Benny

Today I’ve released new versions of Telltale Music Extractor and Telltale Speech Extractor.

Both programs now support Poker Night At The Inventory and CSI Fatal Conspiracy. The Speech Extractor also adds support for Sam and Max 305 – The City That Dares Not Sleep.

As I’ve said before – both programs include 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 them safe in the knowledge that they are virus-free.

Download them here.

I’ve just uploaded a new version of the Monkey Island Image Converter.

This release fixes a bug with non-square images, these were being converted incorrectly.

Download it here.

Another update for Telltale Music Extractor. Version 1.4.8.5 adds support for Sam and Max 305 – The City That Dares Not Sleep.

Download it here.

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.

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.

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.

A small update for Telltale Music Extractor. Version 1.4.8.4 fixes a music dumping bug with Sam and Max 205.

Thanks to Christopher for letting me know about the bug.

Download it here.

Telltale Music Extractor has been updated again.

This release (1.4.8.3) adds support for Sam and Max 304 – Beyond the Alley of the Dolls and Nelson Tethers – Puzzle Agent

Download it here.

Monkey Island Explorer 0.4 is now available. This version adds support for playing and dumping the audio from both games (music, voice and sfx) and introduces annotation support (this allows for more descriptive filenames in the audio).

Since this is the first non-beta release of the program I should describe what it does. As the name suggests, its an explorer tool for Monkey Island 1 Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.
It does the following:

• Lets you browse through the game’s files and dump individual files/all files.
• Lets you play and dump the audio (music, speech and sfx).
• Displays the images as you browse and lets you save them as PNG’s or DDS files (for editing)
• Displays the txt, fx and csv text as you browse through the files.
• Together with my Monkey Island Image Converter it forms part of a toolset that enables you to edit the images and put them back into the games (eg to create the much talked about ‘hair patch’).

Download it here.

Its easy to view and edit the images in the Monkey Island Special Edition games using Monkey Island Explorer. But if you want to put the edited images back into the games you need to convert the images back into a format that the games understand. That’s why I’ve created the Monkey Island Image Converter.

It allows you to convert .DDS images back into the .DXT format used in Monkey Island 1 Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.

Usage is simple – its just drag and drop and if you drop a folder it’ll search subfolders too.

Download it here.

I’ve (unofficially) released two new tools for Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.

They are:

• Monkey Island Explorer (for browsing the .pak datafile and extracting files and images)
• Monkey Island 2 SE Music Extractor (for ripping the music)

Get the software and read up on what’s buried in the datafiles in this forum thread.

[Edit] Use the latest version of Monkey Island Explorer instead.

Telltale Music Extractor has been updated again.

This release (1.4.8.2) adds support for Sam and Max 303 – They Stole Max’s Brain.

Download it here.

Another update for Telltale Music Extractor. Version 1.4.8 adds support for Sam and Max 301 – The Penal Zone.

Download it here.

Telltale Music Extractor has been updated again.

This release includes soundtrack support for all episodes of Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventure courtesy of Laserschwert. There’s also been a few tweaks to the way it handles invalid characters in the soundtrack ini files.

Download it here.