Wombat Game Tools 0.4a
Wombat basically lets you view the data in a some games from the early 90's, from classic gaming companies such as Apogee and Epic Megagames, and a few newer games to boot. It also lets you change the data in a few games, but this feature is new and not available for all games.
If you wanna talk to me - I'm at szevvy@hotmail.com
The official Wombat website is at http://student.ci.qut.edu.au/~n4738667
All you need to know:
- To scroll images or levels, just use the mouse to click-and-drag.
- The 'replace' button will NOT convert files to the format required by the game; files must be in the format that the game expects - use the 'import' button if you want to change images from bmp format to the format used by the game.
Kudos go to:
- Frenkel Smeijers - many, many drivers are based on Frenkel's work
- Andy Durdin - all the Commander Keen drivers are based on Andy's ModKeen program
- Dave Bollinger - for his work on Duke Nukem 2
- Admiral_Bob - for the Alien Carnage extractor
What's new:
Wombat 0.4a:
- Fixed a nasty little bug in Keen Dreams that would crash Wombat if you tried to open a directory
- Fixed a Biomenace bug (i.e. worked around the problems of my compiler, *sigh*)
- Added Wolfenstein 3D, pictures and tiles only, no sprites yet
Wombat 0.4:
New features:
- Games are now split into A-M and N-Z
- 'Unknown image' now handles both EGA and VGA, plus 16-bit images
New games supported:
- Keen 4-6, Keen Dreams : all tiles, sprites, and images (let me know if any versions of these games have problems)
- Biomenace: all tiles, sprites, and images
- Civilization 3: extract from any .zfs, view images and play sounds (no tiles or sprites yet)
- Dangerous Dave: all images, tiles, and sprites - colours are incorrect, though
Games with increased support:
Current progress (a 0% in sound or music only means that Wombat itself cannot play the sound/music; other programs might be able to once you extract the file):
= full edit, 
= partial edit
| Game |
Extraction |
View tiles |
View sprites |
View images |
Listen to music |
Listen to sound |
View levels |
| 7 Cities of Gold (VGA) |
N/A |
75% |
75% |
75% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Alien Carnage |
100% |
100% |
100% |
90% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Baron Baldric |
100% |
100% |
100% |
90% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Biomenace |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Cannon Fodder (1 & 2) |
100% |
100% |
60% |
20% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Civilization 3 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Clyde 1 |
N/A |
0% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Clyde's Revenge |
100% |
0% |
0% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
| Captain Comic 1 |
N/A |
50% |
50% |
50% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Commander Keen 1-3 |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
| Commander Keen 4-6 |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Commander Keen Dreams |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
| Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Crystal Caves |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Dangerous Dave |
100% |
50% |
50% |
50% |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
| Dark Ages |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
75% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Duke Nukum 1 |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
| Duke Nukem 2 |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
90% |
100% |
| Duke Nukem 3D |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
90% |
0% |
| Dune 2 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
90% |
0% |
90% |
50% |
| Gateworld |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Jazz Jackrabbit |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
20% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Jill of the Jungle |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Halloween Harry |
100% |
100% |
100% |
90% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Hocus Pocus |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
| Major Stryker |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Math Rescue |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Monster Bash |
100% |
100% |
50% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
75% |
| PixelPainter games |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| ScubaVenture |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
100% |
75% |
| Secret Agent |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
0% |
0% |
| Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) |
100% |
N/A |
N/A |
5% |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Simcity 2000 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
50% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Thief 3 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Traffic Dept. 2192 |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
90% |
0% |
75% |
0% |
| Wacky Wheels |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
50% |
| Wolfenstein 3D |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Word Rescue |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
0% |
100% |
0% |
| Xargon |
N/A |
100% |
100% |
75% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
History
Wombat 0.3:
New features:
- Import bitmaps into:
- Major Stryker: all expect fonts
- Cosmo: all except story images and sprites, tile attributes cannot be set yet
- Duke Nukum 1: fullscreen images
- Captain Comic 1: fullscreen images
- Duke 2: backdrops
- Crystal Caves: fonts and statusbar
- Bugfixes for multiple-file extraction, amongst others
- More .voc support, 2 and 2.6 bit voc's now play
New games supported:
- Halloween Harry, Alien Carnage: all tiles, sprites, and most other images
- Baron Baldric: extract, view tiles
- Thief 3: extract only
Games with increased support:
- Hocus Pocus: Fixed up some names and things
- Cannon Fodder 1 & 2: Drawing more images, colours are closer to what they should be
- Simcity 2000: Drawing some images now, although all buildings and so on are still compressed
Wombat 0.2a:
New features:
- Got rid of the keyboard scroll in level viewers and that nasty image scroller in images, and replaced it with mouse-drag to scroll everything.
New games supported:
- Duke Nukem 3D (extract, play sounds)
- Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) (extract, view 5% of images (the rest are .dds))
Games with increased support:
- Duke Nukem 2: fixed palette issues with a few sprite images
- Hocus Pocus: Added support for version 1.1
Wombat 0.2:
New features:
- Extract multiple files at a time - extract whole packed files if you wish, or just the images - whatever you need!
- Wombat is now much faster and more stable - Duke 2 sprites are now fast!
- Replace same-sized files in packed files all games except Monster Bash and Cannon Fodder 1 & 2
- Replace any files in packed files for Cosmo, Major Stryker, Duke 2 and Wacky Wheels
- Export .snd files to wav
- Play and export most .voc files
- Many improvements to unknown EGA/VGA image driver
- Palette files are now seperated, and they draw
- .exe string viewer tool has been added
- Many improvements to program layout
New games supported:
- Commander Keen 1-3: all graphics - thanks Andy Durdin!
- Jill of the Jungle: all graphics
- Xargon: all graphics (I hope)
- Traffic Department 2192: all images
- Dark Ages: most images
- 7 cities of gold VGA: all .m52 images, about half have wrong colours
- Jazz Jackrabbit: 'planet' images only
- Prehistorik 1: extract all files, play sounds
- Simcity 2000: extract all data, play sounds
- Cannon Fodder 1 & 2 - extract all files except sounds, view fullsceen images and tiles
Games with increased support:
- Wacky wheels: level viewer added (not complete)
- Monster bash / ScubaVenture: decompression fixed
- Gateworld: sprite and tile support added, that should be all graphics
- Dune 2: fullscreen images and small images draw, no units or tiles yet
- Major Stryker: font files show up now
- Hocus Pocus: added file names for images and music, separating what I suspect is level tile-data into seperate folder
- Clyde's Adventure: drawing all sprites now
- Duke Nukem 2: level viewer added
- Various small improvements to many games