Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

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Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by ss4gogeta0 » Sat May 02, 2015 5:53 am

I was hopin someone could help me with the pck files from Midnight club 3?

Im hoping to unlock them so that I can use the city models and textures for a project me and a few people are working on...

Im still a bit new to the whole reverse engineering archives so I cant do it myself.

Anyway here is one of the pck's.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/185 ... _clear.pck
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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by Gh0stBlade » Sat May 02, 2015 1:59 pm

I see no filenames or filetable to suggest that this file is multiple files packed into one. It is most likely not intended to be extracted.

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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by ss4gogeta0 » Sat May 02, 2015 11:05 pm

Gh0stBlade wrote:I see no filenames or filetable to suggest that this file is multiple files packed into one. It is most likely not intended to be extracted.

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then, is it just a compressed file or anything?

is there any way to open it?
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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by Gh0stBlade » Mon May 04, 2015 9:45 pm

ss4gogeta0 wrote:
Gh0stBlade wrote:I see no filenames or filetable to suggest that this file is multiple files packed into one. It is most likely not intended to be extracted.

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then, is it just a compressed file or anything?

is there any way to open it?
No it is not compressed.
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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by ss4gogeta0 » Tue May 05, 2015 6:56 am

Gh0stBlade wrote:
ss4gogeta0 wrote:
Gh0stBlade wrote:I see no filenames or filetable to suggest that this file is multiple files packed into one. It is most likely not intended to be extracted.

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then, is it just a compressed file or anything?

is there any way to open it?
No it is not compressed.
hmm, well I did find these...

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they seem rather large for a simple ppf file plus the fact that I cannot open them with ppf o matic seems to tell me that they are some other type of file... Me thinks that maybe it is where the model for the city is... and if not then maybe its textures...

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here ya go
Tokyo_midnight_clear.ppf


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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by shakotay2 » Tue May 05, 2015 8:03 am

ss4gogeta0 wrote:Me thinks that maybe it is where the model for the city is... and if not then maybe its textures...
the great "maybe"...
I would suggest to start with smaller files.

You could use TextureFinder to decide what might be texture and what could be other data:
tokyo_midnight.JPG
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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by ss4gogeta0 » Thu May 07, 2015 12:14 am

shakotay2 wrote:
ss4gogeta0 wrote:Me thinks that maybe it is where the model for the city is... and if not then maybe its textures...
the great "maybe"...
I would suggest to start with smaller files.

You could use TextureFinder to decide what might be texture and what could be other data:
tokyo_midnight.JPG
took the day off from school to learn how to use it, and ended up playing around with it abit... I know where most of the textures are stored...

Assets.dat in the Texture folder (UI Textures)

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Assets.dat in the Textures folder of any specific vehicle (NPC Vehicle Textures & Models)

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Assets.dat main folder in each of the .dats for specified vehicles (Player Vehicle texture & model [Theory])

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My biggest issue is trying to find the City models... which is why im trying to access Tokyo_midnight_clear.ppf

as it is the last place that I can think of looking since it doesnt seem to be in the Assets.dat folder

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Re: Midnight Club 3 PCK Files

Post by Sharppy » Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:20 am

So this issue was never solved with the vehicle .pck files?

Karpati made a importer https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15135

Ghostblade mentioned no header but is there away to pull the data out maybe VGM toolbox or a script ? I searched for the string SKIN but couldnt find it. Any help ?

.pck sample
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mcO5hK ... sp=sharing

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