Strider (.PAK ) [Xbox360]

[TimonS]

Who can help with unpacking the game files?

sample - https://cloud.mail.ru/public/75be43c867cc/SHELL.PAK

[chrrox]

I would need a 2nd file to know the format 100% but you can just run.
c:\offzip.exe -1 -a c:\file.pak c:\extract-folder 0
and this will give you the uncompressed pak file.

[jbeckman]

Would be nice to know what's in those archives, particularly the full global.pak and shell.pak, I'll send a PM with the smaller archives since I believe you still can't post the files directly due to the issue with copyright content.

However those are from the PC version so they will likely not match the X360 format.
(Big Endian or what it was, something like that.)


EDIT: Oh and the Offzip tip above worked, unfortunately they still can't be opened but they are no longer compressed.

[aluigi]

http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/strider.bms

[TimonS]

http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/strider.bms

Thank script opens fine, but ... does not open large main required archive GLOBAL.PACK ( 1.14GB )
If you choose the regular version of the program (quickbms.exe) , it takes such a mistake

If you choose quickbms_4gb_files.exe version, it takes such a mistake

I can upload any file sharing Global.pak you to look into the problem. Tell me, how do you download more convenient?

[Ekey]

http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/strider.bms

Thank script opens fine, but ... does not open large main required archive GLOBAL.PACK ( 1.14GB )
If you choose the regular version of the program (quickbms.exe) , it takes such a mistake

If you choose quickbms_4gb_files.exe version, it takes such a mistake

I can upload any file sharing Global.pak you to look into the problem. Tell me, how do you download more convenient?

Download latest version of QuickBMS > http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip

[aluigi]

unfortunately the problem in this case was a longlong that was set as long (fixed in the current script) and the need of allocating lot of memory for unpacking the archive.
Basically the whole archive is packed as an unique compressed stream so the memory-to-memory feature of quickbms requires to allocate memory for the compressed data and for the uncompressed data which result in a lot of memory.
If you don't have many gb of RAM the only solution is unpacking the archive with offzip (which works as file-to-file) and then modifying the script to not use the MEMORY_FILE and load directly the unpacked file on the disk:

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#clog MEMORY_FILE OFFSET PAK_SIZE PAK_XSIZE
open FDSE "offzip_dump.dat" 1
...
    #log "" OFFSET SIZE MEMORY_FILE
    log "" OFFSET SIZE 1

[aluigi]

I have updated the script with the suggestions of swuforce because the names are embedded in the first file (that it's not a real file), current version is 0.2a that supports also the xbox files

[TimonS]

Tragically, I have all the same it did not work. And the updated version of the program, and downloaded a new version of the script, nothing helped. How to use

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#clog MEMORY_FILE OFFSET PAK_SIZE PAK_XSIZE
open FDSE "offzip_dump.dat" 1
...
    #log "" OFFSET SIZE MEMORY_FILE
    log "" OFFSET SIZE 1

[/quote]
too, constantly fails. Computer RAM - 6GB/ how can miss as much memory on such a file, it is not clear.

I upload file - https://cloud.mail.ru/public/051f2ab6901c/GLOBAL.PAK

still just wanted to ask if you can order from your script to convert textures? If yes, what is the approximate price?
.TEX to .dds and .dds to .TEX ( xbox360 ) whit swizling

[aluigi]

the modification I suggested in the previous post is no longer valid because the script has been deeply modified.
If you unpacked the archive with offzip then replace all the "MEMORY_FILE" with "1" and replace the following:

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clog MEMORY_FILE OFFSET PAK_SIZE PAK_XSIZE 

with:

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open FDSE "00000014.pak" 1

[TimonS]

the modification I suggested in the previous post is no longer valid because the script has been deeply modified.
If you unpacked the archive with offzip then replace all the "MEMORY_FILE" with "1" and replace the following:

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clog MEMORY_FILE OFFSET PAK_SIZE PAK_XSIZE 

with:

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open FDSE "00000014.pak" 1

I tried to unzip and I offzip again gives some mistake today ... try a few more options. If I did not get unpacked, could you give me pull out files with text and fonts? Willing to pay, if needed. Want to translate the game into Russian, and then we have 80% of the players simply do not understand the story

[GimmyBreaker]

@TimonS - if you decompress GLOBAL.PAK, you will have text, just open in hex editor.
I'm working on PC version, beginning of text file is looking like ?strings table?, English file \xF304 - 1267, the same number of string entries, there is even offset to beginning of strings.

I will probably need some coffee

Info: PC version read uncompressed data.

Update: Yep, it's table, each string entry have unique id, probably depends on other sources and number, where last string ended.

Update 2: Got it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u23fm9t8yff8w97/STRIDER2.png

[zaramot]

Hi guys! Any news with extracting main, big global.pak file? I'm trying to write maxscript for this game, but there's only a few models available in smaller .paks (player models are in global.pak too I guess).

[zaramot]

TimonS have you managed somehow extract global.pak?

[namquang93]

TimonS have you managed somehow extract global.pak?

I meet same problem, I can't unpack Global.pak!