1.9 KiB
PSO Ep 1 & 2 (Gamecube) Unencrypted PRS-compressed .gci Quest Extractor
This is a specialized tool written specifically to extract quest .bin and .dat files from .gci dumps of
Gamecube memory card quest files that were saved using a special Action Replay code which included an embedded
decryption key in the save file and then were manually decrypted with that decryption key.
Put another way, this tool will only work on .gci files found on this gc-forever.com forum thread.
And only if they are indicated to be "unencrypted PRS compressed quests" and not "encrypted quests w/ embedded
decryption key".
You cannot use this tool to extract quests from any arbitrary .gci file you have on your Gamecube memory cards!
(Maybe one day someone will reverse-engineer the method in which the Gamecube client derives the encryption key
from the player's serial number and access key. But until then, it is not possible for this tool to work with any
arbitrary .gci file.)
Usage
Quest files on a Gamecube memory card are split into two files per quest. One file contains the quest .bin data, and
the other contains the quest .dat data. Therefore, two .gci files need to be provided to this tool.
Special care should be taken to ensure that the two .gci files you provide are a matching pair and that they are
provided in the right order! The file containing the .bin data should be specified first.
gci_extract 8P-GPOE-PSO______NNN.gci 8P-GPOE-PSO______NNN+1.gci
This will read out the data, parse and validate the quest information and save the raw (compressed) .bin and .dat
file using a filename automatically derived from the quest's ID number.
Or, you can provide your own .bin and .dat filenames if you wish:
gci_extract 8P-GPOE-PSO______NNN.gci 8P-GPOE-PSO______NNN+1.gci myquest.bin myquest.dat