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User talk:Carbon14

2024-12-20T17:46:30Z

Pavel: Created page with "Hello! I'm working at KMD player now. And i'm also reversed the format few years ago. Can i help you with music player based on the KMD format? Please, write me at services@keyno.com ~~~~"

Hello! I'm working at KMD player now. And i'm also reversed the format few years ago. Can i help you with music player based on the KMD format? Please, write me at services@keyno.com [[User:Pavel|Pavel]] ([[User talk:Pavel|talk]]) 17:46, 20 December 2024 (GMT)

Captain Comic II Dialog Format

2015-07-25T07:47:43Z

Pavel: Oops! It was EOF

{{Text Infobox
| Type = Story
| Lines = ?
| Charset = ?
| Game1 = Captain Comic II
}}
This format stores the text used in conversation with NPCs in [[Captain Comic II]]. It is found in <tt>FRNNN.3</tt> dialog files, which are only present for some game levels.

== File format ==

Before the file can be parsed, it must be decrypted. This can be done by XORing every byte in the file with 0x25.

{|class="wikitable"
! DataType || Name || Description
|-
| [[UINT16LE]][...] || offsets || Offsets of each string record.
|-
| [[char]][...][...] || strings || Each string is prefixed with two bytes giving the column and row counts, respectively, in characters, needed to draw the text in a window.
|}

There is no count field in the header. To load the offsets array, add new values until the file position equals the first element.
== Credits ==

This file format was reverse engineered by [[User:Ceidwad|Ceidwad]]. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)

== Tools ==
[[File:Captain Comic II text.png|thumb|right|Dialog modding example]]
Inspired to Ceidwad's work, [[User:Pavel|Pavel Keyno]] wrote the dialog conversion tools from binary format to ASCII-text and vice-versa. Source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/captaincomic/utils .

Captain Comic II Dialog Format

2015-07-25T06:32:45Z

Pavel:

{{Text Infobox
| Type = Story
| Lines = ?
| Charset = ?
| Game1 = Captain Comic II
}}
This format stores the text used in conversation with NPCs in [[Captain Comic II]]. It is found in <tt>FRNNN.3</tt> dialog files, which are only present for some game levels.

== File format ==

Before the file can be parsed, it must be decrypted. This can be done by XORing every byte in the file with 0x25.

{|class="wikitable"
! DataType || Name || Description
|-
| [[UINT16LE]][...] || offsets || Offsets of each string record.
|-
| [[char]][...][...] || strings || Each string is prefixed with two bytes giving the column and row counts, respectively, in characters, needed to draw the text in a window.
|}

There is no count field in the header. To load the offsets array, add new values until the file position equals the first element.

All dialogs in the file finalized by 0xFF character. Nobody knows what does it means. Probably, nothing.

== Credits ==

This file format was reverse engineered by [[User:Ceidwad|Ceidwad]]. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)

== Tools ==
[[File:Captain Comic II text.png|thumb|right|Dialog modding example]]
Inspired to Ceidwad's work, [[User:Pavel|Pavel Keyno]] wrote the dialog conversion tools from binary format to ASCII-text and vice-versa. Source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/captaincomic/utils .

File:Captain Comic II text.png

2015-07-25T05:59:18Z

Pavel: Text modification example from Captain Comic II

Text modification example from Captain Comic II

User:Pavel

2015-07-25T05:58:00Z

Pavel:

I'm fan of old games.

I wanna contribute to Captain Comic game. It's my first game and i wrote some tools for it. I'll glad to participate in Camoto. I like music from old games, especially with FM-synthesis. I'm using FreeDOS and 486DX4 machine. I made some mods for Wolf3D.