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Re: Tinker .dat file

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it's necessary the tinker executable to know the blowfish key used for the filenames
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http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/tinker.bms
remember that you need QuickBMS 0.3.11 that I have released just yesterday (what a luck ih ih ih)
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Thank you so much.:)
It worked and extracted all the data, but the music is in a file format called xwma.
Now I'll just have to find a converter.:) (ToWav which works on some Xbox titles (e.g. Lucidity), doesn't work here.)

Edit: I can convert the xwma files to wav files using xwmaencode.exe
But I have to do it manually for each file since I don't know how to write batch files.

Thanks again aluigi.:)

Edit 2: Just in case there's someone else who is as unexperienced as I am and wants to convert the xwma files to wav files, here's what I did:

1. Make a new text file in the folder where you put the xwma files
2. name it to whateveryoulike.bat
3. right click -> edit
4. insert this:
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track1.xwma track1.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track2.xwma track2.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track3.xwma track3.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track4.xwma track4.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track5.xwma track5.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 track6.xwma track6.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 menu.xwma menu.wav
xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 robotwin.xwma robotwin.wav
And that's it. After some seconds you should have the wav files.
You can convert other files in the folder to wav files, just copy a line, add it and edit the filename.
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Re: Tinker .dat file

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for executing the same command over multiple files exists the comfortable "find" tool which does the job.
it's a command-line tool derived from unix (findutils) and that has been ported also on windows.

you can find some useful info and examples here:
viewtopic.php?p=29970#p29970

so for this exact case the command was:
find c:\your_folder -iname "*.xwma" -exec c:\xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 "{}" "{}".wav ;
or (started from the same folder)
find -iname "*.xwma" -exec xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 "{}" "{}".wav ;
or
find -exec xwmaencode.exe -b 48000 "{}" "{}".wav ;
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