Help With Decompressing .dat File.

[MaxBOOST]

Hello,

So, there's this game called Moorhuhn Adventure 2: Der Fluch des Goldes, and all its assets are in a .DAT file (moorhuhn games are known for storing their assets in .DAT files). Except, this file is unlike the other .DAT files that other moorhuhn games use, but i still tried to use all .DAT file scripts i can find, and all Moorhuhn scripts, too ! But none worked. Can someone please help me ? I would be grateful if someone did.

Thanks !
MaxBOOST.

P.S: Here's the .DAT file in case you wanna try something with it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ch8aKisHSowof7J3ENcQ0sJNhv9UFjdA/view?usp=sharing

[mrmemmo_]

it's zlib but more block compresses

[MaxBOOST]

it's zlib but more block compresses

so, what should i do with it ?

[mrmemmo_]

i don't know. decompress and compress level 9 to get compress file...bla bla. i think

[rabatini]

it's zlib but more block compresses

so, what should i do with it ?

Just use offzip from alluigi

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/offzip.zip

create a text file and put this command

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offzip -s -a mha2.dat

pause

then rename the extensio .txt to .bat and run.

[MaxBOOST]

it's zlib but more block compresses

so, what should i do with it ?

Just use offzip from alluigi

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/offzip.zip

create a text file and put this command

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offzip -s -a mha2.dat

pause

then rename the extensio .txt to .bat and run.

ok i did that, but then i got a bunch of dat files and vap files

[mrmemmo_]

exam: file 000b4ba5.dat
delete 89 bytes first and change file extension to jpg and chill
some file vap is ogg sound

[MaxBOOST]

exam: file 000b4ba5.dat
delete 89 bytes first and change file extension to jpg and chill
some file vap is ogg sound

so, do i open dat with notepad and delete the first 89 bytes and change the vap to ogg ?

[rabatini]

So, you did the decompress, now its up to you dig out the files, some are images and some other is songs and maybe your scripts is inside one of them.

to jpg you can use this script in quickbms.
if is jpg it will create a file with jpg image, if not will create no file.

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get file asize
get name basename
get id long
if id == 0x00000000
goto 0x59
savepos temp
xmath size "(file - temp)"
String FILENAME P "%name%.%jpg%"
log filename temp size
endif

[MaxBOOST]

So, you did the decompress, now its up to you dig out the files, some are images and some other is songs and maybe your scripts is inside one of them.

to jpg you can use this script in quickbms.
if is jpg it will create a file with jpg image, if not will create no file.

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get file asize
get name basename
get id long
if id == 0x00000000
goto 0x59
savepos temp
xmath size "(file - temp)"
String FILENAME P "%name%.%jpg%"
log filename temp size
endif

ok, and for VAPs ?

[rabatini]

So, you did the decompress, now its up to you dig out the files, some are images and some other is songs and maybe your scripts is inside one of them.

to jpg you can use this script in quickbms.
if is jpg it will create a file with jpg image, if not will create no file.

Code: Select all

get file asize
get name basename
get id long
if id == 0x00000000
goto 0x59
savepos temp
xmath size "(file - temp)"
String FILENAME P "%name%.%jpg%"
log filename temp size
endif

ok, and for VAPs ?

dont know.
sound is not my field.

[MaxBOOST]

So, you did the decompress, now its up to you dig out the files, some are images and some other is songs and maybe your scripts is inside one of them.

to jpg you can use this script in quickbms.
if is jpg it will create a file with jpg image, if not will create no file.

Code: Select all

get file asize
get name basename
get id long
if id == 0x00000000
goto 0x59
savepos temp
xmath size "(file - temp)"
String FILENAME P "%name%.%jpg%"
log filename temp size
endif

ok, and for VAPs ?

dont know.
sound is not my field.

ok, so, most jpgs are fine, others are corrupted/don't open. is that normal ?

[MaxBOOST]

ok, and for VAPs ?

dont know.
sound is not my field.

ok, so, most jpgs are fine, others are corrupted/don't open. is that normal ?

and some .dat files gave this error out


offset filesize filename
--------------------------------------

- 0 files found in 0 seconds
coverage file 0 0% 4 2079 . offset 00000004

[mrmemmo_]

some raw data, you have to know what it is to convert

[MaxBOOST]

some raw data, you have to know what it is to convert

alright, so what do i do with the .vap files containing the sounds ?

[mrmemmo_]

search google "ogg vorbis file structure"

[MaxBOOST]

search google "ogg vorbis file structure"

ok, i managed to get everything out of the file, but there are some images that are missing, mostly because offzip doesn't detect them. What shall i do in that case ?

[rabatini]

search google "ogg vorbis file structure"

ok, i managed to get everything out of the file, but there are some images that are missing, mostly because offzip doesn't detect them. What shall i do in that case ?

Do you know where files the offzip did not detect?

[MaxBOOST]

search google "ogg vorbis file structure"

ok, i managed to get everything out of the file, but there are some images that are missing, mostly because offzip doesn't detect them. What shall i do in that case ?

Do you know where files the offzip did not detect?

the same .dat file, and while they are images for a fact, i don't know their formats. i tried using jaeder naub, but idk how to use it tbh..