Hacking htmlc.arc

[stev418]

the newer N64 VC now have compressed manual file. Even though it ends with the 'c' using romc.exe does not decompress it. Ive tried some lz77 and stuff, but have had no success in decompressing

Anyone know of what compression is on it?

 

[friknfrak]

whats the begining of the file look like in hex-editor?

U8?
Lz77?

 

[stev418]

no, this header looks like the following

First 32 bytes of file

00000000h: 00 20 DB 0A D5 AE 0B 00 F1 04 00 A6 E0 18 A0 83 ; . Û.Õ®..ñ..¦à. ƒ
00000010h: CE 02 02 38 11 48 21 A1 84 D2 09 40 04 09 A5 02 ; Î..8.H!¡„Ò.@..¥.

 

[marioxb]

Any luck? I want to add an English manual to the Japanese Smash Bros. wad.

 

[marioxb]

Majora's Mask also uses htmlc.arc. Anyone figure out how to uncompress it yet?

 

[wiiztec]

Arc was the most popular compression algorithm before zip try http://www.7zip.com/util/10/FreeARC