.000 files ATV Off-road Fury 4

[Omarios]

So I’ve been trying to modify ATV Off-road Fury 4 for quite some time now. I’m no expert in programming and what not but I’ve tried my best to get information from here and there about modding PS2 games.

What I’m aiming for is really simple actually, just modifying AI names, and swapping their in-game gear color. But the problem is that, as I said, I’m not in an expert in this matter. The game has a ton of .000 files which I do really believe hold the game’s resources and assets, but the problem is that I can’t seem to open it. A google search of the file format gives back several results so I thought I’ll ask here to see if people know anything. I should also add that all the .000 files are 2048KB in size.

How do I open and view the contents of .000 files?

I should also mention that while viewing some files through a hex editor, I found some interesting stuff. Files such as resources/root/setup/aiplayercolours.xml. The main problem is that I don’t know how to get to these files.

I’m honesty tired of running around clueless trying to do this, I’m willing to pay if someone has the knowledge of doing this.

[BloodRaynare]

Please provide the sample files, so we can help you.

[Omarios]

Please provide the sample files, so we can help you.

Ok for some weird reason I wasn't able to upload a .000 file alone because it gave the error "the 000 extension is not allowed". I've also included a SCUS file of the game, with a hex editor, on adress 004CB750 you'll be able to see the "AIplayercolours.xml" file that I was talking about.

[BloodRaynare]

CMIIW but I think the files you were looking for were inside the ARCHIVE.IMP/BIN combo (I have this game as well). Aluigi actually made QuickBMS script for those files, but I just tried it and it unable to extract the files. You can try to upload the ARCHIVE.BIN so aluigi or anyone can take a look at it.

[Omarios]

CMIIW but I think the files you were looking for were inside the ARCHIVE.IMP/BIN combo (I have this game as well). Aluigi actually made QuickBMS script for those files, but I just tried it and it unable to extract the files. You can try to upload the ARCHIVE.BIN so aluigi or anyone can take a look at it.

Here is the archive.bin file. But for some reason I get an internal server error when I try to upload it along with the .imp file.

I was able to pick up some xml files from the imp, the .bin one doesn't make sense at all.

[Omarios]

Bumping this so aluigi might see.

[Omarios]

CMIIW but I think the files you were looking for were inside the ARCHIVE.IMP/BIN combo (I have this game as well). Aluigi actually made QuickBMS script for those files, but I just tried it and it unable to extract the files. You can try to upload the ARCHIVE.BIN so aluigi or anyone can take a look at it.

Do you have the quickbms script for this game?

[BloodRaynare]

Do you have the quickbms script for this game?

Like I said before, I did (That script by aluigi). However, it doesn't work on this one since the structure inside ARCHIVE.BIN is different than what that script handles.

[Omarios]

Do you have the quickbms script for this game?

Like I said before, I did (That script by aluigi). However, it doesn't work on this one since the structure inside ARCHIVE.BIN is different than what that script handles.

I’ve made some breakthroughs regarding this matter.

The archive of the game is indeed IMP (iMp0 when looking at the first 4 bytes), but the script that was written for the IMP folder that you were referring was for Crash Bandicoot (CMIIW) and as I’ve tried it didn’t work at all.

I downloaded ATV Off-road Fury 3 and fortunately it actually has an Archive.Xml folder which made life a lot more easier. And from that I was able to conclude that both games have an lzss compression.

As you said, everything is located within the Archive.IMP folder, as comparing the sizes of ATV 3 and ATV 4, the latter’s archive size is much, much bigger. I actually found something in reference to the AI and what I do believe is their gear color.

Now all I need is to extract these files but I need a script for this game