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Arcana Heart 3/AH3 Love Max Stage Sprite Rips (decrypted .pac files?) (Read 10506 times)

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Arcana Heart 3/AH3 Love Max Stage Sprite Rips (decrypted .pac files?)
#1  October 05, 2015, 02:19:31 pm
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I have searched the internet for Arcana Heart 3 Stage sprite rips and found nothing.
Justnopoint etc only have the character and HUD sprites for AH3, not the stages.

I also have the steam PC version of Arcana Heart 3 Love max and I know that the stage resource files are encrypted inside .pac files which I assume require a special type of decompiler tool and a script of some sort to open, however I'm not an expert at decrypting so hope someone can help.

They must exist because EXShadow made an AH3 stage, and Tene made a couple (all are under the collections section in MFG DB / MFFA warehoused collection area).

I have all the sprites for the entire game EXCEPT the ones I need - the stage sprites. Any help appreciated!

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#2  October 06, 2015, 08:24:30 am
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Re: Arcana Heart 3/AH3 Love Max Stage Sprite Rips (decrypted .pac files?)
#3  October 07, 2015, 12:45:33 am
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Thanks vgma2,
I did some research on Continuum DeShift.
It seems all the links for it are dead but It seems that tunglash0r made an updated version of continuum deshift called hipster which i downloaded from the dustloop thread talking about both programs here: http://www.dustloop.com/forums/index.php?/forums/topic/2219-regarding-pac-files/

I was able to open some font .pac files with it and export pngs, but when i tried on the stage ,pac data files I got a "unrecognised .pac format" failure message - which according to tunglas0r is not an indefinite error message, it can also mean that the .pac file is empty.
I think the problem may be due to the fact that these .pac files possibly need to be joined like a segmented .rar file or something weird like that?

Anyway, here's as far as I got for any one else trying:
 

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#4  October 09, 2015, 04:47:40 am
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I gave all the rips to ExShadow.

PhantomD

Re: Arcana Heart 3/AH3 Love Max Stage Sprite Rips (decrypted .pac files?)
New #5  October 09, 2015, 05:07:09 pm
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oh, cool! so obviously you were successful in ripping them!
Do you still have access to just the stage sprites?
If not/they are private, do you have any pointers on how to decrypt these .pac files?
Any help would be much appreciated :-)
I will be using them to make AH1/AH3 version of this: 
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Because AH3 Lovemax has all stages from AH1 and 2 also, I assume the AH1 sprite quality will be higher resolution than the ones released on justnopoint/dustloop forums - they both had a strange issue where the two bottom rows of the jigsawed stage sprites are high resolution, but the 3rd top row of jigsaw sprites are half the size of the rest and are pixellated for some reason.


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