What program do I use to view peg format files?

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Request for Question Clarification by till-ga on 20 Apr 2005 06:28 PDT

Could you mean JPEG file format ?

till-ga

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Clarification of Question by simplest-ga on 20 Apr 2005 08:16 PDT

No. It is {filename}.peg

No a Jpeg file...

It might be for a pocket pc.

It is actually a file type used by a game call "Red Faction 2"...

Not sure if this is it but try this...

http://www.preactor.com/webhelp/PEG_DATA_FILE_NAME.htm

which would suggest that its a system file and you would use notepad to view it...

It seems that the peg files I have is not a system files. I open it
with noepad and the contents are all mess up with funny symbols.

The peg files are placed under the loading screen folders of the game directory...

Try a program called irfanview (you can find it easily with
google.com).  I have yet to come across any picture format it can't
handle.

Good Luck

It seems that irfanview does not reconize the file format either :(....

Usually if you open a file in wordpad, the first line or two will
contain a string telling you a little more information about the file
and which program created it. For instance, a JPG looks like:

JFIF Created with The GIMP

Even if there isn't a comment added by the program that created it, at
least this will tell you if the original extension really was PEG. It
also may suggest an alternate extension (as with JPG->JFIF above) to
search for.

Jem Tallon

I try to open the peg file in wordpad and there is this word: "GEKV"
follow by spaces and some symbols and then "load_sopot.tga" in the
first line.

After that it is just all the symbols...

I check the game irectories but could not find the tga file...

ReaGif v. 1.2 lists PEG as one of its supported file formats.
http://www.reasoft.com/products/reagif/

Hope it helps.

From their website:

... allows you to convert any image file format including the most
popular (JPG, BMP, FPX, PEG, PCD, PCL, PCX, PSD, PICT, PNG, TIFF, TGA,
SGI, etc.) to GIF and then edit it with rotating, stretch, crop,
border, etc.

I download the program and install but the program doesn't reconize
the peg files I have. Seems like the peg file the program supported is
different structured than mine... :(

From the sound of it, this file is of some internal format to Red
Faction. It's entirely possible that the game uses its own encryption
methods to create the file and that, consequently, there is no editor
for it. Personally, I wouldn't recommend editing it to find out. But
if you really want to edit some of the contents of this file, it may
be possible with a Hex editor (http://www.expertcomsoft.com) or using
Resource Explorer (http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d7resourceexplorer.htm).
Of course, if you do, make sure to backup the file first so you can
replace it with a clean copy if this doesn't work.

Also, http://www.watto.org/extract/program/archives.txt had the
following information about the file in question:

+---------------------+
| Red Faction 2 *.peg |
+---------------------+

4 - Header (GEKV)
4 - Version (6)
4 - Directory Size (first file offset = dirSize + 32)
4 - File Data Size
4 - numFiles
4 - null
4 - numFiles
4 - Unknown (16)

// for each file
  2 - Unknown
  2 - Unknown
  4 - Unknown
  2 - Unknown
  2 - Unknown
  48 - Filename (null)
  4 - File Offset [+ first file offset]
  
X - File Data

I nearly forgot to mention this. You may also want to try Game
Extractor to open and edit the contents of the file. Apparently it is
able to open PEG files, since that listing I just posted came from
their website. You can find this program at:
http://www.watto.org/extract/index.html

On another tangent, it also appears that the TGA file is a bitmap.
Perhaps if you could find it, that would help you to narrow down what
information is in the file?

Jem Tallon

When I try to open the peg file using Game Extractor. It says no
plugins to open the archive even though the plugin is installed by
default... >_<

Ok. I can open the files now. However I can't find the tga files....