.pre ripping?

kzos · #1 09-08-2003, 21:14

Ok, I'm a member of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater community, and recently, TH4PC had finally been announced, and a demo was made back in May or sometime around then. After thinking I got my broken PS2 I got free working, I purchased Tony Hawk 4 from a friend only to find out that my PS2 didn't work. I decided that I was tired of messing with my PS2 and was going to work on getting a working copy of Tony Hawk 4 before it was sold on PC. I've used a program made by another THPS community member, sporadic, that rips apart the .hed and .wad files, giving me most of what's on the disk, including levels, scripts, textures, geometry files, and a lot of other useful files. The PC version is a direct Xbox port, which barely differs from the PS2 version, filesizes are minutely different aside from the geometry files and scripts, which are exactly the same size. The only problem is that the Xbox has the scripts for each level broken up into tiny script files, whereas the PS2 has them compressed into singular .pre files. Is there any program that can rip apart each .pre file into the smaller scripts, like in the Xbox version? I've tried to hex the crap out of it, but I just can't seem to do it. Any help is welcome.

psx_paul · #2 17-08-2003, 01:52

Hi kzos, welcome to the forum

What you are trying to do sounds a bit complicated, and to be honest there is probably nobody on this board who would know the answer or be able to help you out (hence the lack of replies).

I would suggest you head over to http://www.ps2newz.net and ask you question in their PS2 Homebrew/Dev & Emu Scene section.

kzos · #3 19-08-2003, 21:16

What I was trying to do was indeed truely complicated, thanks for the reply though. The funny thing is that I actually bought a PS2, so I can play it on there without having to go through the pains of ripping the .pre files apart, and it's now out on PC after the developers had delayed for about 3 months. Thanks for the link though, I'd checked a couple dev sites before though. It's really crazy what some people have done in the THPS community, like a guy (Ksk8er) had ripped apart the files included on one of the game disks for PS2 and found levels that had not been completed, fixed pretty much all the files, and got the files, designed for PS2, to work on the PC version of the game. Truely some great programming skills.

dust2dust · #4 19-08-2003, 22:37

theres some clever mother .....ers out there

psx_paul · #5 20-08-2003, 12:52

Quote:

Originally posted by dust2dust
theres some clever mother .....ers out there

Thanks dust, I will take that as a compliment