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AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:20 am (68882)

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Hi!

The Enhanced Edition of Icewind Dale saw an update in the bif file contents so an old bif extractor won't work anymore. Luigi's script doesn't use the chitin.key info (file names) to extract the bif contents. Is there a way to implement this key file into the script?
Here are some samples (the data\ folder has 166 bif files): https://1fichier.com/?l32uwps3bnz04bj9qo5j
Thanks!

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:49 am (69242)

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Hm, anyone?

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:47 pm (69302)

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I'd also take a simple BIF extractor if that's the question.

aluigi, posted Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:01 pm (69438)

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http://aluigi.org/bms/icewind_bif.bms

Btw, I didn't have a script for this format, those 4 on the website come from the old Xentax collection (not written by me).

aluigi, posted Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:03 pm (69439)

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The next step would be to implement the parsing of chitin.key for the filenames but it seems quite complex

aluigi, posted Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:50 pm (69441)

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I just released the script 0.2 that includes EVERYTHING: full parsing of the key file and optional stand-alone extraction of single BIF depending what file you select.
I checked the filenames and they seem all correct

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:56 pm (69442)

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Oh my god, Luigi, you're the MAN! Once again and over and over - like always!
This hobby would be almost impossible without your work! Thanks so much for what you do!

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:17 pm (69626)

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Hi once more, sorry to get back to this. Four of the bif files give me a compression error when trying to use the .key method: https://www.mediafire.com/file/4j28eske ... or.7z/file
I thought it'd be nice to have the script work for all of the files.

aluigi, posted Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:42 pm (69634)

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Ok script updated.
Apparently only TYPE 1028 uses that type of compressed format.

I can't do the same with TYPE 1000 because it identifies both "BAM " uncompressed and "BAMC" compressed, so it would still need the SIGN check TYPE 1000 check (I left it as it was before).

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:30 pm (69671)

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Perfect, thanks, Luigi!

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:04 pm (69697)

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I just found a problem with the Heart of Winter patch (Trials of the Luremaster) where only about 30% of the archives is extracted.

Here are the source files: https://www.mediafire.com/file/hp2n57d5 ... lm.7z/file

Thanks for yet another update.

aluigi, posted Sun Feb 06, 2022 8:49 pm (69701)

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The remaining part is just raw data that was referenced after the files, their number was that field previous called FLAGS.
I have updated the script but I don't think the content is of any use since it's just raw data (number of entries of the same size, some resources or variables I guess).

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Mon Feb 07, 2022 6:30 am (69712)

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huh, interesting... Thanks again, Luigi!