[TOOL] CAT/DAT Extractor

[Seidr]

After turning up empty handed for a tool to extract the .cat/.dat files, I wrote a quick Python script to extract the data.


Feel free to improve upon this script. To use it, just chuck it into the X Rebirth directory (the one that contains all of the .cat and .dat files), and run it. It will create a new directory called 'out', which will contain all of the extracted assets in their original directory structure.


This should give modders some nice data to play around with


https://bitbucket.org/Seidr/x-rebirth-c ... r/overview

[Zakuak]

Oh boy!

[socros]

How launch the script?with the extract.py?

[Deleted User]

agreed, I have no idea how to use it Windows here, child of the GUI era.

[Seidr]

I would convert it to an EXE, but I imagine people would be dubious of downloading and running it.

Download Python 2.7 from here: http://www.python.org/getit/

Once installed, open up a command prompt (press Windows+R, and type in cmd, and press OK).

Type in the following, and press enter

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\X Rebirth"

The 'extract.py' file needs to be in this directory.

Once the above has been done, in the command prompt you should simply need to type 'python extract.py'.

If this does not work, you could possibly execute it by browsing to that directory, and double clicking on 'extract.py'.

[Deleted User]

thanks. only 2.7? what about the newer version?

[poster55]

Only 2.7. The newer version will spit an error at you because syntax is different.

[Deleted User]

thanks!

[socros]

Thank, the file Out contain only "assets" file ?

[TheRealBix]

I have some IO errors.. Normal ?
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[Seidr]

Expected, that's due to the end file path length. Try copying the CAT/DAT files to a directory in your root, such as c:\x.