Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
oux
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Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by oux »

Hello...

I'm ashamed to ask one more time to help with the extraction of these files:
https://mega.nz/#!Faxn0BKC!Qi0k0jc-8q6b ... suEeA-T0B8

I checked "search" box, but didn't find nothing useful. I found this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=49
But the method didn't work for me.
aluigi
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by aluigi »

You are wrong.
oux
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by oux »

aluigi wrote:You are wrong.

I don't understand how the software works. I've tried to use everything, but only an archive explorer was working. But it showed music files with .sshao extension or something like that...
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by aluigi »

Usage:

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Gibbed.Dunia.Unpack.exe sound.fat output_folder

In your first post you simply said that "the method didn't work", while extraction works perfectly.

Once the extraction is accomplished your next step is searching the extension (sbao for your sample) on the Internet:
"far cry" "sbao"

Just FYI the avatar.bms method (one of the first results) doesn't work with those sbao files because they are not "PAK!" archives.
oux
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by oux »

Someone help me, I can't figure out what to do with .sbao file-extension.
I've used google, but all answers was about ssao/hbao ambient lightning.
Here are examples: http://rgho.st/7QZjSh4sX
aluigi
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

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oux wrote:I've used google, but all answers was about ssao/hbao ambient lightning.

That's because you are using another Internet apparently.

If you use the search string I provided in my previous post on the normal Google of the normal Internet that everybody else uses, you would have found tons of results related to the search.

Long story short, coming from few seconds spent on the search results since audio is not my field, use decubisnd:
https://bitbucket.org/Zenchreal/decubisnd/downloads/

P.S.: Please next time you open a topic or make a post learn from the mistakes you did in this one, unfortunately every mistake or incomplete/wrong/missing information means that someone else must waste his time or must ignore you.
oux
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Re: Far Cry 2 .dat / .fat

Post by oux »

Thank you mr. Aluigi for help, and that you developed this software. I am a bit new to looking into game archives, sometimes I don't understand simple things...

The program fetches audio files without proper names.
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Any way to fix it?