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Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 1:00 pm
by namquang93
This game's file structure is similar to Far Cry series with fat and dat archives, but a bit different. Here is an example, can anyone take a look into this. Hope someone can make a unpacker/packer for it, like Rick's tools. Thanks in advanced.

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https://www.firedrive.com/file/BA315D54DDCE56FC

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 1:16 pm
by Ekey

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struct FATHeader
{
	DWORD	dwID; // 3TAF
	DWORD	dwVersion; // Always = 8
	DWORD	dwUnknown;
	DWORD	dwTotalFiles;
};

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struct FATEntry
{
	DWORD	dwHash;
	DWORD	dwSize;
	DWORD	dwZSize;
	DWORD	dwOffset;
};
PC > XMem
PS3 > Deflate
Xbox > XMem

PS: Edited info > thx Haoose

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 4:20 pm
by cra0
can you upload that common dat file?

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 4:29 pm
by HAIDER6222354
cra0 wrote:can you upload that common dat file?
this common dat and fat for ps3 version

https://www.firedrive.com/file/7769DA947BE2EA60

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 5:12 pm
by namquang93
this is from pc version

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https://www.firedrive.com/file/B7B191D4E38EA190

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 12:50 pm
by cra0
namquang93 wrote:this is from pc version

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https://www.firedrive.com/file/B7B191D4E38EA190
yep I got the pc version will take a look soon

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 4:53 pm
by cra0
It's just a modifed Xmem i think... well for pc at least I can see the magic header, here is a 010 editor script anyway for the fat files using what ekey found

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//--------------------------------------
//--- 010 Editor v5.0 Binary Template
//
// File: common.fat
// Author: EKey/Cra0kalo
// Revision: 1
// Purpose: WatchDogs
// ByteFormat - Little Endian
//--------------------------------------


typedef  float vec3[3];
typedef  float quat4[4];
typedef  string asciiz;

struct
{
   DWORD   dwID; // 3TAF
   DWORD   dwVersion; // Always = 8
   DWORD   dwUnknown;
   DWORD   dwTotalFiles;
}FATHeader;

//DWORD UnknownA;

local int i;
for(i = 0; i < FATHeader.dwTotalFiles; i++ )
{
struct
{
   DWORD   dwHash;
   DWORD   dwSize;
   DWORD   dwZSize;
   DWORD   dwOffset;
}FATEntry;


}

As for Xmem we can see the usual 0x0F 0xF5 0x12 0xEE magic identifier in the dat

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Another script of a standard header it's obviously different but yeah I'm about to head to sleep will take a look tomorrow

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//--------------------------------------
//--- XCOMPRESS
//--- Watch Dogs 2014
//--------------------------------------
long Identifier; // # XCOMPRESS_FILE_IDENTIFIER_LZXNATIVE
long ContextFlags;
long Flags;
long WindowSize;
long CompressionPartitionSize;
long UncompressedSizeHigh;
long UncompressedSizeLow;
long CompressedSizeHigh;
long CompressedSizeLow;
long UncompressedBlockSize;
long CompressedBlockSizeMax;
xcompress.h

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 5:38 pm
by Ekey
PS3 compressed data header

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struct DataHeader
{
   SHORT   wChunksCount;
   SHORT   wUnknown; //xFF\x0F

  for(i = 0; i < DataHeader.wChunksCount; i++ )
  {
    Read(wChunksSizes, 2);
  }
};

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 7:14 pm
by killerpepo
Thanks to you guys I was able to extract the XCompress using quickbms , but there is a little modification to the file struct.

All big endian

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//--------------------------------------
//--- XCOMPRESS
//--- Watch Dogs 2014
//--------------------------------------
long Identifier; // # XCOMPRESS_FILE_IDENTIFIER_LZXNATIVE
long ContextFlags;
short Version;
short Reserved;
long Flags;
long WindowSize;
long CompressionPartitionSize;
long UncompressedSizeHigh;
long UncompressedSizeLow;
long CompressedSizeHigh;
long CompressedSizeLow;
long UncompressedBlockSize;
long CompressedBlockSizeMax;
long CompressedBlockSize;
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I'll try to post the script , btw :I'm not good in writing scripts :D

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:18 pm
by Gruselgurke
How did you uncompress it? Does the game still work with uncompressed .dat files?
Might help with some performance issue many users have with the game.

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:45 pm
by Haoose
Gruselgurke wrote:Does the game still work with uncompressed .dat files?
No. Need modified EXE-file for it

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 7:15 am
by Rick
Haoose wrote:
Gruselgurke wrote:Does the game still work with uncompressed .dat files?
No. Need modified EXE-file for it
Not sure why that would be the case, the archive format supports uncompressed data just fine.

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 7:51 am
by namquang93
Rick wrote:
Haoose wrote:
Gruselgurke wrote:Does the game still work with uncompressed .dat files?
No. Need modified EXE-file for it
Not sure why that would be the case, the archive format supports uncompressed data just fine.
hello, will you work on this game ? I really love the way you did with Far Cry 3.

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 8:42 am
by Rick
When I have the time.

Re: Watch_Dogs fat and dat archives

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 12:57 pm
by kalleoskar
Cool to see some progress! For me im wondering and am curious about the scripts, and if we are able to change them up depending on the code