Ape Escape Million Monkeys, DATA0.bin - DATA3.bin. No File Headers.

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
Bmanrulesyou21
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Ape Escape Million Monkeys, DATA0.bin - DATA3.bin. No File Headers.

Post by Bmanrulesyou21 »

I'm looking to work on a translation for this game, and it seems everything that isn't a FMV is inside of these 4 DATA(X).bin files. Looking at them in Hex they don't have file headers... So I'm at a loss for where to go next. I'd appreciate if someone can help write up a script to get into the files of this game. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KgK503 ... sp=sharing
aluigi
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Re: Ape Escape Million Monkeys, DATA0.bin - DATA3.bin. No File Headers.

Post by aluigi »

Do you also have some INF files there with the same name of the BIN ones?
The format is identical to this script https://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/ape_e ... nf_bin.bms but in your sample it looks like DATA0.BIN is the "INF" of DATA1.BIN, and DATA2 or DATA3.
If that's correct I can update the script easily.
Bmanrulesyou21
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Re: Ape Escape Million Monkeys, DATA0.bin - DATA3.bin. No File Headers.

Post by Bmanrulesyou21 »

It doesn't, it has a file structure like this:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... nknown.png
The only files in the PDATA folder are those 4, with MPEG and MOVIE containing .pss and .ipu files. The IPU of which I haven't been able to convert with different tools successfully.
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Re: Ape Escape Million Monkeys, DATA0.bin - DATA3.bin. No File Headers.

Post by aluigi »

Script updated