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Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:12 am
by Infernux
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Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:59 am
by Infernux
Well, having no luck searching for more tools, I have decided to see if I can find a way to reverse engineer the archive format. I do have a friend who has done reverse engineering in hex and I have read the entire Intro to reverse engineering a GRAF pdf, so I think I have an ok base.

And while I still do not know much about the .dat format itself, I have found out something about the .xff2 files within it. the .Xff2 files seem to consist of scripting for the game (i think) as there are xff2 files that are not in the main game resource located on the CD. Anyway, I have found out that the unsigned long at offset 0x00000014 of the xff2 file is the size of the xff2 file. I think i can use this to outline where the xff2 files are inside the giant .dat file.

problem is, I am still no closer to locating a directory within the archive. If anyone is willing to help, or has a copy of the game and knows more about this than I do, please reply.

Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:10 am
by moosotc
The code to read/extract stuff from SotC is available at: http://repo.or.cz/w/dormin.git

There are dumper utilities in Python which should be pretty easy to follow plus the character animation player written in OCaml/C and a bit of documentation. You can see the result of running the player here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6505311170

Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:47 am
by grotesque
No news for extract the models (.nmo files) from this game?

Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:09 pm
by junior52999
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Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:12 pm
by grotesque
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Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:37 am
by unlimited32
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Re: Shadow of the Colossus Archive (.DAT)

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:58 pm
by thedarkknight
hi, i managed to extract the models but i need help with the importer .