16-03-2011, 04:52 AM | #1 | ||
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Extracting .DAT files?
I've been playing through Highway Hunter recently and due to my nostalgia I was hooked on it's OST like a hippy is to drugs.
I went through it's game folder and noticed a file named "123.DAT" which I assumed was the file that stored all of it's data mainly becuase it was a .dat extension file and it was the largest file there. However, I'm having trouble just trying to view it's contents as I can't find a .DAT file extractor capable of opening HH's form of data files. I heard that one could extract files from Dos games with Dosbox, although when I read through the tutorials I only saw Dos file configuration. I'm not sure if thats the same thing or not tbh :/. |
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16-03-2011, 06:50 AM | #2 | ||
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It's more complex than that. In DOSBox, all you can do is record the music using the sound recording option.
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16-03-2011, 07:17 AM | #3 | ||
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2. You can record music/sound right from DOSBox - but it is like recording audio with recorder: you need to actually heard everything, from beginning to end. But, it seems, someone already did that. |
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16-03-2011, 09:45 AM | #4 | ||
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It appears that 123.dat is a group of concatenated files preceded with an index. Shouldn't be hard to write an extractor for.
EDIT: It's nearly identical to the RBX format. And that, I already have an extractor for.
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16-03-2011, 02:38 PM | #5 | ||
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http://www.mediafire.com/?dm3sfaktxbmr08a
Ripped contents of the file. The music is in the CMF files - theoretically openable with Winamp if you have AdPlug, but they don't play right on my system. CMFPlay can play them back perfectly, but is a DOS-only utility (you could use it to play them and then record the sound output from DOSBox, if that helps) http://www.dcee.net/Files/Music/Player/ |
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16-03-2011, 09:04 PM | #6 | ||
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