vizipok wrote:Good luck, Rheini!

I gotta put this on ice. Don't have the time to spend hours on a game I probably won't play any longer than a few hours anyway.
Especially since nevermind seems to have all the knowledge necessary for writing an unpacker.

It is able. That's basically the way http://taksi.sourceforge.net/ works.

Of course a proxy dll is another possibility. Thanks for the link.

That's pretty interesting indeed. Gonna have a look

Just found that wonderful M$ library for intercepting binary functions on Windoze.
I'm planning to use it for hooking DirectX calls to receive screenshots for further processing and wanted to share that pearl: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/

Nope.

Yeah, I know that thread. Doesn't seem like there's much progress though.

I've been trying to figure out B&B's speech codec for ages.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2756

Anyone got any tips for finding the function where it gets decoded?
I tried everything, searching for magics and constants that appear in the header etc.

Hmm still don't know how the palette is indexed and what compression is used.
Don't know any reason why it shouldn't be indexed normally

Drives me crazy. how to get these sounds?

Ah savegames, I thought you were talking about maps. Maps have a fixed pwcrc.
No clue.

Open a commandbox with "cmd" and then enter your command so you can see the error message.

The key for saved games is fixed IIRC.

Thanks. I think I also tried to figure out the graphics files but didn't come too far.
Only figured out the archive format: http://durchschuss.du.funpic.de/index.p ... =cultures2

care to share the encryption algo?

not possible.
nevermind, who obviously had some extraction code, refused to release it.