A tool for extracting data files from the game - Test Drive III "The Passion"
Test Drive III game files are packed in the following archive files.
DATAA.DAT
, DATAB.DAT
, DATAC.DAT
, C<CAR_ID>.DAT
and SCENEnn.DAT
This tool will extract the files back to their original filenames. It can also patch
the original game EXE to allow loading data from the unpacked files instead of the
archived .DAT
files.
TD3Extract option
Options:
-extractFiles : Extract files
-patchEXE : Patch TD3.EXE to use extracted files
-decompressLZW inLZFile outFile : Decompress LZW compressed file.
-unpackRLE inFile outFile : Decompress RLE compressed file.
-extractImage inFile width paletteFile : Decompress packed game image file
into PNG file.
-encodeImage inFile outFile : Compress PNG image into RLE+LZW
encoded format for use by the game.
More details on files used by the game can be found in the /info directory.