podextract

An extractor for POD archives from Terminal Reality games

Known games using this format are:

• Terminal Velocity (1995)
• Fury3 (1995)
• Hellbender (1996)
• Monster Truck Madness (1996)
• CART Precision Racing (1997)
• Monster Truck Madness 2 (1998)

Known games using the POD2 format (which is NOT supported):

• 4x4 Evo (2000)

Known Terminal Reality games which do not use POD:

• Fly! (1999)

Usage:

Simply run:

python podextract.py PODNAME.pod "*.MOD"

(Using python 2.7)

File format details:

There's a 16-bit file count at offset 0, then entries start at 0x54

Each entry is 40 bytes long. The first 32 bytes are the filename(s), null-padded, and then the length and offset, as 32bit integers.

The filenames sometimes have two filenames packed into them: there'll be a first name, then a NUL byte, then another filename. This second filename is believed to be the palette for that file, but this hasn't been confirmed.