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Hi, i would like to write a simple c# program to edit some strings in the game Drakan (i.e. item names etc). So i know, that all strings are in the dragon.rrc file, wich i uploaded here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/lxsmggi5 ... C.zip/file

There must be some words inside the file like "Runenklinge" or "Energiebogen". I have the german version of it.
The problem is, that i cant read the file with a binary reader and output them, because the strings are encrypted for some reason.
I got this information here:
https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan/issues/9 and https://gist.github.com/UCyborg/e16d39f ... c1b5d4c69e

I would like to fix some translation problems in the game for all, but i need to read/resave the .rrc file correctly in c#. My know-how about c++ isnt good enough for that.

Can anyone help me please?

There is a quickbms script which may help you unpack this file https://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/drakan.bms
https://i.imgur.com/t3qHZ6n.png

Also here you have full implementation of the class that you have linked
https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan/b ... anager.cpp

You can always build this project and try to debug it and understand its code
Here you have the instructions
https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan


If you will have any issues with debugging, you can always check the tutorials section for some info
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22266



Edit: Ceck also these files:
odCore\SrscFile.h
odCore\SrscFile.cpp
odCore\FilePath.h
odCore\DataStream.h
odCore\SrscRecordTypes.h
It may help you understand what's going on.


Edit2: Oh, and definitely check this documentation file
doc\riot_database_format.txt


Edit3: Here is also some information on our wiki
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Surrea ... re_Archive


(Sorry for too many edits :p)

Thank you, i will give it a try.
Well yes, i tried with the bms script, but it extract only some .dat files, wich isnt really usefull or readable.

I also know about this project "openDrakan" and was looking at the sourcecode, but i dont understand it - thats why iam asking here. I spend a lot of time to read the rrc... maybe someone understand c++ and can help me, i think thats the main problem. I dont need the other functionality of the project. I will one more check on the sourcecode there, but... it would be very very usefull, if someone understand how to open the rrc correctly for the strings...

Basically everything you need is in "riot_database_format.txt" document:

Full file format ---> Lines 89-112
String info --> Lines 561-567
Decryption method --> Lines 704-714


So to extract readable strings you need to write a tool
which is able to:
1. Read all files in archive
2. Recognize string signature (0x0400 and 0x0401)
3. Decrypt strings
4. Save them to separate files.

in this order.


I don't know C# very well, so I can't help you with coding, but
you can check some of my examples in Python here
https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/Tools ... EW%20Tools

Thanks, wow nice work! I dont know much about python
This i dont understand. size_t should be a uInt in c#... but i really dont know what does the for loop. If i try to convert it in c#, vs get an error in this line: on left side i have a string array, on the right is a uint

In the game you have i.e. an item name called "<0x810f>Lava Rune". The "0x810f" is the ID for the string in dragon.rrc. I extracted the rrc file with the bms script and got a lot of .dat files (attached). I dont know, if they contained strings in it (maybe still encrypted?)

I also would be happy, if there is a way in python to read the rrc file..

Here is my implementation of extraction and decryption methods.
You have also C++ decryptor in the same directory for comparsion and file format documentation for reference
https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/Tools ... ols/Drakan

I have added "_DECRYPTED" string for you to the filename, so you should be able to recognize
which one was encrypted and which one was plain text
https://i.imgur.com/DlIbCgy.png

I have also updated the wiki
http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Surrea ... ot_Engine)