SCI Tools

Here is a collection of SCI tools and utilities that can be used to view and extract game resources, or even create your own SCI game. For older tools, see this page. Also, see the AGI/SCI Tools and Utilities Links on the Sierra Help Pages. Many of these tools are mirrored on the tools page of SCI Programming.com. For the tools that have active home pages, be sure to check for the latest version, first.

SCI Companion

Complete editor for EGA SCI games. Inspired by SCIStudio. You can edit pics, views, script source code, text resources, cursors, fonts, the main vocab file, even create new games.

Download from the SCI Companion homepage or download from The Sierra Help Pages:

SCICompanion Version 2.1.0.5 with help file (ZIP file) [2.50 MB]
SCICompanion Unfinished Source (ZIP file) [5.17 MB]

SCI Studio 3.0

Brian Provinciano's original tool for creating EGA SCI games. Home page no longer exists.

SCI Studio 3.0 (ZIP file) [1.70 MB]
SCI Studio 3.0 Source (ZIP file) [510 KB]
SCI Studio 3 Template Game (ZIP file) [156 KB]
SCI Studio 3 Help Files (ZIP file) [405 KB]
SCI Studio 3 Tutorials (ZIP file) [629 KB]

SCI Studio Tools:

SCI0 Game Recovery Utility (ZIP file) [162 KB]
SCI Script Compiler 1.33 (ZIP file) [57.3 KB]
SCI Disassembler v1.10 (ZIP file) [256 KB]

SCI Studio Demo Games:

SCI Demo Quest 1.0 (ZIP file) [117 KB]
Locker Gnome Quest (ZIP file) [132 KB]
- Locker Gnome Quest Source (ZIP file) [130 KB]

SCI Studio 4 (VGA)

Brian Provinciano's unfinished work to add support for the SCI VGA games.

SCI Studio 4 (VGA) (ZIP file) [1.63 MB]
- SCI Studio 4 (VGA) Source (ZIP file) [3.02 MB]

SCI Graphic Studio 150

Brian Provinciano's earlier tools for viewing and extracting graphics from SCI games.

SCI Graphic Studio 150 (ZIP file) [636 KB]
- SCI_Graphic_Studio_Fun_Seeker's_Guide (ZIP file) [1.01 MB]

Soundbox

Soundbox is a standalone application for editing SCI0 sound resources. It can convert format 0 and format 1 MIDI files and allows managing resource specific features like sound cues.

Download from the Soundbox homepage or download from The Sierra Help Pages:

Soundbox 1.0 (ZIP file) [132 KB]
- Soundbox Source (ZIP file) [275 KB]
Statically linked binary (ZIP file) [492 KB] (does not require MFC70.DLL)
Quickstart:

Most will only need Soundbox to import MIDI files into their SCI0 games.
1. Use format 0 or format 1 standard MIDI files. Format 2 files are not supported.
2. Leave channel 16 empty. Don't try to play music on it.
3. Don't rely on embedded sysex messages. They will be removed during import.
4. Break large, long, heavily layered works into smaller pieces. An individual sound resource should not be larger than 64k. If necessary, a number of resources can be played one after the other.
5. To convert the MIDI file, choose File -> Import MIDI from the menu.
6. To save the imported resource, use File -> Save As.
7. To play imported MIDI resources in Sierra's DOS interpreters, get the SCI0 MPU MIDI sound driver.

Anvil Studio

Anvil Studio ™ is a free Windows Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / 98 program designed to record, compose, sequence and play music with your MIDI and Audio equipment. Can be used to create music for your SCI game.

Download from the Anvil Studio homepage or download from The Sierra Help Pages:

Anvil Studio (ZIP file) [3.67 MB]

New SCI Tools

Gumby's SCI Text Dumper (ZIP file) [2.66 MB] - New tool from Gumby. Dumps text resources for spell and grammer checking.

Endroz's SCI Tools

Enrico Rolfi (Endroz) has created a number of SCI tools for his Gabriel Knight 2000 project.

Download from Endroz's Gabriel Knight 2000 site or download from The Sierra Help Pages:

TraduSCI 112 (ZIP file) [918 KB] - TraduSCI is a program developed to simplify the translation SCI games. Supports all games that use 'Message' chunks stored in strings. TraduSCI Manual here.
SCI32 Script Dumper (ZIP file) [17.6 KB] - Script Dumper based on Script Dumper v0.1 by VAG.
UniSCI (ZIP file) [21.1 KB] - Joins all the RESOURCE.AUD files from each disc of Sierra multi-CD SCI games into one big RESOURCE.AUD file, all of RESOURCE.SFX files into one RESOURCE.SFX file, each RESMAP.00* file into one RESMAP.000 and each RESSCI.00* file into one RESSCI.000 file. Used in the Sierra Help Pages New Installers for installing the SCI multi-CD games (GK2, Phantasmagoria, Phantasmagoria 2 and S./W.A.T.) for CD-less play. Does not work with Lighthouse or RAMA.

VAG's SCI Tools

SCI Tools by VAG.

Download from VAG's SCI Page or download from The Sierra Help Pages:

VMD Player 0.5b (ZIP file) [20.7 KB] Player for Sierra's VMD video beta
SCI Resources Dumper 1.2 (ZIP file) [46.5 KB] Tool to extract resources from SCI1.1/SCI32 res*.* files With sources
Views Viewer 2 (ZIP file) [207 KB] Simple viewer for SCI1+ pal/v56/p56 resources

SCI Decoder

SCI Decoder and SCI Decoder VGA v1.0, by Carl Muckenhoupt. Displays the text and picture data of Sierra On-Line games written with SCI. Home page no longer exists.

SCI Decoder and SCI Decoder VGA v1.0 (ZIP file) [35.0 KB]

SCI Resource Viewer

A program to display resources in Sierra's games in a viewable form instead of just a plain hex dump. This tool will open and view the SCI game resources, images, sounds, sprites, etc. Home page no longer exists.

SCI Resource Viewer v. 1 (ZIP file) [323 KB]
SCI Resource Viewer (ZIP file) [368 KB] - Unversioned. Also opens AGI resources.
SCI Resource Viewer with command line interface (ZIP file) [1.30 MB]

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