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Monster World CODEC
Compression / Decompression
Description
Program for packing and unpacking data in such games as "Monster World 4" and "Wonder Boy In Monster World". The program has simple and intuitively clear interface.
In the program the method of compression is realized only by Huffman + LZ77. In a game this method marks under a number 2.

Example: Game Monster World 4.
The game at $ C0000 - $ C12FF is a block of pointers to the compressed data. Pointers 4 byte. The high byte is actually not a pointer. He points to the compression method.

00 - the data is not compressed.

01 - data is compressed by some algorithm.

02 - the data is compressed by LZ77 + Huffman

Example:
A pointer type of $020C1300:

02 - this compression method LZ77 + Huffman.

0C1300 - this is the address of the block of compressed data. It is this address must be entered in the Offset field in the program.
TitleMonster World CODEC
AuthorMarat
CategoryCompression / Decompression
PlatformGEN
GameMonster World IV
OSWindows
LicenseN/A
Source CodeNo
LevelIntermediate
Version1.0
Release Date2015-02-10
Downloads388
Last Modified2015-02-12 22:20:41


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