Hello.
I happen to be a fan of (what now can be considered) old-school pre-rendered backgrounds.
And this game is a great example of such technique, with some very well designed environments.
So I've been trying to find the right tools to open/extract the contents of the .dat files, where I believe the background images should be... but so far had no luck.
Could someone please take a look at them and maybe will figure it out. I know it's a rather common archive type, especially for a PC title, but being a noob at this stuff, I couldn't access the inside files of it and get the properly viewable pictures.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Here are 3 sample .dat files from [cameras] folder.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5rcmbtb056a9t4b
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[PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files
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Re: [PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files
Bump. Can someone at least have a look and let me know that it can not be done.
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Re: [PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files
in the dat files you posted the header contains a bunch of floats, followed by some integers. i highly doubt these files contain image data. doesn't look like image data to me.
This is not image data.
This is not image data.
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Re: [PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files
*.dat files really contains background (by offset 0x240) in 16 bit format. Here is sample:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8NDId ... NsSDQ/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8NDId ... NsSDQ/view
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Re: [PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files
use irfanview:
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Tuts: a) Bigchillghost, viewtopic.php?f=29&t=17889
b) Extracting simple models: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10894
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b) Extracting simple models: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10894
"Quoting the whole thing. Would u ever stop this nonsense?"