Seam Ripper

Modding tools for the Xbox 360 Naughty Bear games: Naughty Bear and Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise.

Seam Ripper opens the games’ .lu files so you can read and edit the gameplay scripts, change the text, pull out textures, models and sounds, and put it all back. Mods can be shared as small patch files that don’t contain any of the game.

Download Seam Ripper

The GitHub page is the only official place to get Seam Ripper. How to use the app is in the README.

What’s here

Start

• Getting your game files: from your NB1 disc image or PiP Arcade package to a folder you can mod.
• Your first mod: change a hat’s health, ship it, undo it.
• Playing modded games: running your change.

Examples

• Examples: mods with the exact edits explained, listed by game. For Naughty Bear: HUD score feed stacks the score lines (a script instead of a patch; planned for 2.5), and Pre-order costumes restores the original pre-order bonuses. For Panic in Paradise, finished .srpatch files: Hero firearms lets Naughty pick up and fire guns; Rage glow makes ultra-kills power him up.

Seam Ripper reference (the tool)

• Patches and backups: the .srpatch format, making and applying patches.
• How Seam Ripper works: Ship, the decompiler, hashed names, output formats.
• Textures, models and sounds: pulling the art and sound out.
• Command-line tools: every tool, and building the EXE.

Game reference (the games)

• Naughty Bear: the first game’s scripts. Easy places to start: Naughty’s hats, Episodes and challenges and Game text.
• Panic in Paradise: the second game’s scripts. Easy places to start: Fluffetics and Unlockables and achievements. Includes the June 26th beta notes.
• File formats and PiP internals: containers, textures, meshes, PiP’s script rules.