to set up board squares; unverified)

• Anything

References

Most of the format was deciphered using other available tools or data sources, including:

• Metanoia
• MPLibrary
• Mario Party 5 Decompilation
• hsfview