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Hello everyone i been receiving alot of requests for help opening Draconis servers CPKs so here is a short and easy explanation on how to do just that.
1) get a good hex editor for example HxD thats 100% free
2) open the modified CPK with the hex editor now you see the first line and you can see that the header is modified (first 8 bytes in the header)
The first 4 bytes is the so called magic bytes that is read to detect that it is a cpack file, restore those bytes into hex (52 53 54 1A) then the bytes
after the first 4 bytes (it is the cpack version part) it should be hex (01 00 00 00)
3) after you edited the first 8 bytes in the header to be (52 53 54 1A 01 00 00 00) you save the CPK and you can open it with the normal Cpack tool.
4) This method will work on all header modified CPKs. It will not work on the Hellionserver CPKs since they are using a encryption method to hide the real data
And opening those CPKs will only show you garbage folders and filenames.
Or just to make it easier you can use this program i made to restore the header
Have a nice day!
Thanatos
Hellion Developments
1) get a good hex editor for example HxD thats 100% free
You must be registered to see links
2) open the modified CPK with the hex editor now you see the first line and you can see that the header is modified (first 8 bytes in the header)
The first 4 bytes is the so called magic bytes that is read to detect that it is a cpack file, restore those bytes into hex (52 53 54 1A) then the bytes
after the first 4 bytes (it is the cpack version part) it should be hex (01 00 00 00)
3) after you edited the first 8 bytes in the header to be (52 53 54 1A 01 00 00 00) you save the CPK and you can open it with the normal Cpack tool.
4) This method will work on all header modified CPKs. It will not work on the Hellionserver CPKs since they are using a encryption method to hide the real data
And opening those CPKs will only show you garbage folders and filenames.
Or just to make it easier you can use this program i made to restore the header
You must be registered to see links
Have a nice day!
Thanatos
Hellion Developments
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