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venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:27 pm (14688)

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Hello all.
Is it possible to extract files from the archive and to pack them back? *.arc files thanx..

Ekey, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:38 pm (14689)

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http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/the_hunter.bms

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:46 pm (14690)

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its not repacker its unpacker ...

aluigi, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:59 pm (14691)

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You can use the reimport feature of quickbms, read section 3 of quickbms.txt:
http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms.txt

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:13 pm (14692)

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your sciript for hunter dont work all files *.dat = encrypted. if opened from Just Cause 2 archive viewer=not encrypted... any ideas? sory for bad english.

aluigi, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:20 pm (14693)

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The format of the archive has no space for making difference between encrypted and non-encrypted files so I don't have idea about them.
Maybe upload one of them just in case someone can understand what it is.

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:25 pm (14694)

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Thanx aluigi, how to reimport ? quickbms -w -r PCK.bms pc0.ARC pc0_folder dont work

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:49 pm (14695)

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your script is outdated :/ script is for huner 2009r my hunter is 2011 quickbms your script not unpack folders from *.arc :/

aluigi, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:16 pm (14696)

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Strange because it works perfectly with the samples provided here in 2012:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8063

The fact that you can extract the dat files means it's working.
There are no folders or filenames in the tab index file.

Anyway upload the tab file and the first 10 megabytes of the arc file, and we will check it.

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:22 pm (14697)

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pc0.arc more than 1gb.....

venoom92, posted Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:43 pm (14698)

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iam uploaded this two files... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... HFzVXYyZ3M

aluigi, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:15 am (14704)

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The sharing setting of your file is not set as public.

As I have already said, if quickbms extracted all the files without error messages (file coverage bigger than 90%), it means that it works and there is NOTHING to do so it's totally useless in that case to upload the files.

venoom92, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:04 am (14711)

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quickbms extract files "unkown" -1 on screenshot folders not extracted - 2 on screeenshot

aluigi, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:13 am (14712)

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So the script works perfectly and your problem is with the content of various extracted files which is not a standard format like jpg, png and so on, but it's a custom format which is perfectly normal on games.

In what types of files are you interested?
3d models? images?

venoom92, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:27 am (14716)

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"*.bin" and DDS from all folders from pc0.arc and pc1.arc .

venoom92, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:39 am (14722)

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any ideas? or new script..

aluigi, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:41 pm (14731)

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It's NOT a problem of the script.
You have to figure out by yourself the custom formats of ALL the different types of extracted files, ok?

venoom92, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 3:13 pm (14734)

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aluigi but I do not know how to write scripts bms help me?

aluigi, posted Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:49 pm (14737)

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You don't have to write scripts. You must understand the formats first.
It's a big work moreover if you have no filenames (because they are not stored in the archive) and you have no experience with 3d and graphics stuff.
quickbms automatically assigns extensions to the nameless files based on their magic values (the first bytes of the files, for example "DDS "-> .dds) so if you have just files with dat extension it means you have to work on them one by one with a clear idea of what you want (do you want to change text? graphics modding? models modding? ripping the images? what???).

For me there is no problem to keep the topic open (without bumps please) but I doubt someone else will have updates.

venoom92, posted Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am (14741)

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I want to unpack all the files and not just the "unknown" they are void me are interested BIN files

venoom92, posted Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:08 am (14772)

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any help for unpack bin files from arc?

venoom92, posted Sun Jun 26, 2016 6:42 pm (14803)

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please..

aluigi, posted Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:52 pm (14873)

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Use Xentax for support on unknown files, they have a huge community with knowledge about 3d and graphics stuff.
Here we are mainly focused on archives extraction and that's already done perfectly by the existent script, so nobody here can help unfortunately.
Good luck!