A tool to unpack/repack Silent Hill 4 .bin files. sh4bin is capable of perfectly unpacking and repacking all Silent Hill 4 bin files successfully.
This is a low-level tool. If you are not familiar with the command line and a hex editor, you will not be able to use this tool for anything meaningful.
sh4bin uses .NET 6.0 and as such it can be built for any platform and architecture that is supported by .NET 6.0. Just run dotnet build to compile it.
sh4bin pack < input directory> <file.bin>- Packs a bin file from loose files in a foldersh4bin unpack <file.bin> < output directory>- Unpacks a bin into an output directorysh4bin analyze <file.bin>- Analyzes a Silent Hill 4 bin file and tells you information about it without unpacking
Silent Hill 4 .bin files do not include any naming information, so it is difficult to tell what things are beyond the filename of the .bin itself.
That being said, sh4bin is capable of fingerprinting .bin chunk types automatically when they are extracted. For example, it can identify the following chunk types with a high level of accuracy:
- Texture chunks
- Object mesh chunks
- World mesh chunks
- Collision mesh chunks
- .sdb File chunks
- SLGT chunks
- Animation chunks
- Shadow mesh chunks
It does this by looking for magic bytes to identify the type of data that is in the chunk.
This tool correctly unpacks and repacks .bin files from all Silent Hill 4 versions on all platforms.
- Hunter Stanton (@hun10sta)