Starcraft Brood War cursor pack for Windows

rtyrt7

46 Posts

May 15 2024 18:48 GMT

Hi there! I made a Starcraft Brood War cursor pack for Windows conversion based on the Starcraft Brood War cursor pack for Linux by Corvian, whom I thank to.

There are 2 sets of cursors, the standard one, as a pure conversion of Corvian's pack, and one that I added, extra large, where I resized/altered the cursors/animations to make them bigger/better suit the higher screen resolutions.

Standard pack:
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Extra large pack:
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Demo:

How to download:

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Edit 1:

It seems that if you're using Windows 10 or 11 you can adjust the size of pointer, which basically, for the standard pack, you'd get a better look for the cursor than you'd get with extra large pack. Info found out here.

Here's how to make the adjustment:

In the meantime I found on this site 2 sets of cursors (HD resolution) from Starcraft Remastered, uploaded by up2uuu, which could be converted to Windows/Linux cursor animations:

https://www.macx.net/th-2239581-1-1.html

, respectively:

and:

Other sites that have Starcraft Brood War cursor packs, different than the ones above:

http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/starcraft-original

http://www.pcmoe.net/thread-85761-1-3.html (although for this site you're supposed to pay 5 coins to get it; according to the comments it seems to be working; I tried other sites, about 10 of them, but their download is broken)

TL threads related to Starcraft Brood War cursors:

- https://tl.net/forum/general/66775-starcraft-cursors

For the tl thread link above, 2 of its dead download links can still be accessed here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120321172822/http://www.creepcolony.com/starcraft-cursors.zip

https://web.archive.org/web/20060214040501/https://www.custom-creations.org/~starsite/programs/BW1.zip

- https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/524288-brood-war-cursor-for-windows

These are the tools that I used for converting and editing the cursor pack:

- ImageMagick
- win2xcur (for this case x2wincur)
- RealWorld Cursor Editor 2023.1

Edit 2:

Steps for converting the Linux cursor pack to the Windows cursor pack, and for editing the cursor pack:

0. Download "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar.gz" from https://store.kde.org/p/1680392 and extract it
1. Download ImageMagick (as of now "ImageMagick-7.1.1-32-Q16-HDRI-x64-dll.exe") from https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows and install it
2. Download the latest Python version (as of now Python 3.12.3) from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and install it
3.
Let's say this is your downloads folder on Windows, where you have to replace USERNAME with your own username:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads

, and all the files above are stored in this "Downloads" folder.

4. Press Windows + R keys at the same time and a prompt will show up, type into it "CMD", without the quotes, and press Enter. In the CMD window that will pop up, type in:

pip install win2xcur

and hit Enter. Wait for it to finish installing. But don't close the CMD window

5. Go into the "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar" folder from "Downloads" and you'll find in it the "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar" archive. Extract this archive, and you'll get the "broodwar_linux_cursor" folder.
6. Back to the CMD window, type in the next commands (after each command on each line, type enter, before typing in the next command):

cd "C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads\broodwar_linux_cursor.tar\broodwar_linux_cursor\broodwar"

md result

cd cursors

for %f in (*.*) do x2wincur.exe "%f" -o ..\result

, and wait for the conversion of the cursor pack from Linux to Windows to finish.

7. Type in next commands:

cd ..

explorer result

8. Now you can see that the "result" folder has all the Windows cursor pack stored in it, with .ani (Windows Animated Cursor, basically animated cursor) and .cur (Windows Cursor Image, basically cursor image - non-animated cursor) file extensions.

To make file extensions visible on Windows, type in CMD the next 2 commands:

REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v HideFileExt /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe

9. Download "RWCursorEditor64.zip" from http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-maker and extract it
10. From the "RWCursorEditor64" extracted folder, run "RWCursorEditor.exe" and edit any of the .ani or .cur files from the "result" folder

P.S:
For the people who know about Powershell, instead of using this command for CMD:

for %f in (*.*) do x2wincur.exe "%f" -o ..\result

you should use this command for Powershell:

Get-ChildItem -File | Foreach-Object { Write-Verbose "Processing file: $($_.FullName)" -Verbose; x2wincur.exe $_.FullName -o ..\result; Write-Verbose "Output created in: ..\result" -Verbose }

Edit 3

outscar

2832 Posts

May 16 2024 03:03 GMT

That's very neat, I used to have some older version from one of these before I reinstalled my Windows and forgot about this. Thanks for posting this!

prosatan

Romania7908 Posts

May 16 2024 03:22 GMT

nice !!

rtyrt7

46 Posts

May 16 2024 19:10 GMT

You're welcome!

I have updated the thread with links to different Starcraft Brood War cursor packs.

tankgirl

373 Posts

May 17 2024 09:52 GMT

wow i was just about to do this....freaky coincidence haha

thank you!

i have the old ones installed but was working on converting those linux ones you showed

and here they are! thank you

do you mind if i use them in a starcraft-themed windows tool im working on?

ive figured out how to fix the problems with old SD blurry graphics scaling and hardware cursor latency issues
and am building the fixes into a windows tool with ultra-low dpc latency
the goal is to get the snappy/responsive feel of 1.16.1 on Windows XP/7 back on Win10/11
and i wanted to have a nice windows theme with starcraft sounds, colors, and cursors

so...do you mind if i use them in an open-source starcraft-themed windows tool im working on?

rtyrt7

46 Posts

May 17 2024 10:21 GMT

That's funny lol
You're welcome!

That's dope. Sure, go ahead and use them, but please add credit where it's due, although I don't care if you will add me to credits.

In case you're willing to share your tool on tl, either now or when you're done with it, would you mind making a post here pointing to it, because now you made me curious?

A bit later I'll make a new edit to the thread showing the exact steps for converting the cursor pack from Linux to Windows, maybe it will help you and others in the future.

Edit 1:
Thread updated with Edit 2.

rtyrt7

46 Posts

July 22 2024 14:41 GMT

I came across YoloMouse, a program that allows the use of a custom cursor for any game, be it as a .cur or .ani file. Basically, you can now use any Starcraft cursor with any game.

You can get the paid version from Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283970/YoloMouse__Game_Cursor_Changer/

, or get the trial version, where you get a nag screen every 20 minutes, where it prompts you to wait for 3 seconds to press a continue button:
https://dragonrisegames.com/yolomouse/download

, or get the free version (no nag), which is an older version that lacks an interface, and probably other features as well:
https://github.com/PandaTeemo/YoloMouse/releases

If you plan to use the free version, I suggest first using the trial version to learn the hotkeys from its interface.
Also for the free version, let's say you wanna use left_ptr.ani from Starcraft Brood War cursor pack for Windows extra large. To do that, copy and paste left_ptr.ani into C:\Program Files\YoloMouse\Cursors\Default, then rename 80.ani to 80_original.ani, next rename left_ptr.ani into 80.ani .

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