HOWTO: Dune 2000 Blood Patch (or: WHERE is WHICH data?)

[NilsByte]

Hi to all the dune fans,

i recently wanted to play dune 2000 and i noticed that all blood patches for patching the german version were gone, so i had to assemble it by myself. thereby i had to disassemble all the files in the installation directory of dune, to know where the screaming sounds and where the death animations are.

here is what i discovered:

UIBB.R8

UIBB.R16                     n.A.

MOUSE.R8

MOUSE.R16                       Mouse Graphics

UI_ENG.R8

UI_ENG.R16                      Ingame Interface

BLOXBASE.R8

BLOXBASE.R16                    Terrain Blocks

BLOXBAT.R8

BLOXBAT.R16                     Terrain Blocks

BLOXBGBS.R8

BLOXBGBS.R16                    Terrain Blocks

BLOXICE.R8

BLOXICE.R16                     Terrain Blocks

BLOXTREE.R8

BLOXTREE.R16                    Terrain Blocks

BLOXWAST.R8

BLOXWAST.R16                    Terrain Blocks

BLOXXMAS.R8                     Terrain Blocks

DATA.R8

DATA.R16                        Unit Animations (Death)

                                Building Animations

                                Vehicle Animations

                                Terrain Animations

                                Unit Icons

                                Building Icons

                                Vehicle Icons

                                Units

                                Buildings

                                Vehicles

                                Weapons and Effects

SOUND.RS                        Unit Fire Sounds

                                Interface Sounds

                                Explosion Sounds

                                Death Sounds

                                Vehicle Fire Sounds

                                Building Sounds

/GAMESFX/A_*.AUD                Atreides Unit Speech

/GAMESFX/AI_*.AUD               Atreides AI Speech

/GAMESFX/G_*.AUD                Fremen Unit Speech

/GAMESFX/H_*.AUD                Harkonnen Speech

/GAMESFX/HI_*.AUD               Harkonnen AI Speech

/GAMESFX/O_*.AUD                Ordos Unit Speech

/GAMESFX/OI_*.AUD               Ordos AI Speech

/MUSIC/*.AUD                    Ingame Music

/UI_DATA/                       Text Data

/UI_GFX/                        Various GFX Elements

-> To extract the R8, R16 and RS files, you need "Total Commander" for Windows (http://www.ghisler.com/) and the Plugin "Game Archive Unpacker" (http://forrox.narod.ru/gaup_en.htm)

-> To play the AUD files, you need "Winamp" (http://www.winamp.com/) and "Westwood AUD File Player" (http://sg.redsys.ru/files/audio/winamp_in_aud102.rar)

-> To edit UIB files, you need "Siberial String Table Editor" (http://sg.redsys.ru/files/text/SSTEditor.rar)

-> To play VQA files, you need "Game Media Formats Core Filters Package" (http://sg.redsys.ru/files/video/GMFCore10_2.rar) and to convert them to AVI, you need VQA2AVI (http://sg.redsys.ru/files/video/VQA2AVI.rar).

Conclusion after a couple of hours of discovery:

To get the real screams and death animations, replace /GAMESFX/SOUND.RS and DATA.R8 / DATA.R16 with that one from the US version.

Hope somebody finds that information useful. Just wanted to share it. ;D