Professor Layton - London Life

London Life is a mini-game for the Nintendo DS (NDS). Developed by Level-5, it was released only for UK as part of the release of "Professor Layton and The Last Specter". Right now, it is only available in English.

Game files

The files for this mini-game are inside the folder /ll.

Container and compressed files

• ll/common/ll_common.darc contains font, text and audio files [Format DARC]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc/fileX.denc [Format DENC]
• ll/kihira/kihira.archive contains images [Format ARCHIVE]
• ll/kihira/kihira.archive/fileX Nitro BIOS compressed format
• ll/save/ll_save.darc contains images [Format DARC]
• ll/town/ll_town.darc contains images [Format DARC]
• ll/anazawa/anazawa.dat contains images [Format ANAG]
• ll/menu/menudata.dat contains images [Format ANAG]
• ll/shop/shopdata.dat contains images [Format ANAG]
• ll/strage/stragedata.dat contains images [Format ANAG]
• ll/wifi/parts.dat contains images [Format wifi_parts]
• ll/wifi/wifimenu.dat contains images [Format wifimenu]
• ll/wifi/wifimenuobj.dat contains images [Format wifimenuobj]

Text files

• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file2.denc/file2.msg [Format MSG]

Font files

Recommended tool to modify NFTR font files: NerdFontTerminator.

• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file3.denc/file3.nftr small, size 8 [Format NFTR]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file4.denc/file4.nftr medium, size 10 [Format NFTR]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file5.denc/file5.nftr large, size 12 [Format NFTR]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file6.denc/file6.nftr medium bold, size 14 [Format NFTR]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc/file7.denc/file7.nftr large bold, size 16 [Format NFTR]

Image files

The image encoding depends on their container.

• ARCHIVE:
  • Files:
    • ll/kihira/kihira.archive: backgrounds, item and character sprites
  • Formats:
    • Palette: NCCL
    • Pixel: NCCG
    • Map: NCSC
    • Sprite: NCOB
• DARC:
  • Files:
    • ll/save/ll_save.darc
    • ll/town/ll_town.darc
  • Formats:
    • Palette: ACL
    • Pixel: ACB and ACG
    • Map: ASC
    • Sprite: ACP and ACE
    • Animation: [ANM]
• ANAG
  • Files:
    • ll/anazawa/anazawa.dat
    • ll/menu/menudata.dat
    • ll/shop/shopdata.dat
    • ll/strage/stragedata.dat
  • Formats:
    • Palette: raw, usually first file
    • Sprite: unknown, same file with OAM and pixel info
• Wi-Fi
  • Files:
    • ll/wifi/parts.dat
    • ll/wifi/wifimenu.dat
    • ll/wifi/wifimenuobj.dat
  • Formats:
    • Unknown, seems raw.

Audio files

Recommended tool to export and import SAD files: Sadler.

• ll/common/bgm_common.SWD [Format SWDL]
• ll/common/ll_common.darc files from 8 to 31. Formats: SEDL, SWDL and SMDL.
• ll/common/stream00_null.SAD [Format SAD]
• ll/common/stream01.SAD [Format SAD]
• ll/common/stream02.SAD [Format SAD]