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Old 04-20-2010, 06:43 PM   #1
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Monkey Island Explorer

Its an explorer tool for Monkey Island 1 and 2: Special Editions. It does the following:
  • Lets you browse through the files and dump individual files/all files.
  • Lets you play and dump the audio (music, speech and sfx).
  • Lets you use 'annotations' to add more descriptive filenames for the audio so that you aren't just dumping files named 1.wav etc.
  • Displays the images as you browse and lets you save them as png's or DDS files (for editing).
  • Displays the txt/fx/csv files as you browse through the files.
  • As its based on the same code as my other explorer programs (mainly the unreleased Telltale Explorer) it lets you filter the files by typing in the search box and lets you filter the display by filetype.
  • There's an MI-themed animation when dumping files (I'd completely forgotten about this).





[Edit] Updated - now supports MI2-SE and the Xbox/iPhone versions of the games.

[Edit 2] Updated - now plays and dumps audio and includes annotation support. See my site and the readme for more information.

Download it here.


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Old 04-20-2010, 10:13 PM   #2
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Cool, I'll have to play with it a bit.
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Old 04-21-2010, 04:24 AM   #3
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I'm sorry Ben, I'm afraid this name is already copyrighted.

But I won't press charges


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Old 04-21-2010, 01:27 PM   #4
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Hee, a real blast from the past. I await my c+d letter from you

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Old 04-21-2010, 02:07 PM   #5
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Are there plans to allow you to dump the music with this someday?
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Old 04-21-2010, 05:20 PM   #6
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No, unfortunately that was never intended to be a feature of -- oh... did you mean Ben?


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Old 04-22-2010, 04:39 AM   #7
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Looks cool. I forgot, but that other extracter didn't support voice files did it?

Cause we need to fix the narrator's voice and replace it with blank files.

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Old 04-22-2010, 08:25 PM   #8
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Hey, this looks great! Any chance for a mac version?
Or has anybody had the chance to test it with the mac version yet?
I already own the iPhone version, but I'd like to do some visual mods to the desktop version.
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Old 06-20-2010, 07:57 AM   #9
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Updated with support for the Xbox360 version of the game.
Here.

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Old 07-07-2010, 08:35 AM   #10
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Very useful, and it would be nice if you made it possible to sort the list by name.
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Old 07-07-2010, 11:04 AM   #11
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Any chance for an update to support MI2 as well?

And while we're at it, the XWA-extractor doesn't work with the music files from MI2. Any chance for an update of that as well?

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Old 07-07-2010, 11:26 AM   #12
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When it unlocks, yes

The xwa extractor wont work with the music files yet as they (together with all the other resource files) are still encrypted by steam. Hopefully they'll be ok once it unlocks.

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Old 07-07-2010, 12:09 PM   #13
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Ah, I see. I wasn't sure what Steam did to those files prior to unlocking.

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Old 07-07-2010, 07:54 PM   #14
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Thanks to Serge I've updated Monkey Island Explorer to support MI2-SE. Its not fully optimised or anything yet - but it'll work for browsing the pak and extracting images and files.

It'll also work with the Xbox (if you use the XBDecompress tool) and iPhone versions should you feel the need to delve into them.

Get it here.

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Old 07-13-2010, 05:49 PM   #15
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Awesome work as always, Ben! The image dumping is especially useful for Mi2 SE >

@elTee: were YOU the guy who made that? I am now slowly remembering it... but what was the point of it all?

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Old 07-20-2010, 06:48 PM   #16
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I've updated the program again.

This version adds support for playing and dumping the audio from both games (music, voice and sfx) and introduces annotation support.

Annotations contain alternative filenames for audio that are more descriptive than those present in the original audio files. Eg the MI2 speech annotation file means that instead of a filename of “5840″ you will instead see “Stan’s Kozy Krypts– A Place to Spend Eternity, Not a Fortune.”

Annotation files are included for MI2 speech and commentary. If you make any annotation files please send them to me so I can include them in the next release.

Get it here.

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Old 07-21-2010, 05:55 AM   #17
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So does that mean it's possible to rip out the narrator's voice and replace it with blank audio files?

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Old 07-21-2010, 06:12 AM   #18
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Its certainly possible yes. However you'd need to build another wavebank, which is a little fiddly but I've successfully done.

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Old 08-07-2010, 04:02 AM   #19
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Could you add command line support?

I'd like to use it automated by the patching tool, which I'm writing for the classic talkie CD project.
It should support individual files, ie. we need just those two classic resource files of the pak.
And it should support extracting entire wavebanks, since we use most of the samples anyways.
The tool should terminate automatically and return an error code when command line extracting is done.

Is it okay to re-distribute the tool with the patch? I would keep "Monkey Island Explorer.html" intact, of course.

EDIT: I don't need it that badly anymore. I noticed the source is available in extractpak and changed it to only extract what I need.

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