Shattered Horizon [PC] Strange Encryption

pietastesgood · **Joined:** 11 Sep 2009 23:56 **Posts:** 23

Hi again,

This game uses some kind of encryption in .dat archives.

Here is one of them: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IT82WNBG

Perhaps you could work your magic please, Luigi? :)

aluigi · **Posted:** 14 Dec 2009 22:29

the file is no longer available, have you tried to propose the project on xentax first?

pietastesgood · **Joined:** 11 Sep 2009 23:56 **Posts:** 23

Not yet, but the file should still be working.

aluigi · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2009 16:00

for anyone else interested: the file seems to use a charset/substitution algorithm or something similar because both xor and rot don't return "readable" results

zeroy · **Joined:** 18 Nov 2010 00:25 **Posts:** 1

aluigi wrote:

for anyone else interested: the file seems to use a charset/substitution algorithm or something similar because both xor and rot don't return "readable" results

Hi Luigi, i know this is an old topic but did you get anywhere beyond the above post on those DAT files? Here is one of about 4Mb if needed:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AEMHI7AL

Also found someone who did manage to get access:

Quote:

Not so much encryption but use of a generic filetype for storing folders & files. I've got one program that can open them and read it as plain english - most files anyways - but it can't make changes.

Sources

Thanks for all you do!!

aluigi · **Posted:** 22 Feb 2011 18:04

just done:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/shattered_horizon.bms

the only problem is that it's a bit slow because quickbms is not good for the byte-per-byte operations but after all the extraction is done one time in the life so no trouble :)

ceckin · **Joined:** 27 Feb 2011 19:11 **Posts:** 5

Hi Luigi great progress on this files, but i ran into some problems.

1) The script can't handle big files (i think around 60MB is the limit), i tried 2 versions (and the x64 beta) all of them crash. The file in question is 124MB.

The output is:

while with the older versions, the program crashed because of malloc().

2) There are 3 files, that the script doesn't recognize, can you check up on them?

Code:

http://bit.ly/fCT3x4

aluigi · **Posted:** 27 Feb 2011 20:01

1)
can you upload the first 10 megabytes of this file?
here I have the dedicated server only

2)
what you mean exactly?
the names are taken from the same file

then, what's the maximum size of these archives?

ceckin · **Joined:** 27 Feb 2011 19:11 **Posts:** 5

1) This are the first 10MB of the file mentioned above (data4410.dat - 124MB total):

Code:

http://bit.ly/fTwXAq

2) This 3 files are in "extra" folder and i think they use different encryption, but still they are .dat files. All 3 of them are uploaded and the link is in the previous post. This are the only 3 files that the script can't recognize.

And one last question, after the extraction the .dds textures are somehow different and most of them cannot be read through a DDS viewers, did you experienced problem with your test?

aluigi · **Posted:** 27 Feb 2011 20:38

in the meantime I'm going to eat something so I reply to point 2 for the moment: they are simply WMA files :)

ceckin · **Joined:** 27 Feb 2011 19:11 **Posts:** 5

aluigi wrote:

in the meantime I'm going to eat something so I reply to point 2 for the moment: they are simply WMA files :)

wow i noticed something was wrong with this AspectRatio in the beginning, but it seems im quite new to this. Thanks for your time and Bon App??tit.

aluigi · **Posted:** 28 Feb 2011 00:07

and now a double good news:
- added support for this file (it had an additional byte that broke the format... mah)
- improved the speed, now the extraction is immediate :)

the link to the script 0.2 is ever the same:
http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/shattered_horizon.bms

ceckin · **Joined:** 27 Feb 2011 19:11 **Posts:** 5

Sorry for the late response, thanks for the new version, now unpacks almost all of the files. Thanks once again Luigi, you're great.

Luigi Auriemma

Shattered Horizon [PC] Strange Encryption