User blog:Frisson Seeker/The Search for Data

I just learned this less than 6 hours ago with no tutorial, this is entirely self taught so bare with my newbieness.

In the Dark Souls(PC) DATA folder, there are 5 .bdt files and a corresponding bhd5 file. I don't know what hte latter file is but since they are only 2 digit KB files they can't pertinent info. The five bdt files: dvdbnd0.bdt, dvdbnd1.bdt, dvdbnd2.bdt, and dvdbnd3.bdt are the Master Databases. bdt files are a zlib filetype(look it up if you want to know more. So, any zlib program can unpack them. The file sizes of the Master Databases are

DB0: 1 738 625 KB

DB1: 1 658 797 KB

DB2: 1 147 KB

DB3: 3 414 KB

I've only opened the smallest two as of writing this.

DB3 has 33 .bnd files which are another type of database file. These can actually be opened in a Hex Editor.

Of the 33 files, there are TWO sets of TEN files. Each in a different language meaning 18 of them are superfluous. Of the two English files, one is a list of all items in the game and their descriptions. This includes missing content. This is the same as the text dump from one year ago. The second file is a list of all dialogue in the game. This is also part of the same text dump from a year ago.

I have made two text files containing all the Hex data translated to plain text.

Item text file

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rca6qdadxd3z99/0000005c.rtf

Dialogue text file

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kij3mf3pxw66bec/00028e8c.rtf?m

DB2 is much larger consisting of 84 files. 37 are .db databases. 26 are .eld files which I have no idea what they are. And 21 are .elv files which I also don't know what are.

From the couple(less than 10) database files I've sifted through. Each seems to consist of ai routines for every enemy in an ingame area. One area I've identified is Painted World.

Some Enemies: "Knight_of_Sun"(Solaire?), "Sun_Knight"(um?), "Onion Knight"(Siegmeyer?), "Magician_of_Pot"(I don't even know), "Husi"(The name for Zombies apparently), "HusiPhalanx", "HusiTorch", "Husi_Bow", "HusiCongestion","HusiCongestionTorch"(the Engorged Zombies),"Heroine"(Priscilla?), "Ninja(In painted world? edit: just released this is the name of Shiva's bodyguard, the cut content that takes place here), "Gitai", "Nobushi" (Edit: one of the last two must be Shiva than), "YellowMantle"(King Jeremiah), "HeavyKnight_Mace" the last few are excluding the first four are Painted World. That is how I determined each file corresponds to an ingame area.

I'll add in a more areas in a bit.