Madden NFL 08 Decompression Utility!!!

[jose21crisis]

Ok, I found the Steelers playbook, 68.dat. I was reading the names of the plays and got tiped off by the "Steelers Cross". Now, the question of the night is how to change this to a format that an editor can actually read. I tried saving it as a .pbo. No dice.

[jose21crisis]

Tried to save the file as a .pbo and open it on the Madden 08 Playbook editor. It loaded. But I tried to save it yo see if any editor could load the new saved file. Had a crash.

[jose21crisis]

Let's go. Alright, so I took a visit to the "Plays and Playbooks" forum. Found this and it worked perfectly:

Try this to get the playbook to open in the editor:

1) Open the playbook in the db editor and go into the formation audible table (PBFM). Anywhere you see a "511", change it to zero.

2) Go to the PBST table; delete any record (the entire line), where the SETL value=0 (they are labeled with positions, like HB, FB, etc...)

3) Go to the PSAL table and export it to a .csv file. Open in excel and sort the values by "code" delete all lines that contain code=255. (This is some kind of placeholder code that pacfan's editor doesn't recognize. It won't affect any of the plays.)

It worked, so give it a try.

[VirdeeMan]

Awesome! Thank you Calhoupe!

[jose21crisis]

Actually those dats look like they are opened in the db editor.

Found your playbook. 59.dat. Packers Offensive Playbook

[elguapo]

Works like a charm!

Also with a spreadsheet you can a create command script to rename the files to something like this 00025-UIS_LIB_LOGO_SLIVERS.mmap and then use DBR4.exe to create an IMPORT script to add them back to the DAT file. (remember to add one more when renaming the files. DBR4.exe doesn't recognize zero based files)

[trey31]

I can confirm this works.
Wow..

Double Wow!

I pestered Aluigi about extracting model data last year. Glad he threw us a bone!

[elguapo]

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Now Madden NFL 04 will be a lot easier to mod.

[1312qohelet]

I can confirm this works.
Wow..

Awesome

[elguapo]

Ok so I decompressed a mix of compressed and uncompressed files. files that were compressed are saved as *.3ds and files that are uncompressed are saved as *.dat

I then wrote a rename script to rename the *.3ds files to *.dat.

Then using a spreadsheet I wrote a template to create a rename command. I then copied the information to a text editor, replaced the "tabs" with spaces, tweaked it a little and produced a rename command. Once the files were renamed, I used DBR4.exe to create and IMPORT script and added all the files back into the DAT file. Below are the files I used to get all this done.

Decompress Rename Template.7z

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