Version 1.3.4
By Quick and Easy Software
A program that enables you to extract, view and convert resources from the games developed by Telltale Games. This includes games produced by others using the Telltale engine such as Skunkape Games’ Sam & Max remasters.
For most games this includes the text, speech, music, scripts and images.
It has been designed for the pc versions of the games although it may work with those from other platforms.
Just the games themselves.
Click Open and either click on open folder and choose a folder yourself or choose one of the games and the folder will be found automatically. The game data is contained inside different .ttarch files. Choose one of these and click open. The contents of the file will then be displayed.
Click Save File to save a file. You can choose to save the file “As is (raw)” (the file is just dumped to disk without converting it to a friendly format) or one of the other options to save it as an image, text or audio. Different save options will be displayed depending on the type of file that’s selected.
Click Save All Files to save all files. You can choose to “Save all (raw dump)” (the files are just dumped to disk without converting them to a friendly format) or one of the other options to save all images, text or audio. Different save options will be displayed depending on the type of files inside the archive.
Click on the View button to show a list of all the different types of file, selecting one of these changes the view so that only files of that type are visible.
To reset the view and show all files, click the button again and click View All Files.
To search just type in the search box. Searching ignores any filter that you’ve used. I.e. the view will be reset to ‘All Files’. The search looks in file names and is an ‘instant search’, the search happens as you type.
To reset the view either delete the text in the search box or click the View button and select View all files.
Use the keyboard or mouse to browse through the different files.
As you select different files the panel on the right of the program will change. Depending on the type of file thats selected the panel will either show an image, decoded text or audio controls to play back music or speech.
There is a hidden button that can automatically extract a file and open it in a hex editor.
To enable this feature you need to make a TelltaleExplorer.ini file in the same place as the program. Inside it should look like this:
[Settings]
Hexeditor=C:\\Program Files\\BreakPoint Software\\Hex Workshop v6\\HWorks32.exe
Obviously Hexeditor should point to the path of your chosen hex editor.
When the ini file is present the Send to Hex Ed button will appear. Files that are sent to the hex editor are first dumped to the temp folder. The program keeps track of what files it has saved here and when you open a new file or close the program it will delete them (though it obviously cant delete any files that are still open in the hex editor so close that first).
If you hold control and shift while pressing the Send to Hex Ed button it will send the file to the hex editor without decrypting it.
All games released so far by Telltale and Skunkape Games. Thats:
The music from Game of Thrones and later games cant be played back using this program. Use Telltale Music Extractor instead if you want to listen to the music.
Some images may appear corrupted when viewed within the program - this is because my DDS viewer doesn’t work correctly with some images. The images themselves should still be ok. Save them as a DDS file and open them in a proper viewer like the DDS plugin for Photoshop and they will display correctly.
In some of the games released before Sam and Max season 3 the lua/lenc scripts cant be decoded . This is because they use Lua 5.0 and I haven’t added a decompiler for this version yet. I haven’t been able to modify Luadec for Lua 5.0 to work with my patches.
The fonts in Poker Night 2 and later games cant be decoded. I havent had time to look into this yet.
While you can extract music and voices using this program. You will get better results using my dedicated programs Telltale Music Extractor and Telltale Speech Extractor.
The software is provided “as-is” and without warranty of any kind, express, implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the initial developer or any other contributor be liable for any special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.
All my software is completely free. If you find this program useful please consider making a donation. This can be done on my website.
(1.3.3):
(1.3.2):
(1.3.1):
(1.3.0):
All Telltale games are now supported.
Fixed image decoding in Batman and later games. There are still some images that cant be decoded but I’ll investigate these when/if I get time.
Remember that some images may appear corrupted when viewed within the program - this is because my DDS viewer doesnt work correctly with some images. The images themselves should still be ok - save them as a DDS file and open them in a proper viewer like the DDS plugin for Photoshop and they will display correctly.
Removed the blocks on recently released games and launcher ttarch’s now that Telltale sadly no longer exists.
(1.2.1):
(1.2.0):
Added support for The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead Season Two, Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones.
Fixed the broken images in Poker Night 2 and later games - all images should now decode correctly. Many thanks to RandomTBush for his BMS scripts which helped a lot in deciphering the file formats.
Some images may appear corrupted when viewed within the program - this is because my DDS viewer doesnt work correctly with some images. The images themselves should still be ok - save them as a DDS file and open them in a proper viewer like the DDS plugin for Photoshop and they will display correctly.
Added Lua script decompiling for the games released since The Wolf Among Us (Telltale switched to Lua 5.2 so a new decompiler was needed).
Changed the appearance a little to make it easier to use, made the form and preview panel larger by default and changed to a more modern save dialog on Vista and above.
Improved the autodetection of resources. Dealing with 25 games made over 10 years can be very difficult. There are many different ways that images, scripts etc are stored and the program has to automatically detect which specific type it is in order to decode it. In previous versions of the program this autodetection sometimes failed, this was mainly a problem with the older games. I’ve put a lot of work into improving that - so the files from all supported games should now decode correctly.
Known bug - the fonts in Poker Night 2 and later games cant be decoded. I havent had time to look into this yet.
Known bug - in some of the games released before Sam and Max season 3 the lua/lenc scripts cant be decoded . This is because they use Lua 5.0 and I havent added a decompiler for this version yet. I havent been able to modify luadec for 5.0 to work correctly with my usual patches.
Known bug - The music from Game of Thrones and later games cant be played back using this program. Use Telltale Music Extractor instead if you want to listen to the music.
(1.1.12):
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Last updated 15/08/24