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ukueleh
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Posted on 09-09-14 12:24:03 AM (last edited by ukueleh at 09-09-14 12:27:43 AM) Link | Quote
For those who don't know, Xentax is a site dedicated to reverse-engineering and decoding unknown game files, potentially cracking them open for us to explore. EDIT: This is more about decoding actual files formats than stuff like NES ROMs. (Examples in the audio files subforum, 3D model formats subforum, and compression formats subforum.) Usually you have to donate to get in, but to celebrate Xentax's 25th anniversary, forum registration is free to everyone.

Also free for a short time is the program MultiEx Commander.
Originally posted by "paraphrased from the manual"
MultiEx Commander is a tool that enables you to open game resource archives (GRAs) to examine their contents such as sounds, music files, textures and scripts. Advanced users and programmers can create new GRA support by using MexScript, the "language" that MultiEx uses to process game archives, or with QuickBMS (a MexScript derivative).

I've never used it myself, but it might be handy to quickly create file unpackers. (The program QuickBMS might be a viable alternative if you don't want future users of your script to rely on a paid program.)

I'm not sure how long this'll last (someone said "indefinite"), but hey. I hope this doesn't count as advertising, I apologize if it does. Also I haven't been there in years, so I can't really comment on the state of the forums at this moment.
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Posted on 09-09-14 07:08:20 AM (last edited by Hiccup at 09-09-14 07:08:28 AM) Link | Quote
Before registering you might want to have read through the rules.

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ukueleh
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Posted on 09-10-14 02:39:28 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Hiccup
Before registering you might want to have read through the rules.


Aha, that's right. Can't upload or link to copyrighted game files there.
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Posted on 09-28-14 08:46:12 PM Link | Quote
omfg finally

I can ask for help with some things finally without having to pay money, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

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