Settlers VI bba archives

john_doe · Post by **john_doe** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:38 am

Rheini wrote:isn't that easier?

That wouldn't be quite legal.

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:29 pm

Yup, this way, people who have bought the game can extract it, it is still copywrighted material.

Post by **Rheini** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:29 pm

good ol' copyright

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:30 am

Here's the tool I promissed

Let me know what you think

Sincerely,

Nick Kusters

N.B.

I invested quite some time to create this tool. Future tools might just create scripts to work with this one since it offers a large part to what is needed to get the data we want

Post by **Rheini** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:06 am

Good work man

But I personally really hate setups for such small apps, so I won't test it

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:17 am

Rheini wrote:Good work man
But I personally really hate setups for such small apps, so I won't test it

It's to handle File extention Registration, better then including .reg files, don't you think??

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:20 am

Rheini wrote:Good work man
But I personally really hate setups for such small apps, so I won't test it

Since there is no setup, there is also no dependancy requirement now, so:

You need to have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed to run this application. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=nl

Update:

Removed attatchment, get newer version!

Post by **Rheini** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:05 am

NKCSS wrote:
Rheini wrote:Good work man
But I personally really hate setups for such small apps, so I won't test it
It's to handle File extention Registration, better then including .reg files, don't you think??

I don't say it's bad to have a setup!

Most users prefer it cause it's easier, but I personally don't like it.

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:54 am

I have good news and bad news

The good news is:

I've managed to write an algo that is able to extract all mp3 files within the roughly 400MB lngensnd0.bba file (6401 mp3s).

I have randomly tested a bunch of them, and they all worked great!

The bad news is the other big sound archive (shrlsnd0.bba) is a lot different then the archive I've just cracked

With the lngensnd0.bba archive, i had to use my MP3 Frame calculations and substract 1 byte from it to end up at the correct address (this has nothing to do with the padded bit, they just seemed to have clipped 1 byte from each mp3 frame in that file).

In the other archive, I don't have to remove that byte to end up at the correct address.

So far so good, but after 64 mp3's in the shrlsnd0.bba, things go wrong.

I am able to get 1 mp3 frame, then end up lost. This continues over and over (might be and ID3v2.* thing, will have to look into that). The other thing is, that uncompressed PCM Wave files also reside within the archive (have a list of addressed within the archive so that i can take a look at them).

So, the next step will be for me to pull out my old WAVE code I have written ages ago, and read in the headers to extract those aswell and find a way to skip those parts when I am looking for more mp3s.

Hope this all makes sence,

Nick Kusters.

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:56 am

Almost forgot, I have been working on the NKCSS Data Extractor a bit aswell. An updated version will be posted shortly (needed to add relative path support and some other minor fixes).

This version will be able to handle the new script I have created to dump the lngensnd0.bba file

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:40 pm

Here's an updated version of the NKCSS Data Extractor tool (v1.0.1).

I have added relative path support for .nde scripts to facilitate large amounts of files to be put in subfolders relative to the script file to make sure your Windows Explorer doesn't go mad

Update:
Removed download due to new version, see v1.0.2 on page 3

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:45 pm

Here's the new script I promissed.

This extracts all 6461 mp3's from the lngensnd0.bba archive.

You need the NKCSS Data Extractor v1.0.1 (which I posted before this file) to make sure this script works (if you use it with the older version, it will create a mess

).

Let me know what you think!

Sincerely,

Nick Kusters

Savage · Post by **Savage** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:32 pm

mmm.maybe im' so silly, but i can extract generic data with this program?
In minds, works like dragonunpacker or jaedernaub?
Any example? Any tutorial?
Thanks

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:45 pm

Savage wrote:mmm.maybe im' so silly, but i can extract generic data with this program?
In minds, works like dragonunpacker or jaedernaub?
Any example? Any tutorial?
Thanks

Hehe, sorry if it was a bit unclear as to what this program actualy does.

It's quite simple realy....

* Select a source file (a game archive for example)
* Add what data you would want
- * Start offset (decimal system, uint64)
  * End offset (decimal system, uint64)
  * Filename for the region of data you want to export

This tool then just rips the sections of data from the file and saves it to the specified file.

Easy does it

I am currently working on a generic tool that is able to generate scripts that work with this tool that is able to detect unencrypted/uncompressed files within larger files.

Sincerely,

Nick Kusters.

NKCSS · Post by **NKCSS** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:40 pm

Havn't posted this one seperately yet, so here's the nde script for the 3 mp3's that caused me to wind up here in the first place

File: NDE script for the Songs by the Viking character in the Settlers VI game (3 mp3's) (from the lngensnd0.bba archive, which is different from the other script).

Update:

Uploaded new version of the script, the old version contained a wrong sourcefile name, sorry!

XeNTaX

XeNTaX

Settlers VI bba archives

NKCSS Data Extractor + Settlers Character Songs Script

NKCSS Data Extractor v1.0.1

lngensnd0.bba nde script to extract all mp3's from archive