[PC] Martian Gothic .DAT files

[MiLOxentax]

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

[MiLOxentax]

Bump. Can someone at least have a look and let me know that it can not be done.

[howfie]

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.

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24576
9
75.8975
10.2599

-252.189
80.4337
8.98439
-241.153

75.9379
11.2542
-252.091
32.79

17.9
0
0
0

0
0
0
0

6
0
20
0

0
0
0
0

0
5
0
0

0
0
0
19

19
3
0
0

0
0
0
14

[Preddy]

*.dat files really contains background (by offset 0x240) in 16 bit format. Here is sample:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8NDId ... NsSDQ/view

[shakotay2]

use irfanview:

cam1_dat.JPG