Hmm, BPE stands for Byte Pair Encoding.. Perhaps others have alread dealt with this type of compression before?

Yeah , that should do.

Hi. I'm trying to extract the textures from this file. Information gained from another thread in this forum, tells me that it is compressed using bpe. can somebody help me uncompress this archive. I can post the file if needed. Please do post a file, that makes life a little easier for investigator...

The plugin. Should work. They are for .DAT files right ? Just create a DAT folder in the Plugins folder and put the dll there. Then open an archive as a Robor Wars file.

Ok, I have 90% of the format complete I think. Will write a mexCom plugin. I've attached the table of contents of this archive (tab delimited text file). Also a shot from Hex Workshop bookmarks to show you the format. The general structure is : // Header // Resource Information Table // String Table...

Ok, I'm on it. Nearly got it sussed.

Thanks for all the work, but it isn't working :( The Lua scripts also seem to have been "compressed", much like the xml files were. But even if someone were to figure that out I doubt that my original plan would work, there are alot more lua scripts in the PSP version, compared to the PC demo. AND ...

And the format of the Puzzle Quest (PSP) .PAK files: // General structure: Byte(16) Header Byte(n) Resource Info Table byte(n) String Table Byte(n) Resource raw data // Detailed structure: // Header uint32 Size of resource information data uint32 Relative Offset of String Table (Size of Resource Inf...

Okay, here's the plugin for MultiEx Commander as promised. Will open those files and extract the contents for you.

I also attach a table of contents of the PAK file.

Will post the details when I have the time.

StandardMonstersText.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <TextLibrary> <Text tag="[MONSTER_MARB_NAME]"> </Text> <Arboleth Warning: node count 1 (50) does not match node count 2 (2), mightfail TextLibrary="TextLibrary" extLibrary="" tLibrary="" tag="[MONSTER_MBAT_NAME]" Giant Bat="Text"> <xtLibrary Warning: n...

itg wrote:

Rheini wrote:Could you also post the format specifications for bundle files?

No, what for?

Because this site is about sharing knowledge?

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5eI3gCWL-sY Excellent...recent version of Pocket Calculator... And check out an 1981 version (recorded in Utrecht, The Netehrlands): http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=zZt64_XOflk Kraftwerk - pioneers of electronic music, anno 1970! Autobahn (1974?) http://nl.youtube.com/wat...

Actually, the given file is not compressed, but rather seems to be a binary representation of an XML file intended for easier parsing. This particular file is even larger than its textual representation, which the programmers could have partly avoided by not duplicating entries in the dictionary (w...

Allright, I've cornered the structure of the file, will create a plugin for MexCom.

Right, and I think these XML files are compressed, DenizOezmen might say : 'Huffman!" ? Looks like it has a dictionary??