Resistance Vs Non-Resistance PBO

[Peter_Bullet]

This also could be on the mission editing section.

What do Resistance PBOs and the other PBOs have in different apart from their format(Resistance won't UnPbo without the decryptor)

Ex. are they different sized, does the other one function more effectively? I'd like to know.

[bdfy1]

there're dozens of pbo's that you can't depack with _old_ depackers ( I can't even remember its names - I used nothing  except UnPbo ( pbo decryptor ) for ages.  AFAIK it's because of compression.
Nevertheless BIS pbo's are a little different - for example WinPbo won't depack them correctly due to some specific reasons ( I don't know details )
There're also encrypted pbo - they can be depacked only after some hex tricks - I'd like to know how(with what utility) they are packed;)

[Planck]

I don't understand, I am able to unpack all BIS pbo's, including O.pbo,  using Amalfis Decrypter 1.5......no problems.


Planck

[bdfy1]

 Planck
It's all right :Amalfis Decrypter 1.5 is up-to-date utility;)

[Peter_Bullet]

NONONONO! I meant amalfis decrypter when I wrote "decryptor". Some resistance PBOs aren't compressed but they only unpack with pbo decryptor, not PBO tool... I know how to open these.

But is the res-pbo more effective (optimized) than the old one...?

[Mikero]

>But is the res-pbo more effective

nope. It's less efficient.

the only difference between res and non res is that resistance pbo's have 'signature' entries put in them at beginning of file defining the "product = resistance pbo' !!!!

There are, occaisionally, minor differences in the last header of the file as well (a difference signature) instead of being the classical empty null, it contains the compressed signature to indicate that some/many/all of the preceding 'files' are compressed.

Encryption as such has nothing to do with 'resistance pbo's'. Some files, notably config.cpp and descritpion.ext are sometimes 'encrypted' . 1985/ Resistance, take your pick it makes no difference.

Winpbo makes a mess of these, wheras amalfi's 1.5 does everything required for ALL pbos, addons included, except occaisonally gives a misleading and wrong checksum error which can be safely ignored.

[Ding]

I always thought that the Resistance PBo worked with flahspoint resistance while the regular one works with all of them including VBS1