Would there be a way to make the game.exe use unpacked files instead then? Or is this a dead end to. I think this is not possible because the game looks for the .pak files, so there is no easy way for modify it. Anyway I have in mind to write (have just started it now) a program for testing many co...

These wave files (in reality are a collection of headerless audio data) use the ADPCM format. I'm still searching ways for reading/converting these type of audio data (read also the threads about Jack Orlando and Nomad Soul) from raw files. In the meantime, for other and future problems about audio ...

However is there a way to reverse the process *create pak* files. Unfortunately not, that's why I have no source code for the decompression algorithm and have used just the ripped function from the game executable. At the moment I don't have enough knowledge about compression algorithms (except zli...

Well, for the moment I have created the stand-alone unpacker and have updated the thread. Anyway this format is used by ALL the games developed by 49Games: http://www.49games.de so I think we must update the wiki too, let me know. Sorry for the dll but I have preferred the fastest way for me eh eh e...

I have created the unpacker for all the packages used in the games developed by 49Games: http://www.49games.de http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers.htm#u49gext Instead Ski Racing 2005 uses total different formats, the FSB files contain header-less wave files (have not checked if they use strange code...

The good news is that I'm able to uncompress the data. The less good news is that I still don't know what is the original algorithm. So how we can implement the decompression in your program? It requires at least an external dll containing the ripped code. If for you is too much problematic I can wr...

Okay, another one. What type of compression is used in the balance.pak file in this thread? I already checked Ski Alpine/Racing 2005 some hours ago so I have a partial answer for you 8-) Almost all the files contained in the packages used by these 2 games have the data in plain-text format, except ...

The new game is "Conan"; the game itself is very bad, but it's supposed to have some new themes by Basil Poledouris who scored the "Conan" film, and that's why I was interested in extracting the music. Unfortunately, the .wav files with the music seem to be encrypted in some way...

I have tried and failed to get to grips with the Nomad Soul audio format too in the past. It's a shame. I have spent all my morning trying to find a program or a way to read these files and I have only found that if you use the VOX codec/format you are able to hear the music with a small or minimal...

There is a game called TrackMania (and the sequal TrackMania Sunrise) that both have one large resource archive, Sunrise uses SFFS (remember the other thread?) and Trackmania seems to use something similar with the only difference that there is no SFFS header. Anyway I'll investigate for sure Oh I ...

The format used for the game files (.PAK, .PHK, .PH2 and so on) is very simple and have added an entry in the wiki so hopefully someone will create a script for them: http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Jack_Orlando The demo of the game (very small fortunately) is available here: http://www.jowood.com/...

Ok, I have started the thread here:

viewtopic.php?t=1611

The idea for this thread is having an updated list of games which don't seem to use plain-text or readable data in their packages. For example we have the packages with the SFFS header used in games like Bet on Soldier which use the Starforce encryption. Another type of encryption is that used by Ac...

The encryption is a XOR with an incremental value.
I have written an extractor for this game:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers.htm#nexusext

Thanx a lot guys. this morning I have already updated the wiki and added some new entries (like the UZ2 and TNTFOLDER files and have uptead Brothers in Arms, FireStarter, HoveRace and Lineage2) and now I'm going to add other 2 games. And since this seems to be the only archive on Internet for game f...