is it possible to dump strings with this app?

[israpps]

I've been looking for info from time to time to translate predator concrete jungle

But no clue after the quickbms unpacking and looking at textures with this program

[Swyter]

Sort of. You can see it can currently read (but not write/repack) EDB text spreadsheets directly: https://github.com/eurotools/eurochef#games-edb

The QuickBMS filelist extractor is obsolete, as it misses a good chunk of each EDB file, especially for files with many sections, like text, you won't find any UTF-16 strings in those trimmed files. So extract your Text.edb correctly.

You can do it right via eurochef, which can also unpack/repack filelists, or, if you want to understand how it works, my original gforce-tools 010 Editor scripts:

https://github.com/Swyter/gforce-tools/blob/master/gforce_filelistbin.1sc

[israpps]

The QuickBMS filelist extractor is obsolete, as it misses a good chunk of each EDB file, especially for files with many sections, like text, you won't find any UTF-16 strings in those trimmed files. So extract your Text.edb correctly.

Eurochef can't unpack the predator filelist.000

It complains of unsupported version or something like that
So I guess quickbms is still useful...

[cohaereo]

It complains of unsupported version or something like that So I guess quickbms is still useful...

You need to open the .bin file, not the .000 file

[Swyter]

The QuickBMS filelist extractor is obsolete, as it misses a good chunk of each EDB file, especially for files with many sections, like text, you won't find any UTF-16 strings in those trimmed files. So extract your Text.edb correctly.

Eurochef can't unpack the predator filelist.000

It complains of unsupported version or something like that So I guess quickbms is still useful...

As I said, it's as useful as a bottomless glass; it's extracting a textless Text.edb.

[israpps]

will you ever support dumping the data I'm looking for and repacking? (or you only care for sphinx and others?)

I guess that if you dont, the other option would be trying to get more info from the game ELF with ghidra...

I wanted to translate this game so badly...

[cohaereo]

will you ever support dumping the data I'm looking for and repacking? (or you only care for sphinx and others?)

I guess that if you dont the other option would be trying to get more info from the game ELF with ghidra...

I wanted to translate this game so badly...

Reading spreadsheets (which are used for text) is supported by eurochef. Writing/repacking is not supported yet.

[israpps]

will you ever support dumping the data I'm looking for and repacking? (or you only care for sphinx and others?)
I guess that if you dont the other option would be trying to get more info from the game ELF with ghidra...
I wanted to translate this game so badly...

Reading spreadsheets (which are used for text) is supported by eurochef. Writing/repacking is not supported yet.

it seems not this one... or i'm missing something else?

[cohaereo]

Data spreadsheets are not supported yet, but you're not looking for them. Text spreadsheets should work fine

[israpps]

Data spreadsheets are not supported yet, but you're not looking for them. Text spreadsheets should work fine

ok... so the text should be somewhere else....

[cohaereo]

My bad, I just realised there's no longer a console output for text spreadsheets, eurochef should have created some CSV files in the spreadsheets directory

[israpps]

My bad, I just realised there's no longer a console output for text spreadsheets, eurochef should have created some CSV files in the spreadsheets directory

or eurochef is missing something or eurocom decided to hide text spreadsheets in a different way for predator. because I just made a CMD for loop

for %a in (predator\binary\_bin_ps2\*.edb) do eurochef-cli.exe edb spreadsheets "%a">>LOL.TXR

and all the edb files trow the error of data spreadsheets or say No spreadsheets found in file

and before you ask. yes, I redumped with eurochef, and still same issue

[israpps]

theres also no other file on the ISO image

Just PSS VIdeos, IRX modules and IOPRP images, and a 2gb dummy file....

[israpps]

tested again...

Got some messages on stderr

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to read header:
 ╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┅ Backtrace ┅━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╸

 0: Error: failed to fill whole buffer
           While parsing field 'hashcode' in EXGeoCommonArrayElement
     at eurochef-edb\src\array.rs:250
 1: While parsing field 'common' in EXGeoSpreadSheetHeader
     at eurochef-edb\src\common.rs:147
 2: While parsing field 'spreadsheet_list' in EXGeoHeader
     at eurochef-edb\src\header.rs:53

 ╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╸

', eurochef\cli\src\edb\spreadsheets.rs:24:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to read header:
 ╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┅ Backtrace ┅━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╸

 0: Error: Se ha intentado mover el puntero del archivo más allá del inicio del archivo. (os error 131)
           While parsing field 'font_list' in EXGeoHeader
     at eurochef-edb\src\header.rs:54

 ╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╸

', eurochef\cli\src\edb\spreadsheets.rs:24:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

[israpps]

seems theres more interesting things here...

Predator has two custom IRX modules

EXAudCD.irx & EXAudDVD.irx

Maybe these two are in charge of creating that x:/ drive I see on ghidra