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alpha1337, posted Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:11 pm (38667)

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Hello,

I have been mining data for Disney Heroes: Battle Mode for several months now and within the assets folder was a collection of *.tab files which I could easily view using any text editor. Inside are tab separated values.



In a recent patch they have changed the extension to *.tabb which appears to be some sort of binary file or it has been encrypted?



At any rate, I can no longer view the contents of these files. Below is a side-by-side file size compare



Has anyone encountered this file extension before? If so, how can you decode the contents? Or what steps would I need to take to convert the file? Thanks in advance

aluigi, posted Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:59 pm (38674)

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The picture of the tabb is 100% a gzip file (open with 7zip or rar).

alpha1337, posted Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:56 am (38917)

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aluigi wrote:

The picture of the tabb is 100% a gzip file (open with 7zip or rar).

Thanks for the advice. How did you deduce that it is a gzip file? Thanks in advance for future reference, and for science.

aluigi, posted Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:21 am (38918)

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Take a look here and search gzip:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=27

alpha1337, posted Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:24 pm (38922)

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thanks! very useful

wilc0, posted Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:40 pm (43494)

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hey alpha,

were you able to decode the gunzipped file? if so, did you need to use quickbms or something similar to get the text again to show properly?