FF7Tools

About this project

FF7Tools is a suite of Python command-line translation and hacking tools for the PlayStation 1 version of Final Fantasy VII. It can be used for modding the game, searching for hidden content, and creating fan translations. The main focus of the tools is on the dumping and editing of in-game text.

The included tools are:

• trans / untrans: Dump or reinsert all translatable text in the game to or from a set of plain text files.
• fixup: Recalculate absolute sector references to files in a CD image of the game.
• mapinfo: Dump the text tables and script code of all field map files.
• worldinfo: Dump the script code of all world map files.
• unscene: Extract battle scenes from the game's SCENE.BIN file.
• lzss / unlzss: Compress or uncompress files with the game's variant of the LZSS compression algorithm.
• unbingz / unbinlz: Extract files from the game's GZIP- or LZSS-compressed archive files.
• tim2png: Convert a PlayStation TIM format image to a PNG file.
• subending: Losslessly replace the subtitles in the game's ending movie.