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I figure I would catalogue my findings and put them all in one place in case anyone else is looking for the models in this game. This wouldn't have been possible without the help of TeaEffTeu, who provided the QuickBMS script used to extract the .npk files. You can find the script here The process is as follows Once you install the game you have to locate the .apk files buried in your phone or emulator, turn these into zips so you get into them. Inside the split_mini_client and split_mini_client_extra apk/zips there are asset folders, the .npk files can be found within. Run the quickbms script, follow the instructions and select 0 to force decryption. Run RMAViewer to view the .dat files that have been extracted from the .npk files. From the RMAViewer interface you can extract into .obj files. I do have an issue when trying to find certain things in the files. I can only find the low LOD models of certain units as it looks like RMAViewer can't open some files. If you can figure this out, I would be most thankful. I have an example file listed in the comments below. RMA_Upd3.zip

Hello, I believe this is a good place to have this topic, anyways, I want to know how I can extract the models from the following 3 games: Monster Rancher 3 (2001), Monster Rancher 4 (2003), and Monster Rancher EVO (2006 in the states, 2005 in Japan). These 3 games are for the PS2 console, and I want to know how to open the .dat files of these 3 games. I'm willing to accept your wisdom, provided that you know what you are teaching me. I thank you in advance, and I also provided 3 screenshots, one for each of the 3 games, and all of them are Monster Rancher related.

Eutechnyx used to develop racing games, so yeah... I guess thats's all. Anyways, during 6th (PS2, Xbox era) and 7th (Xbox360, PS3) generation they used their own in house engine. This post is exclusively for that. Now, this developer might not ring any bells for most people. Their games were kinda mid. Their most notable games are Street Racing Syndicate (basically We have NFS Underground at home) and Ride to Hell: Retribution (why does this exists?). Thankfully Ride to Hell uses Unreal 3, so it won't be covered, ever. In case I forgot something, here is table of all their titles, that are covered here in some way: Title PC PS2 XBOX GC PS3 X360 WII Absolute Supercars ✔ Big Mutha Truckers ✔ ✔ ✔ Big Mutha Truckers 2 ✔ ✔ ✔ Ferrari Challange ✔ ✔ ✔ Ferrari: The Race ✔ ✔ Ford Mustang ✔ ✔ Ford vs. Chevy ✔ ✔ Hot Wheels: Beat That! ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Hummer Badlands ✔ ✔ NASCAR The Game 2011 ✔ NASCAR Inside Line ✔ NASCAR The Game 2013 ✔ NASCAR '14 and '15 ✔ ✔ Pimp My Ride ✔ ✔ Supercar Challange ✔ Cartoon Network Racing ✔ The Fast and the Furious ✔ Street Racing Syndicate ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ A brief info about the engine The main resource format is called ArcBank with .arc extension. This bank contains all game assets. In it's own sense, it's similar to Unreal Engine 3 pck/upk packages. Each ArcBank is uniquely cooked for each platform. That means, it's harder to research across versions and platforms. Scripts themselves are in plain text and have .ls extension. They also seem to be referencing ArcBanks themselves. There are also other formats, like sound files and streams and language text. All of these files are mostly packed into cdfiles.dat/cdfiles.ar pairs that serves as a main archive format. This is the section where I introduce Technyx Technyx toolset can extract and convert various formats. As of current version. It can extract every cdfiles.dat/cdfiles.ar pair from all titles in the table above. It can also convert ArcBank models, maps and animations, but from a very few selected titles. As a cherry on top, there is a txt converter for language text. Again for all titles. Technyx can be found at: https://github.com/PredatorCZ/Technyx If anyone wishes to use project issues page to report a bug or a new feature, they certainly can. A small gallery of converted stuff

For some context, Helldivers 2 is running on the Stingray/Bitsquid Engine, which Vermintide, Magicka, and the original Helldivers were all built in, with a pretty significant amount of modification. Being that Stingray was discontinued by Autodesk in 2018, my typical leads into proper asset extraction haven't gone very far. It appears the game's art content is stored in .stream and .gpu_resource files in its '.../data/' path. Samples can be provided if necessary for those who may not have access to the game. There are also a number of files with no file type, but still appear to contain data. I believe the .gpu_resources files may direct the game to which assets need to be streamed from the .stream files, but I could be wrong. ".../data/game/" contains fewer, smaller .dl_bin files, but I suspect these are just for the game's settings and logic, rather than its actual 3D assets. Back when Vermintide tools were being worked on, once the filetypes could be opened, a manual dictionary was created (but never completed) in order to rename individual assets into their correct, non-hash names. Something similar may have to be done for Helldivers 2. If anyone is familiar with Stingray in any form, or has a good method to still access the engine (Autodesk has made that kind of hard), let me know! Hopefully we can get some people smarter than I am to get the wheels turning, as the art in this game is absolutely stellar.

Howdy modders! Not sure where else to post this, but I just wanted to share a small personal project with you all that I took a week or so to create. https://jenkinstr.github.io/JMD-Forza-Vehicle-Database/ The page itself takes a bit to load because of the thousands of elements, give it a second or two until it fully loads before using it, as the JavaScript to make the filters/search work loads last. It's not particularly mobile friendly either but that shouldn't be a problem for modders. I tested it on a range of screen sizes. This was created from all versions of Forza that are extractable on PC, with the only exception being Apex and the most recent Motorsport 2023. FM5 and FM6 are not included as they were never released for PC, and FM1 is excluded as it uses a different file system for vehicles than the rest. If you have any questions or suggestions or just want to discuss the crazy amounts of data, I'd love to hear it! 🙂