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The Darkness Info Dump

Last Updated: 6 November 2020

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Darkness 1

Darkness 1 is PS3/X360 exclusive so I don’t have much to spew out my mouth about
GameFAQ Link: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/927013-the-darkness/faqs/51997
But considering (unlike Darkness 2) it was developed by Starbreeze Studio, so its Starbreeze’s own proprietary engine

After doing some digging (and getting a disc copy and ripping it)
As a quick note, the version I was given seems to be tagged as 1.03 btw.

Note: This is in development

It seems to use a .xrg format (which is stupidly variable in its format)
I’ve noticed a few different types:

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Cache:
  Fairly JSON-like
  Each line starts with '*'
  Supports C++ like #ifdef's

There’s also the .xwc files which (according to some other posts) store the raw data back to back
These other formats seem to have a different structure than what the posts say so idk

Image Rips

According to the PS3Homebrew subreddit:


This comes from PS3_Game/USRDIR/SYSTEM/PS3/GAMEDATA/PIC1.PNG

Image #2 comes from PS3_Game/USRDIR/SYSTEM/PS3/SAVEDATA/ICON0.PNG

Image #3 comes from PS3_Game/USRDIR/SYSTEM/PS3/SAVEDATA/PIC1.PNG

Extra Content

All of the stuff in this subheading comes from PS3_GAME/USRDIR/EXTRACONTENT/OFFLINE01/*.
In the root dir there’s INFO.XRG which just defines some basic stuff (collectables etc), but the end of the XRG file is a bit more interesting:

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/* -- these will not work if unlocked by "unlock all" since additional script commands are needed.
      so let's remove them from the extra content (not really needed, since the player will get info
    when unlocking the darklings ingame).
*0
{
  *id retailer_bat
  *name §LEC_122_NAME
  *desc §LEC_122_DESC
  *type picture
  *KeyID 122
}

*0
{
  *id retailer_golfdriver
  *name §LEC_123_NAME
  *desc §LEC_123_DESC
  *type picture
  *KeyID 123
}
*/

From here you have a bit more extra info:

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//*0
//{
//  *id retailer_machete
//  *name Registration Darkling
//  *desc You've unlocked a special darkling outfit by calling the number you got from registering your game online. You will see it when you summon a berserker.
//  *type picture
//  *KeyID 124
//}

All of this is commented out so it obviously doesn’t exist in the game but quite interesting.
There’s also some movie files in VIDEOS/PROFILEMAIN
TODO: ADD AND CONVERT THESE MOVIES

System

Under PS3_GAME/USRDIR/SYSTEM, there’s GL, PS3, PS3EXES, and SOUND.
First off is GL, there’s not too much interesting in here, its basically just ARB_fragment_program and then some more shader vertex code written by Starbreeze devs, but it doesn’t seem to interesting to me.

Under PS3, there’s also not too much except for those images from above and some cache files

Darkness 2

Unlike Darkness 1, this game actually came out on PC (and I got it for free from some sale as far as I remember)
This game uses Digital Extremes’s proprietary Evolution engine (in fact its the second game to use it)
The game’s files are combinations of .toc (Table of Contents) and .cache (Cache)
Side fact: The game’s PDB was stored at c:\Darkness2PC\Code\EE.SteamCEG.pdb in development :)

Avoiding Ear Pain™

The game launches with an impressively loud 2K intro movie, in order to avoid having your ears bleed:

  1. Navigate to your game folder
  2. Go to [GAME FOLDER]/Cache.Windows
  3. Delete/Rename F.VideoTextureSlow.toc
    • Since the F.VideoTextureSlow.toc contains other non-intro movie files, you can download a hex-edited version to remove the intro movie itself

Table of Contents Format

According to some XeNTaX forum posts about Warframe (another Evolution engine game) (probably not the most trustworthy site btw):

That forum post also contains a link to a QuickBMS Script (Download)

If you wanna make your own implementation (like I tried):

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Out of File: 
  - Content Amount: ( (Size of TOC) - 8 ) / 0x60

Magic: 0x4E, 0xC6, 0x67, 0x18
Version: int32
TOC File / Category Format (Loop over Content Amount):
  - offset: long
  - timestamp: long
  - zSize: int32
  - size: int
  - paddedBytes: int
  - ID: int
  - Name: 0x40 long ASCII string (remove non-ASCII chars)

The only caveat to this file format being that the .cache files contain oodle and lzf compressed files
In reality I wouldn’t advise making your own implementation of the QuickBMS just because the oodle compression scheme is proprietary and it’ll be annoying to actually implement it in in whatever your language of choice is.

Content Files

Content File Name TOC File Size (bytes) Cache File Size (bytes)
B.AnimRetarget 97256 60893070
B.Font 115016 15215695
B.Misc 1901864 1029879078
B.Misc_en 953288 26942732
B.Script 50120 1761886
B.Texture 987560 246668228
B.Texture_en 3368 235320
B.VideoTexture 872 20300800
F.Misc 78536 2581251187
F.Misc_en 926408 216493056
F.Texture 724808 2289478197
F.VideoTexture 2120 185776936
F.VideoTextureSlow 6344 218444400
F.VideoTexture_en 680 169269268
H.AnimRetarget 109064 7488991
H.Font 114920 308306
H.Misc 2754536 30612157
H.Misc_en 953288 2396378
H.Script 57992 842971
H.Texture 987560 1966378
H.Texture_en 3368 5115
H.VideoTexture 2696 2579
H.VideoTextureSlow 6344 6163
H.VideoTexture_en 680 261

There’s some somewhat interesting info you can glean from (somewhat poorly) extracting the contents of the caches
The UI (as from B.AnimRetarget) uses Uncompressed Shockwave Flash 6
For more interesting code-bits, I ended up figuring out how to decompile the lua source code (The extension should probably be .luac on the files but y’know :/)
A github repo of the decompiled code is here: https://github.com/FromDarkHell/TheDarknessIIDecompiled

Config Files

All of these go in %appdata%/DarknessII, I’m yet to figure out their format but, could potentially be something?

  1. Editor.cfg - There’s a lot of references to the game’s editor, yet it lacks anyway to access it in game afaik
  2. EE.cfg - EE is probably short for Evolution Engine
  3. [STEAM ID]/settings: Config file matched up with your steam ID

Random Information Takeaways

These are all just random things I found out about other random things after messing with the code™

Mansion Radio

After a 5 seconds? tracks? on the radio in the mansion, it’ll play a set of news casts
It’ll restart that 5 second/track? loop if you toggle the radio on / off
Other useless note: it toggles the radio’s noise on/off by just modifying the gain to be 3 or -47 respectively

Dolfo Mini-Games

In order to impress Dolfo for the first time (all according to DolfoShootTargets.lua), you need to shoot all 13 bottles in 11 seconds or less

There’s 3 different set of dialog options depending on how bad you are at the game:

There’s a very stupidly rare chance of actually get the 11s roll unless you get a frame perfect situation in which it ticks up to exactly 11s
Even when the timer shows that you did it in 11s it rounds it

In order to impress Dolfo, the second time (ie the pigeon game), you need to shoot 20 pigeons in < 120s

Side Note: After doing the Mansion raid mission, you can do both mini games in any order

Carnival Games

Shootout:
This is fairly similar to the first minigame for Dolfo works except the maximum time limit is 60s
The large prize score is 1000 points

The time between targets is a random number between 2 and 4 seconds
The chance for a friendly in the mini-game, is about 50%

At the start of each tick of the mini-game timer:

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  - If the elapsed time is >= 54s (timeLimit * 0.9):
    * Jenny stops doing her callouts
  - If the elapsed time is >= 42s AND total points >= 900 AND almost
    * almost = true
    * jenny starts doing "Almost" callouts

Duck Hunt:
Nearly identical logic-wise to the shootout game

Images

These are all just random promo images from the 2K site, best enough to keep them ripped from there.




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