Notes:¡Qué pasa, NENG!

This page contains notes for the game ¡Qué pasa, NENG!.

The game's ISO consists of a Music folder, a Video folder, a Modules folder, and all the game resources (models, textures, sounds) in a uncompressed BIGFILE.PKF packed file.

The fact that textures are uncompressed, and game files for each level are at different positions in the PKF can explain the long loading times that were criticized at the time.

Since I (juanmv94) didn't find any tools working for unpacking this PKF file on the internet, I made this one:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>

#define PATHLENGTH 128

struct Entry 
{ 
    unsigned long offset;
    unsigned long size;
    char *name;
    struct Entry *next; 
};

void createDirTree(char *path)
{
    char *start = path, *end = start + strlen(path);
    while (start < end)
    {
        char *slash = strchr(start, '\\');
	if (slash) {
		*slash = 0;
		CreateDirectory(path, NULL);
		//printf("going to make %s\n", path);
		*slash = '\\';
		start = slash + 1;
	}
        else break;
    }
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
	unsigned long p;
	FILE *f=fopen(argv[1],"rb");
	if (f==NULL) return -1;
	fseek(f,-4,SEEK_END);
	fread(&p,4,1,f);
	fseek(f,p,SEEK_SET);
	struct Entry mainEntry={.next= NULL};
	struct Entry *curEntry=&mainEntry;
	while (fread(&(curEntry->offset),4,1,f)==1 && fread(&(curEntry->size),4,1,f)==1) {
		if (curEntry->offset==0 && curEntry->size==0) break;
		curEntry->name=malloc(PATHLENGTH);
		for (int i=0;i<PATHLENGTH;i++) {
			curEntry->name[i]=fgetc(f);
			if (curEntry->name[i]==0) break;
		}
		curEntry=curEntry->next=malloc(sizeof(struct Entry));
		curEntry->next=NULL;
	}
	
	curEntry=&mainEntry;
	while(curEntry->next!=NULL) {
		fseek(f,curEntry->offset,SEEK_SET);
		void *pt=malloc(curEntry->size);
		if (fread(pt,curEntry->size,1,f)!=1) return -3;
		createDirTree(curEntry->name);
		printf("Creating: %s\n",curEntry->name);
		FILE *n=fopen(curEntry->name,"wb");
		if (n==NULL) return -4;
		if (fwrite(pt,curEntry->size,1,n)!=1) return -5;
		fclose(n);
		curEntry=curEntry->next;
	}
	fclose(f);
	puts("Completed!");
	return 0;
}

It gets the PKF file as parameter and unpacks it at the current folder.

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There is quite a bit of evidence that Mere Mortals outsourced the development of this game — as well as various other projects for Phoenix — to Lithuanian developer Ivolgamus. Not only is the same PKF archive format used in several games explicitly credited to Ivolgamus staff (e.g., Arcade Action: 30 Games), but several of the resources in this game's PKF are even named in Lithuanian! For just a few examples, a semicolon graphic is named "kabliaytashkis" (kabliataškis = "semicolon"), a texture for the roulette wheel is named "ratas_vidinis" (= "inside wheel"), and animation files for the bug minigame include "pagrindine" (= "main") and "sparnu" (= "wing"). --CodeMan38 (talk) 18:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)