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Geek Culture / Is there any way to extract files from a DB executable?

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Yusaku
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 20:48
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Like, say, I have an old game I made and I don't have the images or source code anymore. How can I get them? I tried using a HEX program, but it was just numbers.

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Fallout
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 22:00
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If you encrypted and attached the media, I don't think you've got much hope there. If it's not encrypted, then it should be in their somewhere in it's original form. Someone will probably drop a suggestion for how to rip it out.

You could just use it as an excuse to make better and brighter media.

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Van B
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 22:43 Edited at: 17th Feb 2006 22:45
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There was a resource changer program that I used to use to change the DB icons, but it also had the built in primitives in .X format!. If your .exe has your media imbedded then the way DB handles it's stuff might mean that a resource changer would let you at them. I never tried it with included media, but it's probably your best shot.

Good luck.

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This one I think...
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/


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Becky
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 23:11
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If I recall correctly, and I may not as it's been a few years since I last worked with DB properly, but if you run the program then alt-tab you can acess the DB media from the temp directory. It's worth a shot anyway.
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Kevin Picone
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You can't the source code without writing some form of DB classic decompiler. Even then you won't get something that looks like your code.

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Yusaku
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Posted: 18th Feb 2006 01:36
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Oh well... I guess some things are just left the way they are.

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TKF15H
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You can get your media, but your code is gone. While it's running, press ctrl+alt+delete, select your game on the list, click "End process". Then go to your temp folder (probably "C:\Temp" or "C:\Windows\Temp") and look around for a folder called "dbtemp1" or something like that. All your media should be sitting there.

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