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atkins80, posted Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:39 pm (2182)

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Hi, my name is Bobby, I have this file that I am trying to extract that has an extension .swarc I first though it was similar to a regular .arc but will not open with any unarchiver, I am confused with this type of file and never even heard of it. *EDIT wrong link*

aluigi, posted Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:32 pm (2190)

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Repost the correct link

atkins80, posted Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:50 pm (2200)

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Here is the link to this file, it is from a Sonic Fan Game https://mega.co.nz/#!KllSDTxJ!4TIKEdu2j ... gGbpgT-peY

aluigi, posted Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:04 am (2209)

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I have problems to find how the files are stored, they seem to be all xored with 0x26 and having a SIZE field (& 0x80000000) but apparantely there is something more.

Easy solution, xore the whole archive with 0x26 and use a file ripper (DragonUnpacker has one in it?) on it to extract the known file types, like the many PNGs inside.

atkins80, posted Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:23 pm (2215)

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Thanks, I will download that and I will let you know if it worked

atkins80, posted Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:46 pm (2216)

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I have Dragon Unpacker downloaded, but Trend Micro is wanting to be stubborn saying that it is malware/trojan.

atkins80, posted Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:48 pm (2223)

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I used Dragon Unpacker on the file, but ended up with a file that is only 3 KB in size when the whole archive is over 170 MB.

MerlinSVK, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:34 am (2240)

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HyperRipper found there 692 files, PNGs and OGGs.

atkins80, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:09 pm (2241)

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okay, I see now, but I will need some help going through this I don't know what settings to use.

MerlinSVK, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:04 pm (2242)

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Click on "Formats" tab and then select what formats you want to search for. That's all.

atkins80, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:44 pm (2243)

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I selected the png and ogg format and it found nothing, all i get is 7 files and not the 692 that I see in the screenshot above.

MerlinSVK, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:36 pm (2245)

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That's weird. Try this .swarc (it contains 30 PNGs).

https://mega.co.nz/#!CJ4GCDgJ!i5Z_3UGHy ... 1bIb6n9dRc

atkins80, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:50 pm (2246)

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Thanks, but I was wondering if there was anything else like objects and other stuff in the file, because I was going to going to mod the game.

MerlinSVK, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:52 pm (2247)

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After extracting all PNGs and OGGs, I got 124MB, so there are 46MB of some other data. But it's hard to tell what it is.

atkins80, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:58 pm (2248)

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I don't mean to bother no one but could you send the files to me, I think those other what you couldn't tell are the games characters.

MerlinSVK, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:34 pm (2250)

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I have no other files.

atkins80, posted Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:58 pm (2251)

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Well I'm confused, I tried all settings on with Dragon Unpacker, all I can get is 7 files that start with 0x26.669 .

MaxMethod, posted Sat Dec 27, 2014 3:04 am (2308)

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Yeah same here, I only get 7 files that are .669. I have it checked to search for all files. Also those files that it can't find are probably B3D, those are the blitz model files. Any idea how to get those files?

Also I tried that file you sent, works fine, all 30 images are there.

roket333, posted Sat May 09, 2015 2:33 am (5136)

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It has been said by one of the lead developers themselves that it is impossible to open the file. There is no way to open, edit or unpack the file AT ALL! The reason was because other BlitzSonic game creators where stealing models and code from the game, so they made it more impossible to break than minecraft bedrock in survival mode.

roket333, posted Sat May 09, 2015 2:34 am (5137)

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why do you even want to open the file?

MaxMethod, posted Sat May 09, 2015 2:46 am (5138)

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Apparently it's not impossible since someone was able to get the textures and audio. I want to get the models.

roket333, posted Sat May 09, 2015 5:21 am (5140)

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why do you want the others? They're just .b3d files and some main game code.

MaxMethod, posted Sat May 09, 2015 3:11 pm (5158)

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.b3d are models. I don't care about the code. Some people might want the code though.

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sun May 10, 2015 7:50 am (5171)

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Here's what you could do: successively search for known file identifiers with my generic file splitter on XeNTax. Try to identify as many as you can and alwas scan all the split files with it. That's the way I ripped Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls btw.