F1 2015 ERP archives

[aluigi]

http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/f12015_erp.bms

It's an interesting file format and currently F12015 uses both version 2 and 3.

[gmhsv8]

Hello my first time on here I am able to unpack the files and edit them but I am unable to reimport them, it works but goes back to the original file so the save and editing does not take how can I fix this problem thanks for any help.

[aluigi]

In reimport mode quickbms will display all the files that get reimported, something like "> OFFSET SIZE FILENAME". Do you see your edited file in this list?
Maybe check again the section 3 of quickbms.txt, you have to make the exact steps you did for the extraction to allow quickbms to import the files.

[gmhsv8]

Thanks for your help tried step by step still wont take the BMS file has 4 bits in first line of file of
(BXML) instead of (ERPK) and it is these 4 bits that don't match says BMS when reimporting I tried to change BXML to ERPK but then it comes up with another fault -: (last script line before the error:
11 get files long)

What does this mean beats me thanks for your help Chris.

[gmhsv8]

this is the exact message that comes up

signature of 4 bytes at offset 0x00000000 doesn't match the one expected by the script.

This one "OBMX"
01 42 58 4d .BXM



expected: "ERPK"
45 52 50 4b ERPK

0 files reimported in 0 seconds
coverage file 0 )% 4 37262

[aluigi]

It seems you are using the reimport feature in the wrong way.
I give you an example:

Extraction:
- launch quickbms.exe
- select f12015_erp.bms
- select the ERP file to extract
- select the output folder

Edit the extracted files you want to reimport WITHOUT changing their location.
Delete those that weren't changed.

Reimporting
- launch reimport.bat
- SELECT THE SAME SCRIPT, ERP ARCHIVE AND FOLDER YOU SELECTED FOR THE EXTRACTION

[gmhsv8]

Yes thanks very much I must be doing something wrong thanks for your time.

[gmhsv8]

Thanks finally got it working it seems the erp files cannot be touched I tried editing just 1 or 2 numbers game crashed every time then I tried reimporting the unedited original file and the game still crashed so none of the files can be edited in the normal way thanks heaps for all your help.

[aluigi]

Are you really sure?
http://sethioz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=2222
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGalrQ9DW-0

[gmhsv8]

Thanks but I'm not a programmer at all, I cant write any tools what so ever I just play around with game files so I will have to wait until someone writes something that suits what I need thanks a heap for your help I will watch this page and see thanks again.

[aluigi]

I will keep you updated when tutorials/videos/tools will be released. Stay tuned.

[5Lp]

Hello,
Do you have any idea how to edit file ? I can extract the .erp file, that's all...
Thanks for all, mate !

[aluigi]

Do you mean viewing and editing the extracted files or reimporting them back into the erp archive?

Reimporting should work correctly.
Personally I can't help with the content of the extracted files but maybe other users can.

[5Lp]

Yep, editing extracted files.

Personally I can't help with the content of the extracted files but maybe other users can.

Erf, Ok. Thank you !