I started messing with Toy Story 3 on PC/Steam. Its based off the Wii port, which was done to make the game playable on lower end hardware. It's missing loads of content from the 360/PS3 versions which is severely disappointing especially for those duped by the Steam page showing pictures from the better versions. I wish the better port was easily accessible especially the PS3 which has Zurg playable.
So I decided to hyperfixiate myself in learning how the game works. I'm not a code expert or anything, in fact I have no idea what I'm doing. But its been years and no one has looked into this to my knowledge. So I might as well get the ball rolling.
I got the steam and PS3 versions on my pc. What I've been doing is copying PS3 files and replacing files from the Steam version to see what happens. It usually just crashes which I expected. But I have learned a few things, like extracting some zip files into folders is still read by the game. Replacing model files crashes the game easily. Messing with the Toy Box files causes collision to disappear.
Tonight I messed with the "ai" folder which is used by the built-in achievement system. The coolest thing about it is the code is basic lua so replacing it was EZ. The PS3 even has the Wii/PC achievements in the files. First I extracted the zip into a folder, the game didn't crash but there was 0 goals now which was funny. I fixed it by putting the files in the root ai folder. Then I was easily able to rename and replace the lua file. Viola! All of the PS3 goals are now on PC! Instead of around 40 goals there are now over 100. Most goals you can't complete because they were cut features. Like the well which was a shortcut feature in the bigger more detailed Toy Box. Some you actually can get and they work as intended which makes me question why they were cut too. This was a fun find, it should be possible to make custom goals as well due to it being readable code instead garbled encrypted code.
Want to look more into TS3 modding, even though I'm not the most qualified.
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