09-13-2023, 03:38 AM
Bringing this thread back because I can't find anything that will open or extract the contents of the .RES files for Thinkin' Things: Toony The Loon's Lagoon (1999 Re-Release of Thinkin' Things Collection 1 from 1993) and Thinkin Things: Galactic Brain Benders (1999 Re-Release of Thinkin' Things Collection 3 from 1995)
I have located the recourse files for both games and they use the .RES file extension which refuse to open or extract in an editable form, even with file openers that say they support .RES files which is very annoying.
This thread is the only thing I could find that has any mention of the .RES files used in Edmark Games.
Any help would be awesome since right now, my only remaining option is screen recording myself playing the games, exporting hundreds of frames and then using an image editor to cut each sprite one by one.
Not only will this take a very long time, the process won't get the .RES files in an editable form that I can export back into the game so I can mod it with custom sprites, audio tracks and the removal/modification of code strings that restrict or limit what the player can do, like being able to place more than 20 items in the Flying Shapes & Flying Spheres games or making hatless birds in the Feathered Friends game.
As I was typing this, I opened the TT1 Demo and noticed that when I closed it's window, it briefly showed a screen with the Smacker logo and the Made With Macromedia Logo which is making me think that the .RES files could potentially be Macrovision Director files with modified extensions which means that if this is true, all I need to do is change the file extension to either .CST or .CXT, depending on what they were before getting renamed.
If they turn out to be .CXT files with a .RES extension, the protection won't be an issue since I have a program that removes it and outputs an unprotected .CST file that can be edited and easily converted back to a .CXT file by changing the file extension from .CST to .CXT and then to .RES so it's readable by the game.
I'll provide updates as I test the method above to see if it will open the files. Fairly sure that the .RES files are really just modded .CXT or .CST files since they're the only period correct files that can support multiple types of media.
I have located the recourse files for both games and they use the .RES file extension which refuse to open or extract in an editable form, even with file openers that say they support .RES files which is very annoying.
This thread is the only thing I could find that has any mention of the .RES files used in Edmark Games.
Any help would be awesome since right now, my only remaining option is screen recording myself playing the games, exporting hundreds of frames and then using an image editor to cut each sprite one by one.
Not only will this take a very long time, the process won't get the .RES files in an editable form that I can export back into the game so I can mod it with custom sprites, audio tracks and the removal/modification of code strings that restrict or limit what the player can do, like being able to place more than 20 items in the Flying Shapes & Flying Spheres games or making hatless birds in the Feathered Friends game.
As I was typing this, I opened the TT1 Demo and noticed that when I closed it's window, it briefly showed a screen with the Smacker logo and the Made With Macromedia Logo which is making me think that the .RES files could potentially be Macrovision Director files with modified extensions which means that if this is true, all I need to do is change the file extension to either .CST or .CXT, depending on what they were before getting renamed.
If they turn out to be .CXT files with a .RES extension, the protection won't be an issue since I have a program that removes it and outputs an unprotected .CST file that can be edited and easily converted back to a .CXT file by changing the file extension from .CST to .CXT and then to .RES so it's readable by the game.
I'll provide updates as I test the method above to see if it will open the files. Fairly sure that the .RES files are really just modded .CXT or .CST files since they're the only period correct files that can support multiple types of media.
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