Problems with decompressing GFX

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I've got some files from an old game I'm going to try and work some on a bring back.

I'm gonna keep in short, graphics are compressed. So you can't A)Steal and B)Save space

They're all in a .exe form(so really the decom COULD have worked, just can't tell) can't open it, gives me an error about parameters

So I go into the source code of the compress/decompress file. I try to see whats up, and run it that way to test it out. Gives me another error at a sub.

You'll have to give me a minute, all my programming stuff is on another computer so I have to get the errors off that one.

But if I can't get it to work, is there any other way to do it? Again, I'll post the errors here soon so any help I get can be specific.

**And I don't know why I put this here, I did that on straight up accident. Meant to go in off-topic

[DMF]

oks HUH. its compressed into an exe?? o-o dats a first. but idk if it help but try coding it to decompress out a file or make it eject the compressed file and manualy decompress it.. if it was a compressed image file i could have helped but not an exe srry….

but ill look into to it see if this problem had happened before with a fix. o-o

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I figured part of it out(I think) but yeah, its compressed but I think its decrypted also. I'm not too familiar with decryption or anything, but would that save it as something like data1.exe?

I reckon it did decom, after I did it I started getting all kinds of errors and such loading the client, so I gotta go to by back up >.> but one the folder I have with the client source when I click on the data.exe files, it opens the command prompt on windows and closes real fast.

[blkcrow]

i think [this](http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/) is what you are looking for

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Yeah, I've been directed to that by DMF. Not sure how to use it though, I've never tried.

Will it convert the data.exe back to images like bitmap or whatever so I can actually edit them and put new sprites, tiles..etc into my client?

[tslusny]

With rs hacker you can export or change files what are compressed in exe. It is usually used for changing icon, but it should work in your case too.

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Alright, so I've been trying to use Res Hacker, but it keeps say the .exe files arn't win32 programs. Any ideas there?