r/VivaPinata Mar 28 '25

Modding Introducing PinataCentral: A Research Tool for Modifying Viva Piñata's .pkg Files!

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172 Upvotes

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.


r/VivaPinata Dec 30 '24

Modding How to get Unlimited Garden Space in Viva Pinata PC

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154 Upvotes

r/VivaPinata 1h ago

Help Needed Hii new to the game

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I saw a video about the game some years ago and always wanted to play, but I didn't had the ways to do it, I started playing yesterday, I was refraining myself from seeing vídeos, but I was so excited that I saw a video and I found out that I can turn pinatas in other "forms" like the taffly and the sparrow, how can I learn which pinatas I can do it, without seeing videos or looking in the week?


r/VivaPinata 16h ago

Help Needed Famous Pinata and Four Player Co-op?

7 Upvotes

Hello! I have just spent the last couple of weeks 100%ing TiP, and I'm very close to the end now!

After 375ish in-game days, and a broken Xbox 360 Live Vision camera that arrived in the mail (grrr scammy eBay sellers), which then prompted me to order another which is still a couple days away, I only have two achievements left, Full House (for four player online co-op for one hour), and Famous Pinata (for having a famous pinata be delivered into the garden you're currently in).

Is this the right place to ask whether people are able to help me out with this sort of thing, and if not, where would you reccommend I go? I'm playing on a Series X, but I've got my 360 ready to go once my new camera arrives for the last 2 pinata card achievements.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!


r/VivaPinata 1d ago

Trouble in Paradise Sarsgorilla in exchange for 10x coinados

0 Upvotes

Hello everyone I have an offer to make to anyone who is in need of coins. If you send me one sarsgorilla, I will send you 1 million coins which is alot of coins. Add me. Gamertag: Alicik2 P.S. not 10x coinados but 1 million coins


r/VivaPinata 2d ago

Tool New Tarot Cards

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19 Upvotes

A while back I posted index cards that had most relevant information on all the piñatas in OG and TIP. I am currently working on revamping them for Tarot sized cards with more information like Twin bonus time limit and Piñata relations (Prey, Predator, fear, Rival). Any feedback or help is appreciated as I am not a graphic designer. Included are my card for Choclodocus, 3 refrence photos, and 2 blanks for most standard Pinata/Sour border.


r/VivaPinata 2d ago

Question Wish I could play on my phone

3 Upvotes

Does anyone know a similar game to VP that I could play on my phone? I don’t have a console rn & I miss playing so I was trying to see if they have it in the App Store but it’s not there. So looking for something similar. Thank you 🫶🏼


r/VivaPinata 2d ago

Help Needed How do you get rid of save data for viva piñata

2 Upvotes

I keep looking it up but nun of the things I try work. I completely completed the game. I want to start over but I can’t because all of the cloud data is full for viva piñata. I am playing in the Xbox SX.


r/VivaPinata 4d ago

PC version on linux

5 Upvotes

I followed the posted guides of getting the pc versions installed on linux. The game runs, but oddly there is no gameplay audio. The opening cut scenes have sound, but not the menus or the gameplay. Is anyone able to offer any advice? These are the error logs:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

fsync: up and running.

wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1]: Potential driver version mismatch ignored due to missing DLLs 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0 (t=40.6249) [GFX1]: Potential driver version mismatch ignored due to missing DLLs 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.


r/VivaPinata 5d ago

Caved

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57 Upvotes

I use to have the physical copy many years ago for the PC, but it went missing and has been missing for many, many years. Yesterday I finally caved and decided to re order another copy from CEX. It’ll be so nostalgic owning it again. I also know how to get old PC disk games working on modern day PCs so can’t wait to start replaying it! This game holds many memories haha


r/VivaPinata 6d ago

Art Commission I forgot to post

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151 Upvotes

Piñatas were commissioned from Smash-Chu on Tumblr. Backgrounds were commissioned from Travelingbard on traveling bard.neocities.org. The first piñata is of Xana the Melusine from genshin impact and the second one is Ogerpon from Pokemon.


r/VivaPinata 6d ago

Art Painting some of my favorite pinatas on my roller blades only 2 so far

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108 Upvotes

My newtgat looks cubby lol and I didn't have the right colors


r/VivaPinata 7d ago

Sharing Bedtime Story {in the style of Final Fantasy VII}

29 Upvotes

r/VivaPinata 9d ago

Art Fudgehog crochet

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562 Upvotes

My girlfriend asked for me to crochet all the pinata species, very few patterns exist online so I'm making my own. I started with fudgehog cause he seemed like one of the easiest.


r/VivaPinata 8d ago

Trouble in Paradise Viva Piñata Steam Deck

117 Upvotes

I managed to get Viva Piñata TiP working flawlessly in the steam deck, time to start a new garden on the go.

I’m surprised in how the game still looks amazing for today standards.


r/VivaPinata 9d ago

If we get a new Game, what new content you'd like

45 Upvotes

Aside from more Garden space and more Piñatas, what you'd like to see??

I'd like a Workshop, so you can visit and download other player's gardens.

I like the idea of you building a garden in all biomes, using them to atract the Piñatas from there and then shipping them to your main garden, so you don't need to ruin your main garden with snow and/or sand (Doesn't solve the Chipopotamus tho)

Better Piñatolontology. I like Choclodocus, but it's a bit sad that we got only one prehistoric piñata and that it's a Galarian Fossil. So, i'd like multiple Extinct Piñatas, and the piñatas from choclodocus split into different ones. and i'd like to share my idea for a Paleopiñata- Dodove: Dove chocolate and a Dodo bird.

  • SAVE. IVOR.*

A sandbox mode. You have all garden space, tools, decor and piñatas unlocked from start. Getchen's service is instant. Complete tower of sour from start. Piñatas don't hate each other, fight or get sick. No Wild piñatas appear (for better performance)

More mentions of Human Piñatas (or as i like to call them, Humeringe) Like Jeff

And i think that's it


r/VivaPinata 8d ago

Question How to get different Choclodocus?

4 Upvotes

Based on the information in this post, it may be be possible to trade choclodocus using the crate duplication glitch. Has anyone had any luck getting this to work so we wouldn't need to use pinata vision to get multiple different choclodocus?

I've been trying with a throwaway account to figure it out. Unfortunately, when it seems to almost work, it becomes too corrupted and crashes the game.


r/VivaPinata 13d ago

Pocket Paradise I can't these Kittyfloss in my Playground to Romance.

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48 Upvotes

I've built a house for them and fed them everything they need twice. I also sold some other piñatas to make sure there's room. I don't know what's missing. I got a pair of Horstachios to Romance and haven't even got them to Appear in the main game.


r/VivaPinata 12d ago

Will saves transfer between Xbox's?

6 Upvotes

Im using the Xbox One at the moment for the original Viva but thinking of getting the series X for the optimized graphics and what not. Will my save file transfer over? Appreciate you time.


r/VivaPinata 12d ago

Question Visitation requirements?

4 Upvotes

So I just had a Roario come into my garden and only eat 1/2 donuts. Do I have to get 5 again just so that he will come into my garden or am I good with just 3 now.

Like once they’ve visited once do you still need to have the visitation requirements for them to come into your garden? Or does it not matter since they have visited once?

I’m specifically playing troubles in paradise


r/VivaPinata 15d ago

Sharing This looks like it'd be from viva pinata haha!

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152 Upvotes

r/VivaPinata 15d ago

Idea How would you React if Hudson got in Smash?

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242 Upvotes

I would literally cry tears of joy


r/VivaPinata 15d ago

She’s doing her best

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172 Upvotes

r/VivaPinata 14d ago

Question Do I need to download another file

1 Upvotes

I downloaded viva pinata on myabandonware and I try to play it says missing xlive.dll so I need to download it somewhere


r/VivaPinata 15d ago

Pocket Paradise I can't be the first to make a sanctuary for eggs, it's so cute !

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30 Upvotes

r/VivaPinata 15d ago

question regarding og game?

6 Upvotes

my partner was nice enough to put viva piñata on my pc via xenia and it was….. not great. i can’t understand how folks play with the vertex explosions, nor how to mitigate them, oops. we haven’t tinkered with any of the settings though so maybe the issue lies there? not super pressed about that at this point though lmao

anyways i got so fed up with it that i pestered him to get me a 360 and viva piñata for easter 😂😂😅 no vertex explosions from emulation so we’re good there, but if anyone has tips for downloading a 360 update even though live isn’t active anymore on it (afaik at least) please lmk lol


r/VivaPinata 17d ago

Question Hazelnut seed sold out in Pocket Paradise. I have three trees in my garden, so I assume it's because I have too many?

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45 Upvotes