Extract and utilize original game assets

[nicholas-ochoa]

• [X] Extract static tiles (LARGE.DAT)
• [X] Extract palette
• [X] Animated tiles (palette rotation)
• [x] Generate PNG tile maps from original game artwork
• [x] Small/Medium tiles (SMALLMED.DAT)
• [ ] Game audio files (wav)
• [ ] Game music (JS midi?)
• [ ] Support multiple versions (Win95, DOS) and common install paths (Steam, GOG)
• [ ] Game artwork (BMP to PNG conversion?)
• [ ] Supplemental files from the game (text/strings, newspaper text)

[cursorial]

Game music can be played with:-

PixiJS extension: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-sound

or

PhaserIO includes a sound module: https://phaser.io/examples/v2/audio/sound-complete

[nicholas-ochoa]

I think both of these APIs utilize the WebAudio API which doesn't seem to support MIDI or XMI files (what the Windows / DOS versions of the game utilize for music). WAV audio for sound effects shouldn't be a problem at least.

[nicholas-ochoa]

The re-write broken pretty much all of this code, I'm looking at fixing it over the next few days so I can finally remove the assets

[pranaygp]

Is it perhaps possible to convert the MIDI files first (to m3 or wav) and then use them?

[nicholas-ochoa]

Pushed to the top of the priority list now that the repo is back online. I've already got a mostly working prototype, but need to clean up a few things that broke with some of the changes to Phaser over the last few months.

[dfloer]

I know @rage8885 already know about this, but if anyone else is looking to help, I cleaned up the documentation around the sprite file specs and made it public.

https://github.com/dfloer/SC2k-docs/blob/master/sprite%20data%20spec.md

Newspaper and other text specs here: https://github.com/dfloer/SC2k-docs/blob/master/text%20data%20spec.md