FF8/FileFormat PAK

Final Fantasy VIII's movie files are stored within pak files. This is for the CD 2000 version only. Steam 2013 version uses avi files. publish.pak contains the message "Published by Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.". disc1.pak, disc2.pak, disc3.pak, and disc4.pak hold the rest of the FMV movies.

PAK File Structure

The PAK file has no header. Each movie usually contains a CAM file and two BINK videos. A PAK file can contain multiple movies. One BINK file is the low res the other is the high res.

Section	Description
CAM - optional	Camera data
BINK - high res	FMV video
BINK - low res	FMV video

Existing projects you can use to extract the PAK files.

• https://github.com/MaKiPL/OpenVIII-monogame/tree/master/PAK%20Extractor
• https://github.com/MaKiPL/FF8-Rinoa-s-Toolset/blob/master/SerahToolkit_SharpGL/FF8_Core/PlayMovie.cs
• https://github.com/Sebanisu/OpenVIII_CPP_WIP/tree/master/src/open_viii/pak

BINK files

• Start with 0x42494B "BIK"
• More info: https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Bink_Container

CAM files

• Each frame is 44 bytes long.

Offset	Size	Description
0	3 bytes	0x463850 "F8P"
6	2 bytes (uint16)	Approx number of frames. There can be extra data.
8	44 bytes * number of frames	Frame data. Each frame ends with "END"