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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Andersson" <@student.liu.se>
To: <mr.mouse@xentax.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Suggestion


> I bet you have recieved some emails about this recantly.
>
> We are discussing how to insert new images into a game called Age of
> Wonders.
>
> The images are stored as 8 bpp with an 256 color palette in an Image
> library file. (ILB)
>
> How its encoded you will find on this page.
>
> http:....//www9.ewebcity.com/pmishorich/AoW/Fmt_ILB.htm
>
> (if you are using netscape you need to edit the page to view it)
>
> I dont know if the other that emailed you, send you an ILB file, if they
> didnt i can do it.
>
> Best,
> Jimmy Andersson
> Sweden
>

----- Original Message -----
From: Wraithchilde
To: mr.mouse@xentax.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:49 AM
Subject: re: MultiEx


This thing is totally cool. Thanks a lot.

By the way, any chance of getting support
for Age of Wonders unitGFX ilb files?
This guy did some work on the format.
I can't do a thing with it but it might be useful to
someone like you.

http://www9.ewebcity.com/pmishorich/AoW/Fmt_ILB.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: <
To: <helpdesk@xentax.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:26 AM
Subject: To MultiEx Helpdesk


> Below is your form's result. It was submitted by
> Jason on Tue Oct 30 02:26:29 2001.
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>
> message Any chance of you making your program work with Age of Wonders? If you have time, please respond.
>
> thanks,
> Jason
>
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>
> REMOTE_HOST: ckvl-cs07-t185.citlink.net
>
> HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
>
>

Below is your form's result. It was submitted by
André Bachmann on Fri Sep 21 18:29:44 2001.
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message On your website the game Final Fantasy VIII is listed, but it hasn't the .LPG file extension. Is it otherwise supported?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eep²" <>
To: <mr.mouse@xentax.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: MultiEx needs to be made into a Windows program BADLY


> That DOS shell is just VERY user-unfriendly. Any chance for a Windows version?
>
> How about adding support to play/convert Maxis SimCity 3000 and The Sims .xa sounds?
>
>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony" <>
To: <Mr.Mouse@home.nl>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:17 AM
Subject: mexscan


> pretty nice program man... how long does it take to find tags in the
> gamefiles? Hey i was wondering if you could help me out with diablo 2
> files. I wanna extract some sounds they use but i really dont have a
> clue how to setup an ini file to find the tags and offsets. i read the
> docs but im not that adept at using hex editors n stuff- im aspiring to
> though! thx
>
> -tony
>
>

Hello, I am new but I just have to say this after reading this thread.

I feel bad for you. You made a cool program and alot of people appreciate it, but obviously they want their game to be supported. Well why do they come crying to you about it? Maybe you should take your email address off the site or something. You don't have time for that.

Actually its a good thing I found this thread too, cause I was about to post about a request myself. Yeah yeah, go ahead and laugh at the noob.

But seriously, this program sounds great, but.... I am looking for a user friendly way to get the dialog files from Metal Gear Solid 2 PC. The files are .dat format and nothing I try can open it. I suppose if you have a step by step guide on how to script or whatever I could try, but it sounds really, uh, for programmers. I am a smart person and all, but scripting/coding/hacking whatever, I have NO IDEA what that code is about, and it confuses me. I don't want to have to download a hex editor, but I may already have one, cause a console game needed it to convert its save file or something. I followed those directions and were easy, but I am afraid this is even heavier stuff.

So what do you recommend? What should I do?

Well, the only thing I can say is that you should familiarize yourself with Hex Workshop despite that you don't want to and figure out the format if possible. Please read the old multiex2 (16-bit, DOS) document on how its script works, it will also tell you a little bit about how some formats work. You can read it from within Mex3Scriptor, the script program that comes with MultiEx Commander.

Hmm.... heavy stuff. I could try that. I don't have the time right now. Still, I thank you for making this program. Because with this program, even if it doesn't support games it can be made to. So if I really don't want to download all these programs, learn scripting, etc, maybe I can find someone who is willing to do it (people who go to my college who are game programmers).

Thanks anyway. I hope I can do this someday soon.

Hi again.

So i hope you can get me going a little further (in my thread). Because I don't even know if I understand the documents or how to start. but my friend may be well on the way to doing it, he came across an 'error 9' though.

But, I want to know, if anyone adds new game support for MultiEx, should we email you the script so that you can add that to the next update of MultiEx?

Yes you can email it, and also you can add it yourself if you join the open source project MexCom. As you may or may not know, MultiEx Commander is now open source. After the release of 3.9.68, I have set it up as open source :
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mexcom

In your case, I don't think you will start programming on it, so if you come across a script just email that to me, or post it here!! Thanks!