Thread: Extraction and Experimenting with Garmin voice Audio Packs and fw symbols, icons

Originally Posted by Neil

OK, i see now. Sorry to be so dense.


Yeah, i know. That's why i linked GIRSplit for you. GIR_Editor only opens bin, gcd & rgn files i think despite it's name implying otherwise.

Well my version of GIR_Editor0.56 only open files that have the new "gir" header which usually are in fw_resources.bin and logo.bin. It crapped out on .gcd, .rgn and even certain .bin You probably mean RGN_Tool opens .gcd and .rgn files and not GIR_Editor

Originally Posted by Neil

Yeah that's total crap i wrote in a rush and not what i meant to say at all. I meant it will open, and extract symbols from, logo.bin files and will also open and extract symbols from fw1_resources.bin obtained from rgn and gcd files.

PS: But it can't open the 'old style' GIR files as i said, despite it's name. But of course turboccc never meant for it to do that, he was only interested in the symbols from 'new' firmware containing fw1_resources.bin. Naturally it will also happily open a dump from rgn127 [0x7F] because that's where fw1_resources.bin is flashed.

The "old style" is extremely easy to parsed because of 1) someone already posted format and 2) it's just a simple format so looking at hexdump you can easily spot what is and where. I'm sure with turboccc ability, adding it to his proggy shouldn't be hard. Nevertheless, no one is complaining; I'm just stating observation. Since "old style" gir is hard to find, I thought "old timer" like yourself would know which "old garmin" units uses them and hence I can tests them (I've been scouring [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] for some, but it's a shot in the dark for me.) BTW, there are graphics in some fw_all.bin section as well.