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• Ravioli Game Tools
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  • System requirements
  • Features
  • What's new?
  • Supported formats
  • Viewers for unsupported formats
• NSConverter
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Ravioli Game Tools

"Ravioli - The good stuff is inside"

The Ravioli Game Tools are a set of programs to explore, analyze and extract files from various game resource files.

Download

	Version 2.2 RavioliGameTools_v2.2.zip

System requirements

• Windows XP, Windows Vista or higher
• .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 (Windows XP and Server 2003, Windows Vista and Server 2008)
• Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Runtime (32-bit version, 64-bit version)
  The version for 32-bit systems is included and does not have to be installed.

Features

The Ravioli Game Tools consist of the applications Ravioli Explorer, Ravioli Extractor and Ravioli Scanner.

Ravioli Explorer:

This application is for viewing the contents of archives.

• Browse and extract the contents of archives
• View text files and images, listen to sound files
• View only specific file types using the file list filter
• View directory structure hierarchically or flat
• View the file list as details or thumbnails
• Convert images to standard formats like jpg, bmp or png
• Use drag and drop to open archives or extract files
• Open either single archives or all available resources of a game
• Scan unknown files for known resources like images and sounds

See below for a list of supported file types.

Ravioli Extractor:

This application is for extracting files from archives.

• Extract multiple archives in one go
• Perform automated extractions
• Convert images to standard formats like jpg, bmp or png
• Available as GUI and console version

Ravioli Scanner:

This application scans files and helps analyzing file formats.

• Scan files of any type for known resources like images and sounds
• Extract the files found during a scan
• View the exact locations of all the files found
• View the contents of unknown file parts
• View scanning statistics
• Save and load scanning results
• Available as GUI and console version

What's new?

Version 2.2

New features:

• Added a new module that allows scanning of files for known resources like images and sounds.

  The following file types can be detected:

  • Image:
    • DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
    • Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
    • JPEG/JFIF Compliant (.jpg)
    • Portable Network Graphics (.png)
  • Audio:
    • MPEG Layer 1 Audio (.mp1)
    • MPEG Layer 2 Audio (.mp2)
    • MPEG Layer 3 Audio (.mp3)
    • Ogg Vorbis File (.ogg)
    • Wave File (.wav)
  • Video:
    • Theora (.ogv)
  • Other:
    • Ogg (generic) (.ogx)

  The scanner is accessible in multiple ways:

  • Via the Ravioli Explorer, if you just want to see what's inside. If opening a file and the file type is unknown, the Explorer offers to scan the file. The results of the scan can be viewed like the contents of other archives. Scanning is enabled by default and can be disabled in the options as well as the confirmation message shown before scanning.
  • Via the Ravioli Scanner, if you want to find out more about the file format. The Ravioli Scanner is a new dedicated application for scanning and includes features to help analyzing file formats. See further below for more information about the Ravioli Scanner.
  • Via the Ravioli Scanner Console, if you want to automate scanning. This is the command line version of the Ravioli Scanner.

  Notes about the scanning process:

  • The time it takes to scan a file depends on the file size and the number of items found.
  • Detection works only if the content is not encrypted or encoded in any way.
  • If a data block appears to be of a certain file type, but is found to no longer match the specification later on or is simply truncated, the text "broken" is appended to file names of such detected files.

  Notes about MPEG audio detection:

  • At least 10 frames of MPEG audio data are required in succession to accept MPEG audio data as such. This is to prevent false positives, but also means that small files with less than 10 frames will not be detected.
  • Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Lyrics3 and Lyrics3v2 tags. If any of these tags is found, it is saved along with the audio data.
  • If there is a tag stored before the audio data, like ID3v2, the audio data must follow immediately after the end of the tag. The 10 frame audio data minimum also still applies here.
  • If there is a tag stored after the audio data, like ID3v1, and the audio data does not end exactly at the end of a frame, the tag contents might be truncated.

  Features of the Ravioli Scanner:

  • Scan files of any type for known resources like images and sounds
  • Extract the files found during a scan
  • View the exact locations of all the files found
  • View the contents of unknown file parts
  • View scanning statistics
  • Save and load scanning results
  • Available as GUI and console version

Changes to the Ravioli Explorer:

• Added access to the new scanning module for unknown files (see "New Features" above).
• Changed thumbnail spacing to 150x150 px in thumbnail view. This allows a few more thumbnails to be displayed, while still being able to display most file names without cutting them off.
• Temporary files are now created in subdirectories based on the process ID. Previously, only a directory for the archive name was created. Using the process ID ensures that multiple instances of the application do not conflict with each other.
• The last open archive is now closed properly when exiting the application.
• Changed the function "Open" to "Open File" to better differenciate it from the "Open Game" function.
• Fixed a crash when no game viewers are installed and the "Open Game" function is used.
• Size and position of the main application window and the viewer window are now saved and restored.
• In the preview and view window now only the toolbar buttons that apply to the shown file type are displayed (e.g. "Zoom in" for images or "Play" for sounds). Previously, the buttons that did not apply to the file type were just disabled, which took up unnecessary space.
• The default startup behaviour has been changed to do nothing. Previously, the "Open File" dialog was shown on startup. The option to change the startup behaviour is still available, where you can change to the old behaviour, if needed.

Plug-in changes:

• Changed Stargunner DLT File: Added file names, but actual content of the files in the archive are still in an unknown compressed format.
• Added Jack Orlando PAK File: Supports also decoding of the music tracks and some of the sound effects. Tested only with the original version, not the director's cut.
• Added BloodRayne POD File: Might work for other Infernal Engine games as well if the format is the same.
• Added Ravioli Scan Results File: Contains saved scan results of the new Ravioli Scanner.
• Added Summer Athletics PAK File: File names for sound, speech and music are recovered partially. Graphics files are unnamed and in an unknown compressed format.
• Changed MP3 File: Renamed to "MPEG Layer 3 Audio" and plays now also on x64 systems.
• Added Audiosurf CGR File: Decodes music downloaded from the web (Audiosurf Radio).
• Changed ZSoft Paintbrush:
  • Fixed loading error if no DPI settings are present in a file.
  • Image loading is now faster (removed unsafe code).
• Changed Ogg Vorbis File: Plays now also on x64 systems.
• Changed LithTech Texture: Image loading is now faster (removed unsafe code).
• Changed Wave File: Plays now both PCM and ADPCM files.

Game viewer changes:

• Added Emergency 4
• Added Summer Athletics
• Added System Shock 2: Assumes that all compressed resource files are in the game directory, does not look into any configuration file. If no compressed resource files are in the game dir, but instead in a subdirectory "res", then a modded installation is assumed and uncompressed resource files from the file system in the game dir are also loaded after the compressed ones. If compressed resource files also exist in a subdirectory "patch", they will always be loaded as the last step, regardless if modded or not.
• Added Audiosurf
• Added BloodRayne 2
• Added Portal (based on english version)

Supported formats

Supported archive formats:

Included full game viewers:

Supported image formats:

Supported sound formats:

File types supported by the scanner:

Viewers for unsupported formats

Use the RAD Video Tools to view Bink (*.bik) and Smacker (*.smk) videos that are used by many games.

NSConverter

NSConverter converts Network Stumbler NS1 files to Google Earth KML files.

See the readme file for details.

Download

	Version 1.0 NSConverter_v1.0.zip

System requirements

• Windows XP, Windows Vista or higher
• .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 (Windows XP and Server 2003, Windows Vista and Server 2008)