EA STR string files

[Mattrio]

Hi everyone.

I'm a MySims games lover, and since it's been 6 years EA stopped doing games for the series, I'd like to do game mods. So I searched in MySims, MySims Kingdom and MySims Agents (Wii) files and these three games have their string files in *.str. It exists different str files, there is even str files in other MySims games but for different purposes (audio compression). Here, it looks like every string files such as language files are in str, and I can't manage to edit or read them correctly.

Luckily it exists a PC version of MySims, and in its files can be found language files in two formats: xml and str. XML are totally readable and editable. It exists their exact equivalent, so it can be easier to found a way to read str ones? I've attached two exact equivalent, I hope it will helps.

Thanks

[WRS]

this must already be documented......

aside from the xml flags, here is a rough template

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union meta
{
  uint raw;

  struct
  {
    ubyte a;
    ubyte b;
    ubyte c;
    ubyte d;
  } _;
};

struct cstr
{
  uint len;
  string str;
};

enum <uint32> Lang
{
  ENG_US = 1,
};

Lang Language;
uint NodeCount;

struct Node
{
  meta metadata;
  cstr text;
};

Node Nodes[NodeCount] <optimize=false>;

[Mattrio]

this must already be documented......

aside from the xml flags, here is a rough template

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union meta
{
  uint raw;

  struct
  {
    ubyte a;
    ubyte b;
    ubyte c;
    ubyte d;
  } _;
};

struct cstr
{
  uint len;
  string str;
};

enum <uint32> Lang
{
  ENG_US = 1,
};

Lang Language;
uint NodeCount;

struct Node
{
  meta metadata;
  cstr text;
};

Node Nodes[NodeCount] <optimize=false>;

Thank you, but I don't see how I could use this template? I tried with QuickBMS but I get the following error:

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invalid command "union" or arguments -1 at line 1

[WRS]

Thank you, but I don't see how I could use this template? I tried with QuickBMS but I get the following error:

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invalid command "union" or arguments -1 at line 1

sorry, this is a script for 010 editor.

note: there are no offsets in this file. you can resize strings and adjust the "size" value before the string. that's it!

[Mattrio]

Thanks a lot!