Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Lucas Hood
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Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Currently i am having trouble to get these files, as they are heavily encrypted. Can someone help? As i have no method to extract these files. Will send you all of them in case anyone need. I believe if we can crack one file then maybe we can do that to the rest.
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Re: Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Re: Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Can someone help with the MES files
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Re: Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Are you 100% sure they are "encrypted"?
Is it in some way related to https://github.com/TesterTesterov/mesSc ... sassembler or to yu-ris mes files? (I only did google search, don't know anything about this stuff)
In any case: no files, no help.
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I also found another topic from you about MES:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15996

Please don NOT open many topics about the same matter (and game or engine), it's just messy.
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Re: Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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aluigi wrote:I also found another topic from you about MES:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15996

Please don NOT open many topics about the same matter (and game or engine), it's just messy.


Really sorry about that, because i uploaded the files in the old thread but no one reply. So here it is, hope you don't mind:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mAAOZF ... sp=sharing

This is the files for Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cEuDB3 ... sp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KgJEg2 ... sp=sharing

And these are the files for Fortissimo FA, both Japanese and Chinese version.

Basically, the files from Kadenz Fermata are script files as well as Glossary and character stats which contain information texts. As for Fortissimo FA, they are files of Glossary, Character Stat, Scene Names and Music Library, in both Japanese and Chinese. I want to get all of them. It's been months and i couldn't find anyone to help me extract, hence i beg for your help if you can.

aluigi wrote:Are you 100% sure they are "encrypted"?
Is it in some way related to https://github.com/TesterTesterov/mesSc ... sassembler or to yu-ris mes files? (I only did google search, don't know anything about this stuff)
In any case: no files, no help.


Yes they are, i have tried all the tools that i know including the one you sent, sadly none of them works. Those files are heavily encrypted so it's very hard for me to extract.
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Re: Need help extracting MES files of Kadenz Fermata Akkord Fortissimo

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Heavily encrypted??? Do you know what "encryption" means?
Open them with a hex editor and tell me why you say they are "encrypted".

Anyway it's not an archive, just a sort of list at the beginning and then data.
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aluigi wrote:Heavily encrypted??? Do you know what "encryption" means?
Open them with a hex editor and tell me why you say they are "encrypted".

Anyway it's not an archive, just a sort of list at the beginning and then data.


I'm not a programmer so i don't know if my explanation is correct to your definition, but those files are encrypted by La'cryma and Mages (for Kadenz Fermata). I already asked other people that openned with hex editor but still couldn't get the texts out though. That's why i came here to ask.

From what i have experienced, files of Kadenz are harder to open than FA because Kadenz used new engine, even i couldn't get the texts from normal script files aka script of gameplay's story via Ineditor.
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The text is clearly visible with a hex editor. Feel free to check.
I'm talking about visible text only, not about compatibility with extraction tools, if the format is the same and so on.
Definitely not encrypted since human-readable data is there.
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aluigi wrote:The text is clearly visible with a hex editor. Feel free to check.
I'm talking about visible text only, not about compatibility with extraction tools, if the format is the same and so on.
Definitely not encrypted since human-readable data is there.


Didn't work, all i got are gibberish texts that not even Japanese. Files from both Kadenz and FA are unreadable. Tried every Hex Editor that i found got same result.
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Much appreciated if someone can help
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Can someone help please