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Started by TechnoOrganics Jun 2, 2002 at 4:22 PM 4 replies 500+ views

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Jun 2, 2002 at 4:22 PM

Looking for an experienced programmer who doesnt mind doing two VERY simple programs on trade.. i have two files that i need a Decompresser for.... a .roo file and a .BGF file.. the way they work is this... Roo files need to be decompressed to a .wad format... and the BGF files are compressed BMP files that need to be decompressed. i can set up sample files for these.... no questions asked.. if u are intrested contact me at tangytailwhips@rogers.com ICQ : 108336827 AOL Deathlord667 we can talk about what to trade for.. i got many intresting things.... PS. can be done in Dos or WIndoes.. i edit other files w/ Hex Workshop... ... thanks ----------------------------- Im a Noob but i am willing to learn -----------------------------

Dean Harding

Jun 2, 2002 at 5:01 PM

Do you have specifications for these formats? I don''t think you''re going to find anyone willing to not only write converters but to also reverse engineer the formats for you...

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Jun 2, 2002 at 5:10 PM

Hehe basics is this i want this file tos.roo converted to tos.wad the roo is a compressed wad. i also am looking for the mby.. rat.bgf back to the rat.bmp format so i can edit it.. if u need physical files that can be arranged....

Dean Harding

Jun 2, 2002 at 5:34 PM

The point is that there are hundreds of ways to compress data, and it''s usually very difficult (even impossible) to reverse engineer the file and decompress it. Even if you were to tell us what sort of compression it uses (RLE, Huffman, etc) there''s hundreds of ways to implement each kind of compression, so we''re still not doing much better...

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Jun 2, 2002 at 5:42 PM

Well if neone feels its possiable then contact me.. i know it can be done.. i had a programmer doing it but he was killed a while back.. he got the RSC files decompressed and didnt get to finish his work on the ROO or BGF

Dean Harding

Jun 2, 2002 at 5:56 PM

Oh, I''m not saying it''s not possible, just very, very difficult and time consuming (to the point where it may as well be impossible). You''re going to have to provide quite a bit of compensation before I''d be willing to do anything. You might get lucky though and find someone else who''s willing.

By the way, I just did a quick search, and I found a couple of resources which describe "rsc" files (if they''re the same thing, then it''s just a table of uncompressed files). However, I couldn''t find anything on "roo" or "bgf" that have to with bitmaps (there is apparently a model format which uses the extension BGF)

So while your programmer may have been able to figure out .rsc files, by using resources he found on the ''net, there aren''t any (after my fairly quick search) for those other formats.

Perhaps you could tell me where you got these files from? Are they taken from another game or something (I don''t really care if they were, but perhaps that''ll give some more clues about how to read them.)

Finally, have you considered contacting the people you got these files from? Surely if they made the files, they''ll be able to decompress them for you.

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