Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

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Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

Post by Nukem » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:11 am

As 8D Quake Live 8D is in a open beta for some days now, I created an account and tried it.
After waiting a (felt) bazzillion of minutes I could try it. (I left my laptop running in the queue to get from #12,547-something down to the fun - maybe half an hour... :?)
Unfortunately, after pwnding Crash away in nothing for 12 times, the "self-adjusting A.I." :? tuned her so godlike she won 15-12 and then QL told me I HAVE to make the first match in order to proceed (for skill-checking of course). :cry:
(I didn't know that I also have to WIN that one?!?)
Unfortunately, again, after retrying that match, when I was about to win (YES!) shortly before the time-out the QL-plugin (and with it Firefox) crashed... :twisted:
The QL homepage shortly before said my connection was broken - WTF?!


But to make a long story short: I was wondering if I could play the training map in the old-skool Q3A game, and when I checked the Quake Live stuff (which was downloaded while playing the skill-checking match) I found a bunch of *.PK3 files (>250 MB together).

Unfortunately, these are not the *.PK3- aka *.ZIP-files that Quake 3 Arena had.

Maybe somebody already examined them and has some infos about them??

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Re: Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

Post by aluigi » Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:43 am

the pk3 files of quakelive are simply xored with a big fixed sequence of bytes:
http://aluigi.org/papers.htm#q3

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Re: Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

Post by dimwalker » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:19 am

Thanks a lot. Nice tool, but latest .pk3 create archives with dummy file, so I guess they had changed something in encryption method.
Is there newer version or any similar program?

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Re: Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

Post by aluigi » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:03 pm

the key and the encryption is still the same (if you can open/extract/verify/test the pk3/zip archives means that it's correct).

the dummy files are not part of the encryption or related to them, they are just normal files inside the pk3/zip archives

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Re: Quake Live *.pk3 archive files

Post by makcar » Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:53 pm

.pak archive? (web.pak, inspector.pak.)

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