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Star Wars: Dark Forces remake for the web

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

JavaScript 91.41% HTML 7.33% GLSL 1.27%

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darkforces's Introduction

Star Wars: Dark Forces

This is a reimplementation or remake of the 1996 classic Star Wars: Dark Forces. It is a work in progres so there are a lot of things to do.

Reimplementation

To reimplement Dark Forces I've been doing some reverse engineering of DARK.EXE and doing a lot of speculation on how the engine works.

File formats

Star Wars: Dark Forces uses a series of custom file formats, some of these files are really easy to parse, mainly because they're text-based file formats but others, like sprites, bitmaps, sounds, etc. are more challenging because they're binary and they're not known formats like .PCX or .BMP.

Next there is a list of known formats and their purpose:

Extension	Purpose
.GOB	Contains all the game files in a packed way
.CMP	Contains a color map
.PAL	Contains a palette
.FNT	Contains a font
.BM	Contains a screen bitmap
.FME	Contains a sprite
.WAX	Contains an animated multi-directional sprite
.GMD	Contains a MIDI song (it's a MIDI format 2 based file)
.VOC	Contains a sound (it's a Creative Voice Sound file)
.LVL	Contains a list of levels
.LEV	Contains a textual description of the geometry of a level
.LFD	Contains a LucasFilm DataFile? It usually contains backgrounds and movies
.O	Contains a textual description of the objects of a level
.INF	Contains a level script
.CFG	Contains settings or saved state (DARKPILO.CFG, JEDI.CFG)