Need help with old ps2 game Ripping - Legendz Gekitou!

[SamagthraV2]

Hey there! I'm having a lot of difficulty with extracting model files from an old japanese ps2 game,  Legendz Gekitou! Saga Battle

I have tried a plethora of different methods for unpacking ps2 files, ninja ripper, a variety of dattool and quickbms extractors, nothing seems to work

I've gotten as far as being able to unpack and extract the ps2 asset files into their own folders (DATA, MOVIE, MUSIC, VOICE). The models of the characters I believe would be under the DATA folder, which contains nothing but .DAT files

Is anyone able to help me with this? 





On using NinjaRipper, the only models it extracts is a single flat plane model with the texture of whatever was on the screen at the time. So basically a rip of the screen lol, no actual in game models or assets. As seen below, when previewing the .rip files with Noesis, it's a single plane