x1nixmzeng / project-grabbed

An old collection of reverse engineering efforts to explore and extract files from Grabbed by the Ghoulies

Project Grabbed

A collection of reverse engineering efforts to explore and extract files from Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

The source files were originally written as part of a remake of the original Xbox game, and this repo is a subset of files from that app.

Supported Files

Over the years I have researched other games developed by Rare, covering their titles on Xbox and Xbox360.

Game	Platform	Version	Formats
Grabbed by the Ghoulies (demo)	Xbox	n/a	localisation, audio, fonts, textures
Grabbed by the Ghoulies	Xbox	n/a	localisation, audio, fonts, textures
Kameo: Elements of Power (alpha)	Xbox	CAFF24.09.03.0026	textures
Conker: Live & Reloaded (demo)	Xbox	CAFF24.09.03.0026	textures
Conker: Live & Reloaded	Xbox	CAFF28.01.05.0031	textures
Kameo: Elements of Power	Xbox360	CAFF28.01.05.0031	localisation
Perfect Dark Zero	Xbox360	CAFF28.01.05.0031	localisation
Viva Piñata	PC/Xbox360	CAFF07.08.06.0036	localisation
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts	Xbox360	CAFF07.08.06.0036	localisation
1 vs. 100	Xbox360	CAFF07.08.06.0036	textures (bin), resources (xzp)
Jetpac Refuelled	Xbox360	n/a	localisation

Note that although 1 vs. 100 was not developed by Rare, it uses a very similar CAFF format

Code Structure

The source is split into shared libraries (.lib) files that link with one of the tools. A rough structure is:

• scripts - directory for GENie project generation (https://github.com/bkaradzic/GENie)
• src/external - gitmodule dependencies live here
• src/base - provides shared file streaming, endian helper, zlib utilities, etc

The shared libraries for games are here too:

• src/ghoulies - main project for Grabbed by the Ghoulies
• src/kameo - main project for Kameo

(see the table above for the full list of supported games)

The main apps are stored in src/tools

• src/tools/hashlookup - reverse hash lookup for Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Kameo, and Pinata
• src/tools/demandinfo - loose bundle extractor for Grabbed by the Ghoulies

(there are various here)

See Also

• Szkaradek123's model importer (Python, for Blender) - https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12463
• RareWare Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/RareWare/
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Rare Wiki) - https://rarewiki.com/wiki/Grabbed_by_the_Ghoulies

project-grabbed's Issues

Add support for Project Bean

Long story shot, there looks to be a version of GoldenEye for XLBA that could likely be supported by this project

Getting models out of the .mb.bin file

I used the github build of onevs_app.exe, but it only extracts textures. Is there any way to maybe get actual 3D models that could be converted into something normal like .obj?

Possible interest to Xbox 360 Live game '1 vs. 100'

Hey!

I am currently looking into the files of the defunct Xbox Live game '1 vs. 100', and I've noticed that some of the files seem to be encrypted via a method similar to Rare games. Each file has a heading CAFF07.08.06.0036, just like Viva Piñata and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. Perhaps there could be some common interest into this?

You can find two versions of the game here:
https://archive.org/details/1Vs1002.0.1167.0.02Dec072009
https://archive.org/details/1Vs1002.0.1317.0.0220100414.7z

All files that contain the heading seem to be in the 'set' folder, probably where the models, textures, some audio clips, etc. are stored.

How to run the tool?

Not much documentation in the readme file about running the tool.