F1 Race Stars (_toc.bundle)

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
Carbune
Posts: 1
Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:47 pm

Re: F1 Race Stars (_toc.bundle)

Post by Carbune »

Many apologies if necroposts are not welcome here, but I'm trying to run your script on the PC files and I'm having a hard time getting what I actually need out of them. I've tried running the script on a number of _toc.bundle files in various subdirectories, but for the most part all I'm getting as output are some oddly named folders like RNTX with a lot of small .dat files in them. I've tried running it and some of the auxiliary scripts that you've posted in this thread, but I haven't been able to get anything out of those .dat files. offzip hasn't helped so far either. What should my next step be? I know it should absolutely be possible to get the whole process to work, seeing as there is one specific website that has almost every character model from the game, but there is one character in particular that they're lacking the texture files for and that's what I'm trying to obtain from this process.

My assumption is that you have the game, hence why you were able to write a script for the PC version in the first place, but in case you don't, I've uploaded an example of what happens when I run quickBMS with the script in ./data_win/bundles/kart_assets, as well as ./data_win/bundles/kart_assets/part_001, both times on the _toc.bundle file. My assumption is that the RNTX folders are supposed to have stuff pertaining to textures, but I could very obviously be wrong.
aluigi
Site Admin
Posts: 12984
Joined: Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:32 pm

Re: F1 Race Stars (_toc.bundle)

Post by aluigi »

Necroposting is accepted and useful, so it's ok.

The format is a sort of collection of resources (data) rather than an archive of files, it's common to have tons of messy files dumped from these resources.

RNTX look like textures to me too but honestly I can't help with the extracted files of games, moreover if they are unknown formats like these ones and are not even real files.
For sure there are no additional information in _toc.bundle and RNTX is raw data based on what I saw checking two different folders here (I have the game).

Feel free to also post in the Graphics section if you wish.