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How to run TDU2 unpacked
Topic Started: Mar 17 2011, 10:21:30 PM (8,673 Views)
Chipicao
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Before you begin, make sure you have about 15 GB of free space, and disable UAC (Guide for Vista and Win7).
Download this archive*, extract all 4 files to the game folder and run unpack.cmd.

This cmd script will do the following:
- extract all .big archives¹, including updates
- rename all resulting .bin files and move each one in its corresponding folder
- move all remaining .bin files to an unused folder²
- move all .big and .map files to a backup folder³ (otherwise the game will crash)

Afterwards you can simply run the game, no extra parameters are required, but you do have to prevent it from auto-updating itself.

Important notes:
¹ Works with MULTI2 (us,ru) and MULTI5(us,fr,de,it,es) with all updates up to the latest patch (v28 I think, or something like that)
² 131 files are unknown at this point (151 for MULTI5); these are generally unused (leftovers from earlier builds) or related to online aspects of the game
³ The game launcher will automatically re-download the the updates, resulting in a CTD. To overcome this you have several options:
   a. open your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) and add this line at the end:
Code:
 
127.0.0.1 patchserver.testdriveunlimited2.com
   b block UpLauncher.exe from your firewall.
   c use Knyazev's Light Launcher

If you encounter any errors or your game crashes, please let me know exactly what you were doing at the time.

Thanks fly out to qwerty and vagos from XeNTaX forum for providing the tools to extract and find all filenames and paths. Also credits go to Knyazev for his light launcher.

*UPDATE: The script now works with all languages from both MULTI2 and MULTI5 releases.
UPDATE2: Added support for DLC1v017
UPDATE3: Added support for DLC1v023
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jcmmota

Thanks, i'll test it this weekend. I'm using multi-5 version and i'll report to you if i have any problems.
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X-man


So, based on this, do you think it would be possible to swap music in the game?
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Chipicao
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Yup, we just need a way to re-pack bnk files.
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X-man


I never got around to find the BNK files containing the music. I found some chunks in wav format, and that's it :S
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Chipicao
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euro\bnk\sound\radio\music
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X-man


oh, thanks. I'll check
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ludo1
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wow..finally there is a tool..thank you..but i have a problem..(i run the multi 5 version) when i run as administrator unpack.cmd nothing happens..but if i manually execute quickbms.exe and i insert the Plugin TDU2_maps.bms and the input file (.map) it works but i found only a lot of .bin files in the output folder..what about they???..thanx
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Chipicao
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Did you extract my archive in the game folder, where .map and .big files are?
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ludo1
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yes i did..and .map and .big files are in the "D:\" disc location
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Chipicao
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What do you mean .map and .big files are in D:\? They are supposed to be in the game folder...
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jcmmota

I also have multi5 version and i was able to extract all files, but i couldn't run the game umpacked. I had to restore big and map files to play again.
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Chipicao
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OK, I'll see what's up with multi5 and update the file list. How many files remained in the unused_bin folder?
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jcmmota

2129 Files
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Chipicao
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2125 files here. Which MULTI5, the one from reloaded?
It works fine for me; just as I presumed, only english files are sorted but the game runs.
Is your savegame set to a non-english language? Are you using the cracked exe or the original?
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jcmmota

It's ok now. I had to reinstall the game, updated, umpacked, i still have 2129 files unused but game runs perfectly. I´m not using a craked exe and my savegame is in spanish.
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Chipicao
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It's kind of impossible for it to run in spanish because all spanish files are among those 2129 files. :) I'm working on renaming all spanish, french, german and italian files right now, and I'll let you know when a new script is ready.

Please check that all .map and .big files have been moved from the main game folder. If they are still there, that's why the game runs without problems.


I have updated the first post with a new script that unpacks and sorts files from both MULTI2 and MULTI5 releases.

@jcmmota you should now have 151 files left in unused_bin, let me know if there are more (it is possible since you have the original game)
Edited by Chipicao, Mar 19 2011, 08:37:11 AM.
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jcmmota

The new script works fine. I'm able to hear the dialogues and the GPS directions in Spanish, which was missing from the previous script. I don't know how many files are missing because I forgot to delete the folder unused_bin before unpacking again :mthrfckr: .
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Chipicao
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If you still have the unused_bin folder, even if there are 2129 files in it, please try to send me a list of all bins.
Just open a command prompt window in unused_bin and run this:
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dir >filelist.txt
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jcmmota

How can i attach the file in my post? or is it impossible?
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