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by headrift
Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:43 pm
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Metal Heart, .pkg format, and file table encoding?
Replies: 6
Views: 3412

Hey. Still working on this, read the Definitive Guide to Exploring File Formats, especially the encryption part. After that, I decided that I'd be crazy to try to brute force this thing by hand, so I wrote some python (switched form Perl, Python has a file.seek() function) that checks for basic shif...
by headrift
Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:29 pm
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Metal Heart, .pkg format, and file table encoding?
Replies: 6
Views: 3412

Thanks for looking at it. I've been looking at it too, and it seems that there's a different value in every file where the '.' should be in the filenames, or where 0x00 should appear in sizes. Makes me think that there's a key or digest in one of those 'unknown' areas, since anything stored statical...
by headrift
Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:31 pm
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Metal Heart, .pkg format, and file table encoding?
Replies: 6
Views: 3412

Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the image thing, worked fine here, but I guess I have the right cookie. :) I'll attach the complete pkg files I'm looking at, since the file table for each one is already in that image. 'onefile.pkg' is the source file for the 'selfmade.dat' file visible in the pic....
by headrift
Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:38 am
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Metal Heart, .pkg format, and file table encoding?
Replies: 6
Views: 3412

Metal Heart, .pkg format, and file table encoding?

Hey. I'm new here. I'll try not to troll. :) So... the problem. A friend of mine (no, really, it's not me) has a copy of Metal Heart that he'd like to mod a little, so we've been trying to crack the .pkg format. The wiki here was invaluable for the first part of the process. I've got my little perl ...