DuckHax CLI

The CLI-tool for: dumping, building and inspecting game-files for Sitting Ducks by Asobo Studios

Building

Requirements

You will need libpng, that's about it!

Windows builds haven't been tested yet

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Usage

YOU WILL NEED THE ORIGINAL GAME FILES

Dumping:

$ ./DuckHax dump -i pathToGameDir/ -o dump/

Inspecting:

$ ./DuckHax inspect -i pathToFile

Building:

As of right now: You will need a original file as a reference -> only modifications are possible!

There are just too many unknown variables!

$ ./DuckHax build -r pathToReference -i pathToFile -o pathOut

Running Sitting Ducks on Linux

The PC release is mess! Even on Windows, the intro-videos won't play! On wine the game simply crashes, I have yet to find a workaround (but who cares about some intros). Simply make the videos not accessible OR comment them out in Init.tsc

cd pathToGame
mkdir videos/backup
mv videos/* videos/backup

As of now (2021.04.24) wine's gstreamer crashes when trying to play the music files (sound-effects work just fine)

There are two steps you could take

Disable music entirely

cd pathToGame
mkdir sounds/MUSIC/backup
mv sounds/MUSIC/* sounds/MUSIC/backup

GStreamer workaround

Related issue: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-games-33/rpg-maker-games-crash-on-wine-due-to-gstreamer-4175583045/ Dugans fix:

[...]

1. using "winecfg", add a library override to disable "winegstreamer"
2. "winetricks quartz amstream"
3. "wineboot -u" Step 1 isn't needed if you built WINE without gstreamer support. Step 3 absolutely is needed. [...]

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