Telltale Explorer Returns

The summary.

After 5 years I’m releasing a new version of Telltale Explorer. During that time I’ve continued to develop the program and have used it as a development tool and template for my other programs.

It’s completely different to the last public release – the interface has changed, many more games are supported and it can now extract/view/convert all the common resources types (text, images, speech, music). If you are looking to dump music or voices you should still use the Telltale Music Extractor and Telltale Speech Extractor programs as they are specialised for the job.

There are some important caveats to this version that you can read about below.

Why have I released this now?

This is the first public release of Telltale Explorer since 2006 – 5 years ago. During that time I didn’t release any new versions as it was suggested that having a program like this floating around would harm Telltale. Since then though, other people have released programs that open, extract, translate and even recompile ttarch files (telltale archives). The rationale for not releasing this program therefore has gone.

I still have no wish to cause Telltale any inconvenience or problems though – so there are some safeguards written into this program.

  1. It only supports games that are at least a year old. This is to help prevent any possible complaints by Telltale’s licence partners and to stop people poking inside the datafiles of ongoing episodes and spoiling game-based competitions like the TMI one.
  2. Game launcher ttarch files cant be opened and any launcher files (html/css) inside regular ttarch’s are hidden. These files are only used for the launcher program and there’s no reason for anyone to mess with these. They don’t affect the games at all.

Where can I get it?

Download it here.

Telltale Explorer

Quick and Easy needs YOU!

Its almost Christmas, which means its time for MixnMojo’s end of year polls. One poll is of particular interest – the “best hosted site” poll. As I write this Quick and Easy Software is in second place.

If you’ve ever used any of the software on this site you are morally bound to buy me a drink if you ever meet me, or failing that – vote for this site in the Mojo poll.

Go vote. You know you want to.

Telltale Music Extractor and Speech Extractor Updated

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.

Monkey Island Explorer – Updated Annotations

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.

A blast from the past – EMI Background Viewer

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

Telltale Speech Extractor 1.3

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.