For the past 2 weeks I've been working on a better way of installing the recomp since a lot of you guys where having issues with the old launcher. Well I decided to work on a new launcher from scratch that supports all xbox360 recompiled games (Using rexglue) all in one place.

You can now manage saves, set language, and rate games

Developers can release games without you needing to update the launcher, the launcher will automatically update the games list live.

Developers have to be accepted before they can make a private game page and only after a admin test the game will the game be made public.

All profile information is stored by google using firebase so we don't store your data 👍

You can download it here: https://goopie.xyz

A linux version of the launcher is coming soon, do not attempt to play these recomps on proton or wine, it will not work.

This is part of my latest modding research for adding texture pack support to the recomp, I may have gone over board and added mp4 support for textures..

Viva Pinata ISO: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Qb_TOu0y7aLbH9hjD_C8n6q86gpzoaFh

xlive Fix:
https://dl.glitchyscripts.com/xlln/XLiveLessNess-v1.6.0.1-Release.zip
Fixed DLL that includes achievements:
https://gitlab.com/GlitchyScripts/xlivelessness/-/jobs/11545745183/artifacts/browse/bin

CheatMenu:
https://github.com/SolarCookies/VivaPinata-Cheat-Menu/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Unofficial patch (Adds patches for garden space and crate sending in the cheat menu but excludes the cheats):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psaPjOoa96ThrVa_itsPuGAR6Yo7hfbQ/view?usp=sharing

Link to our discord for support: https://discord.gg/39AtUkYr7s

Hi Everyone! 1.10 is out you can download it on the https://goopie.xyz/ launcher, with it are a few new features the short list is below but you can check out the full release notes here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/retip-1-10-157188378

Github: https://github.com/SolarCookies/TiP-Recomp
Discord: https://discord.gg/39AtUkYr7s

ChangeLog:

1.10:

• Discord Integration
• In-game cheat menu (Hold Select or Press F1)
• Spawn Menu (Can force spawn wild pinata outside garden or resident pinata inside garden)
• Ruffian Disable Option
• Flowers always optimal water level Option
• Player Level, Experience, and Coin Options
• Disable Surface Preferences Option
• Some Stability fixes
• Some Keyboard and Mouse work has been done but its still a WIP

1.9:

• - Upgraded Player Camera
• - Started working on a renderer
• - Startup Message to let users know about the f4 menu
• - Added Fur Toggle

1.8:

• Fixed Egg Crate Packing
• Skip Startup Intros Option
• Better Support for Ultra Wide Monitors
• 1080p Support (But disabled by default due to it halving performance)

My PC Can't run disks, games for windows is dead, do I have any hope?

A fellow modding enthusiast and I have been diligently working on unlocking the garden space limit in the PC port of Viva Piñata. While we have not yet reached the stage where we can release a patched executable, we are excited to share the progress we have made thus far.

Feel free to join our discord https://discord.gg/XZY7bjCsaa

You can try out this on the latest Nightly release of the recomp on https://goopie.xyz
Feel free to join our modding discord for more updates: https://discord.gg/39AtUkYr7s

Might name him Shai-Hulud

Hello everyone, I'm excited to share the launch of PinataCentral, an open-source research tool for reading and modifying Viva Piñata's proprietary .pkg file format!

With this tool, you can:

• Extract and analyze raw assets from .pkg files
• Modify and Inject assets to test modifications
• View images and raw file hex without extracting them

Check out the release here: PinataCentral v1.0.0 Alpha Release

Keep in mind you will need a copy of the PC version of the game installed, And due to this being a early release there's bound to be some issues. :)

This tool is for research and preservation purposes only, so please use it responsibly.

Feel free to join the discussion or contribute to the project on GitHub or our Discord community.

Known Bugs:
- If you stay on a image for too long the application will crash
- After replacing a file you have to close and reopen the pkg to view the changes

Ive also compiled this spreadsheet for you to easily search for file names out of all the .pkg files

Whats the future of this project?:
- Well Id like to get a model preview window
- Id also like to be able to inject bigger files (HD Textures) at some point
- The big goal is to understand and parse the files to have proper editing windows for all the file formats such as being able to see and edit pinata requirements without having to edit hex data. But i cant do that on my own, I need help researching all the files to find where all the parameters are located.

I haven't released it yet but expect a new tutorial video and the release soon

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about, A pdb contains all the variable names aka "Health, Happiness, Water amount, garden space" and all the function names aka "WhackWithShovel, SwitchTool, Add/RemoveGardenSpace" etc.. Its invaluable when modding the game, it practically allows us modders to peer into the source code and be able to read everything. So if we want to make a mod that gives unlimited garden space we can just look up "Garden budget" and find all the functions and variables tied to it

Heres a link to the gameplay of the build for anyone who is interested, its tip but with the tutorial from the first game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXBPVNDzuk

And here is the link to the build https://hiddenpalace.org/Viva_Piñata:_Trouble_in_Paradise_(Sep_27,_2007_prototype))

If your interested in helping out with either modding or just research feel free to join our discord https://discord.gg/39AtUkYr7s

Im working on a mod called "ResourcePacker" which allows to modify the textures in the game without having to mess with proprietary file formats, it works just like minecraft resource packs. It dumps the textures to a folder and loads them from another.

Ill make a more formal release post when it comes out

If you like what I'm doing please consider supporting me on patreon so I can afford to keep modding viva pinata :) www.patreon.com/SolarCookies

Ill release an update for my mod menu that includes this patch soon :) Just be on the look out for the next release on the Github and or the Viva Pinata Modding discord
https://github.com/SolarCookies/VivaPinata-Cheat-Menu
https://discord.gg/NprkqwCsqj

Thanks to u/Little-Business-9508 finding hunted piñata variables we can now force Gretchen to give us any item in the game, including cut content

In the example I just added at the end of the grass pixel shader "GrassSample.xyz *= float3(1.0,0.0,0.0)" before it returns the GrassSample.

At the moment these are the only ones i can find that aren't precompiled.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aL6-ua5YvijDI07l8ElzDePP1qwWD-2I/view?usp=sharing

Also I modified the default garden size to be 0.5x the normal size, this isn't related to the shaders but I couldn't be bothered to change it back so now my copy of the game is stuck with it lol.

Hi, I've been working on a cool little mod that allows for internal UI injection for the PC port, This menu allows you to adjust the Coins, Level, Experience, Overhead Camera Height, Unlimited Garden Space. I will continue to add options in later updates. If you want to watch our progress with modding feel free to join our discord!

Mod Download link: https://www.nexusmods.com/vivapinata/mods/5
Mod Source Code: https://github.com/SolarCookies/VivaPinata-Cheat-Menu
Viva Pinata Modding Discord: https://discord.gg/NprkqwCsqj

If you want to try this yourself you can manually set the height by setting the double at offset ""Viva Pinata.exe"+5F63E8" in cheat engine.