CAGE Features

CAGE (Code Alliance Game Explorer) is an application that will open many types of game files and extract files or images from them. Cage is also capable of creating some types of game container files.

Thanks must go to the software companies that have made source code available. This greatly simplfies the process of creating applications such as this. Even though CAGE is not written in C/C++ :-)

Cage currently opens & extracts files from the following container files.

• *.GOB - DarkForces and JediKnight
• *.GOO - Mysteries of the Sith
• *.LAB - Outlaws , Grim Fandango etc.
• *.PAK - Quake,QuakeII, Half-Life
• *.WAD - Quake,QuakeII,Half-Life, Doom(not done)
• *.HOG - Descent 1/2
• *.MN3 - Descent 3
• *.VP - FreeSpace 1/2

And any file conforming to one of the above specifications.

Cage currently can create these container files.

• *.GOB - DarkForces and JediKnight
• *.GOO - Mysteries of the Sith
• *.LAB - Outlaws , Grim Fandango etc.
• *.PAK - Quake,QuakeII, Half-Life
• *.WAD - Half-Life
• *.HOG - Descent 1 ,2, 3
• *.MN3 - Descent 3 (rename the hog file)
• *.VP - FreeSpace 1 ,2

And any file conforming to one of the above specifications. Quake wads were not included at this time.

Container files are simply a collection of smaller files put inside of another file.They usually are not compressed in anyway,though newer games do use what is known as a zip file.

Converts images in the following files to 256 color non compressed BMP

• *.BSP - Quake version 29 files
• *.Wad - Half-Life,Quake
• *.WAL - Quake 2
• *.BM - DarkForces,JediKnight
• *.MAT - JediKnight,Mysteries of the Sith

Game image files maybe in any number of non standard formats,which only the game engine would normally be able to read. A converter takes those files and converts them to some choosen standard format,which most graphics programs can use. CAGE writes standard bmp files in 256 color (8 bit) non compressed format. In future versions it will also be saving in 24 bit format for some image types.Quake images will likely be changed to ldm format.

Requirements

• For normal operation, only you own the game files.

Installation

Unzip to any directory of your choice.

With Winzip select the Extract button and choose a path or type one in , make sure the extract all files radio button is selected.

With PkUnzip use the "-d" option to extract.

Cage Directories , the following lists where the files should be incase ,your zip extractor does not create the directories for you.

• Cage.exe
  • \Temp - normaly empty, files you create go here by default
  • \Extracted_Files -  normaly empty, files you extract by default go here
  • \Data - *.pal files , and any palette files you make
  • \Help - *.html,*.jpg, Cages help files
  • \HalfLife - qlumpy.exe,makels.exe,texture tutorial.doc , files required to make half-life wads

Copyrights

If i manage to screw some of these up,i aplogise now. Let us know and we will correct it.

Trademarks ,copyrights not mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

In no particular order.