Just Cause *.ARC file decompression

[tgp1994]

I'm kind of wondering here, but why to people reply in bursts spaced about a month apart?

Anyhow, I would like to keep this thread on topic for PC only. Anyhow, aluigi, does your script support decompression and re-compression? My whole reason for making this topic was so someone could fix the binary for this task.

[aluigi]

like any other script from mine it supports only the extraction of the files

[AlphaTwentyThree]

Anyhow, I would like to keep this thread on topic for PC only.

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[tgp1994]

Anyhow, I would like to keep this thread on topic for PC only.

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As someone stated earlier, the XBOX360 and PC versions have slightly different formats which can make a huge difference come to decompress time. Thus, I would like to keep this thread on topic for PC only.

[AlphaTwentyThree]

As someone stated earlier, the XBOX360 and PC versions have slightly different formats which can make a huge difference come to decompress time. Thus, I would like to keep this thread on topic for PC only.

Ah, that clears up things. On the other side: how often do you decompress *.arc archives? Only one time when you do something with Just Cause. So far I think no other game with this format is known. Decompression time doesn't change much I think because of the 'if causes', which take almost no additional time (couple of ms at most).

[AlphaTwentyThree]

I have not fully understood if it was jc1 or jc2 (the format is enough similar) anyway I updated my justcause2 script to work with the archive you provided.
but note that I used a work-around because the tab file contains also invalid offsets:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/justcause2.bms

Worked, thanks a lot! Just needed to change the NAME_CRC to just i because of some name problems.

[tgp1994]

Decompression time doesn't change much I think because of the 'if causes', which take almost no additional time (couple of ms at most).

What? I wasn't complaining about decompression time. I would like to see more modding for this game, so a decompresser and recompresser would be nice.

[AlphaTwentyThree]

... which can make a huge difference come to decompress time.

What? I wasn't complaining about decompression time.

I rest my case.

[tgp1994]

... which can make a huge difference come to decompress time.

What? I wasn't complaining about decompression time.

I rest my case.

You're misunderstanding what I said there, I meant "the differing formats can make a huge difference, when you actually need to decompress it."

[Rick]

My script was intended for JC1, JC2 has a tab file for each arc, whereas JC1 has a single tab file for multiple arcs.