Hello. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help extract the dictionary words/sentences from this old file format. I don't know anything about the format itself, so I uploaded it here.

The text is plainly visible in wxmEdit, so perhaps I just need a filecutter bms script or try the VG Toolbox.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1ffr4bsogcrmx/

Added support for it in my extractor: https://github.com/smiRaphi/UniPyX

The actual text seems to be a layer deeper in some .BMR files

Here's also the file format in hexpat:

struct e {
    u32 fname_offset;
    u32 offset;
    u32 fsize;
    padding[parent.entry_size-12];
    char fname[] @ (0x20+parent.entry_size*parent.entries+fname_offset);
};

struct a {
    char magic[4];
    u16 unk1;
    u16 unk2;
    u32 file_size;
    padding[4];
    u16 unk3;
    u16 unk4;
    u16 entries;
    u16 entry_size;
    u32 fname_length;
    u32 data_size;

    e e[entries];
};

a a @ 0;

 

Thanks! I wasn't expecting a reply. I also ended up finding copies of the misc. other TotD1 versions, and Typing of the Dead 2 (I think this one has the words in the exe instead). If you're interested in those, I can upload them too.

Does this require a specific version of Python? I got a TypeError.

I'll look into the other versions myself at some point and thanks but don't worry, I'll be able to find some copy of the files and yeah you need a somewhat modern version, I personally am on 3.13 and 3.11 before that but I've only tested it on those (I should probably add that to the readme lol)