[REQUEST] Shantae Advance Risky Revolution Nude mod

[Nightshaydes]

ok, so not EXACTLY a request, more like, i'm willing to do the sprite editing myself, and even the editing of the larger images used in the game. buuuuuuut, i have NO idea how to access the game's files to edit them.

i've heard before that shantae games use an in house engine that no one knows how to modify. makes sense. but i think this one MIGHT be different? the original version is a GBA game, yes. but i'm not talking about that version. i'm talking about the steam version.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3055950/Shantae_Advance_Risky_Revolution/ 
 

 i have this version of the game, and it appears to use Unity. idk if it's running inside of an emulator though because the portraits, text and menus are quite high resolution, and the game includes a "classic" mode which i assume is the emulated or directly ported GBA version. so being unity, i was hoping someone might know how to pry open some of the resource files or wherever the sprite/texture assets are stored, and repackage them. if that can be done, then i can see about getting to work on editing the images.

[Wagles]

Unity makes me think there's some hope that the sprites are editable.  Try using AssetBundleExtractor and looking at like resources.assets to see if there are sprites/textures in there.  If you can verify that the sprites are there you can export them, edit, and load them back in using AssetBundleExtractor.

[Nightshaydes]

1 hour ago, Wagles said:

Unity makes me think there's some hope that the sprites are editable.  Try using AssetBundleExtractor and looking at like resources.assets to see if there are sprites/textures in there.  If you can verify that the sprites are there you can export them, edit, and load them back in using AssetBundleExtractor.

well, i managed to open the file. but i really don't quite know how to export them in an editable format.

 

[Kwb811]

It begins 

[Wagles]

7 hours ago, Nightshaydes said:

well, i managed to open the file. but i really don't quite know how to export them in an editable format.

 

Without knowing which files to look at, you can click the Plugins button and then choose export to .png.

 

There's another tool that I'm forgetting now that might allow you to preview what you're exporting prior to doing so but it's evading me right now as I've only briefly dived into modding Unity games.  Might be best to sort by name and look for filenames related to Shantae and see if you can get anything from that.

 

Good luck!

[Galc]

Nice to see this game get a thread of its own. There was some talk bout modding the game on the GBC Shantae thread, with this being the last post so far:
 

 

[SingleForLife]

10 hours ago, Nightshaydes said:

well, i managed to open the file. but i really don't quite know how to export them in an editable format.

look for 'Texture2D' files

Plugins->Export

then, after editing

Plugins->Edit->Load

[Obligitury]

if the whole sprite can be edited, I wonder if the unused spanky joe can be added back in over the eating animation thats currently in place.

[Blehbreh]

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These sprites are so small it might not end up looking very good. You're going to be getting sprites that look like this.

 

I even added a second one a little later that goes off-refence just so it looks better (it's a between frame but still)

 

Edited August 31, 2025 by Blehbreh

[Rosefan64]

58 minutes ago, Blehbreh said:

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These sprites are so small it might not end up looking very good. You're going to be getting sprites that look like this.

 

 

Looks good enough to me.

 

I mean, we got people nude modding NES games here. Sometimes you just gotta play a game as a naked person.

Edited August 31, 2025 by Rosefan64

[PyrasButt]

1 hour ago, Blehbreh said:

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These sprites are so small it might not end up looking very good. You're going to be getting sprites that look like this.

 

 

Looks amazing to me!

[Obligitury]

3 hours ago, Blehbreh said:

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These sprites are so small it might not end up looking very good. You're going to be getting sprites that look like this.

 

I even added a second one a little later that goes off-refence just so it looks better (it's a between frame but still)

 

sure their small, but its just the implication of it all that matters most. you could draw black panties on her and have it be barely visable but id still love it just for it existing in the first place, so even if the explict parts are practically impossible to see, just having her naked is all anyone would ever need.

[Catnatic]

3 hours ago, Blehbreh said:

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. These sprites are so small it might not end up looking very good. You're going to be getting sprites that look like this.

 

I even added a second one a little later that goes off-refence just so it looks better (it's a between frame but still)

 

It looks good for pixel art and that's all that matters. No one who plays these retro-style games are going to expect the sprites to be well detailed.

The sprite may not look good when scaled up alone but when playing the game, it'll look natural when you can see the pixelated world around her.

 

This is only an edited screenshot, a mockup, not an actual mod

 

Like I mentioned in the other thread, the Deluxe DLC provides skimpy costumes that would make for a good base to start on.

It's also been deduced that the Unity version is only using the engine as an emulation layer so you'll still have to hack the ROM to have nude sprites.

Though we could still edit the high-res art from the Unity version to be nudified.

[Blehbreh]

One way or another the rom's graphics are encrypted so getting the graphics decrypted is going to be beyond me. Usually when this kind of thing happens a programmer has to create a program that can decrypt that specific game. Kind of a bummer that.

[Rosefan64]

3 hours ago, Blehbreh said:

One way or another the rom's graphics are encrypted so getting the graphics decrypted is going to be beyond me. Usually when this kind of thing happens a programmer has to create a program that can decrypt that specific game. Kind of a bummer that.

Dang, even when using a preexisting engine, they still find a way to keep people from tinkering with it. It's like these Wayforward guys are, like, very ahead of us. How could've we known?

[x hunter]

9 hours ago, Catnatic said:

Though we could still edit the high-res art from the Unity version to be nudified.

thats would sounds good to me

 

speaking of that, i remember seeing that in the non-pixel shantae games, its impossible to nude mode the character models used

but if just the character art can be nuded, im wondering if that can be done in the other shantae games

i know people screenshotted the character art and edited those though i guess its not art extraction

Edited August 31, 2025 by x hunter

[Blehbreh]

15 hours ago, Rosefan64 said:

Dang, even when using a preexisting engine, they still find a way to keep people from tinkering with it. It's like these Wayforward guys are, like, very ahead of us. How could've we known?

 

Well it's mostly because the game was almost complete when they were designing it for the GBA, and to get the game to fit on the cartridge they have to compress it with an encryption software they made themselves in their dev studio. I'm guessing that since it was designed for the GBA there was some kind of logic that had to be compressed to get the game to work altogether so finishing it up they still had to run it through. Then again, perhaps they just didn't want to completely rebuild it to run on unity when it was easier to just finish the GBA ver and emulate it.

 

Don't know, never made a GBA game myself.

 

All that being said, there's still a chance that someone can find a way to get into the sprites, I used like four GBA sprite editors trying to access them but it's all just static. Maybe someone else can figure it out.

[Obligitury]

12 hours ago, x hunter said:

thats would sounds good to me

 

speaking of that, i remember seeing that in the non-pixel shantae games, its impossible to nude mode the character models used

but if just the character art can be nuded, im wondering if that can be done in the other shantae games

i know people screenshotted the character art and edited those though i guess its not art extraction

God topless edits are the best kinds of mods.

[Rosefan64]

36 minutes ago, Blehbreh said:

 

Well it's mostly because the game was almost complete when they were designing it for the GBA, and to get the game to fit on the cartridge they have to compress it with an encryption software they made themselves in their dev studio. I'm guessing that since it was designed for the GBA there was some kind of logic that had to be compressed to get the game to work altogether so finishing it up they still had to run it through. Then again, perhaps they just didn't want to completely rebuild it to run on unity when it was easier to just finish the GBA ver and emulate it.

 

Don't know, never made a GBA game myself.

 

All that being said, there's still a chance that someone can find a way to get into the sprites, I used like four GBA sprite editors trying to access them but it's all just static. Maybe someone else can figure it out.

I was just making a dumb joke, I wasn't expecting details. Though, that is interesting to know.

[Blehbreh]

21 hours ago, Rosefan64 said:

I was just making a dumb joke, I wasn't expecting details. Though, that is interesting to know.

 

I can see now it was definitely a joke. I for some reason didn't even think about it being a joke I'm a dumbass sometimes hahaha

[Nightshaydes]

 

On 8/31/2025 at 6:53 AM, Blehbreh said:

One way or another the rom's graphics are encrypted so getting the graphics decrypted is going to be beyond me. Usually when this kind of thing happens a programmer has to create a program that can decrypt that specific game. Kind of a bummer that.

what do you mean by the sprites are encrypted? can't you use something to edit the sprites like you can with GB and GBC games? GBA sprite edits are a thing so maybe following those leads can bring some fruit.

or do you mean the rom itself is encrypted? if that's the case... that's an issue.

makes me wonder though, if it is encrypted, if the rom also contains the sprites used for the DLC outfits? if not, those can be easily edited. i have the deluxe edition, so have the DLC outfits. current playthrough is using the fire outfit. these seem to be full sprite sets even. all animations seem to be completed, and even have background layer shading.

 

EDIT: um. no. shantae is NOT rubbing one out in that left pic, even though it looks like it. she's adjusting her panties. after which, she adjusts her bra. seems like a more full version of the animation where she only adjusts her bra from games like pirate's curse.

Edited September 4, 2025 by Nightshaydes

[Galc]

1 hour ago, Nightshaydes said:

 

what do you mean by the sprites are encrypted? can't you use something to edit the sprites like you can with GB and GBC games? GBA sprite edits are a thing so maybe following those leads can bring some fruit.

or do you mean the rom itself is encrypted? if that's the case... that's an issue.

makes me wonder though, if it is encrypted, if the rom also contains the sprites used for the DLC outfits? if not, those can be easily edited. i have the deluxe edition, so have the DLC outfits. current playthrough is using the fire outfit. these seem to be full sprite sets even. all animations seem to be completed, and even have background layer shading.

 

EDIT: um. no. shantae is NOT rubbing one out in that left pic, even though it looks like it. she's adjusting her panties. after which, she adjusts her bra. seems like a more full version of the animation where she only adjusts her bra from games like pirate's curse.

Yeah, in the previous thread, I think someone already figured out the sprites could be edited similar to other gba games. 

Also, Now I feel like buying the pc version of the game. I already have it physically, but the extra outfits having full sprite sets means we could make one of those extra outfits into a nude mod.

Also also, she totally looks like she's rubbing one out

[Obligitury]

1 hour ago, Galc said:

Yeah, in the previous thread, I think someone already figured out the sprites could be edited similar to other gba games. 

Also, Now I feel like buying the pc version of the game. I already have it physically, but the extra outfits having full sprite sets means we could make one of those extra outfits into a nude mod.

Also also, she totally looks like she's rubbing one out

nude mod AND panties only mod, the panties being by themselves makes this VERY easy to do thankfully.

[Galc]

2 hours ago, Obligitury said:

nude mod AND panties only mod, the panties being by themselves makes this VERY easy to do thankfully.

In that case, the question remains: Which outfits do we place the mods over, and which ones are lewd enough to leave untouched?

[Obligitury]

well it makes sense to by default leave the majority of the mods over the basic outfit, since the other 3 are locked behind the delux edition (with no way to purchase the outfits seperately currently)but panties only over the bikini armor makes sense due to the animation of adjusting it.

Edited September 5, 2025 by Obligitury