Playstation TIM Format

[jonah]

I've got to admit I know very little about file formats, but there's an old BLC tim editor available at cricketgames.com. Not sure if it'll support these tim files though.
Great work again .

 

[barmyarmy]

I tried the BLC TIM editor and no luck. These files are a newer kind of TIM file. Their actual extension is .?T
Can you explain what you've done Tom so others of us can experiment too.

 

[lazy_chesnut]

It's all done with my program which I am currently developing. The ball file shown is on its own in noname5.

The file has a 128 byte header which contains the filename, resolution, and some other stuff that I haven't figured out yet (not sure it is necessary though). Then comes the picture itself which just uses 1 byte per pixel (8-bit) which refers to a colour in the colour pallette which is just after the end of the picture.

For other files such as noname2769 all the pictures are strung together in a "line", not compressed or anything. I'm just updating my program to be able to open each of these in sequence.

I hope to develop the program further to make it possible to import bitmaps and save the file back to the gob file, hopefully. It will take a while but shouldn't be that difficult.

Any other programmers out there who can help with this, please do.

 

[barmyarmy]

Do you want to send me the version you have made atm so I can start looking at the other files. I'm particularly interested in the 100 or so in row which all have the same file size.

 

[jonah]

Colin, when you used mripper, did you come across anything that may relate to the default field settings, or does this program only extract image files?

 

[barmyarmy]

Only image files it would seem. I've given up on mripper for the moment as we can't read the TIM files. No .txd .cfg or .lst