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Marble Extractor, a project we were working on.

July 4th, 2008 by Hikaru in Main

As you all know by now, we created this website to make the update happen. It still didn’t end up happening, even with the hundreds of petition signatures we got on our forum. However, something better happened, InstantAction was made allowing everyone who didn’t have an Xbox 360 to be able to now play Marble Blast Ultra (now named Marble Blast Online) with all the new updates and experience the fun.

We eventually got bored of rolling around in one map for several hours and ended up thinking of new ways to bring more fun to MBU, not a gametype, not tricks, but to hack the game so we can get access to the files. We thought we’d just share this.

We coded a program that could open up a file named “marble.bza”, this was the core MBU file which had everything packed inside it. Our program worked, so we extracted all the files within that core file. However, the problem we had was to rebuild this “marble.bza” file and keep its signature encryption the same but due to Xbox Live now being so secure we couldn’t, otherwise we would’ve been able to edit the files and then play MBU, so instead we just played around with the files to see what really went into making MBU. Below are a few pictures for your interest.

Interesting things we found:

  • Unused Sound files (some used for MBP, such as tim_trance)
  • Unused Images
  • Some useless coding
  • Some things we can’t share

7 responses to “Marble Extractor, a project we were working on.”

  1. holy cow can I have some files?!

    JasonB3RT on July 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

  2. I’ve seen about almost all those unused files, like the unused super jump which could have been used then mega marble and super jump would not have the same sound.

    But MBO probably has some of the useless files removed.

    AnsonX10 on July 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

  3. Look’s like a cool project however it would’ve been better if you could make it work back on the Xbox 360. Still cool though.

    iDreamr on July 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am

  4. nice project, its pretty cool how you can see all the .cs files

    uN MontR on July 7th, 2008 at 7:54 am

  5. i play this game with my boyfriend all the time we also wanted an update to come out its nice to see you guys have had fun hacking the game

    dangerous cutie on July 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  6. i want to see modified levels :(

    MNoDifference on July 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am

  7. It’d be nice for GarageGames to release MBU2 on the Xbox 360 and not just IA, that would keep SmileyGirl off Halo 3!

    Smiley on July 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

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