Hi guys, Just been looking at some of my PSX discs and playing around extracting the .Tim etc and when i have converted some of them they have 2 more images, and usually half the image of each is corrupted, if you chopped the images in half you would have a complete one (not 100% of them time but generally) what im basically asking is am i doing something wrong? do these images need to be combined somehow? or is their a tool that extracts them as a complete image? another question is about .str movies files on the disc, is their a modern converter for these as i have tried numerous utilities from all the traditional sites and they dont work on newer operating systems or you just get crashing and numerous errors, even tried using a Virtual Machine running Windows 98 to convert them and still nothing, anyone got any ideas? thanks in advance :thumbsup:
He asked for a program that works to convert the STR files to another format, since the outdated programs that he has tried do not work on newer operating systems. So asking him which non-functional program he uses won't do much good... Why don't you just tell him which one you use, since you manage to it fine on your modern OS? I have used a newer program named jpsxdec to convert them, and it works every time on Windows XP (and should on Vista and 7 too). Here is the link: http://kenai.com/projects/jpsxdec/pages/Home For the TIM files, did you try TIMViewer? That has worked for me every time, and I never got any corruption like you describe. I for example use it to convert the TIM to BMP, edit them in paint and then convert them back, and insert them to the disc image for burning again. But if you want to do something like this too then ensure that you convert the image to 16BPP (bits per pixel) after converting it to a BMP, as by default the BMP will be 24, and there is an option in the program to do this for you. Here is the link: http://rveach.romhack.org/TIMViewer/
Well I would like to know what program he was using as I have several. Do you have to jump at me for asking?
Thanks for the replies much appreciated, @Haunted - sorry mate should have made it clearer, i managed to extract the .str files just fine, i wanted them converting to a format i could view on my pc @Elijah - that jpsxdec worked a treat, running it on Windows 7 x64 and its working perfectly so big thanks for that one As for the .Tim files, yes i have been using TimViewer and im not even trying to add anything back into the image just extract the pics. here are the results from a .Tim files with 2 pics in it http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/selectimage1.png/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/651/selectimage2.png/ if you look at both of those images you will see that they are corrupted on opposite sides Maybe im missing something obvious but it seems they need combining and some of the images have over 10 sets making them up
ah ok, so basically they are meant to look like that? seemed strange it was different areas on each picture so figured they needed combining in some way
The game stores the value to assign the right palette to the right region, so whatever you see in the picture as a whole doesn't really matter as '(in)correct'. A very similar example could be this picture I've used in my own game: You can clearly deduce how some areas of the picture show with a wrong palette, but that's like that on purpose.
@Haunted - sorry mate should have made it clearer Oh no sorry. Not you. I was just annoyed at Elijah for writing a whole paragraph about not sharing what program I use. Anyhow, you still did not tell me what program you used, but I use PsxMC to convert the .STR's to .AVI.
well i tried all the following ones and some others i found online: PSmplay PSXPlay PSXVideo PSX Movie Player Sony Movie Converter however the jpsxdec app that Elijah recommended has worked perfectly for all the movies i wanted to convert now
