Quote:Original post by jollyjeffers
Your only chance really is to do some searching for a file specification - see if Juice Games made a publicly available specification for the format or if its derived from (or the same as) another documented format. Anything else is just going to be a form of hacking or reverse engineering - and you need a lot of time and skill to get anywhere with that approach [wink]

Yes, this is exactly what you should do. Take the following steps:

(1) Look for resources online about the format. As Jack mentioned, .dat is a common extension for any file in an arbitrary format, so you are gonna have to be specific in your searches.

(2) Look on the developer's site. If they have modder's, then most likely they will have info about this.

(3) The last step is to contact the developers. This will definitely tell you whether the format is open or close. There is a very high probably it's closed, since they don't want you to steal their art. Which is pretty much exactly what you are aiming to do anyways.