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| 4 | daniel-mar | 1 | # Imagination Pilots ART-File packer/unpacker |
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| 3 | The IPE Artfile Packer/Unpacker tool let you pack and unpack ART files of games by Imagination Pilots, so that you can extract and modify the graphics of the game. |
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| 6 | daniel-mar | 5 | The following games are supported: |
| 4 | daniel-mar | 6 | - "Blown Away" (1994) |
| 7 | - "Panic in the Park" (1995) |
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| 8 | - "Where's Waldo? At the Circus" (1995) |
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| 9 | - "Where's Waldo? Exploring Geography" (1996) |
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| 10 | - "Eraser Turnabout" (1997) |
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| 11 | - "Virtual K'Nex" (1998) |
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| 13 | Tested with Operating Systems |
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| 14 | - Linux |
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| 15 | - Windows |
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| 17 | ## Unpacker syntax |
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| 19 | Example: |
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| 21 | ipe_artfile_unpacker -v -i INPUT.ART -o outputFolder |
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| 23 | Arguments: |
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| 25 | -i Input Art file |
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| 27 | -v Output verbose information (-vv more verbose) |
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| 29 | -o Output folder (must exist) |
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| 31 | ## Packer syntax |
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| 33 | Example: |
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| 35 | ipe_artfile_packer -v -t pip -i inputFolder -o OUTPUT.ART |
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| 37 | Arguments: |
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| 39 | -i Input folder |
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| 41 | -v Output verbose information (-vv more verbose) |
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| 43 | -o Output ART files |
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| 45 | -t Game type (ba, pip, waldo, waldo2, eraser or knex) |
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| 49 | # Imagination Pilots Transparent Video Frame Extractor |
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| 51 | Extracts video frames from `IPMA` and `IP20` coded AVI files into Bitmap files |
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| 53 | The following games are supported: |
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| 54 | - "Blown Away" (1994) |
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| 55 | - "Panic in the Park" (1995) |
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| 56 | - "Where's Waldo? At the Circus" (1995) |
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| 57 | - "Where's Waldo? Exploring Geography" (1996) |
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| 59 | This tool is only available on Windows, since it requires the "Video for Windows" API. |
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| 61 | More information about the codecs can be found here: https://misc.daniel-marschall.de/spiele/blown_away/ipma_codec/ |
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| 63 | ## Syntax |
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| 65 | Example: |
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| 67 | ipma_frame_extractor -i inputfile -o outputdir |
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| 69 | Arguments: |
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| 71 | -i Input file (AVI) |
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| 73 | -o Output directory (will be created if it does not exist) |