Legend of the Galactic Heroes (2008) - Help Needed

[JohnnyFive]

Hello all,

I would like to mod Legend of the Galactic Heroes (2008), translate it into English. I watched some of Mr. Mouse's videos and read the The Definitive Guide to Exploring File Formats - both helped a lot.

Two things are eluding me and I hope you can help me:

• Filedata length - can't find where it is
  • Filedata (with padding) seems to be a multiple of 1024 bytes.
• Decompression
  • Supposedly the files are ARC, but none of the ARC unarchivers I found could open them.

Sample Files

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 9784451814 (140kB)

The archive contains 4 files:

• loading.mvx
  • contains 1 uncompressed text file and 2 .mvx files
• loading.hbk
  • HexWorkshop bookmarks for loading.mvx. Includes Filename Directory, File List and some other info I could glean
• datatable.mvx
  • this file was previously translated by a modding effort, but the unpacker has been lost to the sands of time
  • contains 17 files, all appear to be compress
  • first file contains names of the in-game Characters
• datatable.hbk
  • HexWorkshop bookmarks for datatable.mvx.

Reference

• Demo (162 MB)
• Game Homepage
• Discussion with Developer who made an unpacker years ago (no longer to be found)
• Previous translation effort

I would very much appreciate any pointers you have.

[JohnnyFive]

Anyone?

Do you need any additional info I might be able to provide?