I have been trying to poke into the game files for Absolution (I would love to find and upload the files of the 2,000 pages of AI dialogue, as so much of it has been uncatalogued due to Absolution’s unpopular nature, vast length of dialogue in the game between NPCs and presumably also the file formatting being pretty hard to crack), but unlike all of the earlier Hitman games (which minus some hassle with loctool, are pretty easy to investigate), it is nigh impossible to get in there because of everything being locked behind the .pc_resourcelib file format, which is proprietary to Eidos’ games as far as I can tell. I looked at Glacier tools for the Glacier 2 engine, but the updates on ResourceLib stated that they were removing Absolution support because it was broken. I have no idea how to begin unpacking these in order to begin sifting through them, and help would be greatly appreciated if anyone has any idea of how to do them or if I am missing something.
I’ve tried to look through console versions of the game as well, but it is just .ps3_resourcelib and presumably the Xbox version (although I don’t own that one so cannot check to be sure). I’m not sure if the prefix matters and if I can just look for .resourcelib file format extracting information, as that is not a file format I am particularly familiar with. I admittedly have not tested Glacier 2 Tools myself, so if anyone has experience with that and knowledge that it will work for the purposes I am trying to achieve, please let me know! I did see a forum (Xentax) post from 2018 (gone now, archived version linked) on extracting the audio files, but as I am looking for text files, I am not sure how effective it is. Most of the tools are either fully gone by now (as I have also looked for other Eidos games that use this file format, and the tools are just gone and not archived at all) or don’t support Absolution. I know that Hitman Audio tools exists but I am just not super familiar with it, nor know if it would get the scripts extracted in the specific way I need. In the past, I had looked for game translation mods to get an idea of what I was looking for, but Absolution already comes with so many languages that there is barely any language translation mods (and barely anyone seems to mod it, I searched through plenty of modding sites to try and find anything at all that could point me towards the right files, unpacking this file format etc and could not find anything). I appreciate any help or pointing me to a vaguely right direction (such as if I can just use a .resourcelib file extractor) that anyone could give me! Thanks so much in advance!