NCAA AST Editor - Discussion Thread (2024)

Editor is attached in this post:

I am not discussing this editor outside of this thread.
I am not currently developing this editor, it was done as a favor for the modders developing the College Football Revamped mod for NCAA 14.
I am not discussing the installation or usage of the RPCS3 emulator, nor any installation or editing utilities for the various Playstation or XBOX consoles.

Please READ the ReadMe.txt file inside the zip archive and/or the wall of text that was posted in the above thread.

If you are going to post asking for help or bug reports, do not expect a prompt response due to my own time restraints and the above mentioned reasons.

Thanks for sharing this, great tool.

Is there any presumed license associated with this application? Would a user be permitted to make modifications to it and share with the community?

I would like to open ast files in this editor from cmd. In this way, I would be able to open multiple files from a bat file to look at its contents much faster. The situation is that I cannot make this editor to open an ast file from cmd.

Suppose I am in the folder where I have this editor in my computer and want to open File00015.ast that is in the same folder. Then, I star a cmd window form that folder and typing this in cmd:

The editor starts but that file is never opens in the editor. To open it, I need to go to File->Load ast file inside the editor, of course.
What I need to do to open NCAA 14 ast with this editor files from cmd?

lorak wrote:What I need to do to open NCAA 14 ast with this editor files from cmd?

The editor isnt not a command line, it is windows gui based. Not interested in making it command line, sorry.

I was working with the file qkl_misc.ast. As usual, it contains lots of files including nested .ast files. I have extracted a few files from it. One of those files is File00458.ast that is entirely formed by .ast files. Then, I have extracted a few of those files, in particular, File00090.ast which contains mostly .dds files and a few .apt and .dat files. After editing it, I repack it with the editor. No issues until this point.

However, after repacking File00090.ast to File00458.ast, all file contents in the latter seem to become .dat files. The left hand side in the attached image is the stock File00458.ast. In the right hand side its mod after just replacing File00090.ast and reopening it in the editor.

Checking it in an hex editor, I found big differences with respect to the stock file, File00458-stock.ast. For example, no more BFGA magic words in the edited file and the file size is totally different. Same outcome even repacking an untouched File00090.ast.

It is the first time I experience this kind of issue even working with nested .ast files as in this case. The stock File00458.ast is also in the attachment, if you want to check it yourself.
What could be the problem?