Another Week at the Xentax Forum. Aren’t you happy about it?

EDIT: Major system failure, lost 600+GB of data. Life sucks. Extremely angry. Spent saturday and sunday putting everything in place, that’s why I am late.

3D/2D Models

• Marlow Briggs: DarkMan wants to understand its obscure format.
• Webgl: success on both Chrome and Opera!
• Samurai Showdown: testing is done on these models yay! I still remember Amakusa at the Arcade, the girl with the magic ball weapon.
• Magic World II: CE needs help for those amazing NIF files.
• Webgl: figuresculptor has released a massive script! thanks a lot!
• Diablo III: amazing progress by TaylorMouse!
• Saint Seiya Online: someone help CE! OMG a game about the Saints! a game with the damn CAPES!
• Dead or Alive: work continues apparently. Porn galore.
• LOS2: fix found for UV maps of Lords of Shadows 2.
• 35$ Offer: Zaramot has given in to the dark side, and made some scripts 🙂
• .RES: First post of Darkman…
• SB: bug report and update.
• Ps3 EMB: lots of work being done here.

Audio File Formats

• ADPCM: a new version in the new Batman game?

Graphic Formats

• Mirror of Fate HD: progress is being done on the textures!
• SW TFU: textures need to be investigated.
• NTP3 to DDS: apparently there is this possibility.
• Dark Souls 2: a very small bit of insight about the textures of this game, TPF.

Game Archive Research

• ZuOnline: CE needs help in understanding this game’s archives.
• Legend of Wukong: and this.
• World Zero: and this!
• Dungeon Striker: and this! Gee, prolific is an understatement.
• Naruto Ninja storm: archive info posted and help wanted.
• XPAC Unpacker: released by Ekey. Congrats!
• DAT Unpacker (Anomaly): another release by Ekey!
• DAT Unpacker (Hydrophobia): again, prolific is an understatement!
• Lightning Returns: TRB Extractor worked on for two years. Kudos for persistence.
• Arkham Origins: ARA files should be investigated.
• Syphon Filter: resolutive necroposting for this PSP game.
• NASCAR 2011: more work on the script.
• CN Punch time: quickbms script made and working.
• Tomb Raider: interest continues after the 2013 release of the script.

Compressed files and methods

• Magic World II: compressed NIFs are the issue.
• .ARA: info on this? Completely unknown the format is.
• TDKR: cra0 should release a tool soon-ish. I didn’t even know the game existed, and I am a Batman fan!

Game Localization

• The Wolf Among Us: problem solved. Props!
• GTAV: test tools by Ekey. Getting better and better Ekey is.
• Goat Simulator: apparently it’s getting localized!
• Ground Zeroes: being worked on… lots of work ahead!

Noesis

• As popular as ever, the interest for this majestic tool never ends.

Other Tools

• Dissidia 012: I am persistent.
• Defiance tools uploaded to the tools section.
• Evolution Engine Cache extractor is still a work in progress.
• StarFox tools uploaded to the tools section.

Those who do not die, every now and then, return. Sometimes, even those who are dead return.

UPDATE: Lost two sections while writing this, have to restart. No idea why, so entries will be rushed, as I had almost finished… very pissed. Only Game of Thrones main title in flac can soothe me.

3D/2D Models

• $ offer: lumix continues his quest for the importer-exporter.
• Another $ offer: for King of Fighters, none the less.
• Unity: more work continues for this simple and flexible engine.
• FFXHD: last month’s issues have not been resolved.
• Dawngate: chrrox has released one of his scripts!
• Cabal 2: CriticalError is working on this game, and has solved most of his hiccups apparently.
• XT: he also solved them for this game, thanks to Ekey!
• Nine Days Myth: not so lucky for this peculiar game here.
• Diablo III app: what?
• Scarlet Legacy: cra0 has made some progress.
• HOTD: HOTDfan tries it again!
• J Stars: help wanted in getting the models out.
• Dead or Alive: yay, more development!
• God Eater 2: help wanted for this PSVita game. The original was quite nice..
• SW TOR: zaramot updated the scripts. Kudos!
• Sengoku Basara 4: he also released scripts for this game here.
• .BIN files: models do exist in those.
• Sonicomi: I admit I haven’t quite understood this.

Audio File Formats

• XMA Transform: Alpha23 has only ever worked with towav. Rejoice.
• ArcheAge: apparently this game has some good audio?
• FIFA: looking for a NFS Sound Extractor.
• Project Spark: Linkin Park galore!
• Dead Rising 2: currently under inspection. will be back for more.

Graphic Formats

• Castlevania Mirror of Fate: bad textures! Headers should not be missed!
• SEGA TPL: first investigation of this difficult format.
• Dark Sould 2: first thread about TPF textures of a maddening game.
• Hay Day: interest for a relatively unknown game.
• Eutechnyx: NASCAR textures need to be investigated a bit more, apparently.

Game Archive Research

• Archive X: development continues!
• Sine Mora: super update due soon!
• Dreamy Theater: development stopped.
• Fox Online: Ekey has released a decrypter.
• Titanfall: work continues, cra0 confirms it.
• UE4: some interest on this engine!
• MGS DAT: little development every now and then..
• Ninja Gaiden Z: coalesced.bin being investigated.
• LEGO Game: first post, no new info.
• LEGO LOTR: again, some small development every now and then.
• South Park: compression method investigated.
• Dawngate: extractor being worked on.
• Audition 2: Ekey is making his magic.
• Mitsurugi: the unpacker for this game works, apparently.

Compressed files and methods

• J-Stars: leyme wants help for the archives.
• LOL: progress is being made by thread creator, but some more support is still needed.
• TalesWeaver: a rather obscure MMORPG needs to be cracked.
• .DTA: Ekey needs support in understanding this format of Illusion games.
• Fist of Fu: another pretty obscure game, which needs to be investigated.
• .PT: format of those rhytm games needs to be understood. Let’s MaMbO!

Game Localization

• Blackguards: .lang files being investigated. Never heard of the game tho.
• Ground Zeroes: once michaelss has the time, he will look in the game files. He still needs help for Thief.
• Digimon Rumble Arena 2: help wanted for translating a Pokèm- wait..
• Bioshock Infinite: little progress, perhaps?
• LEGO Movie: author needs help for every boy’s favourite construction tools video game.

Noesis

• A quiet past week for Noesis, this was. And yet, more people have donated. Some more would be appreciated (myself included in this invite).

Other Tools

• 3D Object Converter: backlash of interest.
• Ninja Ripper: someone needs to better understand the heir of 3d ripper dx.
• F-Zero GX Viewer: from 2011, a new tool is arising, in c++. Thanks StarkNebula!
• Defiance Tools: those are being updated somewhat regularly. Nice job!

Final Blog entry by yours truly. My “engagement” ends. It’s been a nice ride 🙂 whether it will continue or not depends on you, users.

Listening to “The King of Pride Rock” and “I Just can’t wait to be King” while writing. yeah, I’m still a child at heart.

Closing considerations:

1. the 3D/2D section of the forum is the most prolific by FAR.
2. Second one is Game Archive.
3. What really few people care about is music. Pity 🙁

3D/2D Models

• Dekaron 2: lol2k has released a script for this game.
• Real Racing 3: barti has updated his script.
• Lumis’ Max script offer is still valid.
• Jack and Daxter HD: chrrox is making some nice progress!
• AION: Pesmontis has made a couple nice discoveries.
• Ryusui has released a couple updates for AMD.
• S4 Model League: barti has released his progress.
• CVM files are being investigated.

Audio File Formats

• Deep Black Reloaded: reznov needs a hand for this game.
• XMA Transform: updated. Thanks Alpha23!
• Cars Race-o-Rama: help for ARC files wanted.

Graphic Formats

• Unswizzle: someone has already grabbed the 100$ reward, apparently. Or at least the promise of it.
• Dead Rising 2: michalss wants help for the textures.

Game Archive Research

• Agarest: Ekey has released a script for this game!
• Touhou: and also for this game.
• Reznov is investigating .cache files!
• Star Wars the Old Republic: work continues.
• Gundam Extreme: tool released.
• MGS saga: let’s hope the tool continues to be developed.
• Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2: script updated for the demo.
• One Piece Romance of Dawn: chrrox, MrAdults and Zerox all together. Awesomeness ensues.
• Dead Island: .pak file investigation continues.
• Super Marsia Land: script requested and obtained. thanks Ekey.

Phew, what a weekend. Thank god I took the day off.

3D/2D Models

• Odd oddity continues. Hilarity ensues thanks to people who don’t know when the joke is on them. Or when it’s not.
• Janglesworthy shares some useful websites. thanks!
• Dekaron: lol2k12 wants help for this game.
• Gran Turismo 3 & 4: MateSMC’s thread is still going strong.
• Killzone 3: luxox is making progress.
• Disney INFINITY; a surprising interest for Ralph & co.
• Cadabra 3d: a “catfight” game which is now abandonware. Fascinating.
• Ryusui’s thread got an answer from MrAdults himself.
• And he himself is working on his other project,

Audio File Formats

• Mass Effect 2: yours truly continues his crusade for fruitless SFX search. Lack of cooperation does not help, but oh well.
• Tonic Trouble: Doolie wants to really get the resources of this old, but fun, game.

Graphic Formats

• Rocky Balboa: apparently this game has interesting textures.

Game Archive Research

• Metal Gear Series: DAT Files information wanted.
• War Thunder: Rafael09ED needs to get the audio off the fsb files.
• Outlast: “that crap” needs a bit of investigating.
• Awakening 5: cacarama needs some help in getting stuff out of the archive.
• Sine Mora: Ekey is currently working on updating the unpacker.
• Stalja needs help in understanding DAT archives.
• MGS Collection: some more info on this would be required.
• Orneon Limited: Ekey is looking for an extractor. I wonder if someone can help him.

Another week is past and another summary is here. The summary of next week, however, will come either on Friday or Monday, as I will be full on both Saturday and Sunday.

3D/2D Models

• Metroid Prime: Antidote has discovered how bad can Metroid Prime modelling be.
• Ratchet & Clank: Demonboy wants to understand this format.
• Farsata has an animation problem.
• Dead or Alive: work continues.
• Silver 3d: work continues also here, albeit differently.
• Castlevania: Karpati (oh, the irony) has released an updated version of his portable 3d Object Converter including Lords of Shadow 2 support.
• Sniper Elite: lots of updates, from the same author.
• AMD: Ryusui has an update for those interested.
• Discussion on Maxscripts continues.
• Sleeping Dogs: SergeantJoe’s crusade continues.

Audio File Formats

• House of the Dead 4: HOTDfan (duh) wants to open the audio files.
• Bioshock 2: Xstalker needs help with the repacking FSB files.
• Alpha23 needs help in understanding a peculiar form of ADPCM. Everyone, move.
• Mass Effect 2: yours truly in the flesh would like some help in getting those damn Mass Effect 2 SFX. Stupid machines.

Graphic Formats

• Miasmata: Haoose provides solution.
• Emrekumas61 wants to understand a font type.
• God of War Ascension; HAIDER wants to crack the font.

Game Archive Research

• The Old Republic: a positive update.
• The Force Unleashed: a return of interest here!
• GTA V: luxox18 has graciously shed some dds insight.
• Archive X: apparently, development continues and has not stopped at all.

Quick Summary of the Week’s events. New Layout too, I believe. Hope it’s correct. Sorry for the lateness but I wanted to wait for more substantial entries, then I started working as a legal intern and studying for my second Master’s Degree and I forgot.

2D/3D Formats

• Dark Souls: interest in the FLV files continues.
• Sleeping Dogs: SergeantJoe asks for help again!
• Warframe Online: script updated and development news.
• Cursed Crusade: Zaramot is doing most of the work.
• Diablo III animations: work continues well, apparently.
• Silver: development has started.
• Final Fantasy X HD: development continues, despite being slow.
• Onimusha Dawn of Dreams: chrrox released a nice script.
• AION: Pesmontis has made a request for a Collada exporter.
• Cabal Online: FauxBestaan has released a nice script. I wonder if development will continue.
• Dragon’s Dogma: Zaramod is tackling it.
• Kingdom Under Fire 2: chrrox has made a very brief informative post.
• Toukiden: orohu has made a request.
• Real Racing 3: a lot of interest for this little Android game.
• Aarklash Legacy: work continues on this project.
• Heroes and Generals: medwed wants help for this game.
• Kingdom Hearts 1: it deserves more recognition!
• Rusty Hearts: mm497905573 makes a request.
• Ghostbusters: format has been successfully cracked it appears.
• Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2: zardalu has made a request to crack the demo.
• Astebreed: lots of data to read.
• Ninja Ripper: hotgoblin has made a request.
• Binary Domain: a Noesis script has been released, thanks a lot! Working for Yakuza too.

Audio File Formats

• Gamecube ADPCM: AlphaTwentyThree needs help. Everyone, focus, now.
• Mp3 Stereo to Mono: Alpha needs more help in knowing how to split stereo tracks without re-enconding.
• Tonic Trouble: the work on those MPX files continues.
• Electronic Arts .mus: continues the work on this.
• Wild Arms 2: SmashFan127 wants help for this.
• .HCA Header: FinalBlast has some good news.
• Star Trek/Darkness 2 audio: this is a bit more complicated than expected.

Graphic Formats

• Army Men: SRDDonkey wants to understand this peculiar graphic format.
• Necromancy: an old thread about textures.
• SpongeBob Truth or Square: barti has released an updated script.
• Diablo III TEX: development continues, albeit slowly.
• NFL Blitz 2000: barti has made a couple interesting findings.

Game Archive Research

• DPK4: GMMan wants help for this format.
• LittleBig Planet Karting: Alpha23 needs some more help.
• X: development continues.
• War Thunder: thanks brendan19 for the batch command. Hope it works with many files.
• Panzar: freakshow wants to tackle this “game”.
• More criticism concerning money offers for tools.
• KickBeat: reznov needs help.
• The Matrix Path of Neo: renewed interest for this great game!
• Metal Gear Rising: development continues.
• FFXIII Lightning Returs: development continues also here.
• Wild Arms 3: SmashFan’s effort continues, alone. Kudos for being so determined.

Putting back a monster update, thanks to forgettin the “Game Archive” for quite some time.

2D/3D Formats

• SmashFan127 wants help for Spyro the dragon WAD files.
• ZeroGravity has updated his script for Diablo III animations to also support the expansion. YES!
• Bogus needs some kangaroo help.
• Ryder25 has solved his animation issues.
• LUBDAR wants help for a Diablo III app.
• Lumis really needs help.
• Kingdom Hearts interest, again. Yay!
• Janglesworthy shares 3d info.

Audio Formats

• Amran wants help for XWC files of the Starbreeze engine.
• XMA transform interest continues.
• Keystothemaxim solved his MAME CHD problem.
• FinalBlast has found a temporary solution for his HCA header problem.
• A certain user wants help for Kingdom Hearts 1.5 audio voice files.

Graphic Formats

• Root670 wants help to understand 8 bit sizzled textures.
• Lemurboy12 wants help for Spongebob PSP graphic files.
• Doctor Loboto wants help for Ghostbusters .tex files.

Game Archive Research

• Yianti apparently is interested in Cabal 2.
• Reznov wants help for .cache files.
• Renewed interest for Castlevania Lords of Shadow.
• Cybore wants help for Naruto Ninja storm.
• GooD has released a decoder for GTAV Ps3.
• First thread about Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.
• HV files cracked.
• Mcboom2007 wants help for JSON files.
• Archive X still being worked on.
• Cra0 has released a Call of Duty Ghost PaK extractor!
• Silent Hill homecoming PAK files are still being investigated.
• Zardalu points out interesting Dark Souls developments.
• .BBz archives are being investigated.
• Robocop IOS game is being investigated too.
• Force Unleashed II is investigated as well.
• Lightning Returns is also worked on.
• MNF files are looked upon.
• A certain user wants help for Tomb Raider’s Guardian of Light archives.
• Updated question on MGS script.

Happy new year! Sorry for being late, I’ll try to get this fixed ASAP.

2D/3D Formats

• Tosyk continues to work on LA Noire heads.
• Apparently, the (somewhat) pointless satire continues too.
• And it’s also called upon as an example to follow.
• But it’s not very successful, as this kind of behaviour still continues.
• Friuns offers money for Trackverse xml parser.
• Shakotay2 helps again for understanding Darksiders 2 .anm files.
• Chipicao releases his Maxscripts. Thanks!
• Payday 2 model format is still being investigated.
• Mikulover39 is working on the remaster of FFX. Great!
• AngryBirds importer is still being worked on.
• After 95 pages .carbin models are still being worked on.
• TaylorMouse made a script for Diablo 3 animations.
• Fear Effect .wad files being investigated.
• As is Samurai Showdown.
• A desperate cry for help for the game DayZ.
• WebGl extraction is still being investigated.

Audio Formats

• Renewed interest for XMA Tranforming.
• Droolie wants help for Tonic Trouble MPX files.
• SmashFan127 continues his crusade in understanding Wild Arms data.

Compressed files and methods

• Simple needs help to understand Cross Beats archives.
• Cra0 needs help to understand Counter Strike 2 online archives.
• Phnx wants help for Kingdom Of Alumar archives.

Game Localization

• Epik wants help to translate a chinese game back to English.

Final week of the year. Happy new year, everyone.

2D/3D Formats

• Zardalu needs help for Mirror of Fate.
• Lumis refuses to give up.
• Tosyk continues the research on L. A. Noire heads.
• Webgl extraction continues to be investigated.
• As is Mechwarrior tactics.
• Nyxo has released a Dark Souls FLV tool.
• TaylorMouse has tackled again Diablo III animations.
• Trackmania 2 files are being investigated.
• A p3d.in extractor has been released.

Audio Formats

• Update needed on Star Trek games.
• 41hc1 asks for Manhunt (wii) fsb help.
• MiLØ asks for help concerning a Ps3 game, Drag-on Dragoon.
• Aagems asks for help concerning Xbox 360 audio files.

Compressed files and methods

• Small update on the Dark Knight Rises GLA thread.

Game Localization

• A small update on the Batman Arkham Origins voices.

A quick summary of what has transpired last week. Penultimate week of the year, everyone.

2D/3D Formats

• Blaar asks for Mechwarrior help.
• Jaydenthetank wants to extract .webgl files.
• And also Transformers 2.
• And also Wild Arms 2.
• O0Demonboy0o asks for help in understanding .nsbmd files.
• Interest continues on the Metal Gear Solid 4 script.
• Dead or Alive thread continues.
• A somewhat pointless thread.
• Update on Payday 2 format.
• Lumis‘ offer of 15$ continues.
• The 2006 game Sonic the Hedgehog gets some updated info.
• Sailingjia asks for an Angry Birds Go importer.
• RatedR203 asks for .anm help, for the game Darksiders 2.
• Help and money offered for God of War 3 meshes.
• TaylorMouse asks for help concerning the 3d format of the game Aarklash Legacy.

Audio Formats

• FinalBlast needs help in understanding .hca format.
• Work continues in the Silent Hill thread.
• Pepper needs help for 3 different games.
• Reznov’s thread deals with FSB5 for Shadow Warrior.

Compressed files and methods

• Marsy85 needs help to work on a compressor based on LZ.
• DerpyTails wants help in extracting files from the Sony Mega Collection Plus.
• SmashFan asks for help, again, for Wild arms.
• Floyder asks for help in understanding MstarTR file format.
• Savage needs help in order to unpack HVP files.

Game Localization

• Update on the Telltale and Gametap thread.
• Djokay wants help in translating a german game, Jack Keane und der Schickals.