RAI PAY ATTENTION TO THIS TOPIC, YU Sprites Options

[Raijinili]

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS IN PUBLIC

[Dr Strum]

Why not? Do we want to hide this?

[Raijinili]

1. There's no reason to show it. It's not like our small userbase has anyone that understands what you're talking about. In fact. I'm pretty sure I haven't been paying attention to most of what you're saying here.

2. Disassembling?

[Archeia]

I was reading it and I found it interesting. I check this topic more often than the others :C

[Dr Strum]

1. There's no reason to show it.

The more places it is recorded, the less likely a computer migration or faulty harddrive will require the work to be repeated.

It's not like our small userbase has anyone that understands what you're talking about.

Perhaps not, but that doesn't mean they're not possibly interested.

In fact. I'm pretty sure I haven't been paying attention to most of what you're saying here.

Well, that's cause your brain is in a million places at once.

2. Disassembling?

¿Que?


I've got a good four hour block of time coming up here, during which I'm going to work on getting a script going that assembles the sprite TPLs. By the way, when it comes to identifying them, it seems there's a magic flag of some sort. In the TPL header itself, the palette referencing method is 0xFFFF (as opposed to 0x4 for 4-bit and 0x5 for 8-bit).

[Raijinili]

Well, that's cause your brain is in a million places at once.

I read this as "pieces"

[Raijinili]

HEY
STURM
I LOOKED AT GLORIA
AND I NEED A WAY TO SEE IT UNFILTERED
IT'S TOO DENSE
ARRRRN
BYE

P.S. GUNGNIR TOO

[Dr Strum]

What do you mean "unfiltered"?

[Raijinili]

Either the steps to unencrypt with Python or the unencrypted themselves.

I want to look into the data (stats).

[Dr Strum]

Well, the encryption method needs to be determined first, have you done that? Are you sure the data is encrypted in the first place?

[Raijinili]

But I thought you decompressed with this!

RAI, WE HAVE BEEN FANTASTIC IDIOTS
The files are compressed simply and with ZLIB. Some may be encrypted, as I haven't tried all of them, but I think they're just compressed, and they can be easily decompressed using the library. For example, I just used the Python ZLIB library in my DAR unarchiver for Gungnir. An extra two lines of code and each file extracted is also decompressed.

[Dr Strum]

Well, yeah, but not all of the files are compressed, only some. At least as far as I know. Some might be encrypted, or maybe all the weird ones are merely compressed.

[Dr Strum]

The more places it is recorded, the less likely a computer migration or faulty harddrive will require the work to be repeated.

Someone just emailed me and I'm incapable of sending them any data related to these projects because of the quoted issue.

FOR YOUR FUTURE CAUTION

[Deathless]

Just in case, that "someone" was me.

I'll try to investigate it myself when I get enough of free time.

[Raijinili]

Well, yeah, but not all of the files are compressed, only some. At least as far as I know. Some might be encrypted, or maybe all the weird ones are merely compressed.

I figured out the compression without you.

CODE

import zlib

def decompress(fpath, outpath):
    with open(fpath, 'rb') as file:
        data = file.read()
    assert data[:4] == b'zlb\0'
    data = zlib.decompress(data[8:])
    if outpath is None:
        outpath = fpath + '.out'
    with open(outpath, 'wb') as file:
        file.write(data)