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papelito, posted Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:42 pm (67482)

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Im Mr Magoo, cant find post to decompress/compress this .big file

any idea.?

i decompress via quickbms and compress via reimport.bat ,without edit anything,original files, and says old file size is < new files size, why??

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kvgjdlz8 ... 4.big/file

aluigi, posted Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:23 pm (67547)

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Maybe the following for decompressing:

Code:

comtype dk2
get SIZE asize
get NAME basename
clog NAME 0 SIZE SIZE

and this one for compressing:

Code:

comtype dk2_compress
get SIZE asize
get NAME filename
string NAME   ".big"
clog NAME 0 SIZE SIZE

And obviously the ea_big4.bms script for working on the decompressed file.

papelito, posted Thu Nov 18, 2021 8:17 pm (67579)

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Aluigi thanks , works!
but
my problem now is when I extract 1 compressed big file from another Big file

example I have BIG4 file named '1.big', it contains another compressed big file named '2.big'

I extract 2.big from 1.big and I get decompressed 2.big:

quickbms.exe -o -d C:\ea_big4.bms then select 1.big
I get decompressed 2.big

now I want rebuild 1.big via
quickbms.exe -G -w -r C:\ea_big4.bms

I select 1.big in same folder where 2.big is placed, and here problem is old size < new size

aluigi, posted Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:26 pm (67860)

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Use reimport2 (-r -r instead of -r) if your new file is bigger.
The game may or may not accept the archive on which you used reimport2.