Talk:Wiki Maintenance/HD Card Images/@comment-3174318-20150912005020

Hello everyone,

I made the decision to download all of these files and compile them into a compressed archive. However, this collection is not complete, and the user who provided all of these links, Ttenjin, is inactive. He managed to obtain these files by using a method that remains vague to the present day. However, he gave enough information for us to work on.

He mentions that the game provides you the links to these HD cards, in this thread:

http://valkyriecrusade.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ttenjin/Card_and_skill_data

There is also the fact that he used a proxy to monitor the traffic of the app:

http://valkyriecrusade.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:85725

Lastly, he tells us the URL format of the cards:

http://valkyriecrusade.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:20609

There are multiple ways to find out what method he used. Perhaps if someone was able to use a proxy to obtain more networking data for us to use, that would help this page progress. Also, if the game provides you the links to these cards, perhaps using it in a debugger, or a application that shares information about the executions of the game would help resolve what the game does. Ideally, some sort of emulator that can break down what the game consists of, will help tremendously.

We can also play a very long guessing game, using all the previous updates of the game as timestamps, and the raw card ids from the game to guess the other cards not in this collection, but it will be time consuming.

Lastly, some information from myself. The HD cards are only downloaded when you view them in fullscreen, from the collection. They are not obtained from downloading the high resolution cards, as one may think. The high resolution cards that the game downloads are actually the MD cards, which likely mean medium definition.

Hopefully this information will help others attempt to find the method that Ttenjin used to obtain these card URLs. Unfortunately I am inexperienced with understanding all of these techniques.

Here is a link to the archive I mentioned earlier. I know everyone will enjoy having it, especially this Wiki if all the images are uploaded :)

https://mega.nz/#!lUUWwDbS!oNSWc4WhOUcc7Av3cqYFK3A2x1FnF_JEKsAUDYzhQ0Q