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GCN New U8 compression? (Harvest Moon: AWL)

Thread starter TGE
Start date Jan 10, 2013
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So yeah, in my attempt to do something useful and learn reverse engineering, I stumbled on a weird format. It's basicly an .ARC file, but it's compressed. The headers is 55 AA 38 2D or Uª8- and I've tried alot of U8 compression and decompression tools but they all gave me useless junk. So yeah, any tips on this?
Also, hi GBATemp

Am I allowed to provide samples?

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