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How is the game data stored?[message #151486]

Thu, 02 August 2007 17:42

Blood Axis

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Registered:August 2007

I was thinking of writing a little utility to extract all the game data (ie bitmaps and stuff). I need to know how it is stored internally in the data files. I looked through the source briefly, but was unable to find the data-loading code. Can anyone help me out?

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Re: How is the game data stored?[message #151487]

Thu, 02 August 2007 17:43

SpaceViking

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Registered:January 2004
Location: Rochester, Minnesota, USA

What data exactly are you trying to extract and from what files?

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Re: How is the game data stored?[message #151488]

Thu, 02 August 2007 17:47

Blood Axis

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Registered:August 2007

Mainly all the image files. Ie tiles, game screens, sprites etc. I suppose it would be nice to extract all the audio files too.

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Re: How is the game data stored?[message #151549]

Thu, 02 August 2007 23:27

Marlboro Man

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Registered:October 2005
Location: USA

No need to create your own, when this handy little program that Shed23 turned me onto will extract everything from JA2 that you want. Get it here.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/File-Editors/Dragon-UnPACKer.shtml

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Re: How is the game data stored?[message #151564]

Fri, 03 August 2007 00:37

Blood Axis

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Registered:August 2007

That's cool. But I would like to write a util nonetheless. Seems the files are stored in a standard format?

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