Extract Pck Files How To Debug It

What is the difference and how do I know what to choose Output of both seems identical.

After I unpacked the rom, I saw that the data files are stored in a.PCK format.

I found some tool thats supposed to extract PCK archives, but it doesnt work on these.

If I open up the scripts in a text editor I can see bits of the script here and there, but its mostly just gibberish.

The file with the same name as.pck file but with file extension.tbl contains addresses of the sub-files in.pck.

Ex. for outen.pck, look for the table file in outen.tbl.) (If your tool can unpack and repack the sub-files, you can try BatchLZ77 for compressiondecompression.

For some reason, I never saw your reply earlier, though I kept checking this thread for a few days O.o There are indeed tbl files for each of the pck files.

Any idea as to how I might unpack the sub-files that you mentioned.

So try to get it first.

Any version should be fine.) Ill give a an example of outen.pck and outen.tbl then.

First, open both files in CrystalTile2.

Look at outen.tbl.

Youll see 00000000 at hex address 0004, and then 1E270000 at hex address 0008, and so on.

These are your addresses where you have to decompress your outen.pck.

Read each number at every 4 bytes backward to get the address, for example you will get 00000000, 0000271E, 000038B7,.

Now go to your outen.pck.

Point your mouse on the exact address you get from the previous step.

The program will ask if you want to open the extract file, choose ok.

Otherwise, locate the file and open it.) - The file here will be encoded in UTF-8.

You can view the text in CrystalTile2.

In my version, its under TBLCode PageUnicode (UTF-8)) - Then repeat the steps for the next address.

E, 000038B7,.) This method will be very time consuming though.

If you know some programming, or know someone who can write a program for you, it will be a lot easier.

Just read addresses at every 4 bytes from.tbl file and extract each part of the file from.pck.

After that you can use BatchLZ77 to decompress the files, or some programmer might even be able to add decompresser in the extraction process.

By the way, Im not sure if outen.pck contains anything you want.

By randomly extracting them, I only see messages that say This file doesnt have English translation.

So, if you do it manually, try checking what you get first.

There might not be anything worth extracting in there.

Edited for some misspellings.

I wrote a program to get the values from the table, and it worked.

So then I thought I would try making the program split the data file according to the values, but this is where Im having trouble.

It could be that Im splitting the files totally incorrectly, or it could be that Ive just got an off-by-1 error somewhere.

Extract Pck Files How To Debug It

Either way, I dont know how to debug it to see what Im doing wrong.

Heres my code, maybe you could take a look over it, if you can understand it Its in C.

Basically what you do is this: - Create two byte arrays (one for the.tbl file and other for the.pck file) - Read the address in the.tbl array (you can use the BitConverter class) - Create another byte array (for the file that the.tbl address points to) - Copy the contents from the.pck array to the one you just created - And finally write the copied contentes to a file, after this use BatchLZ77 to decompress the file I dont know how the.tbl determines the end of a file but you can subtract the current address from the next one to get the length of the file.

PS: I cant debug your code since I dont have the files Edit: Your reading the addresses in the wrong way, the first four bytes are null so youll want to read 4 bytes from 0x4 (which will leave you in address 0x8) and so on.

My output files are nowhere near the filesize of the input, so Ive probably got some stupid mistake in there which is keeping it from reading all the way to the end.

Ill take a look at that later on, and then I should hopefully be finished with this, finally Edit: yep, I had another issue using int instead of byte.

Now to just sort through it and see if I can find what I need.

How To Extract Pck Files