The slave ship Harbinger prowls the universe, seeking worlds to ravage and plunder. Deep within the forgotten levels of the behemoth, equipped only with what you can scavenge, you live a raider's life. But the ruthless Vantir are expanding now throughout the ship, and the balance of power is shifting...
You've never experienced RPG action quite like this before. Harbinger's unique sci-fi universe and compelling story takes you further than you've ever been!

The skies darken as Harbinger enters a solar system, dwarfing planets and leaving devastation in its wake. Entire civilizations are cleansed, planets eliminated. The majority of the survivors fill the ship’s work camps. Those less fortunate are released to the laboratories where vicious experiments eventually rid them of their sanity. But a few have escaped and formed an underground society deep within the forgotten levels of the behemoth. Equipped only with what they can scavenge, the denizens of the wastelands must resist the relentless patrols sent for them. A ship this size has many places to hide and much technology to exploit.

The rest is up to you…

Play as one of three characters.

Born and raised in the wastelands, the human is no stranger to hardship. Captured stealing weapons from Vantir stockpiles, he has spent the last five years interned in Harbinger’s work camps. Escaping at the first opportunity, he fought his way back to the wastelands. Armed with a hardened resolve and a greater understanding of the ship’s layout, he has finally come home.

This robotic life form is a victim of the laboratories transferred consciousness program. Minds from conquered foes are fused with powerful battle machines. The result is a race of unquestioning warriors that can intelligently react to any situation. Having fallen in gladiatorial combat, he was decommissioned and scrapped. Reconstructed by wasteland scavengers and freed from his code, a new battle is fought within. His quest for purpose and identity threatens the very core of his sanity.

A peaceful race, the Culibine have evolved the ability to manipulate ambient energy. Unprepared to defend their planet, they offered one of their own in exchange for freedom. After the exchange, their planet was annihilated and none were spared. The last of her kind, the Culibine shifted Harbinger’s energies against her masters, and escaped. Fueled by rage, she gathers her energies awaiting the chance to avenge the betrayal of her people.


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Introduction

Harbinger by Silverback Entertainment runs on a custom engine. This engine was only used for 1 title, as the game financially underperformed and the studio closed down shortly afterwards. As a result it uses a lot of proprietary formats.

However Harbinger's archive formats at the very least have been cracked and can be opened via DragonUnpacker. I'll go over how to do it here. This tutorial is made in hopes that it might interest people in reverse engineering Harbinger's graphics formats so we can extract its textures and sprites one day.

What you will need

Opening Harbinger's files

First, install both the game and DragonUnpacker. Then set the files of type to Harbinger .SQH and go to the game's directory.

Hb1


res0.sqh is where the majority of the files are. So let's open that.

Hb2

From here we can extract all of the game's formats. Unfortunately as of writing this tutorial it's not possible to open or convert the graphics files. The graphics files are a proprietary format called .gim. Which isn't the same as the PSP .gim graphics format. However we can view dialogue, script and audio files pretty easily.

If you want to extract the ost in particular it's located in res0.sqh/res/common/music

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Conclusion

Hopefully we'll be able to play around with Harbinger's file formats more in the future. But for right now we can at least extract the archives. I'll update this tutorial in the future if the situation changes.

How to run Harbinger on Windows 10

How to run Harbinger on Windows 10

QA/Testing Tutorial

Harbinger runs notoriously poorly on modern OS's. Here's how to fix that.

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Harbinger v1.10 Patch

Harbinger v1.10 Patch

Patch

This is the v1.10 update for Harbinger by Silverback Entertainment. This was the final official update for the game.

Harbinger Demo

Harbinger Demo

Demo

The slave ship Harbinger prowls the universe, seeking worlds to ravage and plunder. Deep within the forgotten levels of the behemoth, equipped only with...

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