EMI Background Viewer By Bgbennyboy Version 1.1 Http://quick.mixnmojo.com ------------------------- New in 1.1: ----------- Renamed program from 'EMI Tile Viewer' to the much more obvious 'EMI Background Viewer' Made viewing, saving and mass-saving much, much faster Fixed the flicker when an image loads Changed the 'Save all' dialog What is EMI Background Viewer?: ------------------------------- A program that enables you to view and save the room backgrounds from Monkey Island 4 (Escape From Monkey Island). It works with the backgrounds from both the PC and PS2 version of EMI. How to use it: -------------- 1) Click 'open', browse to the EMI folder on your hard drive (c:\program files\lucasarts\monkey 4\) or to your EMI cd. 2) Select one of the .m4b files and click open. Any backgrounds that are inside the file are now listed. Note that some .m4b files dont contain any backgrounds. 3) To view a background either double click an item in the listbox, press return when an item is selected or click 'view' when an item is selected. 4) To save a background click 'Save' when a background has been loaded, you can save as either a jpeg or bitmap, jpeg is the default. 5) If you want to save all the backgrounds listed then click 'Save all', choose a folder to dump the files into then select the image type that you want to save to from the dialog that appears. Additional: ----------- Right click on an image to bring up a pop-up menu. From here you can either save the image or turn on 'debug tile info'. Note that any images you save will contain all the extra debug graphics while this is turned on. The debug stuff wont be of much interest to most people. As far as I know the extra graphics are masking data, I dont know the format of it yet. Also the viewer only shows 6 tiles at once (each image is made up of a number of tiles), so if the image is made up of more than that then the remaining bit will be drawn offscreen, stuff in a 7th tile is only ever debug stuff anyway so this isnt really an issue. For those experimenting with EMI hacking, creating their own resource and .til files - the viewer will view both g-zipped and non-g-zipped tiles in either the PC or PS2 formats. It doesnt check the content of files though, only those files that have a .til extension within the resource file are listed. .lab resource files (as used in the EMI demo) are also supported. Coming Soon (Hopefully): ------------------------ EMI Tile Creator - to let you insert your own backgrounds into EMI. I have a hackish version of this working right now but until I, or more probably someone else, manages to fill the gaps in the .til specs I wont be able to finish it. Many thanks to: --------------- Benjamin Haisch (John_Doe) for his .til specs, without which I wouldnt be able to decode .til's. Everyone would be well advised to check out his great tools like the EMI Viewer and EMI Mesh viewer. (http://gamefileformats.netfirms.com/) Jimmi Thøgersen (Serge`) for all his help over time and for the icon that I used for this program which I nicked from ScummRevisited. Support: -------- Email me at quick@mixnmojo.com Talk to me on irc in #monkey-island on Gamesurge Ask in the MixnMojo help forum http://www.lucasforums.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=124 EMI Tile Viewer is Copyright (c) 2004 Benjamin Gorman bgbennyboy 11/07/04