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Subject: Formats
#include "standard-types.hsl"

#pragma byteorder(big_endian)

typedef struct BNK
{
    DWORD    FileDataSectionOffset;
    char    Unknown[4]; //Probably Version
    byte    CompressFileData; //I'm pretty sure this is a bool for compressing the file data
    DWORD    CompressedTableSize;
    DWORD    DecompressedTableSize;
    char    CompressedTable[CompressedTableSize];
} BNK;


typedef struct FileEntry
{
    DWORD    NameLength ;
    char     FileName[NameLength];
    DWORD    FileStartOffset;
    DWORD    FileSize;
} FileEntry;

typedef struct CompressedFileEntry
{
        DWORD        NameLength ;
        char         FileName[NameLength];
        DWORD        FileStartOffset;
    DWORD        DecompressedFileSize;
    DWORD        CompressedFileSize;
    DWORD        Count; //Compressed Chunks. 32k padded?
    DWORD        DecompressedSizes[Count];
} CompressedFileEntry;


typedef struct FileTable
{
    DWORD FileCount;
    FileEntry Files[FileCount];
}FileTable;

typedef struct ADB
{
    char    Header[12]; //LhCoMpReSsEd always
    DWORD    Unknown; //number of files?

} ADB;

typedef struct ADBEntry
{
    DWORD    sizeDecompressed;
    DWORD    sizeCompressed;

} ADBEntry;
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LittleCodingFox #2
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What's the compression algorithm used?
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They're using zlib's deflate/inflate and 'managing' the streams themselves.  Thus there are no checksums at the end of compression blocks.  This means that if you use pre-setup uncompress() call it will fail since it looks for a checksum at the end of the compressed block.  Also for the file table they are maintaining the same context through out all the compressed blocks, effectively treating it as one big stream that has been broken up into peices which makes sense.  However, in the compressed files they start a new context for each block, treating each block as a new stream and then combining the outputs.
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By context do you mean file handle?
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I'm refering to the z_stream struct and its internal data.  See this page for details http://www.zlib.net/manual.html.
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Is there any way to know if a BNK file is really a BNK file?

As far as i understand it, BNK files have no "header identification". Do i just read the BNK struct from a BNK file?
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Yeah, you're right.  There is no good way of telling if a BNK is a BNK.  I guess they decided to leave the tag off for some odd reason.  Pretty much if it's extension is bnk then try reading it.  And yeah, just read the BNK struct starting at the beginning of the file.
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