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SimCity 3000 Sprite Extractor

Extracts sprites and images from indexed file formats (*.dat or *.ixf extensions for sprites and images) of SimCity 3000 first edition and later Unlimited/World re-release. Able to extract sprites that compressed using MiniLZO (for SimCity 3000) or RefPack/Qfs (for SimCity 3000 Unlimited). Tested works on extracting *.dat and *.ixf from sprites archive (/Res/Sprites), GUI elements (/Res/UI/Shared), BAT render (/BARender), and many downloadable landmarks. This is subset of my bigger GUI application projects which expected to finish on 2026.

Note this project still ongoing, many aspects were subject of changes.

Usage

Usage: sc3k_sprextract [-h,-bn,-b32,-o=<output dir>] <sprite archive.dat>

-h   : Show this help.
-bn  : Extract sprite to bitmap as their native bit format.
-b32 : Extract sprite to bitmap and convert into BGRA32 format.
-o   : Specify output directory of extracted sprites.
       Default as <archive name>_extracted on current directory.

You can download prebuilt binaries from release page or build yourself using Lazarus and FPC by open sc3k_sprextract.lpr and build.

License

Most of code of this project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License, with exception is minilzo.pas which port of minilzo to Pascal, licensed under GPL v2 or later. Therefore, resulted built of whole program is licensed as GPL v2 or later as well unless minilzo code part striped from built program.