Phlinx To Go pack.dat (ARCPACK?)

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
JeffMakesGames
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Phlinx To Go pack.dat (ARCPACK?)

Post by JeffMakesGames »

Any idea how to look inside this archive?

It's from an old old old game called Phlinx TO Go.

http://www.jeffmakesgames.com/misc/pack.dat (10mb)

I tried Xripper and it didn't see anything.

I looked in the header of the file and I see 'ARCPACK'.

I looked in QuickBMS scripts and see a script for such a thing (http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/playpond.bms - ARCPACK\0) but it doesn't work. It's almost an exact match I think, but not quite.

Any ideas?

This is what happens when I run that script:

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aluigi
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Re: Phlinx To Go pack.dat (ARCPACK?)

Post by aluigi »

I suspect it uses a different key, extraction fails if we ignore that byte
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Re: Phlinx To Go pack.dat (ARCPACK?)

Post by JeffMakesGames »

Is there a way to discover the key?
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Re: Phlinx To Go pack.dat (ARCPACK?)

Post by aluigi »

I don't even know if it's just the matter of the key.
It may be a completely different algorithm.
Just supposing.