Edith Finch PAK extracting?

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Hi there! I just finished "What Remains of Edith Finch" and I loved it! As i looked into the game directory, I found "FinchGame_Win64.pak", which I think contains all the assets (it's located at "\steamapps\common\EdithFinch\FinchGame\Content\Paks").

Since I love the game, I hope that there is an extractor. I'd really love to extract the great drawings from the family tree, for example. Or the sound files.

All I know is that there is third party software included in the games files called "oodle" ("\steamapps\common\EdithFinch\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\oodle\Win64"), which is in fact a data compression program. So I think it's packed with this program. But since the evaluation SDK isn't available for public ( http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm ), and I'm not a developer, I think that I won't ever get the official extractor.

I really hope that someone who has the required code is reading this discussion, and I also hope that this person will either know a tool which works with this PAK or be able to program it by herself.

Thanks to everyone who's willing to help me!


-Robin

P.S. Sorry if there are typos or grammatical errors in this text. English is not my mother tongue.


EDIT: You can download the PAK file here: https://download.robinle.de/FinchGame_Win64.pak

[cinedine]

PAK is a pretty old format. 7zip might be able to unpack it since it's based on ARC. Else there is QPed II.

Note that what you are about to do is officially against the EULA and assets are copyrighted material.

[laff]

Rename it to .zip from .pak and you should be able to open it.

Originally posted by cinedine:

Note that what you are about to do is officially against the EULA and assets are copyrighted material.

It would depend how the material is used in almost all cases. I've never seen any EULA that restricted opening files personally.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by laff:

I've never seen any EULA that restricted opening files personally.

That's under "decompiling, reverse-engineering and other shenenigans with our stuff".

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Originally posted by cinedine:

7zip might be able to unpack it since it's based on ARC. Else there is QPed II.

Well, I tried 7zip, didn't work. Tried Dragon UnPACKer (which is able to open Quake PAKs), didn't work.

Still, thanks for your help.

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Originally posted by laff:

Rename it to .zip from .pak and you should be able to open it.

Nope, didn't work.

By the way, the file header says:
"........k.......Ä........@..UY¹rÈbe.C±ýÒ<köü?FH.....I.......´........Ä...Œ‚.cd#4.[Audio]......DeviceModuleName=Android......; Defines a platform-specific volume headroom (in dB) for aA._. to provide betterF... consistency with reY.Dt toY.:levels...P{.1Hj.)DB=0....[¿.Ÿ.ProfileManager]...."

Well, doesn't look like zip or... basicly, it doesn't look like any common file header.

In comparison: ZIP starts with "PK........", RAR with "Rar!...", 7z with "7z¼¯'..."

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

You have to know that PAK is no standardized format, there are houndreds of PAK types out there. That's why I wrote about that oodle thing.

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by Robin Le:

You have to know that PAK is no standardized format, there are houndreds of PAK types out there. That's why I wrote about that oodle thing.

A .PAK file is just a renamed .ZIP file. It will most likely contain game assets.

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Originally posted by Robin Le:

You have to know that PAK is no standardized format, there are houndreds of PAK types out there. That's why I wrote about that oodle thing.

A .PAK file is just a renamed .ZIP file. It will most likely contain game assets.

As I said before, it didn't work.

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

EDIT: I uploaded the file to my server. Everybody can download and test it.

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by Robin Le:

Originally posted by Astro_80:

A .PAK file is just a renamed .ZIP file. It will most likely contain game assets.

As I said before, it didn't work.

Rename it to .ZIP

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Originally posted by Astro_80:

Originally posted by Robin Le:

As I said before, it didn't work.

Rename it to .ZIP

You know what? I slowly lose the nerves with you.

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Please, Astro_80, try it. You can try as much as you want.
https://download.robinle.de/FinchGame_Win64.pak

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Robin Le:

Originally posted by cinedine:

7zip might be able to unpack it since it's based on ARC. Else there is QPed II.

Well, I tried 7zip, didn't work. Tried Dragon UnPACKer (which is able to open Quake PAKs), didn't work.

Still, thanks for your help.

Did you try QPed II (Roman 2)? It's from 2015 IIRC and was made to crack open the propietary PAK format.
Else you could try renaming in ARC since it derived from that format, but I honestly doubt it works.
Other way are PAKr or PSARC decompiler. The problem is the extension alone doesn't give away the format as you can just rename files.

Actually I found quite a few ways to handle those file with a simple google query.

Another idea would to open the file in a hex editor and just look up if you can find any program related to it. Here's a non-exhausted list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
The PAK format I was talking about uses "PACK".

[Robin Le (Archiv)]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Robin Le:

Well, I tried 7zip, didn't work. Tried Dragon UnPACKer (which is able to open Quake PAKs), didn't work.

Still, thanks for your help.

Did you try QPed II (Roman 2)? It's from 2015 IIRC and was made to crack open the propietary PAK format.
Else you could try renaming in ARC since it derived from that format, but I honestly doubt it works.
Other way are PAKr or PSARC decompiler. The problem is the extension alone doesn't give away the format as you can just rename files.

Actually I found quite a few ways to handle those file with a simple google query.

Another idea would to open the file in a hex editor and just look up if you can find any program related to it. Here's a non-exhausted list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
The PAK format I was talking about uses "PACK".

Thanks a lot, that was really helpful! I really appreciate that!

[GaryTheSquirrel]

Originally posted by Robin Le:

Originally posted by cinedine:

Did you try QPed II (Roman 2)? It's from 2015 IIRC and was made to crack open the propietary PAK format.
Else you could try renaming in ARC since it derived from that format, but I honestly doubt it works.
Other way are PAKr or PSARC decompiler. The problem is the extension alone doesn't give away the format as you can just rename files.

Actually I found quite a few ways to handle those file with a simple google query.

Another idea would to open the file in a hex editor and just look up if you can find any program related to it. Here's a non-exhausted list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
The PAK format I was talking about uses "PACK".

Thanks a lot, that was really helpful! I really appreciate that!

Hi!
So, how exactly could you open the PAK? With that QPed II? And does it contain the text files as well?