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Hey alll I have done some searching and nothing has come up. so i thought i might ask!. Is there any program or any way to extract the games original sprites from the .dat files?. I have tried Wattos game extractor. but it sees the files as "Close Zoom Image"(czi) & "Far Zoom Image"(fzi), Which helps none. as the files don't show any extension information. So i was wondering if anyone knows of a old tool or a viewer to see the sprites. i am not worried about nitty gritty of importing the files. i am just looking to view or extract them into a viewable format. I included some fzi & czi for reference or if someone knows how to decrypt them? Thanks D. Roads.dat.rar
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Rejoice!, ClickTeam installers need no longer annoy you...
rsc204 posted a topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
Many, many years ago after I started using mods for SC4, I soon became hugely frustrated with the sheer number of god-awful ClickTeam installers. What is a ClickTeam installer?, well it's simply an application a modder can use to package their content into an Installer program. You can recognise them by this icon: Yes, other installer systems exist, for example NSIS which I use personally, but all of those can be opened by 7Zip or similar, so if you have say 20 downloads, all containing a single DAT file, you can just pull them out like you would if they were .zip files. But, ClickTeam installers are properly hateful, until now, there has just been no way to get at the files inside. Coupled with the fact that they are the most abundant type of installer in our community, they have literally been a scourge and like zombies, should be shot in the head on sight, don't forget the Double-Tap! Not to take anything away from the efforts to repackage these files on the exchanges, which will still hopefully become a thing. Today I found a command-line tool that just sodding extracts the files inside the installer on GitHub: https://github.com/Bioruebe/cicdec No GUI as yet, plus I'm too lazy to test this on more than one such installer for the time being, so no guarantees either. However first impressions are I no longer have to click 7 times, when I can just run a command and be done. Huge thanks to cicdec for this wonderful little tool.- 17 Replies
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I'm using the RICO mod and categorising assets. I wonder what "extractor" is and how it works for my assets? Thanks. Oh and what's sub-service?
