It's all good haha, I don't check here often either. Nope, I actually used a tool called CheatEngine. It allows you to see the RAM usage of any open software and modify it in real time. On the US ROM for Dueslists of the Roses, scrolling down to that address (I can't remember how I originally found it) you'll see a bunch of text that mentions what I can only assume is debug stuff? When you load a monster using the monster viewer, the text will briefly change to what I mentioned 'm774/m774.grp' (These are indexed the same way the cards are in Forbidden Memories, just built upon that database). Sadly that's the most useful thing I was able to find, other than viewing different variables tied to the monsters, eg the animation handler, each bone rotation/translation/etc (nothing that can be directly exported)

I would love to assist with this! I sent you a message (via the Email link in your profile for this site) with my Discord info if you wish to discuss more.

Hey sorry for such a delay i dont check here often, where exactly did you see that debug text, in the monster.mrg? or in the slus file?, because i know that is used for sound effects, so im with hoping to be able to group sound effects from the .grp file and associate them with animations so i can pull them into blender

Ive managed to create a script that extracts the 3d models with bones animations and textures and their camera's but im terrible at using blender, im hoping you might be able to help with telling me what things are wrong with it if any, (i assume there are a few) since you know blender

That's amazing that you've made it this far given how people have tried in the past and given up. So these .VIF files are located inside MONSTER.MRG right? When I was looking into extracting Dark Magician Girl I came across some debug text (between 21FE0050 and 21FE0110) that displayed the filepath of the monster I was looking at in the monster viewer. Dark Magician Girl is referenced as 'm774/m774.grp'. I don't know how useful this information is for you, but I hope it helps on cracking this?

It's been a while since I was last here, but I noticed my submission was finally approved about 10 months after sending it. I also noticed that 3D Mage uploaded a bunch of the other monsters so I just wanna say you sir are a legend!!

I can tell you how much I appreciate this, I've gotten the models but I never figured out how to correctly unfold them and it was driving me crazy lol

Amazing job!

I would love to get more info on this. Not sure if I can be of much help in terms of your work on VIF, but I can definitely do some Blender magic if needed. I have a gut feeling that from what I have observed while extracting the monster models, the geometry data would describe at least a vertex format consisting of an XYZ position, UV coordinates for textures, and RGB vertex colors (as observed in some of the coloration in the Immortal type monster models). Correct me if I am wrong.

Feel free to email me on my profile page!

I see that's lot of manual work so again great job on all the hard work
I know exactly where the 3d model files for each monster are and where inside it are bones, geometry, animations textures and camera movement/paths.
That said the file format for each section is only partially known , I have figured how to read the location of each section their lengths and other data about them, but i have no experience in 3d modelling to know what kind of mesh data I'm looking at, I'm fairly certain but not 100% that parts of the mesh written in pre made ps2 VIF packets, in which case would require something that would unpack and reading it/ emulate how the ps2 GS handles it and then convert it into whatever format you want. I would happy to share all the info I have on this, as I would love to see fully animated models extracted for the game both for preservation and to help push the modding scene to the next level.

Thanks!

As far as my process for extracting the models, I used a special build of the PCSX2 emulator which has a feature to dump the 3D data from the GPU memory and save it as a model, dumped the data to Blender, cleaned up excess geometry in the scene, removed unused textures, and manually corrected scaling issues from the dump. Since Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses has a model viewer that has a consistent camera position, I was able to figure out the best scaling offsets for XYZ to get consistent scaling for all the monsters. As far as geometry and texture cleanup goes in Blender, I actually developed my own add-ons with the purpose of selecting background geometry and textures and removing them. Unfortunately, this extraction process does not preserve things like rigging or animation, nor does it give me T-pose models. If there is a way to get the raw geometry data from the .iso file, I would love to know.

Hope that helps!


PCSX2 Build: https://github.com/scurest/pcsx2/releases/tag/latest-3d-screenshot

Amazing work!, Im wondering would you mind adding my on discord and talking about how you extracted them, I have looked at it before and extracted most of the assets from the game already but i have some issues with certain 3d model textures monster and non monster, im wondering if you have those too, and how you dealt with the VIF packets in the model file?
For reference im currently the maintainer for the newest modding tool for the game.

Hello, I am GOD well God-Cat Aka CardMaster or CardMaster99 on other websites i would like to thank (@3D mage) for his work here i am currently working to remake Yu-Gi-Oh Dulist of the Roses for PC on Unity using and at this stage am in desperate need of some assets for testing so thank you so much personally because this is amazing , this is exactly what I needed to push thru to phase three of my project and test it all well keeping it looking satisfying visually until it's time to animate and polish Ui effects, Again Thank You So Mutch for all you've done.

Several of the female models are fairly different in japan, but others are just textures, Dark Magician girl for example has a totally removed chest in english, maiden of the aqua was hit hard too, not that shes on here yet

Some of them actually do, mostly in the form of alternate colors. I have not gone around to extracting those yet, but maybe in the future, I might!

I do wonder is any of the monsters have a different model in the japanese version...

I have extracted, fixed and textured Dark Magician Girl (not t-posed) but I'm not happy with how it turned out? I can see why people gave up on this method as the model exports with a lot of weird problems that you have to manually fix by eye. Like the UV unwrapping seems to not only be divided by some non-integer number, but sometimes the unwrap will be warped/skewed! Other issues involve the models' normals, smoothing groups, scale, and it ends up warped/skewed slightly

Wow, this is quite the process and I'm afraid my PC doesn't have the required specs. Getting the textures is fine, the modern version of PCSX2 does that easy, no problem but the 3D models requires you to use version 0.9.8, and the plugins it comes with as you can only generate OBJ files if you're using DirectX 9 (Software) rendering. Not only that, but the exported OBJ file is a still frame of the model/scene, meaning that if you want the model to be in its default pose (eg, a T-pose), you'll need to make a cheat code that does that to the model before you create the OBJ file.

I'm going to see if I can find a way to extract one of the monsters and upload it here. Wish me luck!

I would love to know how to extract these models from the game. I would gladly add to this repo