Regulator visitors of the Xentax boards must have come across the threads that discussed Metal Gear Solid game resource archives. Already in 2003, forum frequenter TheDyingInformant posted a request for MGS support in MexCom, that was continued in another thread to finally end up in the Metal Gear Solid 2 – Any luck? thread started by her in 2004. At the time, yours truly could not figure out most of the archive format, but that last thread has seen a lot of people jumping in to try and solve the case. One of the key persons there has got to be Turfster. (more…)

TRE Archiver is a tool that will open Star Wars Galaxies .TRE files.

View the original request (2003) at the forum here:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=486&start=0

This resulted in the TRE VB Class:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=520

And ultimately in the GUI called TRE archiver:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=519&start=0

Read this text for the details!

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Again a tool by Mr.Mouse that will convert picture/texture files from PlayBoy: The Mansion to and from bitmaps (BMP).

See the original request at the forum here:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=1369&highlight=pict2bmp

Snippet from the readme.txt:

“I only used one actual PICT file to figure out the format.
So, if some PICT files don´t work, visit the MultiEx Commander forum.
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With this tool, DXT files from MX vs ATV Unleashed can be converted to type DXT1 or DXT3 DDS files.
you can also convert those back to DXT.

It can be used as a standalone tool (just fire it up), but you can also use it commandline driven.
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After great help from and communication with “Tulebox” (mister Mays) Mr.Mouse had a chance to demystify the archive format of Star Wars :Galaxies *.TRE files. You can find the specifications of the format at OpenGRAF. More importantly, he coded a Visual Basic TREClass, that will be made public soon to coders who want it. Those of you who are fans, and want to be able to open TRE files from SWG, to get the sounds, textures etc, Mr.Mouse created the TRE Archiver, a graphical user interface (GUI) to the TREClass. Download it here at the XeNTaX forums!