How to open Dream Team's .dat files?

[Fawfulthegreat64]

I've extracted the filesystem of Mario & Luigi Dream Team and found quite a few .dat files. I have read these are very similar to the ones found in Bowser's Inside Story, which obviously have been extracted before so it's not impossible. I really want to get these sprites, so does anyone have a clue as to what program might open these files?

 

[Lakituthequick]

.dat files are data files, it is entirely up to the manufacturer how they format the file.

You can try stuff found on 3dbrew.org, maybe 3DSExplorer. I'm not entirely into that stuff, but that may be an start.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

Well I tried 3DSExplorer and it couldn't open them. What was the program used to read BIS's dat files?

 

[Ray Trace]

They're like, two completely different games. I highly doubt the program that can read BiS files can read DT's files as well

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

So someone was able to get some of the graphics out of the dat files, but they're a mess.

Anyway I have another problem, and that is extracting the sounds from SoundData.arc

I thought that would be better posted in here rather than making another thread for it. I got this utility and I tried entering the correct code into Python for it and unfortunately got an error. I'm assuming I formatted everything wrong, here is what I entered:

python ARCTool.py [-qlh] [-o <output=C:\Users\*me*\folder\folder\folder\Mario and Luigi Dream Team\Sound>] <inputfile=C:\Users\*me*\folder\folder\folder\Mario and Luigi Dream Team\Sound\SoundData.arc>

(edited parts for privacy's sake)

What did I do wrong?

 

[Lakituthequick]

I don't know what you got as error message, but if you are acting with ARC files, you can also open them with BrawlBox, which is not command prompt based but with a GUI, so should be more understandable.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

I tried BrawlBox and got an error message as well: Unable to recognize input file.

 

[Lakituthequick]

Then the format of the file is not the same across Wii and 3DS.