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The Battalion Wars Unified Tool combines the restool and the texture convertor that were made by Yoshi2. It handles RES archive extraction and texture file conversion with automatic game version detection.
RES Converter Tab
Extracts .res and .res.gz archive files from Battalion Wars games.
Single File Conversion:
- Click
Select Fileunder "Convert Single File" - Choose a
.res**(For BW1) ** or.res.gz(For BW2) file - The tool automatically detects the game version
- Extracted files are saved here in the root of the
.exe:- For BW1:
converted_res_files/bw1/ - For BW2:
converted_res_files/bw2/
- For BW1:
Single File Repacking:
- Click
Select Folderunder "Repack Single Folder" - Choose a
.resfolder **(For BW1) ** or.res.gz(For BW2) file - The tool automatically detects the game version
- Repacked files are saved here in the root of the
.exe:- For BW1:
repacked_res_files/bw1/ - For BW2:
repacked_res_files/bw2/
- For BW1:
Batch Conversion:
- Click
Select Folderunder "Batch Convert" - Choose the "CompoundFiles" folder for either bw1 or bw2 to start the converting.
- The tool searches all subfolders and automatically separates files by game version
- Extracted files are saved here in the root of the
.exe:- For BW1:
converted_batch_res_files/bw1/ - For BW2:
converted_batch_res_files/bw2/
- For BW1:
Batch Repacking:
- Click
Select Folderunder "Batch Repack" - Choose either the
bw1orbw2folders in therepacked_res_filesfolder for either bw1 or bw2 to start the repacking. - The tool searches all subfolders and automatically separates files by game version
- Repacked files are saved here in the root of the
.exe:- For BW1:
repacked_res_files/bw1/ - For BW2:
repacked_res_files/bw2/
- For BW1:
Texture Converter Tab
Converts texture files between .texture and .png formats and back for both games.
Single File Conversion (4 options):
- BW1: Texture to PNG - Convert one BW1
.texturefile to.png - BW1: PNG to Texture - Convert one
.pngfile to BW1.textureformat - BW2: Texture to PNG - Convert one BW2
.texturefile to.png - BW2: PNG to Texture - Convert one
.pngfile to BW2.textureformat
Batch Conversion (4 options):
- Select either
converted_batch_res_files/bw1/orconverted_batch_res_files/bw2/and the tool will automatically find allTexturessubfolders - Converts all matching files in each
Texturesfolder - Choose the appropriate batch option for your game version and conversion direction