Hi guys, I'd like to do some modding on Just Cause 2.
Gibbed/Rick has made some nice tools for viewing the archives that come with the game and the files inside them.
Unfortunately, the filenames are hashed, so his tool uses a list of known file names to identify files in the archives.
However, only something like ~10% of filenames are known. I'd like to improve on this, but I'm not really sure where to start.
How do people tend to go about discovering filenames/paths to create a filelist?
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Creating a Just Cause 2 filelist
Re: Creating a Just Cause 2 filelist
The typical way is to hook the hashing function in the game so you can log all calls, IIRC, Just Cause 2 doesn't use precomputed hashes for anything aside from property names.
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Re: Creating a Just Cause 2 filelist
I'd put this off for a little while, back on it now.
Is that what you did, yeah? Any tips to share about the process? Maybe the address of the hashing function? I can't seem to find it. It would probably have a load of bitwise shifts and xors in it, yeah?The typical way is to hook the hashing function in the game