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I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me convert these images, or if any progress has been made. I bought an old Japanese RPG called Vampire Hurts that I might be interested in translating. First thing first is breaking open the files inside!

Some reading:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discuss ... efeated-me
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1369&p=9550&hilit=pict#p9550 (I tried the converter posted here and it just resulted in "ERROR"

Images:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/lowxmhnh5ywrmug/bmp.zip

If anyone can assist me with this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

i don't think these pic samples are apple formats, just typical paletted/non-paletted rgb images with pic extension.

Acewell wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:06 pm

i don't think these pic samples are apple formats, just typical paletted/non-paletted rgb images with pic extension.

Ahh, okay. How would I go about viewing/converting the images though? Renaming the extension to jpg, png, or bmp didn't work. I tried Manifold Viewer since it's what popped up when I googled how to open palette files, and that didn't work either.

here is Noesis python script to open pic files from this game.

Thank you! That takes care of the images. Now all that seems to be left are the .dat files.

Is there a way to preserve the transparency when importing into Noesis, though? The transparency has been replaced with a black background.

Habanero wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:57 am

Is there a way to preserve the transparency when importing into Noesis, though? The transparency has been replaced with a black background.

i'm pretty sure any image meant to have transparency in this game is accompanied
by a file of the same name also with _a in the file name to denote "alpha" and is likely
combined and rendered by the game at runtime, for example:
v_up_ela.pic
v_up_ela_a.pic