the hunter game help

deve · **Joined:** 19 May 2009 21:37 **Posts:** 28

I have extracted all the game archives with quickbms but all the files are ending with a .dat extension ? How can I edit then repack those files?

aluigi · **Posted:** 01 Nov 2009 19:45

I don't know, I only wrote the extractor and the archives of this game don't contain the names of the stored file

deve · **Joined:** 19 May 2009 21:37 **Posts:** 28

then without a unpacker for this .dat files is your bms script useless I think sorry to say that

Sethioz · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2007 02:12 **Posts:** 805

.dat is a data file, which in most of the cases contains plain text.
if not, then there is no way to 'decrypt' it. because game simply uses that kind of format to read data.
if you wish to edit a game which's .dat file is in binary, then you would have to reverse engineer whole game engine and understand how game reads the data from the file.

deve · **Joined:** 19 May 2009 21:37 **Posts:** 28

Sethioz wrote:

.dat is a data file, which in most of the cases contains plain text.
if not, then there is no way to 'decrypt' it. because game simply uses that kind of format to read data.
if you wish to edit a game which's .dat file is in binary, then you would have to reverse engineer whole game engine and understand how game reads the data from the file.

thanks for the info but unfortunitly all the extracted files are in .dat file extension and none of them is a plan text thats bad..

Sethioz · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2007 02:12 **Posts:** 805

uhm confused.
just to clarify things..you did open .dat file with notepad++ right ? and inside you find some random data ? or you never tried to open them ?

what i mean is that it is not in CLEAR text, but most of the .dat file content is usually readable data. theres bunch of "NUL" strings, but there's still readable/editable data.
like in some strategy game's, .dat files contain stuff like unit costs, unit damage..etc.

Luigi Auriemma

the hunter game help