Attack­ing those “ran­dom” files a couple of days ago provided enough of a chal­lenge to keep me inter­ested for a few hours, espe­cially as it seemed like I was tread­ing new ground in terms of spec’ing out pre­vi­ously unex­plored file formats. It turned out that the files had already been mapped and suc­cess­fully decom­pressed and […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• battle moon wars,
• bits,
• bytes,
• c,
• Code,
• compression,
• decompile,
• deconstruction,
• hex,
• lz77,
• php,
• xml,
• xvi,
• yanepak,
• yanesdk,
• yaneurao

Out of curi­os­ity and a favour to someone, I decided to take a look at some ran­dom .dat files that were ripe for the trans­lat­ing; what ensued was a morn­ing of head scratch­ing, hex scry­ing and using some of the lesser used PHP func­tions.
Sample File 1, Sample File 2, Sample File 3
All screen­shots taken from data1.dat, […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• battle moon wars,
• bits,
• bytes,
• Code,
• data,
• decompile,
• deconstruction,
• hex,
• php,
• translation,
• werk,
• xml,
• xvi,
• yanepak