Darkness II

[patyek]

Hi!

I used the quickmbs to extract the H.misc.cache file, and i've got the localization file (Languages.cl), but how i extract/repack or edit it?

Br.: Patyek

[desperado]

Up.

[swuforce]

Try the tools from the sources.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=645

[patyek]

Try the tools from the sources.
https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=645

Hi!

I installed the autolt and download the 2 script for darkness 2 (import and export) i put these files and the Languages.cl in one directory try to run the extract script and get this error (see the attachment).

[MerlinSVK]

Binary.au3 is missing.
viewtopic.php?p=25414#p25414

[patyek]

Binary.au3 is missing.
https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?p=25414#p25414

Very big thanks! :R

[patyek]

I stuck again. I tried to repack the files, and i've got an error message (in this case too, when i tried to repack the unkpacked unedited file).

What could be the problem?

[aluigi]

Reimporting the files compressed with the "evolution" algorithm is not possible because there is no re-compressor available.
If I remember correctly that "evolution" is a known algorithm and library (lz4 maybe?) but I don't remember what it it so it can't be replaced (anyway if it was lz4, it can't be used in reimporting because the game will crash).

[patyek]

Unfortunately, I do not know what kind of compression algorithm used. So useless managed to extract the file that contains the text and managed to put back the original file recompression is no longer possible.

[aluigi]

Ok I made a check and those algorithms are, apparently, all the same:
LCF (67)
DARKSECTOR_NOCHUNKS (213)
FASTLZAH (274)
EVOLUTION (362)
UNKNOWN6 (371)
LZFX (350)

The good news is that LZFX has a recompression function and so it can be used in reimport mode
That does NOT mean that the game will work for sure with the edited files but now you can try.
Keep me update

[patyek]

Okay, but how i reimport the languages.cl into the original files (H.Misc.cache and H.Misc.toc)? Please write it step by step. Sorry, but i don't percfect in the compression methods, i just translate texts. Thanks!

[aluigi]

Yesterday I have added the following to the rules topic:

How to reimport files with QuickBMS?
Read section 3 of http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms.txt
If that's still not clear take a look at this example viewtopic.php?p=23032#p23032
Long story short: the procedure is the same you used for extraction (I really mean the same: same input file and folder!)

[patyek]

Yesterday I have added the following to the rules topic:

How to reimport files with QuickBMS?
Read section 3 of http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms.txt
If that's still not clear take a look at this example https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?p=23032#p23032
Long story short: the procedure is the same you used for extraction (I really mean the same: same input file and folder!)

Hi!

1. reimport.bat file
2. browse the darkness2.mbs file
3. browse the H.Misc.toc file
4. click on the save, because i don't create a folder (but i try too)

And then the qmbs ask me a question, i answer this - y. See bellow:

- open input file D:\ds2\H.Misc.toc
- open script D:\ds2\darkness2.bms
- set output folder D:\ds2

offset filesize filename
--------------------------------------
- enter in folder D:\ds2
coverage file 0 0% 0 2754536 . offset 00000000
- open input file D:\ds2\H.Misc.toc
- enter in folder D:\ds2
- open input file D:\ds2\H.Misc.cache
- REIMPORT MEMORY_FILE WORK-AROUND: "/Languages.cl"

- Do you want to use the experimental reimporting of chunked MEMORY_FILE (y/N)?
y

Error: unsupported compression 362 in reimport mode

Last script line before the error or that produced the error:
85 clog MEMORY_FILE OFFSET CHUNK_ZSIZE CHUNK_SIZE 1

Press ENTER or close the window to quit

[aluigi]

You used it correctly but you forgot to replace comtype evolution with comtype lzfx.
Anyway it's useless to do it because now I have noticed that the format uses chunks so no real working way to do reimporting.
In short: no solution.

[patyek]

Thanks for your answer! :R That was exactly what I was curious about. Unfortunately, this is a dead project.