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Penney19, posted Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:03 am (58083)

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Hello, a while ago I posted about a format for .ho files. This time, I found out some useful things about these .ho that is vital information, but I need help creating a script for them.
First of all, these .ho files have filenames, but no absolute offsets in the file to the assets.

But, the game i am researching on has these .lo files that are logs! it has all of the filenames, and their absolute offsets, as well as what asset type they are, as well as their size, and padding size!!!
So, my question is, knowing the files absolute offsets, as well as their name, size and padding, how do I make a script to extract these .ho files??? Please help! .ho and .lo samples here! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pv_jqTZ9wYbVo2llkvvy5C7rcQBF8dX8/view?usp=sharing

Penney19, posted Wed Aug 19, 2020 4:30 am (58176)

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Any help? Like i said, for these .ho files, there is a .lo file that goes with it that in plain text says what offset the files are as well as their size. So knowing this, how would I make a QuickBMS script for these .ho files?

aluigi, posted Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:44 am (58179)

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It's a messy format, I can only make a script for scanning the LO file and dumping the data referenced in HO:

Code:

OPEN FDDE "lo"
OPEN FDDE "ho" 1

set SEARCH binary  "\t      0\t "

get LO_SIZE asize
do
    get TMP line
    set NAME string TMP
    string TMP 0| SEARCH
    if TMP != ""
        string NAME % " "
        string TMP << 8
        string TMP p "0x%s" TMP
        putarray 0 -1 NAME
        putarray 1 -1 TMP
    endif
    savepos TMP
while TMP < LO_SIZE

get TMP asize 1
putarray 0 -1 ""
putarray 1 -1 TMP
sortarray 1 1

for i = 0
    getarray NAME 0 i
    if NAME == ""
        break
    endif
    getarray OFFSET 1 i
    math i   1
    getarray SIZE   1 i
    math SIZE - OFFSET
    log NAME OFFSET SIZE 1
next i

Penney19, posted Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:41 pm (58180)

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Thanks!!! This works!