Images

CIF - Compressed Image File

Dark Earth uses a 8-bit image format containing 256 colours and a 640 by 480 screen resolution. Each image has their own optimised palette and using dithering to reduce the image size. The images are compressed with Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm.

File Format

  • Header: 0x10 bytes
    • version: 0x01 (4 bytes)
    • unknown: - (4 bytes)
    • Width: 640 (4 bytes)
    • Height: 480 (4 bytes)
  • Palette: 256 * 3 bytes (RGB) = 0x300 bytes
  • Compressed Image Data: (File Size - 0x310) bytes

Sound

FLC - Animation File

FLC is a file format used for storing animation data. It is a compressed format that can store multiple frames of animation in a single file. FLC data is bundle inside .CJR files.

File Format

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