LibPBP ver. 0.01 Unveiled
This library for your PBP archives by Hexstr has been a year in the making and is finally here. Hexstr has produced what he calls Extended PBP. It extends the original PBP format without affecting it. So let’s say that you increased each offset by 100, you can use 100 bytes of space after the PBP header and before the first file. To give you better idea, a visual representation would be: [PBP header][your added data][first file][second file], etc.
LibPBP lets you add as much data as you want into the file and the program will still read it as if there wasn’t any extra data, since programs are made to read the first file at the offset specified in the PBP header. According to Hexstr:
“I think that this could bring about some cool changes because you can store any data such as files, directories, images in the PBP file without hurting it. Self extracting executables can be created and programs that use bootstrapping to load themselves into memory could include the user-mode prx into the EBOOT.PBP file.”
Since Hexstr is currently in Afghanistan and won’t be back for over two months, he has left you guys an important task of fixing bugs and whatnots until he gets back.
The code can be found on the CVS at SourceForge [here].
This library for your PBP archives by Hexstr has been a year in the making and is finally here. Hexstr has produced what he calls Extended PBP. It extends the original PBP format without affecting it. So let’s say that you increased each offset by 100, you can use 100 bytes of space after the PBP header and before the first file. To give you better idea, a visual representation would be: [PBP header][your added data][first file][second file], etc.
LibPBP lets you add as much data as you want into the file and the program will still read it as if there wasn’t any extra data, since programs are made to read the first file at the offset specified in the PBP header. According to Hexstr:
“I think that this could bring about some cool changes because you can store any data such as files, directories, images in the PBP file without hurting it. Self extracting executables can be created and programs that use bootstrapping to load themselves into memory could include the user-mode prx into the EBOOT.PBP file.”
Since Hexstr is currently in Afghanistan and won’t be back for over two months, he has left you guys an important task of fixing bugs and whatnots until he gets back.
The code can be found on the CVS at SourceForge [here].
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