Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

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AlphaTwentyThree
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Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

Post by AlphaTwentyThree »

Hi everybody,

I'm currently taking a look at the PS2 version of Alone in the Dark (2008). It includes lots of rwt files that are apparently compressed but decompression tests at offsets 0, 4, 8 and 12 didn't bring up any results. All of these start with "decompressed size", "zero" and then 000BECBA. Does anybody have an idea?
Here are some samples that _should_ contain some kind of midi files or trackers:
https://mega.nz/#!m0tEjJiS!K6K4p5F3NGEW ... RrHrvQJ4WY

Thanks for your help!
aluigi
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Re: Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

Post by aluigi »

It's just gzip:

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comtype gzip
get SIZE asize
clog "output.dat" 0 SIZE SIZE
AlphaTwentyThree
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Re: Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

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oh... well that's easy.. Did you recognize the structure or did you run it through your scanner?
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Re: Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

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oh... well that's easy.. Did you recognize the structure or did you run it through your scanner?
aluigi
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Re: Alone in the Dark PS2 *.RWT compression

Post by aluigi »

It's the usual 0x1f 0x8b :D