ops the names offsets, I should pay more attention when I do this stuff... but I'm lazy :)

I can answer (partially) only to the first question. if the xor key is composed by only one byte (enough common) the only quick way to recognize it is simply the xoring of a portion of the input file with all the bytes from 1 to 0xff and watching when you see a known string (you can create a tool in...

it's encoded in some way, tried both xor and rot without success

uhmmm but if in multiex the compiled binary scripts are called bms and have the bms extension how are called the textual scripts? ms?
I thought their name was bms (and that's why I called my tool quickbms)... confused :)

eh eh eh I'm so lazy that I created a new tool for making my work quicker and you ask me to do additional work? :) usually the BMS scripts are very basic and easy to understand so I guess it's useless to document the file format in other additional forms spending more time for doing it than doing th...

in general in the archives of some games happens to have files with the same names moreover if they have been stored as resources instead of files, so it's all enough normal :)

the following BMS script extracts all the files from the PC archive: *edit* use the script of mr.mouse some posts below from what I have seen some files are in raw pcm mode and have a minimal header at their beginning (samples, frequency, channels and so on) while the others are all in the PS2 VAG A...

# ZeroZone # script for QuickBMS http://aluigi.org/papers.htm#quickbms idstring "BigFile 1.00\0\0\0\0" get FILES long get FILES_SIZE long get FILES_OFF long get DUMMY long for i = 0 < FILES get NAMESZ long get DUMMY long get SIZE long get SIZE2 long get SIZE3 long get DUMMY long get OFFSE...

I have the full BMS script for doing it :)

*edit, was updated to version 0.1.1*
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/citiesxl.bms

I don't know if I rock or I'm simply lucky but I saw that in core.dll was used the CryptDecrypt function of Windows and looking a bit there I found the string "allocator" so I decided to see if I was so lucky to have catched the right decryption and... yes :) the following is the part of C...

about the if/else statement it's also good to specify that from one of the recent versions of QuickBMS I have added the useful "elif"/"else if" which allows to specify multiple "if"... and it's very very useful in some cases. example: set MYVAR long 123 if MYVAR < 0 mat...

personally I like to figure the formats of the games so everything is positive when there are new formats to reverse and (most important) I figure them and moreover correctly :)

I can't help with the repacking because for various reasons I do only the extraction job

the only problem there is the file table which is obfuscated so it's not possible to retrieve the names of the file, while there is no problem for the content which is simply zipped (job for offzip). maybe there is a bit of luck if you post also the executable of the game (although I highly doubt be...

it's a command-line tool so must be launched from the console. go on Start->Run and type cmd (or command if you are on Windows 9x) will appear the black console window. now extracted sdgundamext.exe in c: create a new folder in c: called extract type: c:\sdgundamext PATH_OF_THE_FILE c:\extract where...