[PS2] Wild Arms 3 .bin archive

[SmashFan127]

Hello, people.

I have become very interested in the models of characters and enemies in the PS2 RPG Wild Arms 3, and I would like some assistance on research for unpacking the models that might be inside the BTLMON.BIN file. Anyone interested?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yeyvkc5ycpat06j/BTLMON.BIN

[SmashFan127]

My sincerest apologies for this bump, but is there anyone out there who can help?

[shakotay2]

Maybe you should post a hexdump of the first 1024 (=64x16) bytes of BTLMON.BIN.

[SmashFan127]

Maybe you should post a hexdump of the first 1024 (=64x16) bytes of BTLMON.BIN.

I'm sorry if I sound stupid here, but where can I find a program to perform such hexdump?

[shakotay2]

any hex editor will do

[SmashFan127]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/wdxb5q57b ... 000001.txt

Is this piece good for you, or do I have to do something else with HxD?

[shakotay2]

just open the file. The pic should look like this:
(edit: with other values of course since this is an example file only)

[SmashFan127]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/h7al22e2q ... review.png

These could be different .BIN files.

Either way, here's to the end of 000100

[shakotay2]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/h7al22e2q ... review.png

thx.

These could be different .BIN files.

Of course they are.

Either way, here's to the end of 000100

As you can see this won't help since there are too many zeroes. You'll have to post another part from the next address after 0x100 where are less zeroes.

And at least 0x400 bytes are required. Or more maybe 0x800 or 0x1000 (4096 bytes).

[SmashFan127]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/0b7g7yb35 ... 20dots.png

Does not resume until 0x230, but I am sure this would be satisfying.

[shakotay2]

I'm unsure whether this is a compressed file because of the regular patterns.
Maybe you should load the bin into TextureFinder to see whether/where texture are included.

Is there plain ASCII text in the bin?

[SmashFan127]

I'm unsure whether this is a compressed file because of the regular patterns.
Maybe you should load the bin into TextureFinder to see whether/where texture are included.

Is there plain ASCII text in the bin?

http://www.mediafire.com/view/28b19s6qa ... esults.png

There seems to be some sort of info in this file, took this at the beginning offset.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/w8wv668fd ... %25201.png

Here are the results starting at offset 0x200

[shakotay2]

well, looks like there are no textures contained.
(I guess you tried all radio buttons, also the DXT ones, several widths 256, 128, 64?)

(And of course you scrolled down in the data, didn't you? )

For the ASCII, well I meant is there something readable, such as filenames, bonenames (bip01) or anything else?

[SmashFan127]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/lz551rkva ... %25201.png

Well, I found some textures in the BTLODT.BIN file, but no bones like you said appear in ASCII.

[SmashFan127]

My apologies for the bump.