Extracting .gin files out of Hot Pursuit 2010 and Most Wanted 2012

Before we begin

• This guide applies to both NFS: Hot Pursuit (2010) and Hot Pursuit Remastered.
• In Most Wanted 2012, the
• Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
• Hummer H1 Alpha and
• Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 are cut cars and require manual download.
• Hex-editors often automatically create backups when editing files, ending with a .bak extension. You should keep the backups as they are very useful if you messed up something and need to do it again.

You will need

• Noesis
• DGlorio's Noesis plugins (DGlorio's original Google Drive upload)
• A hex-editor of choice (I use HxD)
• A .gin file decoder
• Hot Pursuit 2010/Most Wanted 2012 Car-ID spreadsheet

Installing Noesis and DGlorio's plugins

1. Download and extract Noesis somewhere to its own folder
2. Download DGlorio's Noesis plugins and extract the "plugins" and "optionalplugins" into Noesis' folder
3. Open Noesis
4. Select Tools and check "Display Plugin Tools"

A list of Hot Pursuit 2010 and Most Wanted 2012 tools should appear in the Tools submenu

Installing the .gin decoder

• Download the .gin file decoder and extract the gin.exe file to C:\Windows\System32\
• (Don't worry, it's not a virus and it will NOT do harm to your PC, this is for convenience later)

Extracting the .gin files from Hot Pursuit

1. Open Noesis, select Tools, select "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 Unpacker"
2. Navigate to the VEHICLES folder inside Hot Pursuit's installation folder
3. Using the Car-ID spreadsheet as a guide, find the car you want to extract and select the file that ends with "_EN.BIN"
4. Select a destination folder to extract the files into
5. In the extraction folder, delete every folder except "80_00_00_00" as this folder contains the .gin files
6. Open every .dat file in "80_00_00_00" with a hex-editor
7. Delete the first 4 bytes of every file like so:
8. Save every file
9. Optionally you can change the extension of the files from .dat to .gin

Extracting the .gin files from Most Wanted

1. Open Noesis, select Tools, select "Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012 Unpacker"
2. Navigate to the VEHICLES folder inside Most Wanted's installation folder
3. Using the Car-ID spreadsheet as a guide, find the car you want to extract and select the file that ends with "_HI.BNDL"
4. Select a destination folder to extract the files into
5. In the extraction folder, delete every folder except "80_00_00_00" as this folder contains the .gin files
6. Open every .dat file in "80_00_00_00" with a hex-editor
7. Modify every file like so:
   
8. Save every file
9. Optionally you can change the extension of the files from .dat to .gin

Using the .gin decoder

1. Open the folder where your .gin files are
2. Type cmd in the address bar - a Command Line window should open with the folder you are in selected as the working directory
• Alternatively, you can open a Command Line window anywhere and use cd <path to folder> command instead
3. In the command line window, type gin <your file here> - note: This will not work if you didn't install the .gin encoder as instructed
• For example, gin 83_66_07_00.gin
4. You should now get the decoded .wav file of the .gin file in the same folder, and see some numbers in the command line window, which are:
• RPM1: Minimum RPM
• RPM2: Maximum RPM
• Samples and sample rate
5. Note: When decoding MW12 files, the decoder will get stuck when finishing the MW12 .gin. Press Ctrl+C to unstick it.

Closing notes

• I will update this guide with pics for easier following later.
• I reuploaded DGIorio's plugins without the Burnout Paradise plugins, because they interfered with Hot Pursuit Remastered.
• DG, if you read this, and have an issue with this, contact me and I will rewrite the guide.