Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance(XBOX) - sample files

[AnonBaiter]

Here are the samples.

And yes, I tried that Konami DAT Utility tool but it says it's not compartible with the file.

[Ekey]

http://web.archive.org/web/200809271015 ... olidus.rar

[AnonBaiter]

I had no luck with that tool either.

[AnonBaiter]

So far I managed to write a script:

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get ARCHIVES long
for i = 0 < ARCHIVES
   getdstring NAME 0xC
   get ZERO long
   get OFFSET long
   get SIZE long
   math OFFSET * 0x800
   math SIZE * 0x800
#   putarray 0 i NAME # for testing purposes
#   putarray 1 i OFFSET
#   putarray 2 i SIZE
   log NAME OFFSET SIZE
next i

So far it only counts how many archives there are inside these disc#*_#*.dat files. I don't know where are the offsets of these files(besides, I even suspected the references are inside the .xbe files), so this is just for debugging purposes.
EDIT: Now I managed to figure out the .dat files. Basically, it extracts only the .dat archives inside the, well, .dat archive. I tested this on a concatenated .dat file, so if anyone has any solutions to handle these without errors I'll be welcome to hear their ideas.

*For those curious, the # symbol represents a number.

[aluigi]

Can you provide the full disc1_0.dat and disc2_0.dat?

[AnonBaiter]

I'll try.

EDIT: Here's the file. The compressed size was surprisingly smaller than expected, possibly because the files themselves contain nothing but a bunch of zeroes after their first few bytes.

[AnonBaiter]

Anything else yet?

[aluigi]

Don't edit the posts or I will not be able to see the updates. Make new posts

[aluigi]

Yeah they are completely empty and, so, totally useless.
Well at least we tried

[AnonBaiter]

Don't edit the posts or I will not be able to see the updates. Make new posts

Sorry...

Anyway, what shall "we" do now? Do you think I should upload more files to see if there is data or...?

[aluigi]

There is no plan B

[AnonBaiter]

Well, seems like concatenating the files is the only way. Does anyone approve of this idea?

[aluigi]

And what you do when you have one huge file without information about the files archived in it?

[AnonBaiter]

Well, there are some information about the fies, starting with both disc1_1.dat and disc2_1.dat. Look here:

disc1_1.dat and beyond

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06493000  10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ................
06493010  01 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .... ...........
06493020  00 00 A8 00 00 7F AC 44 01 01 11 00 00 00 00 00  ..¨...¬D........
06493030  01 00 00 00 10 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .....@..........
06493040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
06493050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
06493060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
06493070  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
06493080  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
06493090  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930A0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930B0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930C0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930D0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930E0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
064930F0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

disc2_1.dat and beyond

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0CD96000  10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00  ................
0CD96010  10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ................
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0CD96070  10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 07 00  ................
0CD96080  02 00 00 00 A0 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .... ...........
0CD96090  02 00 00 80 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...€ ...........
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0CD960B0  03 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....@...........
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