Adm_maverick
Rear Admiral
Hey all, so I'm working on a project using Wing Commander Prophacy and I'd like to extract the audio. So I figure it is stored in audio.tre. Did some reading and found the HCI made a Tre manager that can extract the files. Cool. So did some more digging found there's also an audio decompressor for the files once they are extracted. Cool so I'm rolling. Oh wait, they don't work under Windows 10. Okay no big. I'll pull out my vista laptop, install the game and run the extraction/decompression from there. Pull out the disks, install the game, use a flash drive to move the tools. So I drag and drop audio.tre onto the tre manager, it opens and I hit the 'Extract all files from tre' option. It runs for abut a minute give or take, lots and lots of file info flashes before my eyes and it comes back to the main menu. I assume it's finished.
Where does it extract the files to? I see no new files in C:\, Documents, the WCP folder, the USB drive I ran the tool from. Nothing.
Thinking maybe the extraction 'unlocked' the tre file to allow the audio tool to work I open that. I click on the 'decompress' option, it asks what file.
And this is when I see a new folder in the WCP folder. This one labeled "audio". I open that and find several dozen .iff files. Okay looks like the extractor worked. I select the files and hit 'select'. The audio sits where it is. I have the 3 buttons that read "decompress" "compress" and "exit". So maybe it's a single run command? I click exit, it closes. So where are the decompressed files? Where are the files the tre manager extracted? Why can I only see this phantom 'audio' file and it's contents when I use the audio tool?
In short, is there some instruction for using these tools?
Where does it extract the files to? I see no new files in C:\, Documents, the WCP folder, the USB drive I ran the tool from. Nothing.
Thinking maybe the extraction 'unlocked' the tre file to allow the audio tool to work I open that. I click on the 'decompress' option, it asks what file.
And this is when I see a new folder in the WCP folder. This one labeled "audio". I open that and find several dozen .iff files. Okay looks like the extractor worked. I select the files and hit 'select'. The audio sits where it is. I have the 3 buttons that read "decompress" "compress" and "exit". So maybe it's a single run command? I click exit, it closes. So where are the decompressed files? Where are the files the tre manager extracted? Why can I only see this phantom 'audio' file and it's contents when I use the audio tool?
In short, is there some instruction for using these tools?