Shadow of Mordor embb

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
aluigi
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

Post by aluigi »

Ah right, upload that caragath.bndlxml05 file anyway because I want to check if I can add support for its extraction.
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

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I would like to see the output (from "- input file") of the original script without -9 on an input folder containing the same files you sent me: charactercommon.embb and charactercommon_dlc1.embb
Graesholt
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

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aluigi wrote:Definitely NOT a bug in quickbms.
"caragath.bndlxml05" that's the cause: BNDLXML05, not EMBB. A completely different format.
You told me that your input folder had only embb file while that's false as demonstrated by that file.

If you launch quickbms with the option -F "{}.embb" it will parse only the embb files ignoring all the others.

Please pay more attention next time.


And off QuickBMS goes, just goddamn working because I isolated the files in a folder by themselves.

I offer my sincerest apologies.

I’m not sure when you’ve gotten the impression that my input-folder only contained .embb files.
I understand when you asked me how many .embb files my folder contained, that could be understood as it only containing them, but that was not what I meant, because I knew that was untrue. Sorry for that misunderstanding.
In my defence, however, I thought when I chose two files as input, QuickBMS would only interact with those two files, and therefore the other files in the directory would be irrelevant.
Again, you being the master me being the student, I assume that there is a very good reason why that works otherwise.

Again, I am sorry for my ignorance and inexperience, but most sorry of all to have wasted your time.
And thank you just one last time for being so attentive in seeing to my issue...

I will be sure to isolate anything in the future before attempting to export it.

EDIT:
It seams each of the game's .EMBB files has a coresponding .BNDLXML05 file.
I packaged the file you wanted with its coresponding .EMBB file, just in case the fact that they share names is significant.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbq1ve1cd5t2u ... h.rar?dl=0

EDIT2:
The input looks like this:
- open input file D:\System\Dropbox\SoW2\.\charactercommon.embb
Again, I hope you'll believe, I would have never bothered you repeatedly if I have known the issue could have been resolved so easily.
I truly did not realize that the other files in the directory could be causing this issue.
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

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Graesholt wrote:In my defence, however, I thought when I chose two files as input, QuickBMS would only interact with those two files, and therefore the other files in the directory would be irrelevant.

That's interesting, indeed that's something that should not happen.
So yeah everything else was wrong but this IS a bug. I have replicated and verified it just now, so well done, I will check and fix it in the next version of quickbms.
That's why I don't give up when users report something strange and this is an important issue that nobody else reported.

Regarding the script I have updated it to skip the *.*xml* files that are totally useless.
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

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Graesholt wrote: I thought when I chose two files as input, QuickBMS would only interact with those two files, and therefore the other files in the directory would be irrelevant.

i can confirm this as well, been happening since a year or so, i thought it was just how it worked. :)
if i had a folder with 10 files in it and i select 5 to run a script on, Quickbms will try to run script on all 10 anyway. :P
Mygoshi
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

Post by Mygoshi »

So is there a new version of QuickBMS? To be honest, like Acewell, if a folder contains 10 files and that I want only 5 of them to be script-applied, QuickBMS thinks I want to apply the script to the whole folder, so I was obliged to create a new folder and put only the 5 files in it. It was quite annoying.
Last edited by Mygoshi on Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

Post by aluigi »

Oh guys, did you all wake up just now?
If it wasn't for Graesholt who casually let me noticing the problem we would have not knowing it yet :)

In the meantime the solution is very simple: -F "{}.EXTENSION" to filter the input files
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Re: Shadow of Mordor embb

Post by Acewell »

aluigi wrote:Oh guys, did you all wake up just now?

this bug has been so long i thought you designed it to work that way since you did not identify it either :P