[ARCADE] House of the Dead EX (.dat)

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MakutaMaster962
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[ARCADE] House of the Dead EX (.dat)

Post by MakutaMaster962 »

Can anyone please help me access the contents of the .dat file for House of the Dead EX(specifically, the music)?

All of the game data is in these archives:

Part 1: https://mega.co.nz/#!K4JmQKbR!aWw_OOkP5 ... 2l4y1XPlNs
Part 2: https://mega.co.nz/#!KlIwUaYI!-8AC4jBr9 ... kcgXsXBALY
Part 3: https://mega.co.nz/#!a5RjkAQZ!TF8mRLd1c ... zuyxxafiOw
Part 4: https://mega.co.nz/#!ztoU0KDD!i6VoKXHkt ... 8x2wrEBMc0
Part 5: https://mega.co.nz/#!m1hkHKLQ!4GWDaFluM ... ZOdcP-mEzg


I used WinRAR to split the .dat file into 5 parts.

EDIT: I just now noticed that the links for parts 2 and 3 were the same. This is now fixed.
Last edited by MakutaMaster962 on Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:56 pm, edited 2 times in total.
aluigi
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Re: [ARCADE] House of the Dead EX (.dat)

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It seems all obfuscated.
With big files the best solution is to use the filecutter script to avoid to upload/download tons of stuff for nothing:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/filecutter.bms
MakutaMaster962
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Re: [ARCADE] House of the Dead EX (.dat)

Post by MakutaMaster962 »

aluigi wrote:It seems all obfuscated.
With big files the best solution is to use the filecutter script to avoid to upload/download tons of stuff for nothing:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/filecutter.bms


Thank you for responding, aluigi. I noticed just before writing this that the links for parts 2 and 3 were the same. This has been fixed.

Okay, I used the filecutter BMS script on the .dat file, and it gave me 2 files named: hotdex.dat_0_-520093696, and hotdex.dat_-522190848_-520093696, which I have put in a .zip file which I've attached to this post.

Is there anything else I need to do?
aluigi
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Re: [ARCADE] House of the Dead EX (.dat)

Post by aluigi »

Currently no, the whole archive is encrypted.