[REQ] Help with old Macintosh/Quicktime format (*.pic/PICT)

[Habanero]

I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me convert these images, or if any progress has been made. I bought an old Japanese RPG called Vampire Hurts that I might be interested in translating. First thing first is breaking open the files inside!

Some reading:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discuss ... efeated-me
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1369&p=9550&hilit=pict#p9550 (I tried the converter posted here and it just resulted in "ERROR"

Images:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/lowxmhnh5ywrmug/bmp.zip

If anyone can assist me with this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

[Acewell]

i don't think these pic samples are apple formats, just typical paletted/non-paletted rgb images with pic extension.

[Habanero]

i don't think these pic samples are apple formats, just typical paletted/non-paletted rgb images with pic extension.

Ahh, okay. How would I go about viewing/converting the images though? Renaming the extension to jpg, png, or bmp didn't work. I tried Manifold Viewer since it's what popped up when I googled how to open palette files, and that didn't work either.

[Acewell]

here is Noesis python script to open pic files from this game.

tex_VampireHurts_pic.zip

[Habanero]

Thank you! That takes care of the images. Now all that seems to be left are the .dat files.

Is there a way to preserve the transparency when importing into Noesis, though? The transparency has been replaced with a black background.

[Acewell]

Is there a way to preserve the transparency when importing into Noesis, though? The transparency has been replaced with a black background.

i'm pretty sure any image meant to have transparency in this game is accompanied
by a file of the same name also with _a in the file name to denote "alpha" and is likely
combined and rendered by the game at runtime, for example:
v_up_ela.pic
v_up_ela_a.pic