Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
Doctor Loboto
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Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by Doctor Loboto »

Well, I know these somehow contain the texture files for boss creatures in Dark Souls. Specifically this pack is for Bed of Chaos. The problem is no one has managed to extract them properly for whatever reason and little research has gone into them. If we can manage this, Dark Souls file formats will be almost entirely finished.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8t7kauu9jl1b6uy/c5230.zip?dl=0
aluigi
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by aluigi »

I have just updated my script to version 0.1.3 and now it should work correctly with this format:
http://aluigi.org/bms/dark_soul.bms
Ikari
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by Ikari »

Sorry for the necropost. I tried to extract various .chrtpfbdt archives from Dark Souls 1 using the above script, but the Command Line always gives me the follow error:

- error in src\file.c line 247: fdnum_open()
Error: No such file or directory

Last script line before the error or that produced the error:
27 open FDDE "bhd5"

sample .chrtpfbdt file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/2optluyq ... .chrtpfbdt
aluigi
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by aluigi »

make a list of all the files that have the name c4110
Ikari
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by Ikari »

There are two other files in the same folder:

c4110.anibnd.dcx (Skeleton and Animations)
c4110.chrbnd.dcx (Mesh files)
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by aluigi »

Are they small (index files) or big (archives)?
Honestly the format is quite complex so I don't think I'm going to spend time on this, but it's better to have all the info just in case.
Ikari
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Re: Dark Souls (chrtpfbdt, chrtpfbnd)

Post by Ikari »

dcx files are archives, in this case both files are around 800Kb. It's okay, since someone made tools for extraction some time ago, but i was asking because those tools rely on xml files for each archive and there aren't xml files supplied for all of them.