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makc_ar, posted Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:45 am (21100)

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Game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/518790



Example .tab .arc(filecutter): https://mega.nz/#!w1wW1QCK!8HShTVTHPLwD ... iuCf7_oKUU

aluigi, posted Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:38 am (21108)

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http://aluigi.org/bms/thehunter.bms

makc_ar, posted Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:58 am (21109)

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Thanks a lot aluigi!

reveng3, posted Wed Mar 01, 2017 8:46 pm (21132)

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Help me pls

padruga, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:52 pm (24053)

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aluigi wrote:

http://aluigi.org/bms/thehunter.bms

Hi aluigi!
Looks like for provided to you for experiments arc/tab files it is working well, i can unpack game23.arc and see *.fsb files. But for the rest of the files it is give error:

Code:

- GUI mode activated, remember that the tool works also from command-line
  where are available various options like folder scanning, filters and so on

- select the BMS script to use
- select the input archives/files to extract, type * or "" for whole folder and subfolders
- select the output folder where extracting the files
- open input file L:\arctool\game0.tab
- open script L:\arctool\quickBMS\COTW.bms
- set output folder L:\arctool\Output

  offset   filesize   filename
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- enter in folder L:\arctool
  coverage file 0     0%   0          3060       . offset 00000000
- open input file L:\arctool\game0.TAB
- enter in folder L:\arctool
- open input file L:\arctool\game0.ARC
  00000010 1129337938 00000000.dat

Error: the compressed zlib/deflate input is wrong or incomplete (-3)
Info:  algorithm   1
       offset      00000010
       input size  0x00000178 376
       output size 0x43505452 1129337938
       result      0xffffffff -1

Error: the uncompressed data (-1) is bigger than the allocated buffer (1129337938)

Last script line before the error or that produced the error:
  26  clog "" OFFSET SIZE XSIZE 1

Is it possible that you looking into that? Here is folder with few different files: https://mega.nz/#F!mwgihLLJ!y2eDrL0PmjpmKTWqkGkTxg

UPD:
add thehunterCOTW.zip archive with files generated by filecutter and *.tab files.

aluigi, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:21 pm (24054)

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The bad news is that there is no way to guess if an archived file is compressed or not compressed or just stored "as-is" without the header.
So the only solution is trying to guess it, script 0.1.2

padruga, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:28 pm (24057)

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You mean archived files inside the *.arc, right? Or maybe should i provide something more?
But as i see - everything, probably, works perfect. After extracting i can see *.dat, *.avt, *.waaw, ... and even very few DDS and BIK files, which can be opened as is. Funny thing that there is one video from previous "thehunter:classic" game with the dog, and also i found one DDS related to "Mad Max" game. So i guess now there is only need to understand how to operate with all another files :)

Thank you a lot, aluigi!

aluigi, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:54 pm (24059)

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That's all, no need to provide other things
It's just that in the ARC archives some files are compressed, others are non-compressed and others are just stored as-is (non-compressed without the header usually adopted)

Edit: I was checking the archives provided in the first post and honestly I don't know if there are compressed files at all, they are almost all without the 16 bytes header.. anyway who cares, now it works

padruga, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 6:59 pm (24062)

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aluigi, i found here is one pretty interesting case that, i think, may be interesting for you? If it is not or this post is stupid or anything like that - feel free to delete it :)

So here is what i get after using your tool: http://imgur.com/jqzzZzj
And here after using another one on the same arc/tab file: http://imgur.com/y9Yo5iP

Funny thing that i get it after attempt to unpack game files with the tool for "Just Cause 3" game, from here: https://justcause3mods.com/mods/modified-gibbeds-tools/
So you can download game23.arc/tab files from link above and test it. Github: https://github.com/tim42/gibbed-justcause3-tools-fork

One more time. I do not complain. I was ready to give up when i type request here, but after you update your tool - i start to google again anything that can help and found this. So after i see this result i think that, maybe, it will be interesting for you, but i do not know if it is or maybe tools for JC3 is way different kind of software than your... So i just try to be kind man :)

aluigi, posted Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:59 pm (24065)

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These tab/arc formats are used in some games with some small differences.