Dev-tools in Nightmare Creatures 2 GDROM

Discussion in 'Sega Dreamcast Development and Research' started by emuler, Jun 29, 2017.

  1. emuler

    emuler Rising Member

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    I couldn't find previous mention to this, so... Looking at the Dreamcast port files, it appears that developers "forgot" a folder tagged WINCE full of utilities to convert from their own formats to SEGA format (like PVRCONV.EXE), debuggers, and god knows what.
    I don't have time to look at it myself alone, so here I'm sharing to collective research/enjoyment.
    Most seem to be commandline but some have really-old-but-functional GUI.
    BINGEN
    CENLSCMP
    CHECKRES
    CONFIGTOOL
    DACHECK
    DCCOPY
    DCTOOL
    DLS2DCS
    DLS2TB
    DTVIEW
    DUMPNK
    DUMPREG
    FLASH
    FMERGE
    GETSH4PATH
    GORE2
    MAKEIMG
    MYCAT
    PROFCVT
    PVRCONV
    REBASEIC
    REGCOMP
    RES2EXE
    RES2RES
    ROMIMAGE
    SIGNFILE
    TXT2UCDE
    VC5TOVC6
    VERSIONINFO
    WAVCON
    WINDBG
    WINDBGFIX
    Also, there're a bunch of dll's.
    [​IMG]
    Here to DOWNLOAD whole folder (not zipped due too small size):
    https://mega.nz/#F!7xkmjKiK!OS8dJVQAC94kM7YzAG_aUw

    Share your views.
     
  2. cez

    cez Site Supporter

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    MYCAT? Seriously?
     
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  3. ItsMeMario

    ItsMeMario Gutsy Member

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  4. -=FamilyGuy=-

    -=FamilyGuy=- Site Supporter 2049

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    It's probably his own cat ...

    On-topic:
    That's a nice find. Some utilities seem like they might be from the SDK (e.g. DACHECK) but I don't recognize all of them from memory. Muy interesante!
     
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  5. emuler

    emuler Rising Member

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    C'mon people, this is preposterous, let's be serious... we all already know that cats rule the world since ancient Egypt. They forced people to build pyramids and so on.
    On-topic again:
    Thank you, FamilyGuy for both the explanation and wiki-link. It would be neat if one of those utilities allow to get the game assets.
    I always have this thing with underlooked or directly disliked games with almost zero fan-base not to say community.
    I couldn't even find any info about the original NC engine, Im not sure if a propietary one or a id1-quake engine fork like many of titles back then. Appreciate any info. Muchas gracias!
     
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  6. TerdFerguson

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    These tools are actually just the <install-root>\tools folder for the WCE SDK, doesn't look like anything special. Still neat find, but these are by no means rare dev files judging from the screenshot
     
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