Kirby's Adventure / Super Star compressor -- other games possible

The ultimate goal is to have a general compression tool like Lunar Compress that has applications in several games.  So no, this is not just for Kirby games (that's just how it started).

I'm going to try e-mailing FuSoYa to see if he'll fill in some of the blanks for me, here.

wow. yeah, newer computers should have no trouble with even relatively "big" files, then. a fairly vanilla 1.6 ghz pentium dualcore is probably around 60% faster for single-threaded apps, even before you count in windows overhead, i think.

Made a usable CLI, did some touchups, whipped together some docs, and got a license I am more or less happy with.

Currently support for 2 formats:

Kirby Adventure/Super Star levels
Pokemon Gold/Silver graphics


Download here:

http://disch.arc-nova.org/compresch_rel2.zip


Where I'm going next:

Probably some LttP stuff since MathOnNapkins had some decompression code I can study.

GBA BIOS has some decompression routines too -- so those formats are probably common among many GBA games.

Input, comments, etc always welcome.  More to come hopefully.

As I've said before, my last rom-hacking dream is extracting the compressed tiles of Mega Man 7 to a format viewable in editors like Tile Layer Pro.

find me a doc covering the format and I'll be all over it 


I just noticed this doc on MMX3:

http://www.romhacking.net/docs/205/


but it doesn't outline the format... it just gives decompression source.  That's good enough, I guess.  I'll just have to analyze and outline it myself.

I feel old. Back when I'd learned of emulation early 2001 or so... Lunar Magic was still very active in development, Nesticle had a larger userbase, most of us were on dialup, Acmlm's Board wasn't split, 64MB RAM worked OK for new PCs, etc.

I feel old. Back when I'd learned of emulation early 2001 or so... Lunar Magic was still very active in development, Nesticle had a larger userbase, most of us were on dialup, Acmlm's Board wasn't split, 64MB RAM worked OK for new PCs, etc.

It worked tolerably, not OK. >.> I'm speaking from personal experience. We upgraded the ram due to Diablo 2 the following year.