The Week at the Game Research Forum #3
January 29th, 2014 by Devilot
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.
Compressed files and methods
- Wild Arms 3 BIN: SmashFan127 continues his crusade for understanding the Wild Arms format.
- Havok Animations: the work continues.
Game Localization
- Blood Knights: hunpatrick wants help in understanding the BIN file.
- Orcs Must Die 2: hunpatrick needs to understand .rear language files.
- Bioshock Infinite: 3ps3 wants help in translating this game.