BorPak for Windows

I got a problem extracting a pak, I tried using Paxplode, PakExplorer and this one but they justs say the same "File is not a pak". Any help?
 
Sevrei said:
I wanted to unpack a PAK but I get 'Illegal characters in path' :(
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Same! It's so frustrating to deal with. It was already a pain finding an unpacker, especially for Final Fight LNS, then when I use it, an error pops up saying 'Illegal characters in path' and can't even find the answer on Reddit or these forums. Only Youtubers hiding content through their Discord page to join which I find EXTREMELY shady.
 
porksauceboi said:
Same! It's so frustrating to deal with. It was already a pain finding an unpacker, especially for Final Fight LNS, then when I use it, an error pops up saying 'Illegal characters in path' and can't even find the answer on Reddit or these forums. Only Youtubers hiding content through their Discord page to join which I find EXTREMELY shady.
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Thew answers ARE here, have been stated ad infinitum, and they are simple. Don't use special characters in file names or build text. The end. That's blanket advice for pretty much anything outside of a word processor BTW, not just OpenBOR tools. LNS and other non native English creators tend to ignore that and go outside ASCII, and so the packers don't play nice. There are workarounds, but no single one is going to handle every case.

We don't support anything to do with LNS because they pull genuinely shady crap in other ways, but this one is just a case of bad encoding.

DC
 
Ok y'all so here's the update to the "illegal characters in path" error solution. I couldn't edit my previous comment.

Just to be clear, this refers to the Final Fight LNS.pak file but may also work with other pak files that run into the same problem

First get the Pak Exploder program to be able to view, pack, and extract the file. It's the only one that opens it for me.

Now when you open Pak Exploder, you'd go to Tools > Pac Packer and then select UnPacker then choose the pak file along with the path for the extracted contents. When you process it, it loads for a bit and then the "illegal characters ..." error pops up.

Once that happened, I went to the same path of where the extraction took place and it only extracted a few of the files.
The last file to be extracted was "data\chars\players\elf\SOUNDS_Elfa_-_WIP_1\Elfa\Efecto Arco.wav" before the error occurred.

In the Pak Exploder viewer, I went to File > Open and opened the "Final Fight LNS.pak" file to view the contents and scrolled down to locate the
"data\chars\players\elf\SOUNDS_Elfa_-_WIP_1\Elfa\Efecto Arco.wav" file. The next file AFTER is what contained the illegal character which caused the error.

To break it down, the file that causes the error is "data\chars\players\elf\SOUNDS_Elfa_-_WIP_1\Elfa\Efecto Fireball (impacto - explosi?n).wav"

The "?" in "explosi?n" is what replaces the illegal character. I just clicked the next file, scrolled all the way down, shift-clicked "data\video.txt" to have the remaining files select, right clicked, selected extract, then picked a directory, took those new extracted files, and combined them into the folder with the unfinished extraction.
 

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DCurrent said:
Thew answers ARE here, have been stated ad infinitum, and they are simple. Don't use special characters in file names or build text. The end. That's blanket advice for pretty much anything outside of a word processor BTW, not just OpenBOR tools. LNS and other non native English creators tend to ignore that and go outside ASCII, and so the packers don't play nice. There are workarounds, but no single one is going to handle every case.

We don't support anything to do with LNS because they pull genuinely shady crap in other ways, but this one is just a case of bad encoding.

DC
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The special characters error I understand but this is not referring to packing the files but extracting an already packed file downloaded elsewhere, which came bundled with the Final Fight LNS game. THAT"S the issue I came across and nothing in the forum broke down how the error occurred, what filename caused it, and the solution to be done., especially for people new to coding and really slow, ADHD having people like me who needs an ELI5 help lol
 
in summary: the error is caused by having spanish especial characters in file names or folders = Ñ Ó É Ü Á Í. Openbor works mostly with English standard characters
 
porksauceboi said:
The special characters error I understand but this is not referring to packing the files but extracting an already packed file downloaded elsewhere, which came bundled with the Final Fight LNS game. THAT"S the issue I came across and nothing in the forum broke down how the error occurred, what filename caused it, and the solution to be done.
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I am referring to both. There are plenty of cases where you can get away with a bit of badly encoded text or names to pack - but unpacking, not so much. How in the world are we going to preemptively break down every single use case of that across literally hundreds of creations and thousands of possible characters? We tell creators don't use special characters. If they ignore those explicit instructions, what do you expect us to do about it?

It's like putting diesel in a gasoline car. It will run for a while, but it's not the maker's fault when it inevitably gums up and breaks down.

DC
 
Smart Kitty said:
in summary: the error is caused by having spanish especial characters in file names or folders = Ñ Ó É Ü Á Í. Openbor works mostly with English standard characters
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It's not just Spanish. Anything outside of ASCII is a potential problem.

DC
 
DCurrent said:
I am referring to both. There are plenty of cases where you can get away with a bit of badly encoded text or names to pack - but unpacking, not so much. How in the world are we going to break down every single use case of that across literally hundreds of creations and thousands of possible characters? We tell creators don't use special characters. If they ignore those explicit instructions, what do you expect us to do about it?

It's like putting diesel in a gasoline car. It will run for a while, but it's not the maker's fault when it inevitably gums up and breaks down.

DC
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That's what I was confused about because I'm like how tf did that get packed anyway? But again, I'm hella ignorant within the coding field and don't know any better so I really appreciate your insight on this. I wanted to add in a thorough breakdown for folks who also have this same problem in the future and don't have much knowledge on this as well.

And I also saw your other comment about LNS being shady, which I had no idea about, and looked into it. Didn't know there was drama surrounding them and their practices.
 
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