Fable2 BNK Archive Extractor

2008-11-05, 14:54 by Keshire

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Subject: Fable2 BNK Archive Extractor

Attached is a BNK archive extractor I wrote up.

Note: this extractor will not get you any generally usable files. The all internal files in the BNK archives we have seen so far are custom Fable2 formats. However, this is a key step to getting started on cracking the formats of these internal files.

*Updated: Fixed error with dumping archives over 2gb.*

This is strictly a command line tool for the time being.
If you are uncertain of what this means, please google "command line".

usage:
Fable2BNKExtract -e <archivename.bnk>

If you get errors running this make sure you have this installed:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.a…?FamilyID=9…

Finally, if you still have get errors after installing this package, please post as much information as you can about how you generated the error and all details available about the error.

Enjoy! and happy cracking ;-)

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This post was edited on 2008-12-05, 04:49 by TodX.

Keshire Administrator 2008-11-08, 02:15 #2

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Well at least the LUA files are actually lua. Does this still just place the directory path as the file name?

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This currently extracts all the files with the '\'s in the paths replaced with '.'s to make finding files easier. I'll add a full directory dump option later. For now, I figured just being able to play with the files should be a good start.

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