Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

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Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by AMG »

Hello,
This game main data is packed in a big archive "ARCHIVE0.AR" which weights 2+ GBs so I can't even upload a sample of it.
Then there's another file beside this, "CDFILES.DAT" which I've attached.
At first I tought the Nascar 2011 script could work because of the same archive names, but it doesn't.
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by AMG »

Ekey wrote:http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/namco_games_ar.bms


Tried and doesn't work, I receive the same error as with the Nascar 2011 script
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by aluigi »

Updated to version 0.1.2
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by AMG »

Retried with both scripts and still same errors as before.
Nascar2011 script says: "Can't read 1 bytes from offset 00030548"
Namco Games script says: "Can't read 1 bytes from offset 00030547"
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by aluigi »

Are you 100% sure to have downloaded the new script?
Here everything worked perfectly with the file you provided.
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by Delacroix »

And another question: are you sure your QuickBMS is up-to-date? More often than not new scripts tend to fail on older QuickBMS versions!
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

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Yes, downloaded the latest scripts and used QuickBMS 0.7.1, still the same problem
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by AMG »

Retried now and worked! Seems like even if you updated the script before I wasn't able to get the newer one for some strange reason so I was still using the older one (v0.1.1). Now unpacks fine with v0.1.2, thanks alot!
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

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:D
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by Not Available »

Thought I'd have a shot using the v0.1.2 script on HW: Beat that files, which share similar .ar/dat structure. And is made by the same studio.
I know I'll expect to see ARC files upon unpacking, it says so in cdfiles.dat

Well, EOF error, along with it missing the file name "partition" of the file. (Think that's the best way I can explain it)

Reading the log from a redirected stdout file, I could tell the offset for # of files is read in the wrong place.

(Also, I gotta give an update w.r.t NFS:W vinyl and licence plate data in the NFS:U thread which I noticed the script happens to omit)
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Re: Supercar Challenge "ARCHIVE0.AR" & "CDFILES.DAT"

Post by aluigi »

Script 0.1.3 :)