What format are NXE installed games in?

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What format are NXE installed games in?

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Ok, so I installed Halo Wars to the HDD on my 360 because I wanted to try and find the pre-rendered cutscene movie files. I'm pretty sure they're in Bink format, that's pretty standard with games. What I found was the game's folder under content/0000000000000000/4D530808, and inside that folder another one with a bunch of numbers and letters, along with a container file that I assume is what tells you you need to insert the game disk if you try to run it without the disk. Inside that folder though are a bunch of files, 40 to be exact, all 162MB except the last one, which is 45.3MB, and named Data0000, Data0001, etc.

My question is, what format are those in? They aren't container files, that I'm pretty sure of, and I tried zip and rar (not really thinking they would work but hoping) and they didn't work. Anyone know?
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What does that have to do with what I'm asking? I never said anything about jpgs or pngs, I don't give a crap about images, I'm asking what format NXE games are installed in.
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Ok, seriously? Why be assholes, guys? I'm asking a serious question. Why is it so hard to get a straight answer?

I'm not stupid, the installed games aren't in bitmap format, nor jpeg, not png, it's not an image, it's not a zip or a split rar archive. It's not an ISO or any other archive format I've ever seen. From the research I've done it looks like it's just a dump of the disk, because you can still see the xbox dvd filesystem headers, but there is some sort of encryption or something. I don't think it's compression.

What I wanted was the .bik files out of there, so I found out what the header for a .bik file was and searched for it in the DATA files, I found them and copied one out and saved it. It played for about 3 seconds then skipped back and forth for a few seconds, then stopped.
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Extracting files from the dumps are difficult. There are many hash blocks in-between the data.
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