Decompiling the Cave Story 3D Website

Haha, I remember visiting that site a few times several years ago, although I don't remember ever seeing the line "beat the crap out of some crusty old doctor."

The thing is, on the bottom right corner of the site there is a small button that allows you to pick between 3 different Cave Story (e.g. The song that plays in the plantation) remixes, which are exclusive to this site and this site only.
You can't find this music anywhere else.

I didn't immediately have the right tools handy to unpack that "music" file in the folder you posted, although if I'm not mistaken, you're probably referring to 3 music tracks that have been up on Youtube for a little over 9 years now:

These are very good remixes, no doubt, although it's kind of old news. In fact, I even made an org rendition of that first one several years ago.

 

Here you go:

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/curlySofterFin.mp3

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/CurlyOrchestra1.mp3

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/CurlyTrance1.mp3

Getting ahold of those was more complicated than I was expecting: there are actually two SWF files - `main.swf`, and `unit_top.swf`. The first one is just a loading screen which loads the second one, and the second one plays the music using those URLs.

I used 'JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler' to decompile the SWFs. main.swf loads unit_top.swf in `scripts/frame 2/DoAction`, and unit_top.swf loads the mp3s in `scripts/DefineSprite (83)/frame 1/DoAction`.

 

You think there's any way of getting this website to work when Flash is gone? Since SWF file players exist and all.

 

Here you go:

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/curlySofterFin.mp3

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/CurlyOrchestra1.mp3

https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/sound/CurlyTrance1.mp3

Getting ahold of those was more complicated than I was expecting: there are actually two SWF files - `main.swf`, and `unit_top.swf`. The first one is just a loading screen which loads the second one, and the second one plays the music using those URLs.

I used 'JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler' to decompile the SWFs. main.swf loads unit_top.swf in `scripts/frame 2/DoAction`, and unit_top.swf loads the mp3s in `scripts/DefineSprite (83)/frame 1/DoAction`.

Think you can send the SWF files?

 

...Just download them: add the filename to the end of 'https://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/'.

 

 

Was kinda hoping it still had the character images and stuff in it, but no matter. I can just screenshot them all.

 

Actually, it does. You can use 'JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler' to extract images and such.

Nah, I tried it out and could only get these images.

Which is a shame because most of the images shown in the Character section aren't in something like Cave Story Wiki.

 

There probably is, but it ain't showing up. Likewise, the SWF file itself doesn't have the Character, Story etc sections working.

 

Already taken care of.

 

Do whatever you want with these. I suggest trying to make PNGs of the images used here.

Spoiler

Edit by DT: Space rescued

Off topic but why does Toroko's character profile have a different text font from everyone else

 

Well that explains quite a lot.

 

Ok, so I'm a lot late to the topic, but I found out that if you change the date to, let's say, before December 31 2020, the website still runs. It didn't work on Chrome for me, but I tried Internet Explorer and it ran just fine.

 

Alright I'm waaaaay too late but after removing http://nisamerica.com/games/cave-story/ from unit_top.swf>scripts>DefineSprite (83)>Frame1>DoAction and putting the music files inside a folder named sound it restored the BGM button.


Using inspect network activity I also found out that the Story, Reviews, Characters, System and Media tabs have their own swf files.

Now I guess the website is preserved, click here to download it.

 

Good job bro, now I can finally get those character renders with no background without having to use an online transparent tool lol.

 

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damn, so the Cave Story 3D page has finally been taken down. Was inevitable to happen eventually, just kind of surprised it took... 10 years???