This is the specifications for the archive file which is handled by the
Game Extractor plugin
Archive_ARK_3.
| Endian Order: | Little Endian |
| Compression: | None |
| Encryption: | None |
This format is used by the following Games:
| Guitar Hero [PS2] | *.ark *.hdr |
This is the format specification information:
| | // HDR FILE
4 - Number Of Directoies (3)
4 - Version Major (1)
4 - Version Minor (1)
4 - Archive Length
// FILENAME DIRECTORY
4 - Filename Directory Length (not including this field)
// for each file
X - Filename
1 - null Filename Terminator
// FILENAME OFFSETS DIRECTORY
4 - Number Of Files And Folders
// for each file and folder
4 - Filename Offset (relative to the start of the filename directory)
// FILES DIRECTORY
4 - Number Of Files
// for each file
4 - File Offset
4 - Filename Number
4 - Directory Name Number
4 - File Length
4 - null |
These are the accompanying notes and further information:
| | There is only 1 ark file, and it has a directory called main.hdr (which is not quite the same name as the archive, which is main_0.ark)
The first filename is empty. |
Game Extractor is able to read files of this type, as well as files from thousands of other games. To give it a try, download
Game Extractor (Basic Version) for
free, and see what it can do.
For further information on this format, refer to the source code on our
GitHub repository.
