Can anyone tell how to edit the *.BAG files in brian lara International cricket 2005 demo?
I tried to open the *.bag files using game extractor,total commander,multiex commander etc.. but none of them were able to read the *.bag files.SO kindly help how to extract the files from the *.bag archive.
Link for the game ->
http://www.codemasters.co.uk/brianlara/index.php
Thanks for the help.
Here are sample files
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=18PGDLCX
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=183G5JHX
this is what i get in game extractor
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BAG file in Brian Lara International Cricket 2005
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Can you change the link to http://rapidshare.de/ ?
To wait 40 seconds before download is a pain in the a**.
BTW the *.bag is no archive at all. It's a file with plain text inside and it looks like a kind of database. So your game should be able to open the file.
sheepdog
To wait 40 seconds before download is a pain in the a**.
BTW the *.bag is no archive at all. It's a file with plain text inside and it looks like a kind of database. So your game should be able to open the file.
sheepdog
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No its an archive file.It was the same format which was used some 'Empire earth dune' (donno the correct name) game.This is what i could find for BAG archive file
BAG ARCHIVE FILE FORMAT V1.1
by Jeff Connelly
The main goal of bag archives is to provide a simple and efficant way to
combine many files into one. For that reason, it is extreamly simple.
The header is at the beginning of the file:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 3 char ID='BAG'
0003h 2 char Version, ID='11'
There is one file block for each file:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 dword File length in bytes
0004h 1 byte Filename length
????h ? char Filename
????h ? char File contents
At the very end of the file is:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 char EOF marker, ID=1A
A file length of zero in a file block indicates a special file that will be
used as a description. Directorys are also stored in the filename field:
Filename='> dirname' means change current directory to 'dirname'.
For example,
Filename='> JEFF'
Filename='> COMPUTER'
Filename='> BAG'
Would make the directory be JEFF\COMPUTER\BAG. Files are put in the current
directory.
The files contents is not always raw data, it can be compressed. A
four-byte
signature can specifiy the compression scheme:
---- Compression ----
LZW LZW encoded (note extra space at end)
RLEn RLE method N (1 to 4) encoded
HUFF Huffman encoded
LZHF LZHUF encoded (LZSS + Arithmetic) (Note - the authors of LZHUF to
not allow using is for any commicial purpose)
LZAR LZARI encoded (LZSS + Huffman)
WCOD Word coded -- text only
If no signature is found it is assumed to be raw data.
The word coding compression is as follows:
* Initalize dictionary (max. size FFFF)
* Loop until end-of-file
* Read a space-delimited word from the input stream
* Search for the word in the dictionary
* If it is not there, add it to the first free space and output location
of where in the dictionary the word was added as a 16-bit integer.
* If it is there, output the location of where it is as a 16-bit
integer.
* Write dictionary at end of file. Each word is null-terminated, whole
dictionary is double-null terminated.
This means that each word will be encoded as 2 bytes.
The last character is an end-of-file character to insure the whole file was
recived when transfering this archive.
BAG ARCHIVE FILE FORMAT V1.1
by Jeff Connelly
The main goal of bag archives is to provide a simple and efficant way to
combine many files into one. For that reason, it is extreamly simple.
The header is at the beginning of the file:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 3 char ID='BAG'
0003h 2 char Version, ID='11'
There is one file block for each file:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 dword File length in bytes
0004h 1 byte Filename length
????h ? char Filename
????h ? char File contents
At the very end of the file is:
OFFSET Count TYPE Description
0000h 1 char EOF marker, ID=1A
A file length of zero in a file block indicates a special file that will be
used as a description. Directorys are also stored in the filename field:
Filename='> dirname' means change current directory to 'dirname'.
For example,
Filename='> JEFF'
Filename='> COMPUTER'
Filename='> BAG'
Would make the directory be JEFF\COMPUTER\BAG. Files are put in the current
directory.
The files contents is not always raw data, it can be compressed. A
four-byte
signature can specifiy the compression scheme:
---- Compression ----
LZW LZW encoded (note extra space at end)
RLEn RLE method N (1 to 4) encoded
HUFF Huffman encoded
LZHF LZHUF encoded (LZSS + Arithmetic) (Note - the authors of LZHUF to
not allow using is for any commicial purpose)
LZAR LZARI encoded (LZSS + Huffman)
WCOD Word coded -- text only
If no signature is found it is assumed to be raw data.
The word coding compression is as follows:
* Initalize dictionary (max. size FFFF)
* Loop until end-of-file
* Read a space-delimited word from the input stream
* Search for the word in the dictionary
* If it is not there, add it to the first free space and output location
of where in the dictionary the word was added as a 16-bit integer.
* If it is there, output the location of where it is as a 16-bit
integer.
* Write dictionary at end of file. Each word is null-terminated, whole
dictionary is double-null terminated.
This means that each word will be encoded as 2 bytes.
The last character is an end-of-file character to insure the whole file was
recived when transfering this archive.
After a lot of waiting i couldn't resist myself in making my own BAG viewer.ANd thanks to all those who replied.I appreciate it.
If anyone wants the BAG viewer which supports only uncompressed bag files, I will post it
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If anyone wants the BAG viewer which supports only uncompressed bag files, I will post it
Image: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5885/12su.jpg
