Arcalane 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 Hm? WAV most likely. Doesn't look like it. Extracted two, fed them into the decompressor (they seem uncompressed, there was no filesize change) and then changed the extensions to .wav and nothing worked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex07 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 Audio is .mp3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arcalane 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) Either I didn't extract audio files, or they're not mp3. Just tested. EDIT: Trying a few random files here. Whilst WinAMP isn't locking up like it was when I tried them with .wavs, it's not doing anything. Edited March 2, 2007 by Arcalane Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmx 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) I looked around DemoGame.dat code and: - they removed functionality "-preferLocalFiles" completely, so it's not just blocked. The main code is still checking the param, but the flag is not accessed by any function, most probably they "commented out" that code for the Demo release. - to run game in window mode you can either execute: CNC3Demo.exe -win -xpos 0 -ypos 0 or DemoGame.dat.exe -config CNC3_english_1.0.SkuDef -win -xpos 0 -ypos 0 or edit first line in "CNC3_english_1.0.SkuDef" to look like: set-exe DemoGame.dat -win -xpos 0 -ypos 0 - files in "CNC3_english_1.0.SkuDef" do not overload, so first file with given name will be loaded - any modded .big file should be first on the list: add-big nointros.big add-big DemoStreams.big add-big DemoMovies.big add-big DemoData.big add-search-path big: nointros.zip_ Edited March 2, 2007 by kmx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshee 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 In order to give a better interface to jonwil's code in the first post and make a friendly way to allow people to view the files inside the .BIG files (and later to make their own .BIGs), I've released OS BIG Editor. The OS stands for Open Source ;), but I use Delphi... and I guess some of you don't like it :P. It would be better if Matze still worked on FinalBIG, but if he doesn't want to do that, at least there is an open source alternative now. And I said very early version, because I haven't fully worked on the interface, and it doesn't save new BIG files either, just view or extract them. And it doesn't display any binary files properly, because I'm using a very cheap way to display files at the moment... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlckWyerve 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 If we don't get a new version of FinalBIG, I'm going to be extremely miffed. :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Froniki 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) Our programmer at RedSystem forums (www.redsys.ru) has already written such a tool yesterday, it is called "Final Kane". This two are almost identical. (He use C++) Latest version here Edited March 2, 2007 by Froniki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FAS 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 Hello everybody ! I'm new here, and just to present myself, I'm a member of the team of the french website Time of War.com, biggest french C&C community. I'm developping a suite of tools called "TOW Tools", which contains a BIG Editor. It can currently perfectly extract the .big files from C&C3, but of course can't decompress the compressed files. It's available in multiple language (including english, french, german and polish), you can dowload it here if you're interested (I joined a screenshot to show you the interface, and note that it supports adding/extracting files with drag & drop from and to the explorer). This tool is currently written in VB 6 (boooo, shame on me). But for the next version, I've begun rewriting it from scratch using VB.Net 2005 (I also know some won't like it :D). I would be very interested to use jonwil's code in my program (either rewriting it in VB.Net or creating a DLL from it). But since my program isn't currently Open Source, I suppose you wouldn't very appreciate that I use it... What's your opinion ? (PS: I apologise if I made english mistakes, but I'm from Switzerland, and I normally speak french...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmx 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 This tool is currently written in VB 6 (boooo, shame on me). But for the next version, I've begun rewriting it from scratch using VB.Net 2005 (I also know some won't like it :D). I would be very interested to use jonwil's code in my program (either rewriting it in VB.Net or creating a DLL from it). But since my program isn't currently Open Source, I suppose you wouldn't very appreciate that I use it... What's your opinion ? Well' if you relly want a .dll use this one: http://www.ppmsite.com/downloads/big4decomp.rar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonwil 0 Report post Posted March 2, 2007 Just to remind people, anyone using my refpack decompression must make their program Open Source. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Froniki 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2007 (edited) We have made dds extractor from bin Use: CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.exe static_demo_common.bin CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.exe townod_1_demo.bin CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.zip_ Edited March 3, 2007 by Froniki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonwil 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2007 No offense to Froniki but your program doesn't find anywhere near as many dds files as the other scanners linked in this thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Froniki 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2007 on my uncompressed bin (no RefPack) it have found all of the dds CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.exe static_demo_common.bin -> 1083 files townod_1_demo.bin -> 3 files X-Ripper static_demo_common.bin -> 1079 files townod_1_demo.bin -> 0 files Jaeder Naub V2.0.2a static_demo_common.bin -> 1083 files townod_1_demo.bin -> 3 files Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Froniki 0 Report post Posted March 3, 2007 New version of CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor Use CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.exe static_demo_common.bin but now it need manifest file to get filenames for dds CnC3_BIN_DDS_Extractor.zip_ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
