UniSCI

UniSCI
Version 1.0
Author: Enrico Rolfi
2005-03-07

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UniSCI

Latest Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2005-03-07
Company:	N/A
Development Status:	Unmaintained
Publication Status:	Published
Developer(s):	Enrico Rolfi
Interface:	CLI
Language:	C++
Open Source:	Open
Source Availability:	Yes (included in download)
License:	Unknown
Type:	Resource Concatenator Resource Concatenator Resource Concatenator
Relevant Engine:	SCI
Platform:	Windows
Localization:	English
Website:	Enrico Rolfi's Gaming Tools

Description

Enrico Rolfi's UniSCI Enrico Rolfi's UniSCI will join the resources from multi CD-ROM SCI games into a single volume file and remap it.

Enrico Rolfi wrote:

Hidden in the core of the GK2 DVD installer (and also installers for other SCI games, developed by other contributors to the SCI community) this is one of the smartest pieces of C++ code that I ever made in a rush. Basically, it has to load all data from the 6 CD-ROMs of the game, join all that stuff, and save it to one big data file. Everything is done automatically — so that the end user feels that it’s just gluing the 6 files together — but there’s a lot of work under the hood.

I still remember when this tool was just sitting in a corner of my mind waiting to be coded. Development took about two weeks of hard work, testing and fixing. There was no documentation about the file formats involved. It was a job about reverse-engineering, disassembling… sometimes even wild guessing! Luckily, I had no boss limiting my working schedule. At the end, the tool happened to be pretty reliable. Later, it was used even for joining games which it was not conceived for, and I still wonder how that was possible without any debugging involved. Anyway… there are still things to fix, to investigate… as I’ve just been told that the tool is not working for the most recent SCI games.

So I hope that somebody will continue this project from where I left it.

Development Status

Unmaintained UniSCI is no longer actively maintained.

Usage

UniSCI v1.0 - Game files Joiner for SCI32 CDROM games
              (c)Enrico Rolfi(Endroz), Dec 2004.

? Usage: unisci [-n:<CDs>] [-gk2] [-del] [-out:file>]

  The files to join must be located in the same directory of scijoin
  They must have the following names:
  - RESMAP.00x and RESSCI.00x
  - RESOURCE.AUD files must be renamed RESAUD.00x
  - RESOURCE.SFX files must be renamed RESSFX.00x
  where <x> is the number of the corresponding CD

  Parameters:
    [-n:<CDs>] Number of segments to join (CDs number)
        [-gk2] Apply special patches for Gabriel Knight 2
        [-del] Delete original files if join succeeds
      [-debug] Activates debug informations (only use in case of errors)
 [-out:<file>] Optional output on text file, must specify a name

Options

Download

Download from here:

• UniSCI(wSRC).zip (ZIP file) [39.3 KB]

Known issues

Credits

• Enrico Rolfi

Legal

UniSCI was released with no license.

References

Also See

• Resource Articles
• SCI Resource Volume
• Resource Volumes in SCI Specifications: Chapter 2 - Resource Volumes
• Map Resource Articles
• Map Resource
• Map in the SCI Specifications
• Map Resource Articles
• SCI Resource Concatenators
• Enrico Rolfi's Gaming Tools