Legend Of Silkroad (LOS) .fpk file

[blar0]

Hi,

Here we are going to talk about files from Legend Of Silkroad (LOS) with extension *.fpk.
You can find those files in:

• Legend of Silkroad\temp: related to patch
• Legend of Silkroad\Data: related to game resources

Let's take an example "LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk".

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> md5sum LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk
4efc826aba299132af5c3ea223d1e3c7  LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk
> sha1sum LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk
3a90a419e7653b7f05c4bd66d42e1833ef26bf04  LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk
> ls -l LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk
-rw-r--r-- 1 XXX XXX 2628801 Aug 28 09:23 LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk

We look at the hexdump of first 0xE0 bytes:

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00000000  46 50 4b 00 d0 00 00 00  c1 00 28 1c 03 00 05 00  |FPK.......(.....|
00000010  41 00 28 19 41 00 28 1b  20 00 00 00 18 00 00 00  |A.(.A.(. .......|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 c1 00 28 1c  |..............(.|
00000030  00 00 00 00 5d 00 28 17  00 00 00 00 e0 00 28 16  |....].(.......(.|
00000040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  00 00 00 00 80 00 00 01  |................|
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 6d 00 00 00  |............m...|
00000060  00 00 00 00 d4 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40  |...............@|
00000070  be 81 93 2f dc 1b eb a6  7d 70 1c 1d 46 f5 9e 76  |.../....}p..F..v|
00000080  65 99 44 fe bf ff fc 47  f9 09 d8 e2 b8 d7 15 ca  |e.D....G........|
00000090  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000a0  7c 78 a0 b4 b9 71 ed ee  f9 2e f5 88 f4 31 68 3b  ||x...q.......1h;|
000000b0  ed 46 27 91 af 37 02 27  28 a4 65 d5 da 51 d3 c0  |.F'..7.'(.e..Q..|
000000c0  7a b1 94 b1 e3 ad 90 fc  9d 6c eb a9 56 3e 92 aa  |z........l..V>..|
000000d0  08 00 00 00 c2 05 00 00  02 58 85 ad 57 5d 6f 1b  |.........X..W]o.|

We can recognize the signature "FPK", and nothing much ... But if you are familiar
with MPQ format (http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/mpqformat.html). You will think it's
a kind of fork.

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+ 0x00 : dwID
+ 0x04 : dwHeaderSize
+ 0x08 : ArchiveSize
...

But if we try to read the ArchiveSize we got 0x1C2800C1 (472383681), which is totally
different from the size's result of the command "ls" (2628801).
In fact inside the "OgreMain.dll" file you can find a C++ method called Ogre::FPKArchive::load,
if you reverse engineer this method, you will recognize lots of part of the Stormlib library (http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/stormlib.html).
But when reading the header of the file (size 0x0D), they will swap byte 0x01 and 0x03
for each dword and patch the signature with "\x4D\x50\x51\x1A".

Pseudo C code (swap stuff):

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unsigned int pos;
unsigned char *buf;
unsigned char saved_byte;

buf = buf_header + 4;
pos = 0;
do
{
   saved_byte = *(buf + pos + 1);
   *(buf + pos + 1) = *(buf + pos + 3);
   *(buf + pos + 3) = saved_byte;
   pos += 4;
} while (pos < 0xCC);

Or you can use this python script to convert file directly to "patched" MPQ:

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FILE_NAME = "LOS-1.1.81-to-1.1.82-patch.fpk"
FILE_NAME_OUT = "TEST.MPQ"

fd_in = open(FILE_NAME, "rb")
buf = fd_in.read(0xD0)
buf = buf[4:]
buf = ''.join([(a + d + c + b) for a, b, c, d in zip(buf[0::4], buf[1::4], buf[2::4], buf[3::4])])   # swap byte 1 and 3
buf = "\x4D\x50\x51\x1A" + buf      # add MPQ sig
fd_out = open(FILE_NAME_OUT, "wb")
fd_out.write(buf)               # write "fixed" header
fd_out.write(fd_in.read())         # write rest of the file
fd_out.close()
fd_in.close()

You can now use MPQ editor (http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html), to extract the content of the "patched" file.

mpq_editor.png

Enjoy!

[CriticalError]

really cool tutorial man, many thanks for tutorial, gratz and keep working.