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Re: .big Reading [message #66242 is a reply to message #66235] Thu, 29 March 2012 06:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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morerunes wrote on Wed, 28 March 2012 23:10

Alright, I've written some code that seems to work, but I'm not convinced. The output is giving me a bank address of 401621575, which just seems too big to me. Am I missing something?

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I've fixed an error, and gotten a more reasonable bank address value: 6570567

My Code
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The number that :
Quote:

// Capture the bank address
buffer += 2;
long *bankAddress;
bankAddress = (long *) buffer;
buffer -= 2;

printf("Bank Address: %ld", *bankAddress);



is reading out, is the high word of "Char [4] ‘BIGB’" and the low word of "Char [4] Version", which is, for most of the .BIG files I've checked, the red segment in :

Quote:

BIGBd...

or 00644247 in hex,
or 6,570,567 in decimal.

I think by "buffer += 2;", you mean to add 2 dwords to the buffer address.
Instead, what the program does is only add two bytes to the buffer address.

You can resolve this by using "buffer += 2*4;", or, essentially the same thing, "buffer += 8;".

Fixed,
Quote:

// Capture the bank address
buffer += 2*4;
long *bankAddress;
bankAddress = (long *) buffer;
buffer -= 2*4;

printf("Bank Address: %ld", *bankAddress);



should read out the correct bank address (in decimal).

Of the original files, for example, these .BIG files should read out :

graphics.big -> 243,841,850
shaders.big -> 452,290
frontend.big -> 13,794,314
textures.big -> 533,633,006



http://i.imgur.com/vAT1z.png
 
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