Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

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frogz2007
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Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

Post by frogz2007 »

Well, I didn't realize that the full version of Sly 3 has the data file in plain sight, unlike the other 2 games where the WAL files are completely hidden from view. However, this one is a WAD, and not the normal WAL / WAC format. Here's the file, which was cut with that file cutter script and compressed using 7-Zip.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n9cki8m1opw0n ... AD.7z?dl=1
aluigi
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Re: Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

Post by aluigi »

It's seems a quite chaotic and complex format, there are no even filenames.
I can just see what it looks like some raw VAG audio.
frogz2007
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Re: Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

Post by frogz2007 »

Oh, darn. It mystifies me as to why Sucker Punch did this with the Sly games, why they put so much protection on the files. I was all excited to see the third game had the main data file actually visible, but I suppose all hopes of anything being done to the game will be shot down immediately. Thanks for looking at it, though!
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Re: Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

Post by aluigi »

In what content are you interested?
If you want the music then you can use a lame ripper script to dump the SShd files and playing them in Winamp:

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findloc OFFSET string "SShd"
do
    goto OFFSET
    get DUMMY long
    findloc NEXT_OFFSET string "SShd" 0 ""
    if NEXT_OFFSET == ""
        get SIZE asize
    else
        math SIZE = NEXT_OFFSET
    endif
    math SIZE -= OFFSET
    log "" OFFSET SIZE
    math OFFSET = NEXT_OFFSET
while NEXT_OFFSET != ""
frogz2007
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Re: Sly 3 - Honor Among Thieves (PS2) - WAD file

Post by frogz2007 »

I was actually aiming at getting it so I could extract the actual levels and swap them out.