PortableApp CExtract - The Games Factory / Multimedia Fusion Game Extractor / Unprotector

[Kippykip]

Here's some obscure software I downloaded off a forum 7 or so years ago.
It basically extracts contents from Clickteam .GAM files, or what I used it for was to unprotect games made in the v1.0 clickteam engines back in the day.
The V126 attachment below is the version that allows unprotecting if I recall.

It's very likely these files are lost, I couldn't find a single mention on google whatsoever but I remember it was from a fairly obscure forum to begin with.

 

[Kippykip]

Hacking Clickteam Games (basically Sonic Fangames)

Like many others I had an attempt to make a Sonic Fangame with The Games Factory, an old Clickteam tool. And it didn't satisfy me. So I wrote an engine...

forums.sonicretro.org

Nevermind, found the thread? It's still up!

 

[Yoshi50Windows]

Wow thanks i had a old game i made in 2003 but i lost the source file.
Now i can open and remake it on Clickteam Fusion 2.5!

 

[Kippykip]

Wow thanks i had a old game i made in 2003 but i lost the source file.
Now i can open and remake it on Clickteam Fusion 2.5!

Yep, Clickteam actually sent me a DMCA letter over this tool LOL

 

[Yoshi50Windows]

oh

 

[Tzehov]

this is like a dream come true. With this i'll look the code of old Scott Cawthon games. IN YOUR FACE SCOTTGAMES COMMUNITY. I'M GOING TO BECOME FAMOUS MUAHAHAHAHAHAA

 

[Kippykip]

this is like a dream come true. With this i'll look the code of old Scott Cawthon games. IN YOUR FACE SCOTTGAMES COMMUNITY. I'M GOING TO BECOME FAMOUS MUAHAHAHAHAHAA

Might want to use Anaconda to decompile those if they're Games Factory 2 / MMF2 era games.

GitHub - fnmwolf/Anaconda: Anaconda - Clickteam Fusion 2.5 decompiler by fnmwolf, ClickNinYT, 1987Kostya, Blue Nova, and Mathias Kærlev

Anaconda - Clickteam Fusion 2.5 decompiler by fnmwolf, ClickNinYT, 1987Kostya, Blue Nova, and Mathias Kærlev - fnmwolf/Anaconda

github.com

 

[Tzehov]

Wow thanks

Might want to use Anaconda to decompile those if they're Games Factory 2 / MMF2 era games.

GitHub - fnmwolf/Anaconda: Anaconda - Clickteam Fusion 2.5 decompiler by fnmwolf, ClickNinYT, 1987Kostya, Blue Nova, and Mathias Kærlev

Anaconda - Clickteam Fusion 2.5 decompiler by fnmwolf, ClickNinYT, 1987Kostya, Blue Nova, and Mathias Kærlev - fnmwolf/Anaconda

github.com

 

[WonkyTonkBotty]

Hope this ain't too much of a necropost (last post was January of this year at least), but what happens/does it mean if the Clickteam file gets a "stop status encountered" error when trying to extract?

 

[Kippykip]

Hope this ain't too much of a necropost (last post was January of this year at least), but what happens/does it mean if the Clickteam file gets a "stop status encountered" error when trying to extract?

Doesn't sound good though, maybe the .MFA file is incompatible with that version?

 

[WonkyTonkBotty]

Aha, Beavis & Butthead, another man of culture! ;)

It is quite a sporadic error, as there's no pattern as to which .cca/TGF .gams it seems to pop up on, out of the files I've tried the Extractor on.

 

[Kippykip]

Aha, Beavis & Butthead, another man of culture! ;)

It is quite a sporadic error, as there's no pattern as to which .cca/TGF .gams it seems to pop up on, out of the files I've tried the Extractor on.

that's what I'm gonna guess then, I don't think anaconda can decomp the absolute latest stuff afaik?

 

[KoMar]

Hope this ain't too much of a necropost (last post was January of this year at least), but what happens/does it mean if the Clickteam file gets a "stop status encountered" error when trying to extract?

Attaching CExtract-fixed.zip which contains the "fixed" CExtract.exe which helps with "Remove Game Protection" for some .cca files where you would get an error "Stop statement encountered". Note it only fixes the menu option for the game protection function.

What I did is comment out some code for Global Object parsing/unprotecting that seems to be optional! (*at least in the way that without it it doesn't error out any more) Changed source is attached, you may re-compile it yourself with Visual Basic 6 if needed.

Note that such "_unprotected.cca" files would not open in Games Factory/Click & Create for me but DID work in Fusion 2.0 and 2.5!

And I don't like DMCA being abused for this (especially since it is used for 20+ year old games), for our use case the author gave permission to extract their old game for which they lost the source and this tool was the only hope. So for digital preservation such tools are crucial.

Let me know if it worked!

 

[Kippykip]

Attaching CExtract-fixed.zip which contains the "fixed" CExtract.exe which helps with "Remove Game Protection" for some .cca files where you would get an error "Stop statement encountered". Note it only fixes the menu option for the game protection function.

What I did is comment out some code for Global Object parsing/unprotecting that seems to be optional! (*at least in the way that without it it doesn't error out any more) Changed source is attached, you may re-compile it yourself with Visual Basic 6 if needed.

Note that such "_unprotected.cca" files would not open in Games Factory/Click & Create for me but DID work in Fusion 2.0 and 2.5!

And I don't like DMCA being abused for this (especially since it is used for 20+ year old games), for our use case the author gave permission to extract their old game for which they lost the source and this tool was the only hope. So for digital preservation such tools are crucial.

Let me know if it worked!

Man that's awesome! Cheers for uploading.

And yeah what I found always interesting is CnC and TGF1 could never open unprotected games with this tool, however MMF1.5 and anything above could.

But since CnC/TGF1 games are very unstable on anything with a CPU faster than 1ghz and has this freezing stuttering issue, usually it's best to port it to a newer version of a clickteam product anyway.