Editing PlayStation archive (PSARC)

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| style="background-color:#ffff66;" | 0x08 || style="background-color:#ffff66;" | 0x04 || '''compression type''' || 7A 6C 69 62 || zlib || '''zlib''' (default)<br>'''lzma'''

| style="background-color:#6666ff;" | 0x0C || style="background-color:#6666ff;" | 0x04 || '''toc length''' || 00 01 23 BA || 0x123BA ||  

| style="background-color:#dd00dd;" | 0x10 || style="background-color:#dd00dd;" | 0x04 || '''toc entry size''' || 00 00 00 1E || 30 Bytes || Default is 30 bytes

| style="background-color:#dddd00;" | 0x14 || style="background-color:#dddd00;" | 0x04 || '''toc entries''' || 00 00 09 16 || 1 manifest + 2325 files || The '''manifest''' is always included as the first file in the archive without an assigned ID

| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | 0x18 || style="background-color:#dddddd;" | 0x04 || '''block size''' || 00 01 00 00 || 65536 Bytes || Default is 65536 bytes

| style="background-color:#d0000d;" | 0x1C || style="background-color:#d0000d;" | 0x04 || '''archive flags''' || 00 00 00 02 || Absolute paths || 0 = '''relative''' paths (default)<br>1 = '''ignorecase''' paths<br>2 = '''absolute''' paths

===Open PSARC PS3 Extractor===

===PSARC tool===

===PSARC Extractor===

By Insomniac @ xentax forums, download link: http://www.ps3hax.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=452 and http://www.modcontrol.com/Board/pc-tools/28869-psarc-ps3-extractor.html

===PSARC===

*From xentax forums: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?p=44228&sid=0a7b5167ba4599f71f85471119c918a6#p44228 Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?o3wy35uublreh

====help====

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'''C:\>psarc.exe --help'''

'''usage:'''

'''verbs:'''

'''general options:'''

'''create options:'''

'''extract options:'''

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====dtd====

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'''C:\>psarc.exe dtd'''<nowiki>

</nowiki>}}

Based in the DTD layout is posible to create an .xml layout that automatizes all the actions of the tool, this example is a generic layout containing all the elements and attributes availables together

{{Boxcode|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">

*XML Notes:

**The purpose of this XML is to use it as a base layout containing all, but is not posible to use it like that, is needed to delete the tags that are not needed for a specific case, the ones that are incompatibles with other tags, and is needed to add paths, etc...

**Some attributes appears as common in the DTD for "create" and "extract" but are not common, some of them has been deleted to avoid mistakes... but probably is needed to delete some more

**Is posible to generate this kind of .xml by using as the source the output of the "list" command after applying over it some character strings replacing using regular expressions with a tool like http://findandreplace.codeplex.com/#

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====verify====

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'''C:\>psarc.exe verify "C:\psarctests\source files\test.psarc"'''

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====dump====

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'''C:\>psarc.exe dump "C:\psarctests\source files\test.psarc"'''

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====list====

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'''C:\>psarc.exe list "C:\psarctests\source files\test.psarc"'''

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{{Boxtip1|content=Is posible to generate a text file containing the output of the '''list''' command by using the '''>''' arrow and the path/name of the destination file, this is usefull to convert the generated file to a '''filelist.txt''' or an '''automated.xml''' for rebuilding the psarc archive later}}

 

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'''C:\>psarc.exe list "C:\psarctests\source files\test.psarc" > c:\psarctests\filelist.txt'''

The required options are '''--input''' (the source .psarc) and '''--to''' (the target folder where contents will be extracted). The example command extracts all files from the .psarc to a directory with full directory tree names, no skipped missing files, no overwrite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

====create====

Ther are 3 different ways to create a psarc archive (by '''directory''', by '''filelist''', or by '''file'''). '''By directory''' creates the psarc using the contents of a specifyed folder and all subfolders, all them ordered alphabetically (windows style), this method cant be used to rebuild psarcs where every file needs to be assigned with an specific ID (and im not sure if is available in command line). '''By file''' means every path of every file in the PC is needed to be specifyed and this is not posible in command line when the archive has lot of files (for a single file is fine, but when are thousand of files is a no way). For this reason the only method explained here is '''by filelist'''

 

The filelist is a plain .txt file where every file is defined by a single line, composed by his path, filename, and file extension, 1 line per file, in any order (not needed to be ordered alphabetically). Is posible to generate this kind of filelists automatically by using the output of the '''--list''' command and some regular expressions to replace characters (this is long explain and doesnt fits here by now)

 

As explained before, the examples used here in wiki uses full PC paths to be more flexible (no need to place psarc.exe next to the source folder, actually you can place psarc.exe in c:\ the source folder in d:\ and create the psarc in x:\). When using full paths is mandatory to use the '''--strip''' option with an explicit path or a regular expression (regex) to remove part of the PC path (e.g: if you strip '''C:\psarctests\source files\test''' from '''C:\psarctests\source files\test\BMPfolder1\Image1.bmp''' the resulting path of the file inside the archive will be '''BMPfolder1/Image1.bmp''')

 

This is an example of the filelist in '''C:\psarctests\source files\filelist.txt''', contains the PC paths of the files that are in the folder '''C:\psarctests\source files\test''' and will be included inside the psarc archive:

 

 

**The program replaces the windows slash "\" by "/" when storing the access paths inside the '''manifest''' file. When making a '''--list''' command over the created psarc the slashes will appear as "/" because this is how they was archived in the '''Manifest''' (manifest is the first file inside the psarc filetable, doesnt appears as a file when using the '''--list''' command and doesnt have an assigned '''ID''')

**'''--strip''' option removes part of the paths from the filelist, can be used several times with different stripped paths, this is usefull when the psarc archive is generated from a filelist that contains paths from different folders and/or devices in the PC (e.g: is posible to create a filelist including a file from '''F:\textures\packed\texture1.jpg''' and another file from '''G:\models\packed\model1.xxx''' and strip the paths: '''F:\textures\''' and '''G:\models\''', this way both files will be stored inside the psarc archive together under path: '''packed/texture1.jpg''' and '''packed/model1.xxx''')

{{Boxcode|content=CREATE by_directory.xml<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">

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'''C:\>psarc.exe --xml="c:\psarctests\CREATE by_directory.xml"'''

'''C:\>psarc.exe list C:\psarctests\by_directory.psarc'''

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'''create by filelist'''

{{Boxcode|content=CREATE by_filelist.xml<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">

    <create archive="C:\psarctests\by_filelist.psarc" absolute="false" ignorecase="false">

*filelist.txt

C:\psarctests\source files\test\dummy.txt

C:\psarctests\source files\test\BMPfolder1\Image1.bmp

C:\psarctests\source files\test\JPGfolder1\JPGfolder2\Image2.jpg

C:\psarctests\source files\test\PNGfolder1\PNGfolder2\PNGfolder3\Image3.png

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'''C:\>psarc.exe --xml="c:\psarctests\CREATE by_filelist.xml"'''

'''C:\>psarc.exe list C:\psarctests\by_filelist.psarc'''

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{{Boxcode|content=CREATE by_file.xml<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">

    <create archive="C:\psarctests\by_file.psarc" absolute="false" ignorecase="false">

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Archiving C:\psarctests\source files\test\PNGfolder1\PNGfolder2\PNGfolder3\Image

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     Storing C:\psarctests\source files\test\PNGfolder1\PNGfolder2\PNGfolder3\Ima

ge3.png

'''C:\>psarc.exe list C:\psarctests\by_file.psarc'''

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This is an useless example to show how the .psarcs are created sequentially and how to create several .psarc's with only one .xml, it uses all default values for compressions, formats, flags etc...

In step 1 it creates an egg.psarc with a dummy.txt inside. In step 2 it creates a chiken.psarc with the egg.psarc made in step 1 inside. In step 3 it creates an egg.psarc with the chicken.psarc made in step 2 inside

{{Boxcode|content=CREATE by_file_paradox<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">

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'''C:\>psarc.exe --xml="c:\psarctests\CREATE by_file_paradox.xml"'''

'''C:\>psarc.exe list C:\psarctests\egg.psarc

'''C:\>psarc.exe list C:\psarctests\chicken.psarc

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===PS3 PSARC GUI===

=Related Tools=

When rebuilding a psarc is needed to preserve the original positions of all the files inside the archive (because every file in the original psarc has assigned an '''ID''' number, and after rebuilding this numbers must match with the original positions). for this same reason when rebuilding is not a good idea to remove files (because the other files that comes after will be displaced). When the purpose of the rebuild is to  reduce the sze (by removing languages, etc...) the method consists in replacing them by dummies (0kb files), this dummies preserves the positions of all the files

To be sure all the files are in the correct positions can be used as a base file (to edit later) the output of the '''list''' command as explained before

This edition of the file generated by the '''list''' command can be automated completly (not needed to edit a single character by hand). Is posible to generate a '''filelist.txt''' or an '''automated.xml''' by replacing/erasing/adding characters with other programs that identifies and replaces characters by using regular expressions, the examples used here are commands for fnr.exe (find and replace tool) and contains regular expressions (to search) and a character string (to replace)

*The file paths inside filelist.txt or inside an automated.xml admits 2 formats:

**'''full PC paths''' (where the full PC file path included the device letter is used by psarc.exe to locate the file in any device and/or any folder). This method is the most flexible but needs an ''strip'' command to remove part of the PC path when creating the psarc archive

==Generating a filelist with regular expressions==

==Generating an xml with regular expressions==

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