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[Outhere]

Is there away to extract the Table Script from a game without opening the game

Edited by Outhere, 13 June 2021 - 08:50 PM.

[tabascoman77]

The only way I can personally think of trying to get in with a resource editor...but, mainly, I just open the game in VPX and copy/paste the script to Notepad so I can edit it that way, all while keeping a copy of the older, working script just in case I break something.

[wiesshund]

Is there away to extract the Table Script from a game without opening the game

Devoid of VPX entirely?

Sure

 

7zip
open the VPX file in 7 zip

You will have to strip some extraneous data from the top and prune the endDB call at the bottom, but the script is in gamestg/gamedata

 

the rest seems to be a kind of base64 conversion of the images and sounds and what not

i can load the raw audio, i cant not open the images yet though, cause it isnt really base64 i dont think

[Outhere]

The only way I can personally think of trying to get in with a resource editor...but, mainly, I just open the game in VPX and copy/paste the script to Notepad so I can edit it that way, all while keeping a copy of the older, working script just in case I break something.

 

After doing some work on the table script the game now causes VP to crash
But I don't think it's the script because I made a VBS file with a good script and it's still not loading - VP still crashes

 

 

Crash report VPX rev192 (a1d98b7)
============
Process: VPinballX.exe
Reason: 0xC0000005 - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0023:005A96B2
Attempt to read from 0x00000038
Thread ID: 0x3C50 [15440]

Call stack
==========
005A96B2 VPinballX.exe (0x00000004 0x00000001 0x032C0BD0 0x032db980)
004BA0AB VPinballX.exe (0x0019E3FC 0x0B50B6E0 0x484BFCE8 0x006d0049)
0054FD22 VPinballX.exe (0x77266339 0x484BFD24 0x00000001 0x00000000)
77272E0C ntdll.dll NtContinue + 0xC (0x484BFD24 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000000)
77266339 ntdll.dll LdrInitializeThunk + 0x29 (0x0B50B608 0x03210000 0x0C4C6610 0x00000000)

Environment
===========
Date/time: 13/6/2021, 17:55:50:145
Number of CPUs: 8
Processor type: 586
System: Windows 10 (10.0 19042)

Memory status
=============
Total Reserved: 112480K (109M) bytes
Total Commited: 1178432K (1150M) bytes
Total Free: 2903328K (2835M) bytes
Largest Free: 2095476K (2046M) bytes

Registers
=========
EAX=00000000 EBX=032DB980 ECX=032DB980 EDX=00000000
ESI=484BFDF0 EDI=484BFE08 EBP=00000000 ESP=484BFD98 EIP=77287944
FLG=00010246 CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B


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Edited by Outhere, 13 June 2021 - 10:52 PM.

[Outhere]

 

Is there away to extract the Table Script from a game without opening the game

Devoid of VPX entirely?

Sure

 

7zip
open the VPX file in 7 zip

You will have to strip some extraneous data from the top and prune the endDB call at the bottom, but the script is in gamestg/gamedata

 

the rest seems to be a kind of base64 conversion of the images and sounds and what not

i can load the raw audio, i cant not open the images yet though, cause it isnt really base64 i dont think

 

That did the trick thank you

[stoj]

I did a little more digging into this and the file format is CFBF which is an old MS technology used for COM objects storage.  It can extracted programatically via a few different open source libraries such as OpenMcdf.

 

I've recently added a usage in ClrVpin if you're keen to see it in action.. it extracts the ROM name from the VPX table's embedded script portion of the file.

[Mike DA Spike]

Isn't the scripting just vbs scripting ?
And scripting can be extracted via vpinball.exe by using -extractvbs with tablename.
Databasemanager has an inbuild extractor for years to get rom name, author, table version from the vpt or vpx file (big thanks to scutters)

Edited by Mike DA Spike, 02 May 2023 - 07:07 AM.

[jarr3]

I do not know how long this exists, but there is a command line parameter to VPX.exe called -extractVBS [filename] which will do the export for you.

 

See the parameter list:  

 

 VPX-parameters.png   155.23KB   24 downloads

[Mike DA Spike]

I do not know how long this exists, but there is a command line parameter to VPX.exe called -extractVBS [filename] which will do the export for you.
 
See the parameter list:  
 
VPX-parameters.png

That's what I tried to say as well .... but your screenshot makes it more clear