Arrowhead has made lots of great games, and it seems that they are all using the very same engine, which I don't know if it's custom made or not. They are found mostly in the Content folder (maybe it's made with XDK?), and all file names are 16 char long with random characters in them (like e7729a796e71cb7e, d7bd9aca006835ae, c9ecdfc7f0c89432...etc), and they don't have a file extension, just that random name. There are also some random files which have another file like them, but it has an extension, which is .stream (so like there's an ec181385e7000cf1 file and an ec181385e7000cf1.stream file). These files vary from sizes, some can be 50 or 64 kbyte, and some can be 75 megs or more.
If anyone can help me research these (how to extract them, how to repack them...etc) then please let me know, and I'll get back to you when I can.
EDIT:
Here you can download the Showdown Effect demo from free on Steam, it's around 4-500 megabytes, has the same filesystem -> http://store.steampowered.com/app/204080/
And also here's a screenshot of a 1 kbyte file from the game that's opened in a HEX Editor:
Last edited by TheReaperCooL on Sat May 09, 2015 7:41 am, edited 2 times in total.
The latest version of all tools. Tested on Showdown Effect demo, Gauntlet, Wizard Wars, Helldivers. May also work with other Bitsquid games and also the new Autodesk Stingray Engine games like Warhammer: End Times.
bitsquid_unp [package file name]
It will unpack the contents into the same folder. Files will be named as hash, with proper extensions.
Multi-language files have the same name inside the package. So I decide to unpack them adding "version" flag at the end. This will not correspond to languages, just some special flag. Some files have multiple flags set. I don't know what it means.
bitsquid_txt [strings file name]
Strings exporter/importer. If the parameter is txt file, it will do import. If it is ".strings", it will do export.
Text file must be in UTF-8 encoding. Some lines contain "next line" characters and when converted to txt it will be impossible to leave them. I just replaced 0xD to 0xF0 and 0xA to 0xF1. If the source file will contain either of these bytes, it will not work.
bitsquid_str [strings file name]
Repack ONE strings file into the new package. "data.bin" file made by extractor must be in the same folder. It contains some unknown info that we need to put back into the package.
It will make "out.packet" file, rename it to whatever it was originally and put into the game.
bitsquid_timpani [bank file name]
Audio bank unpacker for Showdown. It will unpack all sounds to OGG and WAV files, with no filenames, just hash. I'm working on this.
Audio bank unpacker for other games. It requires stream name too. If there's no stream for some particular bank, just type anything you want for second parameter. If you run it with 1 parameter, the result is unpredictable. If the stream will not be present, it will work, but files may be cut, having only some first seconds of sound.
About the .stream files
Streams are just an "addition" to the bank, you can't extract it without the bank. Bank files have extension "timpani_bank" and they are extracted from the packages with all the other files. During this process, the main stream file is also been cut into parts (small stream files) that are corresponding to each bank contained within a package.
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Bitsquid package unpacker. Tested on Showdown Effect, Gauntlet. May also work with other Bitsquid games.
Use: bitsquid_unp.exe [filename]
It will unpack the contents into the same folder. Files will be named as hash, with proper extensions.
Textures are DDS, all sounds packed into one huge bank.
Multi-language files have the same name inside the package. So I decide to unpack them adding "version" flag at the end. This will not correspond to languages, just some special flag. Some files have multiple flags set. I don't know what it means.
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daemon1 wrote:First unpacker version. May also work with other Bitsquid games.
Use: bitsquid_unp.exe [filename]
It will unpack the contents into the same folder. Files will be named as hash, with proper extensions.
Textures are DDS, all sounds packed into one huge bank.
Now I will proceed with collecting the filenames, but obviously I can't find names from the full version, only demo.
Wow, you are awesome!
Does this work with other games as well? Like Magicka - Wizard Wars, I tried to unpack some files, but couldn't get the localisations out of them :\
TheReaperCooL wrote:Does this work with other games as well? Like Magicka - Wizard Wars
I don't know. If it has the same filesystem, it will work i think. If not - give me some files from it.
The only thing it doesn't support now is multiple chunk files (probably for different languages). You didn't say anything about localization, so I assumed you need sounds, textures e.t.c. If you tell, what do you plan to do, I can choose the best way to unpack these multi-files.
Sorry for not saying my plans. Well I plan to translate some of these games, and I may need some pictures/textures in case they need to be edited, some language files and maybe font files in case I have to edit in some unicode characters.
Will try it out with Showdown Effect, as I couldn't find any language files within Wizard Wars' files, and report back.
EDIT:
Sorry for not replying earlier, but I just realised that you've said I can't extract the files
Multi-language files have the same name inside the package. So I decide to unpack them adding "version" flag at the end. This will not correspond to languages, just some special flag. Some files have multiple flags set. I don't know what it means.
Look at the files inside "language" and "fonts" packages. You can now decide, how can you change them.
I see no need in filenames now. If anyone needs filenames for any bitsquid games, let me know then.
Multi-language files have the same name inside the package. So I decide to unpack them adding "version" flag at the end. This will not correspond to languages, just some special flag. Some files have multiple flags set. I don't know what it means.
Look at the files inside "language" and "fonts" packages. You can now decide, how can you change them.
I see no need in filenames now. If anyone needs filenames for any bitsquid games, let me know then.
Nice! I could extract the files from the full version of The Showdown Effect, and I've located the strings. I know it's an unpacker, but how can I pack the files back in?
daemon1 wrote:If you think you can change these files for your purposes, I can try and pack it back.
Well I can edit the text in these files with a HEX Editor or something like that, and I'd like to translate these games. It would be awesome if you could help me out with it.
Although I might need to put up another request for the text files, maybe they need some unpacking too, but will see after packing them back in in the way they are now.
EDIT:
Just found Magicka 2's String files, and I think I can easily edit them. Will have to try once I can pack them back in
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