Denpa Men International / 電波人間インターナショナル

Archive files

Note: this should be moved to the docs for tdmextractor, probably

The Denpa Men archive files, are, as far as we’ve come to know them, a proprietary archival format used in the Genius Sonority engine. They are used in conjunction with ZIPs and SARCs^note.

They contain all kinds of assets in them.

Versions

There exist multiple versions of this archival format, here we try to detail all currently known differences and quirks.

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The Denpa Men 3

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Version 7

Denpa Men Free

Version 10

New Denpa Men

Version 14 contains 3 unsigned integers previously unseen

The New Denpa Men Free

Version 16 contains 3 more unsigned integers previously unseen

Tools

There are multiple tools to interact with this file type.

• tdmextractor by Nerdy (also on the organization github)

• QuickBMS + Denpamen3 script (script also present in the code-dump)

  This script is not actively maintained. In most cases, one should use tdmextractor.

• The maintained QuickBMS script

  In most cases, one should use tdmextractor.

Notes

1. So far, no ordinary SARC extractor has managed to unpack all SARC files present in the DPMF romfs, GS might’ve made their own fork of the format, for whatever reason. [claim to be yet verified]