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Does anyone here have experience with Game Extractor? - StishStash - 03-07-2025
I can't understand a lot of coding and debugging jargon, unfortunately
but I'm trying out Game Extractor and the game I'm trying to rip from just produces a lot of "unnamed file" types.Checking the website, it says that I should try adding different extensions (.png .wav .bmp and so on) to the ends of these files, but it feels impossible to determine what files are music files and what files are image files and what are just regular data files. I have tried the image viewer option in the program, but it just gives me scrambled pics.
Can someone explain it to me like I'm 5 how I can easily figure out what files might be sprites or music files?
Here's what I'm dealing with here
RE: Does anyone here have experience with Game Extractor? - ikskoks - 03-09-2025
You can open those files in hex editor (e.g. Hex Workshop) and search for signatures.
For example:
RIFF --> WAV audio
OggS --> OGG audio
BM --> BMP image
89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A --> PNG image
Btw, you can try ImageHeat for raw image preview https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/ImageHeat
RE: Does anyone here have experience with Game Extractor? - StishStash - 03-09-2025
(4 hours ago)ikskoks Wrote: You can open those files in hex editor (e.g. Hex Workshop) and search for signatures.Thank you! This is a big help
For example:
RIFF --> WAV audio
OggS --> OGG audio
BM --> BMP image
89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A --> PNG image
Btw, you can try ImageHeat for raw image preview https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/ImageHeat
Hopefully I can uncover some of the audio files and sprites, especially with that program! I've heard dos games are hard to rip from but maybe this one won't be so hard.