PlayStation archive (PSARC)
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Description
PlayStation ARChive is a container that allows subfolders and per-file compression using zlib or lzma with 9 compression levels
Structure
See Discussion page
Header
Table 1
Table 2
Etc
| Hexadecimal (big endian) |
Decimal | Binary (flags) |
Flag Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 00 00 01 | 1 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 | ||
| 00 00 00 02 | 2 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000010 | ||
| 00 00 00 04 | 4 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100 | ||
| 00 00 00 08 | 8 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 | ||
| 00 00 00 10 | 16 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000 | ||
| 00 00 00 20 | 32 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00100000 | ||
| 00 00 00 40 | 64 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 | ||
| 00 00 00 80 | 128 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10000000 |
- Flags are stored in the header as a big endian number, and defines the characteristics and structure of the archive when it was created
PSARC Tools
There are several versions of PSARC related tools, features has been implemented along the different versions and is hard to keep a record of them, please help filling the info in the page
GUI versions are derivated from the command line versions
Command line versions
Open PSARC PS3 Extractor
By Matthieu Milan. It allows you to extract PSARC archive data in linux
Source code: https://www.ferb.fr/ps3/PSARC/
PSARC tool
Port of Matthieu Milan's open PSARC PS3 extractor to Windows. Tool written by Matthieu Milan (@usineur). Ported to VS2012 by AlexAltea.
source code: https://github.com/AlexAltea/psarc-tool
Usage: psarc [option] filename Options: -l Create a text file that lists the file id, size, and name of every file in the archive. -x Extracts all files. -e START END Extracts files with the file id specified by the range between START and END (inclusive).
PSARC Extractor
By Insomniac @ xentax forums, download link: http://www.ps3hax.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=452 and http://www.modcontrol.com/Board/pc-tools/28869-psarc-ps3-extractor.html
Usage: PSARC [flag] <fileName> Flags: -l Creates a text file that lists the File ID, Size, and Name of every file in the archive. -e START END Extracts files with the File ID specified by the range between START and END (inclusive). <blank> Extracts all files.
- Examples:
- Extract all files from data.psarc : PSARC data.psarc
- Create list of files from data.psarc : PSARC -l data.psarc
- Extract file with File ID 5 : PSARC -e 5 5 data.psarc
- Extract files with File ID 7 through 12 : PSARC -e 7 12 data.psarc
The flag -l creates a .txt file with a list of all the contents of the archive, the info included is: File ID, File original size, and File path inside psarc archive
Example of a .txt file created with the -l flag:
ID Size Name 1 | 7,39 KB | /my/files/dummies/dummy1.bin 2 | 8,80 KB | /my/files/dummies/dummy2.bin 3 | 3,30 KB | /my/files/dummies/dummy3.bin
PSARC
1.60.008 SDK : x 1.92.001 SDK : x 3.40.001 SDK : psarc-138.002 (C++), built on Feb 15 2010 at 16:17:41 3.41.001 SDK : psarc-138.002 (C++), built on Feb 15 2010 at 16:17:41 3.60.001 SDK : psarc-138.002 (C++), built on Feb 15 2010 at 16:17:41 3.70.001 SDK : psarc-138.002 (C++), built on Feb 15 2010 at 16:17:41 4.00.001 SDK : psarc-1310.001 (C++), built on Nov 16 2011 at 03:31:36 4.50.001 SDK : psarc-1310.001 (C++), built on Nov 16 2011 at 03:31:36
- From xentax forums: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?p=44228&sid=0a7b5167ba4599f71f85471119c918a6#p44228
- Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?o3wy35uublreh
- Help
usage:
psarc verb [options] [file...]
psarc --xml=XMLFILE
verbs:
create Create an archive. (default)
extract Extract contents of an existing archive.
list List contents of an existing archive.
dump Print detailed info about archive for unit testing.
verify Verify an existing archive's structural integrity and ensure that all files can be decompressed.
dtd Display a DTD describing psarc's XML input syntax.
general options:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
--version Display version and exit.
-d, --debug Debug: Show debug messages.
-v, --verbose Verbose: Show additional progress. (default)
-q, --quiet Quiet: Don't show any progress.
-y, --overwrite Overwrite existing files when creating/extracting.
--xml=XMLFILE XML list of actions to perform.
create options:
-oFILE, --output=FILE Archive filename to create.
-IINPUTFILE, --inputfile=INPUTFILE Inputfile listing files to archive. Consider --xml instead, which gives you more control.
-m, --mself Create a PSARC-MSELF hybrid file for PS3, which can contain encrypted special files like SDATA, SPRX, and SPU SELF.
--zlib Use zlib when compressing. (default)
--lzma Use LZMA when compressing. (usually for PS3 PSN)
--level=N Compression quality. 1 is fastest, 9 is best. (default = 9)
-N, --nocompress Store all files uncompressed in the archive.
-bBS, --blocksize=BS Use blocks of size BS. (default = 64KiB)
-jJOBS, --jobs=JOBS Compression threads to run at a time. (default = number of CPUs)
-sREGEX, --strip=REGEX Perl-compatible regex specifying a prefix to strip from the pathnames stored in the archive. This may be specified more than once. (default = current dir)
-S, --strip-all Strip all paths from files stored in the archive.
-a, --absolute Make the paths within the archive absolute.
-R, --relative Make the paths within the archive relative. (default)
-i, --ignorecase Make the archive directory case-insensitive.
--exclude=WILDCARD Wildcard specifying files to exclude.
--skip-missing-files If set then ignore it when a file cannot be found.
--mergedups Compare the content of all files, and merge identical files so that only one copy of the data is included.
extract options:
--input=FILE Archive to extract files from. (default is first file argument)
--to=DIRECTORY Directory to write extracted files to. (default is current directory)
--blocksize is in bytes.
Total Commander plugin
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/PSARC.html
GUI versions
PS3 PSARC GUI
It's a graphical user interface to view, extract or create psarc archives. GUI written by aldo, unknown psarc tool used internally
Download link: http://aldostools.org/ps3_psarc_gui.rar
Games or Apps using PSARC files
| External information | PSARC's | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateform | TITLE_ID | TITLE | Version | Compression | TOC entry size | Block Size | Flags | |
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Uncharted 2 | 00010003 (v1.3) | zlib | 1E | 10000 | 0 | the game can load files from decompressed psarcs (because the original psarcs doesnt uses flags ?) | |
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The Last Of Us | 00010003 (v1.3) | zlib | 1E | 10000 | 0 | the game can load files from decompressed psarcs (because the original psarcs doesnt uses flags ?) | |
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Killzone 3 | 00010004 (v1.4) | zlib | 1E | 10000 | 1 | ||
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God of War. Ascension | 00010004 (v1.4) | zlib | 1E | 10000 | 2 | ||
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Mass Effect 3 | 00010004 (v1.4) | lzma | 1E | 10000 | 3 | all directories and files are in capitals (created with --ignorecase ?) uses full paths (created with --absolute ?) | |
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Ape Escape | 00010004 (v1.4) | zlib | 1E | 10000 | 2 | uses full paths (created with --absolute ?) | |
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Ni No Kuni | .psarc file extensions renamed to .adat | ||||||
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Motorstorm. Pacific Rift | |||||||
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Warhawk | |||||||
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VidZone | 00010004 (v1.4) | zlib | 1E | 01 00 00 | 0 | ||
- Other games that probably uses PSARC's
- Uncharted 1?, and 3?
- Killzone colletion ?
- God of War. III ?
- God of War. Collection ?
- other Motorstorms ?
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