Big Mutha Truckers 2

[Lord Ura]

Good day to everybody. From a looong time I was trying to extract the songs of this game. Finally I've found this site (which helped me with many other games <3 ) but the BMS script didn't worked well. 56 files were extracted called 00000000.dat, 00000001.dat, and so on (numeration is on hexadecimal base). All files are with .dat extension (except for 00000005.uu5, 00000016.dfont and 00000020.txt) and are 170-300 kb files (except for 0000002b.dat and 0000000c.dat, only 1 kb, and 00000037.dat, which is 800 MB).
The game files, for who doesn't know, are in a folder called data, with inside only a big archive called archive.ar and another file called CDFILES.DAT. Opening the latter with a plain text reader there was, between two sections of unreadable text, a list of files which I suppose are the ones in the archive. Those that got my attention where a series of .ogg:

BAR.OGG
SHOP.OGG
HILLBILLY.OGG
AIRRAID.OGG
CANNONBALL.OGG
FEELIT.OGG
INTHEFLOOD.OGG
LONELY.OGG
SHASTA.OGG
THROWDOWN.OGG
WILLIE.OGG
UTION.OGG
TIMINGIRL.OGG
ED.OGG
ALLRIGHTNOW.OGG
ASIWALK.OGG
BEGGIN.OGG
CH1.OGG
CH2.OGG
CH3.OGG
CH4.OGG
1.OGG
10.OGG
2.OGG
3.OGG
4.OGG
5.OGG
6.OGG
7.OGG
8.OGG
9.OGG
ING.OGG
SHUTMEOUT.OGG
MUSIC1_IN.OGG
FLYING.OGG
FLAP.OGG
CRUCIBLE.OGG

Reading around here and xentax this couple archive.ar/CDFILES.DAT was also used for other games. Two are even by the same software house (Eutechnyx), Street Racing Syndicate & NASCAR 2011. The latter has even two bms script, to be used one after the other. Can someone help me with this problem? Any help is appreciated thanks!

[aluigi]

Check if you have the latest version of quickbms (0.8.1) and moreover the latest versions of the following scripts:
http://aluigi.org/bms/namco_games_ar.bms (script 0.1.3)
http://aluigi.org/bms/nascar2011.bms (script 0.1.2)
http://aluigi.org/bms/nascar_2013_arcc_files.bms (script 0.1.2)

The first 2 scripts work on CDFILES.dat and support filenames but using one or the other depends by the game, so try both.
The latter script instead must be used on the files with ARC extension extracted with the previous scripts.

[Lord Ura]

It didn't worked. The only result was with namco_games_ar.bms: twelve 640 b-1,10 kb files were extracted, same hexadecimal name structure, all .dat except two, 00000000.arc and 0000000a.dc5. I've even tried nascar_2013_arcc_files.bms with the former, but I did already know it was useless with a 640 kb file... For curiosity I've also used nascar_2013_arcc_files.bms directly with archive.ar and CDFILES.DAT. Some files were extracted from archive.ar but none of these are listed on CDFILES.DAT, even some broken .png images (I've tried to open them both with paint and IrfanView)

[aluigi]

ok upload CDFILES.DAT and the 2 files generated by the following script on ARCHIVE.AR:
http://aluigi.org/bms/filecutter.bms

[Lord Ura]

Sorry for the delay, I had lost the pc...
I had to make a zip archive, this site don't allow to upload "ar_0_842098688" files

[aluigi]

Already exists a script on my website:
http://aluigi.org/bms/big_mutha_truckers_2.bms

Anyway in my previous post I asked for another file you haven't provided.

[Lord Ura]

OPS...

[Lord Ura]

Already exists a script on my website:
http://aluigi.org/bms/big_mutha_truckers_2.bms

That's the one that didn't worked well... I'll retry it

[Lord Ura]

Nope, didn't worked

[Lord Ura]

I have discovered something. My copy isn't technical the original one, it's a repackage, but it's still official: I have found it in a bonus disc, along with many other stuff, of a magazine I have bought. It's repackaged as a single exe installer. It's possible that the archive files aren't the same of the common release?

[Lord Ura]

Well, I think it's official, I've bought it with an official magazine...

[aluigi]

The format is the usual namco_ar one but it's not a simple or "standard" format, for example the filenames are not handled.
Anyway maybe I will check it in the next days.

[Lord Ura]

Thanks. I'll wait

[aluigi]

Unfortunately I'm unable to find an universal way to make the script compatible with all the existent CDFILES.DAT.
The script is already a work-around.

[aluigi]

Anyway if you want to extract the files of this specific game open the script and put the following under "elif TYPE == 'C'":
get DUMMY long
get DUMMY long

It should work.

[Lord Ura]

Worked like a charm! (with the namco_games_ar.bms script)
along with many files with .dat, .arc and other strange extensions, 175 .ogg files were extracted
Thanky!!

[Lord Ura]

Just a last confirmation: all the 37 songs files are present, althrough the modified script made some doubles (but maybe those were already in the archive) and didn't put the correct names but only hexadecimal random names. Also the dialogues were extracted (in some weird multichannel OGGs...) but, I repeat, all the songs were present (even the instrumental score tracks, the 4 radio transmissions and that one song played only in the pre-menù video. Why it wasn't featured in the game is a mystery...). The sad news is that the programmers compressed the songs to 35-55 kbps... but better than nothing! \m/

[aluigi]

The sad news is that the programmers compressed the songs to 35-55 kbps... but better than nothing! \m/

If you are right about the 35 kbps probably nothing was better
Just joking, happy you found what you needed.

[Lord Ura]

The sad news is that the programmers compressed the songs to 35-55 kbps... but better than nothing! \m/

If you are right about the 35 kbps probably nothing was better

They are as they I've heard them in the game. No problem