POD5 Archive

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POD

• Format Type : Archive
  
• Endian Order : Little Endian
  
• Signature : POD5
  

Format Specifications

// ARCHIVE HEADER
  4 - Signature (POD5)
  4 - Checksum (can be empty) (crc-ccitt32?)
  80 - Comment / Archive Filename (null terminated)
  4 - Number of Files
  4 - null
  4 - Unknown (4096)
  80 - Author (can be empty)
  80 - Copyright (can be empty)
  4 - null
  4 - Directory Offset
  4 - Unknown
  4 - Filename Directory Length
  92 - null
  
// FILE DATA
  // for each file
    X - File Data
    
// FILES DIRECTORY
  // for each file (28 or 32 bytes per entry)
    4 - Filename Offset (relative to the start of the Filename Directory)
    4 - Compressed Length
    4 - File Offset
    4 - Decompressed Length
    4 - null
    4 - Unknown
    4 - null OR Hash?
    if (fieldAbove is null){
      4 - Hash?
      }
    
// FILENAME DIRECTORY
  // for each file
    X - Filename
    1 - null Filename Terminator

Notes and Comments

• This file format uses ZLIB.

Games

List of games using this file format:

• Country Dance 2 (*.POD)
• Ghostbusters The Video Game (2009) (*.POD)
• Silent Hill: Book of Memories (*.POD)
• The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (*.POD)

QuickBMS Script

• pod5.bms

Compatible Programs

• Dragon UnPACKer
• Game Extractor (unpack only)
• Gibbed Ghostbusters Tools (+ source code) (pack and unpack features)