Archive for August, 2010

25 Aug 2010

Monkey Island Explorer – Updated Annotations

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Thanks to the efforts of Scott Talley, Monkey Island Explorer has been updated again.

This time the program hasn’t been updated – but the annotations have. Scott’s been hard at work fixing and updating the annotations to work with the latest patch for MI2 SE. The annotations provide friendlier names for the music, commentary and speech.

Download it here.

19 Aug 2010

A blast from the past – EMI Background Viewer

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It was recently brought to my attention that EMI Background Viewer didn’t work correctly on Vista or Windows 7 – the images weren’t displayed.

Its one of the least popular programs on this site so that’s probably why the bug went undetected for so long. For those unfamiliar with the program it does exactly as you would expect and enables you to view and save the room backgrounds from Monkey Island 4. It supports the PC and PS2 versions and has a “debug mode” to let you see the masking information in the backgrounds.

Its one of my oldest programs and was last updated in 2004. It was used to extract the EMI concept art from the PS2 version and to find the “Randy sucks” easter egg (turn on debug mode and its in one of the SCUMM Bar images).

I’ve now given it a facelift, a speed-up, fixed the bugs and made it even easier to use. See the readme for the full list of changes.

Download it here.

EMI Background Viewer

04 Aug 2010

Telltale Speech Extractor 1.3

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Two years after the last version I’m finally releasing a new Telltale Speech Extractor.

Version 1.3 has had the backend completely re-written and there have been many changes. See the readme for the full list, but here are the most important ones:

  • It now supports all currently available Telltale Games and supports every version of every game right back to the original versions released in 2005.
  • Every known bug has been fixed – so all speech should dump perfectly and glitch-free.
  • There are full annotations for every game – so you can quickly find the particular line of speech that you want.

Download it here.

[Edit] As with Telltale Music Extractor the program includes a file called ‘libtag.dll’ – some antivirus programs have detected this as a virus in the past. This is a false positive, you can use the program safe in the knowledge that it is virus-free.