iPhone sprite ripping

[puggsoy]

Here's what I've found so far; BAR doesn't seem to be a consistent format. It's simply an extension used for most of the resources. For example, looking at res_character.bar and strings.bar (in a hex editor), you can see that they're pretty different and their first few bytes have no resemblance to each other.

On the other hand, however, some files do look similar. res_character.bar and res_worldmap.bar both share "DF 05 31 25 01" as the first 5 bytes, suggesting that they have some sort of header. res_manparts.bar has the same first 3 bytes, so may also be similar in structure.

However, it appears so far that only files with "sprites" in the name contain any, uh, sprites. Looking in Texture Finder reveals some things like this:



I imagine that files like res_manparts.bar and res_womanparts.bar contain information on how to use these sprites.

It's not all that wonderful though, some things are shoved around to the other side:



And others are just plain screwed up:



So yeah, we're getting somewhere, but not quite there yet. If I could figure out the format of these files I could probably get the images out nicely but that'll take some work.

I'm kinda busy so I'm gonna have to leave this for a wee while but yeah, hopefully that's somewhat helpful.