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wolftatoo, posted Fri Dec 16, 2016 5:24 am (19570)

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I need help on making a compiler for EA's .big archives, becausese im currently modding a mobile fifa game which doesnt support reading extracted files ,i need to get all the previously extracted data files into a .big archive because recompiling won't work(files sizes has changed). We already got a working extract/recompile script,but as u already know, it cant create new .big files, only repack inside original ones.
So please ,any help would be appreciated
http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/fightnight.bms

happydance, posted Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:23 pm (20199)

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I believe aluigi made a code for a simple repack script, but you have to modify it to suit your big file since every game archive is different, cant find the thread where he posted it but I still have the script saved on my pc.

here

Code:

# 1) script.bms
# 2) the input file is ignored, select the same script
# 3) the output folder is the folder containing the files to pack

set OUTPUT_ARCHIVE string "dump.pak"

# init the buffers
log MEMORY_FILE? 0 0
log MEMORY_FILE2 0 0

# placeholders
put 0 long MEMORY_FILE? # BASE_OFF
put 0 long MEMORY_FILE? # FILES

for FILES = 0

? ? # copy&paste code
? ? scanDir "." NAME SIZE? ? ? ?# get the file from the current folder
? ? if NAME == ""? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?# no other files are available so append index
? ? ? ? break
? ? endif
? ? open "." NAME
? ? string NAME << 2? ? ? ? ? ? # remove ".\"
? ? if NAME != OUTPUT_ARCHIVE? ?# in case the archive already exists
? ? ? ? # end of copy&paste code

? ? ? ? # add information to the index table
? ? ? ? string NAME R \ /
? ? ? ? strlen NAMESZ NAME
? ? ? ? put NAMESZ long MEMORY_FILE
? ? ? ? putdstring NAME NAMESZ MEMORY_FILE
? ? ? ? put SIZE long MEMORY_FILE
? ? ? ? get OFFSET asize MEMORY_FILE2
? ? ? ? put OFFSET long MEMORY_FILE

? ? ? ? # add the file to the archive
? ? ? ? append
? ? ? ? log MEMORY_FILE2 0 SIZE
? ? ? ? append
? ? ? ? math FILES   1
? ? endif

next

get BASE_OFF asize MEMORY_FILE
putvarchr MEMORY_FILE 0 BASE_OFF long? ?# BASE_OFF
putvarchr MEMORY_FILE 4 FILES? ? long? ?# FILES

get SIZE asize MEMORY_FILE2
append
log MEMORY_FILE 0 SIZE MEMORY_FILE2
append

get SIZE asize MEMORY_FILE
log OUTPUT_ARCHIVE 0 SIZE MEMORY_FILE

wolftatoo, posted Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:25 am (20296)

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So, excuse my noob question but, u say that i can create(not repack in an existing one) a .big file from scratch using this script?!