VibRipper is a C++-based CLI program for unpacking and repacking Vib-Ribbon's PAK file format. The focus of this program was to create an accurate yet flexible PAK handler for future Vib-Ribbon modding.
VibRipper { u <pakfile> [outdir] | r <indir> [tocfile] }
Passing u allows a user to unpack a PAK file. Optionally, a user can define an output directory of their choosing. If not, the program will create its own within the same directory as the PAK file with _out appended. In either case, the program will also create a _TOC.txt file within the same directory as the PAK file, which describes the original table of contents structure of the PAK file, which can later be used for accurate repacking.
Passing r allows a user to repack a PAK file from a directory. Optionally, a user can define a TOC file (_TOC.txt file) to repack the directory with, maintaining the original PAK structure and PAK file name. If not provided with a TOC file, the program will repack the directory based on your OS's filesystem rules into its parent directory with .PAK appended.
Passing h displays a basic help message for the user.
A format description can be found on KNFE's wiki.
I created a similar program to this one some months ago at the request of a Twitter user who reached out to me. However, there was the particular problem that some PAK files don't follow a constant ruleset when sorting their file names in the table of contents. This caused inconsistent and incompatible results. So, I created the basic text TOC file to preserve the order of contents when repacking. While this solution is a bit clunky, I found it was most effective instead of trying to hardcode bizarre rules for certain directories.
That aside, I decided to leave the raw folder repacking as part of the program in the rare case that the community deems it is viable for some scenarios.
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3.