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help extracting a .dat file - aviancompatriot - 01-17-2025

i've been meaning to extract some assets from this .dat file which come from this short doujin game
problem is i've tried multiple tools and none of them worked
dxarc? arc_unpacker? GARbro? neither one of these were able to extract the contents of the file,which i know exist due to the hex code listing some of the files inside[Image: Capture-d-cran-2025-01-17-172611.png]
i would very much appreciate any help given for me to figure it out

RE: help extracting a .dat file - Barack Obama - 01-17-2025

Have you tried Dragon Unpacker / HyperRipper?
https://www.elberethzone.net/dragon-unpacker.html
https://github.com/elbereth/DragonUnPACKer

RE: help extracting a .dat file - aviancompatriot - 01-17-2025

(01-17-2025, 12:52 PM)Barack Obama Wrote: Have you tried Dragon Unpacker / HyperRipper?
https://www.elberethzone.net/dragon-unpacker.html
https://github.com/elbereth/DragonUnPACKer
dragonunpacker itself didn't work
but with hyperripper i had found some success
the images came out wobbly and weird

[Image: Capture-d-cran-2025-01-17-215728.png]
though the audio files came out decent though it came with a weird tick example
thanks for this tool though i feel there's something else i could use that could grant a cleaner rip

RE: help extracting a .dat file - ikskoks - 01-29-2025

It seems like data is RLE compressed. You're lucky to get anything from this DAT file, because usually data is totally unreadable when it's compressed.