Ace Combat 3 (PS1)- ACE.SPB archive

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
Argonaut
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Ace Combat 3 (PS1)- ACE.SPB archive

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One of my favourite flying games, such a great atmosphere even without the anime cutscenes and voices.. but thanks to Project Nemo, that will one day happen. :D

Annnnyway, I'd love to try and extract some 3D Models, specifically the maps, out of this because even the low poly ones are downright cool and usable for certain projects.

Suprisingly as a late PS1 game, the format is unknown to me- SPH, BPH, BPB all with the name "ACE". Now one file named ACE.SPB is 515MB, but trusting my assumptions tells me that that will probably be all the CD Quality music and videos, as a much more sensible to PS1 3D Model archive named ACE.BPB (what is it with these obfuscated file formats) is 31MB and is sampled below.

Dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/002po6ua6471nst/AC3.rar?dl=0

Thanks!