Luigi Auriemma

From what I have read it is possible to identify the fsb key from the text that appears when you examine the file in a hex editor. When I try this on a file such as this http://www.sendspace.com/file/t9y0lx I cannot immediately see anything which would resemble the 31-byte key that fsbext.exe is asking for. I was wondering if somebody would be able to offer some hints as to what I am looking for with respect to the key.

I will try the guessfsb application after I am certain that the file I am examining is in fact an encrypted fsb file.

P.S The files came from the silent hill wii game, just in case that helps

the file is not encrypted, it's simply a custom archive containing various files included a FSB one at offset 0x1124.
the FSB archive can be extracted correctly, I see only a problem in replying the extracted files (with -a option obviously) because looks like the coefficient (they are gc dsp files) is wrong... mistery

Are you able to help me create a quickbms script for this? I am stuck because I do not know what address get FILES long should use

as written in the comment I don't know if all these archives have ever 2 files (a fev and fsb one) so I have adopted a particular method to extract all the files in any case

Thankyou very much aluigi, that is amazing!!

I cannot use the fsb files yet but I do not care, I will find a way later.

I will have to study the code to learn how to use it on the rest of the archives. I hope you do not mind me asking you questions about the code.

I am trying to modify your code to work on this file here http://www.sendspace.com/file/nya36d and many other archives which are similar

This is what I have completed so far, unfortunately it doesn't work yet.



I wasn't sure what to put as the 'getdstring FULLNAME 0x??' because the sizes seem to vary. Can you please guide me to make it work for other files? I can give you many more samples if you need.

mah, chaotic format

I think they are trying to trick us.

When I use fsbext -l it will list something like 'mono, hw3d,GC_adpcm 32000 1 16' which is nice but the files are not playable with these settings. They become closer to being playable when 8-bit resolution 22050 sample rate is used but still not good enough.

This is very interesting because there are some crazy methods being used here.

So I've extracted all these archives from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories game (Wii version) arc -> fev -> fsb and got these wavs (stereo,hw2d,GC_adpcm 22050 2 16) from fsbs which are unplayable. I wonder if there is a way to convert them/make playable or perhaps extract properly?

Try searching on Xentax first next time, I've already reversed the format: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4245 - works with every known platform version of the game (Wii, PS2 and PSP). :)
All FSB-files are decodable with vgmstream.

Yeah, I've already been there and I used your scripts to extract arcs and fevs (thanks a lot for that btw. Great job, man). And then I used fsbext to extract fsbs from fevs and I got wavs. But these wavs cannot be played, so could you please be more specific about steps to make them playable?
BTW for some reason vgstream fails to open fsb.

Edit: Okay. Figured out myself after trials and errors ). Used fsbii 0.6 to makes single streamed fsb and converted them using vgstream.