na_game_tool 0.5.0 released

Grab it from the usual place if you’re interested in it for some unfathomable reason. I’ll try to document the formats when I have time (and multimedia.cx server does not suffer from crawlers).

4 Responses to “na_game_tool 0.5.0 released”

  1. AI crawlers got you down too? I know the feeling. Working on fixes (without scaling up the VMs and paying more $$$, which they would probably overflow anyway).

  2. Kostya says:

    Not me, you—on evenings (which probably means daytime start in the USA) sometimes I cannot connect to either my blog or The Wiki which means your server hosting both experiences problems. And we all know what’s the most likely cause of it.

    Of course I wish you good luck (and the opposite to them).

  3. Sembiance says:

    Awesome!!!

    I’ve updated dexvert to support this new version and nearly all of the new formats. Now discmaster will reprocess several thousand files matching these formats which will turn ‘unknown’ files into videos and unpacked archives!

    Found some files that didn’t extract you can find on discmaster :
    mco: discmaster.textfiles.com/view/16542/SSERVCD_51B.BIN/TEMTOUR/RENDE.MCO
    cryo_archive: discmaster.textfiles.com/view/4369/ClassicFond57.iso/games/saga.rar/saga00.big
    cryo_archive? maybe?
    discmaster.textfiles.com/view/33797/PCP%20-%201995-05.BIN/eden.dat
    discmaster.textfiles.com/view/15551/MAXGAMES.iso/demo/megarace/megarace.dat

    Could not locate samples of these. Could you point me to some sample files?
    ivas Tsunami Media video
    ivd Interactive Pictures VID
    grn Microids GRN
    um Dark Moon UM

    Thanks again for creating and updating this tool!!

  4. Kostya says:
    • RENDE.MCO is a newer version of MCO IIRC, and it did not look interesting enough to bother supporting it;
    • the files you mention are Cryo archives indeed, but (probably because of format subtle differences) only first file gets extracted; saga00.big errors out because it has over 11000 files inside (while I expect 1-10000 files only);
    • ivas could be found inside Man Enough game resources and Ringworld 2 (and I’m not sure they’re in the archive);
    • ivd can be found inside https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/29671/ibm0540-0549/ibm0544.tar/ibm0544/SCL-SP08.ZIP and related files (with .evd/.fvd/.gvd extensions);
    • grn is at https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/21747/PCS0495.ISO/demos/genesia/anims
    • um is at https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/44471/IO_4_99_cd.BIN/DARKMOON/MOV

    Maybe I’ll make a micro release improving the archives support but no promises.

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