Flight Simulator 2020 - SPB archives

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
underwater
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Flight Simulator 2020 - SPB archives

Post by underwater »

FS2020 stores several game resources in SPB archives.
Part of the content is in clear text, but the header might be encrypted.
I've attached two examples — one is a dialog, the other a mission (a "mission" consists of several sub-tasks).

I looked through all the existing formats, but couldn't find anything that matches. Did MS come up with something new???
GepiM
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Re: Flight Simulator 2020 - SPB archives

Post by GepiM »

Hi.
Open it easily in notepad ++ and edit it.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020\HLM_Packages\Official\Steam\fs-base\en-US.locPak
aluigi
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Re: Flight Simulator 2020 - SPB archives

Post by aluigi »

The header you see there is not encrypted.
It's just a sequence of 16bytes data (probably an hash) followed by a 32bit integer which is often -1.